The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1871, Page 4

L 3 EUROPE. British Exposition of the “Davger- ous” Questions of America, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14. 187.—TRIPLE SHEE? throw down the gauntiet co Rusata, to take precan- Uohs against the desigos Of Amores, to be armed agullst a Surprise ‘roi Prussia, apd to spond untold miulilons th keeping the arsenals busy and bribing jen to enlis. for the national defence. Mr. Card- well, our War Minister, is denounced as weak and in competent; Wie Dake of Cambriage is execrated as Uli Lo De COMMader-iO-chiol, and aliogether there is 4 popular roiny against tae tacories Walch led the Glaastone Ministry ito power and secured ite po- silion by 80 Over WheMig w majority. | has assigned Home pecuniary assistance to them by their German correspondents, Hore OF A SURRENDER, ‘The surrender of Paris is expected in a few weeks @b jatest, and then % Wanspires, from gi authority, that no further hostiites will be car- ried on in the south of France, The German arnues will then take sirong positions south of tae Loire aud of Belfort, and West, unul tere will be a settled goverument ready (Wo treat for peave. Should the French attack that eep the north or France to ihut | ; line drawn from Belfort to Nantes, from east to | ; rehed on the strenguh of the standing army pro- | | vided for by statuce, aad for the maintenance of { which they were heavily taxed, ‘The Prussians, | however, Who came forward in July last did so under compulston, THE PLIGHT TO SAUMUR, 1 have already mentioned that the Mobiles and Franos-tireurs, driven away from Tours and the sur- | rounding district under @ sense of fear, had deter. | mined to seek shelter at Saumur. Tuere seems to | | have been no preconcerted measure which necesat- , tuted the fight im this direction, Yet all took to | their heels as if by common BT NTS has put aside at the ‘gentlemen of the | entertain any miagiving on the subject, We may be paveme ” at consented tnt thelr envoy weil agai thatthe ueen is never likely to forges Shall treat on equal terms with the euvoy of the | what is due to her own dignity and to the consiateat North German Confederation. The provisional gov- | maintenance of her independence as head of the ernmeut may fairly take to themselves tae of | royal family ana of a {ree State. Hnglishmen will having ¢xtorted this tast compument, trouble themselves littie as to what may be thought bd * M. Favre would bave been received at | by foreign courts of her Majesty's views and In- the Conference in the character of the representa- | tentions with respect to the iansnip of her tuveol Krancc; andin this simple faot is involved | children, and the discretion she may exercise in the admission that France is actually ruled by the | matters touobing their individual wellare. The government by which he would have been acored- | spell, if there ever was any, has been signally tl nsisten! broken, which, nia the Continent, limited the i Revenge “ lime they Wul soon be convinced that the Germans aceérd, and made for | Ce CAR CO! tly claim to, because this | choice of persons of the royal to alliances with HOPING FOK PARLIAMENT, f ims 0 nf the dl tk) The jome- | 1s ail that the French nation Itvelf yielded them, rsons also of royal birth, In England, as every- English Opinion of Prim’s Assassination pits beveseia Buglian politics have been com. | Sf 8 Sean Ueetainer at eemee eceadteeat panicctanen omens iacabeitonen | Whnutartuthan ak hire hemal tion of & | body knows, the imitation eanctinged: py wradiaea Cvents Which have taken place’ in France; aud |, Great prepurauons are made forthe campaign in | lable authority, to have exccedod 15,000 men. Folly | Eroneh: republic they ark that foreign Powers | has rested wholly upon the arbitrary provisions of @ and the Inutility of the Act. range shings tuap-be looked for when Farliament | elo it w nuns ty pameaia) emoeumema by the | One-Raif of this force conan’ of soelmenis wales | bend, SAUCiiAre. tre ntlacamn. Ot tha, Etepen | Statute passed in: ane ‘of Abe warns, periods of oar assembies in Kebruary. All Messrs. Gladstone and | ; | 3 d d ijaznvopatmeaarey wi havo tobe tomeoner | tr ot seat i popareg wen bona | tier were cumbia to aly, ana in uncng ther | Run ith, 6 ptmananoe mann, wu | No, t,o, her ong rlgn as teint, more a eons by vant grpeor te Arr ayy mys al ‘young mn niemereet vere ydhien Panes Under. the circum at it hes bee § Me to A government tonal Defence is confersediy | cracy of her people, und no act has evoked 2 gontior Cabinet Complications from the War and | frist Education bul, wiiok ae locked forwardts | mustering in January. If the French are. desirous | move about five thousand men They elt this elly | & government ad Roe, a government constituted for | but Shore genuine response of approval than fh OF : - With such interest, ‘snd upon which it was confl- | {ef ® War ol races they are very likely to have it; what | by rail and ave to join the army now ferming in the and bound to lay down its autho- tis pyre frag aon-e aA if Bed Uae. the Difficulties of Peace. dently expected the Cabinet would have beon | coer as ieee in dime ae | lee Ee ' that abject ‘a call Kone aaah is necesaary that Laemauent Mechlerwiie: thers” Gan be he douns Wrecked, as been abanuoned, and no more will ve “4 * a eas is Shiite emureracicate | saatar'eas Wee leet ARI eCant | Get erent Coser | GuPeaaeerceemtneeteg watacs et | SHAGGY © bt SSM neesas awaits u more 1e MM, Thiers and Ranke--Dinmer | fees niich werw hare seen hropoed ny | Puccnver ot natona or Saneal atte aad te tned that tne Prumaane never occupied Tuars up | come win tbe nope of te dation como tie | dan inte Gieu that i color anpul, be eo goveroment, and which the country Was looking Wemole for ther property. They are at (ull liberty to tis day, and that, moreover, they have evacu- una PI Y Torward 10 Wilh Interest. Military and naval reer. | ‘© do whatever they cheowe im. thelr country; | ated the py of Vierzon, sont Leuis and other | Chat of the Historians, ganuation, like Aaron's rod, hay swallowed up ul | 0D0dy interferes with thelr laws; they are | bodies of Franc#-tircars, number Tuese, and ‘will in themselves tax the: ability and | OMY required to bow to iate and to give up | lacie ageromese nearly two thousand, had THE BANK OF ENGLAND. arn energies of the Ministry to the uttermost. Upon tais | Se ee bave no hope w recover; they | mthe stampede, But on reach Saumur TOOK WEE Leen Uroneee Oe tepren) od Antes Rs, | seaph-wib-tnieriens oi thanead> Auian MER O | having ‘hithere acted Indesendenciy, wil | Discount Rates Duriog the Year 1870. The Papal Question in England—ft. Augus- Sone Satneniesaee aunt rieaiiletin chesartreeee | Session of Alsace and Lorraine. Russia oertamty | now be placed under the commana of ‘Colonel a. ‘The changes tn the Bank rate of discount this ler the agsembling of Paruament, waky, Polish officer. stated that tine Against Victor Emmanuel, Ofer she sanapaune of Pe ‘up Its mind to arm, and to | pa kip tre eae leas arent t ree | ton ‘emortow; and eigo joan the ‘army bow fortn- | year (1870), says the London Bultiontst of December arm af Dod beh aitogether treapectve of cosi, | talian provinces; nor Italy, from which they took | ing al Le Mans. A