The Sun. — London, England, 1870-09-19 00:00:00

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To Conclude with the successful Earlesque, DON CARLOS ; or, The Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. H. Irving, G. Honey, Lin Rayne, W. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Fawaitt, T. Levis, and A. Newton. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH. This Evening, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING ; The School for Coquettes. Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, R. Bufton, and F. Hughes. The New Hurly- Surly-Esque, " THE IDLE 'PRENTICE." Messrs. Terri, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, Bufton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, dro. ; and, THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL T HE LYCEUM THEATRE (Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER). THIS EVENING, a Now and Original Irish Drama, by the author of "Peep o' Day," entitled " INN ISFALLEN ; or the Men In the Gap." Box-office now open. Acting Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. LYCICUM—Farce. Innisfallen, or the Men in the Gap. flAnusts's WELLS—Farce. Hamlet. QuE.Eres , --Midsummer Night's Dream. lAtroe. Quint—Ballet. Bluebeard. Beggars' Opera. PAMIR ov WALue--M.P. Queen Stork. Looked In. Vaurevnxu—Chiselling. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STBABD—SchooI for Coquettes. Idle 'Prentice. Chops of the ChanneL Purrumsszu'—Wanted, 1,000 Milliners. The Rapparsa. The Happy Man.' RormerY—Our Nelly and F. M. Julius Oncesar, the Irregular Rum 'Un. Omarno—Poppleton's Predicaments. Handsome Is that Handsome Does. ITndine. NATIONAL STANDARD—LittIe Emily. Venus versus Mars. ALHAMBRA--Grand Ballet and Varieties. ClinfoßNß--Fireworks, Ballet, &a. MADAME TIISSAUDIS (Baker-street) —From 11 a.m. till 3 p.m. and 7 till 10 p.m. Is. ; extra rooms, 6d. Ekr. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. PoLYTE,onmo—Professor Pepper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening. PARTRMGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 1.92. 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Curious to note, amid the clang of arms both within and around the great and beautiful capital of France, the gathering yesterday of a quiet throng around a grave in the very middle of London, in Bunhill Fields burial-ground, a grave that for nearly one hundred and fifty years had remained altogether neglectedu Widely different though the spectacles thus contrasting with each other, here and yonder t there is a significance at the heart of each in very many ways, it may be said, intensely congenial and sympathetic. Underlying each, there is a patriotic ardour the glowing warmth of which it would be impossible to exaggerate. Ani mating both demonstrations, there is a passionate love of democratic independence at once of thought, and speech, and writing, and printing, for - the ade quate indication of which no words. that could be employed would be deemed by anyone extravagant. Of the truth of all this in re gard to Paris, every incident in the unfolding of the grand and awful tragedy whioh is there being enacted is, from day to day, almost from hour to hour, absolutely demonstrative. For our present purpose it will be sufficient, however, if attention is now ex clusively directed for a moment to the widely con trasting and yet essentially kindred spectacle wit nessed yesterday in London, in one of our old intramural graveyards. A century and a half has nearly passed by since there was deposited in that grave the body of the man over whose last resting place a beautiful and substantial memorial was yesterday inangu- rated. He rose from the ranks of the people. He lived a struggling life. He died poor. Ho was more than once bankrupt. Like Cardinal WOLSEY, like MARK AKENSIDE, like KIRKE WHITE, accord ing to some like SHAKSPERE, he was the son of a butcher. He himself kept a hosier's shop in Corn hill. He was arraigned at the bar of justice as a criminal. He was tried, condemned, and sentenced. He was mulcted heavily in fines, was incarcerated as a prisoner in Newgate, was pilloried here and there all about London. And yet this man's crime all the while was simply that he was, heart and soul, a champion of freedom of speech, of writing, of printing, and of publishing. He was one of the first and foremost of English journalists—the greatest of all political pam phleteerst—the most illustrious and world-famous of all the story tellers who have delighted childhood. DANIEL DE FOE—that was the man's name. Originally his name was FOE—this true Friend of us all—this Friend of our children and our children's children, on through a perspective of gene rations. His glory as a man of letters is that he was the author of " Robin son Crusoe," the most wonderfully