eal of dissatisfaction and the \ 81, bave been few. The year begun with i¢ ats ne About that cad ve Ro doubt. As little doupt | oy a ~ | Per cent was no ol unt were Diack mall, Savoy and genuine Nice, Ke: NOUS CONDUCT was. na So saree raxerse revolution of Sep- t, and “there hange until July 21, can there be that a goverament which does net | @4ced to their own resources, the ob,cot of their | seems te have prevailed these corps, but tt ts : troy op id — when It was raised vo 8X upon tne declaration of Prussian Objection to the Princess SR Ane Comeiaeety wACOaa “Ue Vota Wil | Sia TOOUTEE EK \AAALAMARDORT rts. sally | $0 be Roged that, united a5 (Rh amampoey, Deas Giverting the thougats . i ogi : ning street, Over i : prove usefal country. It seems | of Frenchmen from tne immediate necessi| ‘The feverish displacement holes to more THE oniy story—every member feels . the. ition inter- | which took place upon that event caused a rapia Louise’s Marriage. tte Tey eg Py cage 8 a nate Champers of Home, Baden and Wartemverg sopareniystoag enough fo smune, tae commend Neanaeh Stee atone fe Advance to 4, ten to 6 634 and 6 Tule was Grant upon the fisnenes by Prince Gort- ave raudied trewt ‘eraaliles, bavaria St DEAE BOER. 000. sD vidual mea- nes. perpen interregnum. po pene year. cent rate ° respect Black ‘Treaty, Will fotlow sult, though prebapty only after a disso- | suring his: aba par with that of the cem- | W! vy the confict is over will be a @ttained on the 4th A fro - fy count Bismarex za Laxemue ie | Tuten of the piceent iuitcamopeshe Ubamters which | manding omen, Bo Jong a8 a corps Ike this face | 8s much & it a8 much Doing followed by a reduetion to 5% on tne tite ‘The Conard mail steamship Abyssinia, from Liver- | 010 neraliy ‘some . *; | does not represent opinion as it 18 new, in enemy ail goes on harmoniously, but whenever | charged with of under there was @ no less rapid ion to 5, 4%, {pool December 31 and Queenstown January 1, Uniortunate q br oinamove ti an oliseatt consequence of te war, It is @ ity that ; a few days of comparative idleness intervene it be- | what institut are to live ave ae -, This last rave was the minimum arrived at this port yesterday ‘afternoon, delivering | tuetr' wel-knowa, penoe prociivities hare weet | a good and honest. patriot—what.” Kolb | comes thoroughly demoralized. to this the | 10r the though {¢ had been elected | of the year, and it, has continued from the 20th of ur European files and special correspondence— | #100g ‘praiudions agatust em, and they will have Se ances kibocaees “mice Me 3 oe waneion eee ee reco in ue egos epee etter the revolution, Bes Anson. % @ated to the day of sailing trom Engiand—in the | setive mebsueee, ope ete eerongest and most | 127 BH appears DY the unser of the Kine we the | Which sede inet rout, Nevertheless, these | to some equivalent mode of taking the opinion of Peace and the Money Market. evening. f#pect will they stand or fall, tor the country is in a | @¢Putution Which brought him the resolution about | corps of Francs-tireurs are composed more or less of | the French nalicn.Iprcign Powers have no right vo The London Boonomist believes that if the war ‘The Dublin Bvening Mail, speaking of the terms of | M00d that will not stand’ oither tenporlzing or | ‘We imperial crown thas he will only it | men of the world. are not men thrown to- | recognize a republic. The lish govern- the Fenian amnesty, says:— The prohibition of the return of the released Fenian convicts to Ireland is limited to the unex- pired term of their respective sentences, ‘These | Under sentence of fve years’ penal servfude wili be free to retura to their Irish homes next year. Those ‘sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment will be exiled under the provisions of the amnesty tor Afwen years. ‘Thirty-one seamen belonging to the British ships selzea by the Prussians in France had arrivea in London and been taken charge of by Mr. Mayo, | the Registrar General of Seamen, pending Kari Granville s orders. The Cologne Gazette says that at Vienna M. Thiers happened to stay at the same hotel with M. Ranke, | ‘These two historians dined together, and M. Thiers put the question—“Against whom does Germany, in | ‘fact, fight at this moment!” “Against Louis XIV.,” answered M. Ranke. M-. Thiers did not reply. M. Henri Rochefort, in a preface to bis new edi. | Mon of the Lanterne, says that on reperusing the | lines written in a foreign land belore publishing | them in his own country, he has to beg pardon of the public for the moderation with which he spoke | of the impenal régime. “I have just reread the proofs of my pamphlet; I compare it with the hor- | rors through which the empire has compelled us to pass, with the end to which it has ied us, and I | know not how to excusemyself for being go mild.” ‘The English journais coroborate the HERALD spe- | porting the assassination of Marshai Prim. One ot | the papers—the London Mercantile and Shipping | Gazette—is not very complimentary to Prm’s memo- | Ty. ite writer says:— { Somebody or other in Spatn seems to think tt | ‘worth walle to kill Marsbal Prim. He was in his | carriage with one of his adjutants driving wo the | ‘Ministry of War, when some persons fired a volley | dnto the vehicte. The Marshal received no jess than eight balis in the left shouider. of which seven bave been exiracted, and two fingers were so severely ‘Wounded that one has been amputated and another will be. Tne Marshal, however, 1s doing well, and the only result of the crime ts that the government is much stronger; that Admiral Topete, hitherto dis- contented, has accepted the Ministry at War, and ahat measures of repression will be justified by popular ieeling. The Liverpool Mercury says the Ormskirk Poor Law Guardians granted the workhouse porter, Luke Hemer, a Week’s holiday. The fact is stated to be that Mr. Hemer, notwithstanding hls humble posi- tion, was going to spend a few hours at Hawarden awith no less a personage than the Premier. Luke nd Mr. Giadstone were schoolfellows together, and | although they bow stand so far apart im the social ®cale, Luke every year pays a short visit to the right | honorable gentleman. The London Times, in its review of the past year, gays that ‘the astonishing events of the second half | of 1870 have reduced previous aud contemporary transuctions to real or apparént insignificance. In Engiand spectators of the great Conunentai drama have almost forgotten for the moment their own do- mestic aifairs.”? The London Standard says:—“From the events of the past year there are imminent questions of in- Zeresi involved, not for Prussia and France alone, but for ourselves also. Heavy shadows nave fallen over us while the German armies have been on their path of pillage. Mute and abject, we bave ceased to assert ourselves as a power in Europe. The ar- biters of the Continent ignore our very existence. ‘They tear up our treaties, repudiate our guarantees, @ive us haughty notice to quit the council tabie of | Europe; and we, or our liberal government, believe that while the rest of the nations are embroiled or dividing the spoils of States which we stand solemnly | Ppledyved to defend and trampling upon conventions | Which they defy us to enforce, we are following a Policy of peace.” ‘The literary record of 1 serves, 18 “comparatively unimportant. The year | which is just closing 1s netther remarkable for hav- ing produced new writers of extraordinary promise, the London News ob- | its workshops, { pie of years ‘agy was ‘something uke 4 glut mn Cial telegrams from Madri dand by the cable, re- | immense jars a barrel more than it could have been Dor, With a few exceptions, for the productions of authors wuose names are known and whose fame is established. During the last five months all the thoughts and interest of Europeans have been cen- tred upon the tremend conilict waged between the two most cultivated nations of the Continent, Letters and arms are of necessity inimical, and can- not both flourish together. BRITISH POLITICS. Revolution of Opinion Produced by the Franco-Prassian War—The Peace at Any Price Party Defeated—President Grant and Prince Gortchakoll us Panic Makers—'The Cabinet and Canada—The Chief Command at Wer. Lonpon, Dec. 30, 1870, English politics and English administrative policy | have been turned into quite a new channel by the great Continental war. But a little time age the ‘cry from every hustings in the isiand was peace, re- ‘trenchment, non-intervention, reduction of the army ‘and navy and generai assimilation of British political Anatitutions.to those of America. Now, quite a panic fin the other direction has seized the public mind; ‘and the universal clamor is for “bloated arma- ents,” organization of the War Office and the Ad- ity, the deposition of the Duke of Campridge, of the battalions, the creation of an eMcient Gaare and a complete overturn of the system was made popular by the rare sagacity of Cobden and the persuasive eloquence of Mr. The fact 1s, Englaud 1s at present in fright; is afraid that she may lose her position the great Powers; is eveu in terror of being waded, in spite of her much belauded navy, and is Peony at the present moment, through the instro- muentality of her government, making experiments for ascertaining the best means of throwing up for- fifcations around London, and tous providing for fhe defence of the accumulated bullien in the Bank of England and the untold wealth of the capital. (Prussia, led by the King, Von Moltke and Bismarck, the Power which has wrought this marvellous sudden change in the mind ef obstinate “John ” Sadowa, with tts needie gun achievements, the Orst thing which gave a decided biow to the doctrines which John Bright had so long contradiction, What tocreases the dimeuities in the path of the Ministry 18 the policy of strmgent retrenchment which Bas for se many ye been pursued vy suc- cessive ‘liberal cabinets. 'To save money, still to save money, always to save money has been the gospel they have persistently preached; and now, wnen a fear of Russia aud America has arisen, and we are afraid of inding ourselves licked, 16 1s found that the task of putting the national armaments upen a satis- factory footing 18 a lavor of traly herculean propor- tious, Warlike stores are deficient, the regular army ts woefully Smail im numbers and can hardly be recruited, the coutrol, commissariat and trans- port departments lack the first principies of orgau- zation, und the field artillery would run tne risk of bemg biown out of the field by the Prussian gunners in @ single week. Such @ result naving been brought about by the official parsimony of | the present and previeus ministries, it need not | be wondered at tnat those in authority should have been seized with panic, and that they should be striving to remedy in @ hurry evils which they created at leisure. Mr. Gladstone hes boasved, in season auc Out Of season, that since his clevauon to | “lstant from here, and formerly the residence of an | omce he hus saved the country twe miliions yeariy by bis reductions. Unfertunately, President Grant and Prince Gortchaxo have net only compeliea aim Ww pal 4 stop to his economies, but to spend twice & Mach as would have been requisite had the national defences been kept up to something like a sake cory mandard. Wooiwich dockyard, which dor, the mania of retrenchment was shut up, its mareinery suld, and its skillea mechanics shipped over \ toe wilds of Canada, is again Lo be reopeued, its plant bought back at an imcreased value, and Worxuen of an inferior description draited into ; Powder, again, which a cou- | the market, is now being purchased in quantities at @ rate of sixteen dol- | \ ought for at the time I have m ntioned. These | things have ali created a prejudice against the Ministry, and ali their skill will be found requisite to enable them to weather the storm that is brewing against them. Ever alert and prepared to take ad- | vanlage of whatever opportunities may turn up, the conservatives are preparing their strength and a SLUT party fight is sure to eccur within @ lortnight after the houses assemble. OPPOSITION. Mr. Cardwell, the War Minister, will have to bear the chlef brant of the attack, and, unfortanatciy for the government, he is the least able to withstand the shock. A ioliower of the free trade school accept when ail German princes and legislative chambers ave acceded, ‘Lhe question wul, therefore, re- | Main in suspense until a nal decision has been come to in Bavaria, * o | thorities, shows plainly that part of the | Degin to range themselves under the new govern- ment. Hitherto ali ofictals had to be taken from German countries, as nobody accepted office trom toem. Now J see daily appoiutmeats of natives of Alsatia, some with gepuine French names, gazetted as revenue collectors, «ce. RELIGION. ‘ The Protestants, who bad often nard times un- | der French rule, ia apite of all constitutions ein vody- , ing Treedem of conscience, ure foreuiosi in giving up | thelr prejudices and rallying to the oid country. ‘Tne | Catholics, mfuenced by the priests, and the Jews—a | large olass there, and well oif under France—are far more reluctant to submit to the new rule, With re- gard to the Catholics, their nostile bose | will be | uch obilteraved by remonstrances from fhe Pope, Af this potentate, as is remored, really intenas to take | up his residence at Fulda, a town some forty mules naependent ecclesiastical prince, aud thereby amply | provided with churches and other appurteuances. it ixgreporied that the King has given his conseut, 80 nothing prevents the Pope carrying out his inten- Rome AMERICAN INTERESTS, A strange and obsolete dispute has arisen between American residents here of tae Jewish faith and the administration of the Jewish community, ‘hese require them to pay a certain yearly contri- bution ior the support of their establishments, on the ground of an antiquated statute which gives | them such @ right. To this the Americans demur, and deny to’ the authoriues any right to inquire about tneir religion. Some years ago they built a Synagogue for their own use; they pay for the same withoat any support from other quarters. | They are, therefore, perfectly justified to resist so | odious a in, wi is the mere disgraceful as the Jewish community has no debts, but is one of the largest discounters in the market. ‘There .1s, there- fore, not a shadow of a pretext for squeezing money from foreigners who reside here under the protec- tion of their government, and it is therefore expect- ed that