realistic tale that was ever penned by writer of imagination. His triumph of romance, however, in another sense, was his "History of the Great Plague of London," reading like truth, and yet written, every word of it entirely out of his imagination. As it social reformer, one of his n014.195t achievementb was his routing out and utterly extirpating the infamous den of Whitefriars. Reading to-day, on the very morrow of the in auguration of the memorial tomb of this wise, good, bold man, a memorial touchingly raised to the memory of the author of "Robinson Crusoe "—by whom!' by the Boys and Girls of England 1 reading, as we do, now upon the very morrow of that incident the record of a horrible inquiry that was being carried on simultaneously not hundred miles from Bunhill Fields burial ground, namely, at the Middlesex Sessions before Mr. Ser jeant Cox—an inquiry into a certain frightful traffic in immorality going on here in the very midst of us —the instinctive cry of one's heart is, 0 for one hourof DANIEL DE FOE ! 0 for the wieldingonce more of that scathing pen that frightened all the obscene creatures away from their loathsome haunts down in Whitefriars I For eleven years it would seem that there has been flourishing in the metropolis of England a system of immorality the mere mention ing of which seems little less than an outrage and a profanation. Not a stew, not a brothel, not a bagnio--a housa kept, first of all, by a Madame D'ALMA, and, subsequently, by one °LARISSA DORVAL, and another, ATHALIE. VEVEY—a hand some, commodious residence, the admission fee to which was a guinea, the attraction to which Was a room full of prostittftes undraped in any way whatever. Wontler ful to tell, the wretched women keeping this abomi nable establishment, on being indicted, by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, for that surely heinous offence, are in the simplest, wa y in the world " got off" in a manner by the learned counsel defenaing them, Mr. Serjeant BA L LANTINE. llis argument was that the prisoners themselves believed that they were en gaged in a perfectly legal transaction as in most or le Continental cities, such houses were licensed by Le constituted authorities., There was this to be said, added the learned Serjeant, that no women were seen entering the house with men, but they lived in the house ; and he might contend that they lived in the house as lOdgere. The house having, been given up, he should advise the prisoners to with draw their plea of not guilty, and leave the matter in the hands of the Court. No sooner said than done. The prisoners pleaded guilty. The Judge who was trying them, Mr. Serjeant Cox, having consulted with one or two justices on the Bench, said he considered that, as the house had been given up and the furniture sold, he should only fine the defendants. The sentence, therefore, was that each of them p(ty a fine of £5O, and be im prisoned until such fine was paid. Whereupon the prisoners left the court otherwise unpunished, and evidently delighted at their escaping so easily. Reading this terrible narrative, again we say 0, for one hour of DANIEL DE FoE, the author of " Robinson Crusoe," the historian of the Plague, the destroyer of Whitefriars. FEW wars have been so entirely devoid of any religious incentive or object as the war now waging. Yet it is probable that it will have more effect upon the religious condition of Europe than any great conflict since the Thirty Years' War. The long struggle between GUSTAVUS and TILLEY led to the establishment of the Protestant religion throughout Northern Germany. It was a war prompted by re ligion, and having for its end a great religious settlement. Yet this present war, into which religious considerations have never entered, is likely to effect one of the greatest religious revolutions that the world has ever seen. It is strange that this should be so. The proximate cause of this war was as untheological as could well be. Catholic Spain wanted a Sovereign, and chose one who was, it is true, a Prussian Prince, but was nevertheless a Catholic. When hostilities commenced the two chief foes were undoubtedly of different Creeds, but while Franca was Catholic and Prussia Lutheran, Prussia was joined by Catholic Germany, by Liberal-Catholic Bavaria, by partly Evangelical partly Ultramontane Wurtemburg. Nay, in the German host have been found not these only, but Calvinists and Jews, and (we may well believe it, seeing how large a proportion of the army came from Berlin) unbelievers also. These antagonists fought without thinking of their respective churches. Protestant Prussia was in no de gree the more oppressive because her enemy acknow ledged the Pope. Catholic Bavaria and Wurtemburg were not one jot the less vehement because their foes were co-religionists. A Scotch divine has seen in the