the Consul will give them every assistance and resist on principle so unjust a claim. ‘There 1s amost nothing to report about our Bourse; ‘business 13 as doll as m the dog days; speculation 18 arleep, ‘and will not be aw again before peace or, at all events, before the surrender of Paris, The founded by Peel, a strong sympathizer with the | new coniederate loan of 50,000,000 thalers has veen Manchester peace party, he has created a popular | Suspicion agaiust Dimself, He does not possess the confidence of the country in nis capacity of head ofthe War Office, and it is quite upoa the cards that he will have to resign. ASPECT FOR WAR. All will depend upon the Mulitary bill, which he is, prepared tu jay before Parliament, and over which Uhe great tight of the session will take place. He will have to run the gauntlet of all the colonels, majors and captains in the House of Commons, Whose criticisais, being based upon proiessional Knowledge, are generally very searching. He is at present deeply engaged with the preparation of bis measure, consulting the Horse Guard authorities, and doing all he can to satisfy the demands of the people, His task, even he himself acknowledges, 1s hot only intrinsically ditcuit in itseif, but is ren- dered stili more so on account of the difficuity of hitting upon @ scheme which shail meet wita the support of the House of Commons. On the one hand the country demands that the whole army system shall be overhauled and ‘re- organized, and that the strength of its battal- jons shall be increased to such an extent as not only to provide for home defence but to secure Camada and the dependencies from aggression. As matters at present stand it is pow almost universally acknowledged that 1 Engiand were involved in war with the Uniied States we could do little or nothing for the military defence of Canada. ‘This ha’ rather frightened us, and hence the anxiety to have the army increased, On the other hand, the nation is resolved that its army, like that of its relative, tne | United States, must continue to be enlisied upon the strictly voluntary principle, Any atiempt to tmtro- duce even a modification of the Prussian system will infallibly lead to the downfall of the Minisier who Proposes such a bold step. Between these two stools Mr. Cardwell is very much hamperea, and my own opinion 1s that he is pretty sure to fall. One reason why our War Minister 1s becoming un- popular is because it is every day becoming more and more apparent that he cannot suficiently “snub” the Duke of Cambridge. With a Von Moltke as Commander-in-Chief of the United Armies of Germany, we are becoming impatient of having at the head of our force an incompetent man, whose sole merit les in his court relationship. Hus day is doomed; and had we had a more vigorous War Min- ister than Mr. Oardweil, his power would by this tine have been, if not altogether destroyed, at all events very much curtailed. You suall aear some- thing of all this as svon as Parliament assembles, GERMANY. The Soiar Eciipsc—Natural Phenomena and the Desolation of War—Paris One Hundred Days Under Siege—Gloomy Fecling in Frankfort—Will tae Enemy Surrender ?— A Spring Campaign if Necessary—itcligion— American Beliel—The Bourse. ™ FRANKFORT, Dec. 29, 1870. The 224 day of the month was the day ot the solar eclipse and the hundredth aay of the siege of Paris. Things look as gloomy in the political as they did in the physical atmos- phere. Animosity and hatred are increasing by the continuous bereavement of families in what 1s now considered as wanton a war as at its beginning, The French fight for their prestige. They cannot bear the idea of beg put on a level with other nations, but having undertaken a war of conquest they must abide the consequences, Still, if they think to worry out the patience of the German nation they are greatly mistaken. Even the prisoners in this country make no mystery of it, that from the day of peace they will plan their war of revenge, and it would be suicidal folly to assist them therein by returning to them the strongholds on our fron- ter. What is quite incomprehensible for us is that taey find sympathy in this new arrogance from foreign nations. Fancy that, after a successful war against England, and their being the aggresser, America haa, aftér heavy sacrifices, wreated Canada from them, would she restore it by the peace and give the English again a footing in their territory? This is exattly our case, with the only difference that the territory we claim has been German from immemorial times, and was wrested from us by fraud and violence. FRANKFORT GLOOMY—THE BOURSE. The gloomy feeling about the war is increased by the misery which we see dally with our own eyes, which the French have recklessly brougnt upon themselves. Last week there came for three days three lots of prisoners, 8,000 each, all clad in sum- mer attire, as they use to wear im the south of France; this week there were 300 to 400 every day. As near as possible they have been provided with cloth and coverlets, both by private charity wunciated, and Welssembourg and Sedan have | 8nd by the assisjance of the military au- iBiven the coup de grace to those principles of peace- jat-any-price which Cobden, after years of political ‘Martyrdom, succeeded in instilling into the minds his countrymen. ¥ ss RETRENCH MENT. < After all the bluster about never repeating the blun- of the Crimean war, of never meddling again ny European complication, of knocking down foria and disarming our navy, it has come that we have gone of more fiercely than ever thorities; but these last must be returned at Letpsic, where others must be provided. As those prisoners go North, the South being already cram- med with them, it is shocking to imagine the hara- slips they must be submitted to, These French prisoners, now almost 400,000, and likely to increase daily, are the most worthy object of foreign charity, and, with all the burdens we have by the war, it is Aimpossibie for the local authorities to do everything alone. From the side of the French nothing what- the opposite tack. Mr. Gladstone is urged to ever is done, and the Paris firm of Holtiager alene subscribed for fivefold, and commands one per ceat premium. Americans are steady, and vary searcely a fraction, though some lots have been sold to Invest the amount in the new loan, Capitalists take read- lly what others sell; Miation there is none at present prices. There very little doing in mort gage bonds; still they maintain their prices firmly, and some ameunts change hagds every day. There has been some more demand for Central Pacitic, ; Peninsular aud Oregons, Foreign bills are some- What cheaper, in consequence of the many aivi dends falling due on January 1. Money continues a drug, and the large payments for the new loan have not made the least impressivn on the market. Dis- count in the open maraet is offered at three per cent, FRANCE. Saamur—Organizing a Cavalry Force—Num- ber ot Horses—Troops aod Discipline—Bad Oficers- Old Generals—Miserable Manage- ment of the Commissariat. Saumur, Dec. 27, 1870. ‘This city has from time immemorial constituted the largest cavalry depot of the French army, Under Louis XIV. a military college, or sehool fer the in- struction of cavalry oficers, was established at Sau- mur in or about 1763. The institution has, ever since its formation, maintained a world-wide reputation, and from what I have been enabled to witness during the day [am inclined to think that even at ‘ths jancture it can be proved that ft has lost nothing of its former prestige. Atan early hour this morn- ing I saw a regiment of cuirassiers passing under my window. Neither the men nor the horses seemed inferior to anything I have seen in the Freuch service. It consisted of a fine troop, well found in everything; good strong horses, furnished, I am told, mostly from Switzertand, at prices varying from 700 to 900 francs each ($140 to $180). The regiment seemed about 600 strong, fully equipped, in good marching order, and destinea to jou the army now forming at Le Mans, in the course of the morning 1 VISITED THE BARRACKS AND THE STABLES and endeavored to gather information regarding ihe regiments stationed, or, rather, about to be formed, here. 1 could not, however, ascertain any- thing reliable beyond what I could see with my own eyes, and knowing how dangerous 11 would be to appear inqu es. Idesisted from inquiring mto deiaus., Had I attempted to usk questions relating to the exact number of horses or men I would have attracted immediate atcention, They are perfectly Juny on the subject of spies. The most trivial ques- tion, if it has the tendency to elicit information on milltary matters, or otherwise on the question of sup- plies or provisions, 1s liable to be misconstrued. If your French betrays the foreigner it will attract im- Mediate attention. Somebody is sure to cross-ques- tion you as to the object of your travels, how long you bave been in the country and so forth. Under the circumstances 1t would appear sheer folly to go about with inquiring looks, and although it may be dificult to ascertain with a degree of reliability what 1s going on I assure you that I saw enough to convince me that 1t must be an easy matter to turn out a lorce of between 8,000 and 4,000 CAVALRY, well mounted, at a very short notice. The class of horses, it strikes me, 18 even superior in size and condition to what I have heretofore seen in France, and as for the recruits, I neea only te say that they are mostly taken from among the peasantry. All of them can mount @ horse, and surely it cannot take many weeks to put them eficientiy through the drill manual. The losses sustained at Sedan and before Metz are about to be repaired, and the Army of the Loire can now be provided with a cavairy force, the absence of which has so far acted as a@ serious drawback on its eperations, The number ef horses which I have seen exercised on the open ground fronting the barracks may be safely put down at 3,000; and this number tallies pretty closely with the estimate | formed of the ca- of stabling accommodation, 1 have walked around the whole range ef build: and made my calculations from the outside. In addition to ame buildings temyo: wooden sheds have erected to put Up herses and the new, eapacious riding school has likewise been converted into sta- bies, From the window of my room I overlook one of the Jarge bridges across the Lotre—a bridge of tweive arches, spanning about 300 yards—and while Tam wriung OF RECRUITS ering it note te Ly militar, are cov its whole length, marching in order from the railroad depot to the barracks. All are clad in blouses; men of strong buiid and healthy eae Their number was certainly not less than 1,200, [had already seen another troop this morning, numberiug about 400, and I could net refrain from contrasting this movement with the scenes I had witnessed in Germany during the latter part of the montn of July. In recalling that period it struck me that, whtie we are now in the month of December, nearly six months had elapsed until these men could have been brought to a sense of duty in defending their country. True, the Frenchmen now coming for- ward taust be considered more or less as a body of volunteers, thelr movement 14 ayontanegus; they Tue Strasbourg Gazette, edited by the German au- Peopie | Uons, if really he should meditate to move from | | and, though apparently much against their will, will rally aroun officers, . eiher wise, nowever, with the Mobile Guards, Their regiments are for the most part badly oficered. It has been erroneously stated that there exists a want of discipline. This is entirely a misconcep' Every Frenchman is more or less amenable to disci- pling, But when the men perceive that thetr o#i- | cers are incapable to command, that, in fact, the: | are afraid Lo soil their boots, and that while the sol- diers are compelled to shift for themselves, the off- cers occupy comfortable quarters, with elegant breakfasts and suppers, it cannot excite surprise | that they become mutinous, Thus you perceive sol- | diers wandering about in batches of ten and more | begging from door to door, while their superiors are enjoying every luxury at hotels or private lodgings. Tue consequence ts that whole regiments are dis- banded and demoralized so soon as a retreat has become tnevitable, while a victory causes ihem to appear equally unmanageable in another direction. . BAD OFFICERS. All that is now required rests with the necessity of finding a general who is equal to the occasion, Whose capicity is such as to undertake the organ- | ization of an ee, to form a ut of the straggling , Masses dispersed over a large tract of land in an utterly shiftiess position, As it is, the lack of duty among Oilicers to look after their mea has brought the army into bad odor, Millions are wasted through the incapacity ef commissartat officers, and the consequence is that theusands of poor fel- | lows are now dependent on public charity, The | government has amply provided for an emergency. | 1 may mention that one singie centracior has fur- mished 120,000 rifles, Ammunition, clothing, pro- | | Visions of ail kinds are plentitul, and yet you | | See men running about barefooted, while others are | starving or, as stated before, rendered dependent. on puolle charity. RURAL STRATEGY. The pantc occasioned hy the sudden invasion of these ranaway soldiers 18 indescribable. Tho rural Pepulations around Saumur have barricaded every village. On nearing the city itself the nigh road has been cut ® at intervals of from fifty to sixty yards, cheveaux de frisé and palisades have been erected behind ditcnes ten feet deep. Trees have been cut | down and the water courses spread over the sur- rounding flelds, with the view te impede the march of the enemy. These measures are utterly ridicu- lous; they have evidently Deen concerted by men ; Who are totally ignorant of the first principles of strategy. They denote féar, but nothing more; and tuis, probably, again furnishes the total absence of military genius. The men educated as ofticers are absepiees, being prisoners in Germany, The newly improvised army 1s readered, therelore, utterly nelp- less, as far as commanding olficers are con- | cerned, Of 240 generals, as I showed the | other day, 160 are in the hands of tne Germans; the greater number of the rematning nineiy are superannuated old fogies, and they are the cause of money and tabor being expended in the most ridicuious manner. Moreover, @ glance at the map will show that there is a moral lonpoeeinality