overthrow at Sedan the fulfilment of his favourite prophetic theories; and au English Profes sor has mourned that this same overthrow has resulted in disaster to the people with whose faith he sympathises. But Dr. CUMMING has long ago exhausted the patience of his hearers by seeing in every skirmish the day of doom ; and Professor 13sEsix is the only enthusiast who perceives in the Franco-German war a conflict between antiquated Protestant superstition and new and enlightened Positivism. No one who has not been given over to the tyranny of preconceived ideas would interpret the great events now unfolding, as they have been interpreted by the minister of Crow,. Court Chapel and the London Univerdty Professor. TOPICS OF THE DAY. IRE SUS, LO ON, MONDAY, -'.SEPTEMBER, ;,19, 1876 THE LOSS OF THE CAPTAIN. Everyone will hail with pleasure the intelligence that the Government has decided to give the widows of the seamen drowned in the Captain one year's pay. Whilst the Government thus fulfils its obli gations, the country is not inactive, and committees are being formed with the view of collecting funds for' the relief of those who may be sufferers by the foundering of the mat ship. It is a noble characteristic of the British nation that whenever any dreadful calamity colurs, involving great domestic suffering, the natiOilal: - sympathy is excited and finds its expression in cle4sOf generosity. The loss of the Captain is justly deemed a national loss, and the people of the country, not c:mtenting themselves with mere expressions of sympathy, are striving to do what is possible to lessen the degree of suffering which the event has occa sioned. There is every reason to believe that the funds which are being raised will, in the aggregate, suffice to place the families of the men who have been drowned beyond want. MR. LOWE ON BRITISH TARS. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will be entitled to the rtspect and esteem of the whole navy for the eloquent, graceful, and sympathetic manner in which he spoke, on Friday night, of English sailors, and especially of the brave fellows who went down in H.M.S. Captain. Few there are who will not agree with the right hon. gentleman in believing that it is not well that all our sympathies should be given to foreign woe and misery just now, or that we should lightly pass over an event which has deprived us, in a terribly sad manner, of 500 of our seamen, and placed the families of these gallant servants of the Crown and of the country In mourning. Few there are, moreover, who will not feel grateful to the Minister for the appropriate and feeling lines in which he embodied thoughts of the loss England had received, and of the manner in which the commander of the Captain and his crew met their melancholy to : There is on the lone, lone sea A spot, unmarked, but holy, For there the gallant and the free In their ocean grave lie lowly. Down, down beneath the deep That oft to triumph bore them, They sleep a calm and peaceful sleep, The salt waves dashing o'er them. And though no stone may tell Their name, their worth, their glory, They rest in hearts that love them well, They grace Britannia's story. CANADA AND ANNEXATION. The Dominion of Canada is destined to give us a great deal of trouble. What with Fenian incursions and the loud-toned demands for annexation by the sympathisers with the States, the Canadian Parliament and the Home Government must have a sorry time ot it. Once more the cry ot annexation' . is raised, and we find the Americans, with their proneness to exaggeration, magnifying the annexa tionists to the dignity of a powerful party. it were idle to examine the truthfulness or otherwise of the statement that no insignificant number of Cana dians desire to sever their connection with England. The Dominion has recently given unmistakeable proof of its loyalty to the mother country, and to admit the supposition that a change has taken place in the popular sentiment so suddenly and so won drously were an insult to the Canadians, or would, to say the least, argue a want of gratitude on the part of the English. THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACES. The Americans have expressed an opinion that the art of rowing is far more scientifically conducted In England than in any other country, and it is only within the past few days that a fresh proof would seem to have been afforded, by the victory of the Tyne crew, of this statement. Glancing at a chronicle, which has just been issued, of the boat races between the sister universities in England, the theory that we have at least made efibrts to bg come superior oarsmen for .many years past is evi— dent. Bowing, as an art, dates no further back than the middle of the reign of George IV. Before this , 1111 .-i•17.?) M. z , • ::•:: .e• A ~ , ,, f ~,..,),.., 0 r1.,:. ,_.