that the Prusstans shonld ever extend their move- ments in this direction. Had they come as far as Tours it 1s possible that for the purpose of making requisitions a few uhlans would have crossed the | Loire; but in a military point of view it seems eut of the question that the Prussians should occupy Saumur, Now that on have retired suddenly from the Bordeaux route they can be held in check by | the new levies which are drawingnear. Toeir stores | of clothing and camping materials which have been massed together here and elsewhere are astounding. ‘They have arms and accoutre- ments ready to equip any given number of men coming forward for the defepce of France, In making this assertion I do not gene- ralize matters; but I am speaking of facts whicl have come under my own observation. The onl: deficiency now consists in officers—above all, ofi- cers capable to wield large forces, Discipline would be almost a natural consequence. The men are Willing enough te submit to aiscipline, but the mis- chief is there is no one who can either impose or eniorce it, F M. GLAIS-BIZOIN, Iperceive from a notice in the Phare de la Lotre, bas arrived at the city ot Nantes. The Mayor of that city had likewise issued orders to place Nantes in a state of defence within a circle of tweive miles. | Lconcinde therefrom thatthe same ridiculous mea- sures as at Saumur wii be resorted to, in the shape of barricades, ditches and inundations. M. Gam- betta was, according to las: accounts, at Bourges. ANGLO-AMERICAN FEELING. Words of Home Warning to Johu Ball. The London Economtst, speaking editorially on the above subject, deplores ‘*a habit which is spring- ing up in our press of treating American questions, and which seems to be full of danger for the future of both countries, It is a habit of writing as if America were, in fact, the great permanent enemy of England, the one nation with whom war 1s ; always probable and will one day become neces- | sary. The all Mau Gazetie is quite right in saying | thatthe way to come to a clearer understanding with the United States 1s by no means to show timidity or shrinking, or any disposition to yield | to bluster. But, on the other hand, nothing can be more fatal than to sow in the somewhat narrow and slow, but very tenacious public mind of our own country a deep conviction that the United States entertain tous # bitter ani- mosity which they are only seeking for some pru- dent occaston to display. Sach a bellef smouldering in the soul of the British citizen would bear fruit in all sorts of contemptuous and irritating displays of national feeling, which would be quickly caught 8 aud reflected back from the other sige of the At- lantic. If you want to make a quarrel between two acquaintances, you cannot do better than make eitner of them believe that the other hates him, and is on the lookout for an op- tunity of injury. Besides, the Zeonomts! thinks, it 18 very far indeed from the truth, as far as it can judge, that there is a rooted unfriendliness towards England, likely to lead to deliberate insult and in- tolerable threats. On the contrary, it should say there was a deep root of respect and almost yearn- ing towards England, tempered by bicter mortifica- tion at what the American people think her delibe- Tate animosity and rancor towards the Union. It is quite conceivable that a cordial apology for our neg- ligence—aud negligence, very culpable negligence, we believe it was—in the case of the Alabama, accompanied by any practical pledge we might choose to give of our sincerity in tendering that apology, would change the whole attitude of feeling towards England, ana render it as cordial as it 15 ‘at present sore.” THE PEACE CONGRESS. French Republicanism and its Difficulties What Radicalism Demands and the Menarphs Cannot Give. {From the Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 31.) The refusal of the French government to send a representative to the London Conference unless the British government have previousiy ee. @ formal recogaition to the republic 1s @ conspicuous instance of sacrificing the substance to the shadow. The government of National Defence has been asked to take part in the resettlement of an it article of the public law of Europe. By the mere of this “ceniment of France, The Business of tne Conterence ernment 0} e will be to inquire whether a stipulation to which the lave Emperor was a party be rescinded, and if so, What other stipulation shall be substituted for it. But eee pens the aga or iat ae would have borne an important part disc sion. If the Powers had raised any objection to the place of his representative being taken by a representative of the provisional government the French nation would have had just reason for com- plaint, They might have argued that a government ‘which is good enough for the work of saving France from dismemberment ts good enough for the work of reviewing every arrangement in which Franee 1s in- terested. ut no opposition of this Kind has been offered. The great Powers have one and all con- sented to accept the representative of the govern- ment of National Defence as intall respects compe- ‘tent to speak for and bind the French nation. It is impossibie to conceive any more distinct recognition of ade sao goverument, Fven Count Bismarck E r, and that engowarned 4n whatever way 13 most agreeable to Frenchmen. M. Gambetta may be sure that whenever a French republic can present itself as having the conscious sanction of the French pie i will be asked to show no other title. hether that sanction be given by the resolution of an Assembly, or by the vote of the nation, or by the acquiescence of the whole country, the English gov- ernment will not inquire. But as yet there ts nore+ public that can produce one of these credentials, THE PAPAL QUESTION. Premier Giadstone’s Religio: Tendencies Tested by the Presbyterians. From the Pail Mall Gazette, Dec, 31, Everybody has seen for some time that Mr. Glad- stone would get into a scrape on account of his not being demonstrative enough tn his Protestant ten- dencies Jor the position he holds. There ts a distant rumbling of thunder from Scotland which bodes ill for his future peace, and the sooner he prepares for a full confession of faith the better. At the mecting of the Free Presbytery in Edinburg on Wednesday Mr. Gladstone’s letter to Mr. Dease was a subject of discussion, It seems that the unfortu- nate Premier has had a premonitory poke in the ribs betore the Presbyterian Stethescope was applied to his chest with the view of discovering the existence in his heart of any Roman Catholic prociivities, for Dr. Candlish stated that he had been in communication with Mr. Glad- stone on the subject, He had, indeed, ‘some days ago, at the request ofa few friends, addressed a let- ter to Mr. Gladstone, and had received an immediate reply of the most courteous and friendly kind.’ Notwithstanding, however, the courtesy and friend- liness of Mr. Gladstone he seems to have been rather reserved, for Dr. Candlish proceeded, ‘In that reply Mr. Gladstone referred him to another letter, ich he addressed privately to another friend some week or ten days ago,” and in regard to that letter, not having lon to read it publicly, Dr. Candlish could only say that the “‘im- pression lef on his mind was that the language used in Mr. Gladstene’s letter to Mr. Dease was ca- paste of @ more favorabie interpretation than they put upon it, ‘that letter (the letter to the other friend) was almost, though not to his (Dr, Candlish’s mind entirely, satisfactory. Mr. Gladstone nad tok him (Dr. Catidlish) that at one time he intended to panliah the letver in question, but that, ‘in- luenced by the advice of his colleagues,” he had thought ft better to ‘abstain from pub- lishing it at this time, and to walt till the aneeting of Parliament, when he would be pre- pared Lo offer any explanation which ‘any parties m the House might seem to require.” This shows us that Mr. Gladstone’s colleagues have on some | pone even greater wisdom than himself, and their kindly advice to their ailiicted brother does equal credit to their heads and hearts. As, therefore, some expl on expected from Mr. Giad- stone sho. Uy, the meet did not think it absolutely nec to put him upon the rack immediately; that machine, therefore, was wheeled back into its cupboard for the present, and the foliowing motion | propose by Dr. Caudlish was unanimously agreed | ‘The attention of the Presbytery having been called to Mr. Gladstone's letter to Mr. Dense, of date November 80, 1870, 1 was moved that the Presbytery, while anxi ‘awatting the expianations of the languaze used which may yet be given, deem it their duty to record their deep sense of the apprehensions which that letter fs fitted to awaken in the minds of all true Protestants within these realm: rety admit and maintain the right of their Roman Gxihoite fei- low-subjects to be protected fn the exercise of their liberty of worship, even while acknowl & spiritual subjec- tion to a for ecclesiastical Power. They admit also and maintain that the government of this country ts entitled, and may called upon in proper. cir- cumstances, to remonstrate wit! other = govern- ments when they seem to te adepting oppressive and intolerant measures in their dominions, especially if the parties aggrieved are conn by religious ties with any ‘of our own countrymen. But the Presbytery joxt & phatically and solemnly protess against the dvctriue or op fon tnat the rulers of this Protestant country may, or to, charge themsclves with taking any concern about the dignity, freedom or independence of the Pope, even on the found of there being so many jn this conntry ‘willing to own is hit spiritual supremacy—a supremacy which has never therto been asscried cn behalf of Home without a elatin interfere in temporal matters, and had never yet been knowledged, even in Roman Catholic States, without a jeal ous watch upon the claim. Although the Scotch Presbyterlans try gentle measures first, Mr. Gladstone will do well to re- member that they are only waiting for his explana- tion, It was a pity the Premier in his efforts to con- ciliate the Irish torgot that steady Scotch majority, Nt which a liveral ministry could not exist a weel British Catholic Protest Against Italy in Rome. A forinal protest of the Catholics of the United Kingdom against the Italian invasion of Rome nas been (December 31) signed by numerous English Catholics—among others by the Earl or Denbigh, Earl Dunraven, Lord Arundeil of Wardour, Lord Her- ries, Lord H. Kerr, Sir George Bowyer, Sir R. Ge- rard, Sir Pyers Mostyn, Sir H, Pellen, Sir R. Glen- donwyn Gordon, Hon, H. Petre, Hon. F. Petre, Hon, A. Petre, Sir C, Cliford, the Master of Herries, Mr. W. Herbert, of Clytton; Sergeant Beilasis, Hon. W. Stourton, &. The signers of the document protest firet “as men and citizens.” They regard what has been done as @ blow struck at public morals and the security of States; henceforth no State weaker than its imme- diate neighbor can hope for support from the con- sclence of other Powers. No allegiance for the future can be claimed, no authority hold its own, no treagon be chastised, no laws, in fact, exist, but those of expediency, perfidy and force, if such an outrage do not arouse the slumbering consciences of men. Secondly, as bats peg of the British t.rone the protesters contemplate this event with sorrow and dismay. ‘We fear,” they say, ‘the avenging hand of Providence. Our country 18 not without its disaffections, our legislation and history have not been such as utteriy to deprive conspiracy and Fevolt of all pa‘liation. When we shall be in dmeut- tes domestic treason may assume, by pe instt- gation, dimensions far beans any ever attained in oh ae of oe oe an Lioperg tet pine pane al ‘00 Willing to play the fictitious part o! liberators, with motives and means such as those as have now prospered against Rome.” Butitis ‘as Catholics rejoicing in the faith and Church of Christ’? hat the protesters are most deeply wounded. What the Italian government have done is a sprees of deepest dye and ef widest consequences of e' It is an open blow struck at the cause of God and His Christ in the person of the servant of His servants. It1s a blow struck at the centre whence flows the very life blood of the Church. The work ing the world 1s impeded, and 1s meant to be perma- hently arrested at the main source of its action. This 18, indeed, outwardly the work of an ambitious and aggressive State, but behind it are the associated enemies of the name and the very thought ot God,”’ THE ROYAL MARRIAGE. Prussinn Objections to the Princess Louise’s Nuptials. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, speaking on the approaching “happy event’? in England, says:— The ents h letion tory to the mariage of the brincess Louise with the juis of Lorn and no alteration 18 perceptible tn the general fecling with which the Dillane 18 ro- Were once over the English money market would improve rapidly. “There would certainly be much borrowing by Germany or France, probably both, te settle the accounts of the war. And this would re- leve us of some of our own money which ts now lying idle, as well as of foreign money which has now been sent here tor shelter, and be- do not know in our judgment of the first importanee. There great truth in the say- ing, ‘John Bull can stand many things, but he can. not stand two per cent.’ Whenever money haa 1 been exceedingly cheap, the owners of it, being ti of the small returns from safe business, have tried to gain greater returns from ilegitimate."’ WAR ITEMS AND NOTES. Provisions and Food Rates in Paris—Food Supplies to the German Armies—Siege Ope- rations. The French Patrie gives a list of Paris prices on the 17th of December: Donkey flesh was 2f. per ib; mules, do.; a cat, 8f; de 10f.; duck, 20f.; chicken, 15f.; mutton kéd- 3 mutton cutlets, if. 50c.; eggs, Lf. each; . to 201. per Ib.; sausages, 500. each; tur- » 40f.; pike, 251.; leg of mutton, St. 1b.; sugar, 80c.; cm lard, Bf; 5oc.;’ candies, 3f. The is, it adds, were 2 bi a8 usual, the only rence being that white fowis, mutton and beef were still eaten in the first class ones, the flesh of horses, denkeys and dogs was consumed tm second rate, and cat and rat in small establishments, Some restaurants give their cu tomers the choice of chickens’ wings, fillets of donkey and legs of rats, At one time the venders of ing birds tried to intro- auce a taste for them among the Parisians, bat there was sucha burst of indignation and such hor- ror expressed by the ladies that the idea was aban- oll, 5 restauran' doned. Almost everywhere, accordingly, birds, whether at liberty or caged, continued to sing with- out molestation. A provision merchant had as all the edible animals in the Jardin d'acckmatisa- tion and the Jardin des Plantes, and the former nad already been consumed. THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENOE— PREMIER GLADSTONK'S, NON-RECOGNITION—BEMON- STRANCE, ‘The following is the full text of the remonstrance which was forwarded to Mr. Gladstone upon his de clining to receive a deputation on the subject of the non-recognition of the Frehch republican govern: ment by formal Cabinet action;— In the absence of the recognized method of ex- pressing puotic option in Parliament, the under- signed respectfully to lay before the head of her Majesty’s government the following considera- Uons on the present crisis:— Loe ‘Bee With iid ok and regret that offt- Tecorpitlon continues to be accorded to the de- posed imperial dynasty, while it is still refused to that government which for three months has been. accepted by the Frencn 8 oad ‘The authority of the dz facto government of France, ratified as it hag been by a vote of the capital, 18 admitted by the whole country. It has proved itself capable of di- recting the entire nation in war, and has success- fully pledged 1ts pubiic credit. ‘It nas been con- suited on European questions by all the Powe! and it is now negotiated with by England herself in a matter so momentous as the treaties of 1856. In eg to recognize the legitamacy of a government the establishment of which they are forced by their acts to admit, the English Ministry are, in our opinion, giving active | support to the policy by which, for military ends, ni the Prassian monarchy has sought to discreait thé actual rulers of France. With no less surprise and concern we have seen that the English government has thought fit to urge on that of France the expe- diency of calling a national assembly. As this is question which solely concerns the people and rulers of France, while it has the closest relation to the plan of the nutional defeace, we cannot but look on t} step of the English government as an un- warrantable interference in the internal affairs of a foreign country. This act 1s the more to be regretted since in effect it must ak second the efforts which, with military objects, are being made by Count Bismarck lo hamper the French government in the work of national defence, Second—Since the interview between the two fors eign Ministers at Ferrieres it has been officially known that Prussia had decided to prolong the war untilit results in the dismemberment of France. From that date we think an English government should have distinctly miade known in the face of Europe that this policy would meet with the reso- jute disapproval of England, ‘The declaration that has been made on behalf of Prussia, that she in- tended to settic this—a truly European question— without concert with the other Powers, 1s one which onght to have met with a decided protest from anu English government. ‘ermore, we regret that this government should have abstained from condemning emphatically the barbarous method in which the (russians are now carrying on warfare, more particularly in the wholesale burning of villages, in the exposure of civilians upon the railway trains and In the massacre of irregular sol- diers a3 marauders. Tiird—We have seen with disappointment that Parliament has not been summoned and the nation taken into counsel in a crisis so serious as that which now impends over aes We have been grieved to see that throughout this war an English Ministry has treated a question which is of the deep- est moment to this country and to Europe as @ mat- ter exclusively concerning two foreign countries, and that tor a period of seven weeks, during the ney critical times, no meeting of the Cabinet was eld. Fourth—We desire to point out what, in our epee must prove the consequences to England of the polfey which the government has vet aoc Whatever goodgwill Prussia may show toward the English Court, she shows none whatever toward this country. France, on the other hand, has been thorot alienated. As the existing relations of the European Powers have been violently broken » With no new busis of barmeny substituted, joint actien between them wil be henceforth for an indefinite period {mpossible, A military monarchy nas been eéstaolished, of whose dangerous character and power we bave tad abundant proof. It is one which, in our opinion, has shown iteelf, by its + tgppentrd threatening to European peace, and by 1t8 constitution to Buro) freedom. Such is the result of events of which the English LS ald have been passive tors, shrink! m any attempt to u even by agency, and maint an sbnegation of all policy, which in effect is_ the same as complete subservience to the di 8 Of | ni esign! ytry is prepared to continue usa pollgy of abso, country 1s pre} continue Jute inactoin even should France be bornadown.go far a3 to cease to be of account in the poll system, price the bop mee to assume an rt of friendship tow: ‘rance. This policy, which, on other ands 1s the duty of England, ‘we consider, in the presence of the revived preten- sions of Russia and of the action of Prussia in re- spect to Luxembourg, to be dictated by the true interests ef the pops We believe that common safety requires a closer connection to be established with the neutral Powers, with the view to the forma- ton among them of a Mutual of Seif-defen the members of which should mut guarantee each other’s independence and integrity, prepared jointly to repress any attack that may the general peace, garded, Strange to howeyer, there are whis- ‘Slat that English Derings of objection made—not fa Bngined, Dut at Fovernaont secule dail kyon iat of Presa gertain foreign Court (Prussia) whose right to mur~ ) Tae newog on reasonable terme not involving ths mur in the matter Jeo among us would be disposed Lp a ia — a hinte and intimations of | Seizure of French territory. this, im our cuuapprorad hee ‘volunteered | OPinion, without further delay, aah cacnde ve Pare one und their way | France in her resistance, an ea) war st through official channels, the int and unwar- Fine tcl ge. Progen \trusive rantable attempt at intermeddling in what concerns only the royal family of England and the English People 18 certain to be stoutly, perhaps supercili- the fict of such fools nguous having eek enter. ¢ fact of such foolish not q tained, or the more ‘cereale that they ‘will be treated with dignified among the Western Powers right entttled, ana which has been oosteed by Englisi statesmen in former settlements of Europe. The Sherburne County (Minn.) Weekly kas been reduced to a small five-column paper, Its editer says rd by the ilius- | that, before this reduction, it was ‘entirely too large trious perso! 08e ment hag bben from the | for one of its ,"? and that, “unless we anew sgh Rereulge Wives ye roved by the nation. | subscriber or a legal advertisement on or before the We don’t ask, or even ture, how | ist day of January, A. D. 1872, we shall condense it such communications may have been con- | another column,’ and so on for the next three suc: Yeyed, and pow ther have been met Que cannot | oemsive years.