- 4 ,:7 ,,, ,..,fi ~ I.t,t;t.-»t;',4,,Y' 41.1 .;9.4 HER 4JESTY. BALMORAL, SEPT. 16. In the afternoon the Queen drove out, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Arthur. The Right Hon. G. J. Goschen had the honour of dining ith the Queen and the Royal family. time the pursuit was confined to those who gained their livelihood by it. It may be interesting to note moreover that eight-oared rowing was in vogue at Oxford some time before it was introduced into Cam bridge, where the first boat, belonging to . St. John's College, was launched in 1826, and that it was between this year and 1829 that the Cambridge Boat Club was formed. In Ireland the first eight-oared boa; was launched only last year. It was on June 10, 1829; that the first boat ing contest between the English University clubs took place. The rendezvous, as at present was on the Thames, but the course was fixed between Hambledon lock and Henley-bridge, instead of at Mortlake. No attempt was made to promote a second competition till 1834, and even on that occasion the negotiations failed. From 1836 the aquatic com petition, which every year is looked forward to with an interest rivalling that sjiewn for the greate.t of the Epsom horse races, became annual. BESIEGED CITIES AND CARRIER PIGEONS. Nothing would be of easier accomplishment, we are told by the Field, than the daily transmission of intelligence from besieged cities by the aid of carrier pigeons. If this be so, the French generals have made one other great error in not providing them selves with a supply of the birds, for it is recorde 1 that one set of commanding:officers were in such straits that 220,000 was offered to any one who would convey a message to Marshal Bazaine and return with his reply. If the means of sending communications by pigeons are too simple for strategists, it may be possible that for humble civilians they might be made use of with advantage. What benefit, for instance, might not accrue if Lon &iers having friends in Paris, in spite of the most rigorous investment; should be able to learn the latest possible news of their circumstances and of the condition of the city through the instrumentality of birds ? The Field declares that even if months were to elapse before the pigeons were required, they would, on regaining their liberty, at once betake themselves to their old abodes. The mode of commu nication by pigeons, though as old as Solomon,' has never been extensively made a practice. In these ,days when the chief object of an enemy besieging a city is to despoil it of every possible means of having intercourse with, or help from, external sources, it might prove that resorting to one of our ancestor remedial experiments would lead to the highest . possible good, in respect to' people locked within walls on every side by a dangerous enemy. SPAIN. Three centuries since "Spain was a country full of all earthly felicities. It was renowned for the corn of its,-Plains, for the wine and oil of its moun tains, and for the milk and butter of its pastures." Dr. Wylie, who recently made a tour in the country best known in these days as the land of tyrants, ban dits, conspirators, and treacherous Hidalgos, is respon sible for the assertion as respects the old promises of the peninsula. He speaks differently of Spain as it is now. " The beauty of former days is gone, and the land is positively ugly. Its plains no longer wave with corn ; its mountains no longer flow with wine, nor its pastures with milk. It is a ruin, and a ruin so vast that it confounds, nay terrifies, the stranger." The allegations of Dr. Wylie may be open to just criticism, for statistical facts prove that the production of cereals has actually increased since the French invasion, although the bad sys tems of irrigation are allowed to retard the progress agriculture might be making. The Northern Railway, passing through the least valuable lands of Spain, has been instrumental, moreover, in causing the fertility that belongs to certain territories to be made the fullest use of. Nevertheless, there must be much truth in his view of the country after its late disas trous troubles, and during the - disaffection among its people. It is quite certain that the pros pects of Spain have within the past two years received a terrible check. PROFITABLE BUSINESS. A case which has been tried at the Middlesex Sessions is peculiarly calculated to exercise the mind of those anxious fox social regeneration. It emi `nently illustrates the profitableness of vice, and the defective state of our legislation, not in enactments, but in regard to the machinery for carrying the law into effect. For a' number of years two women, the agents and representatives of an alien, have in defiance of the law, and evidently with the knowledge of the police, carried on a profit able trade in—women. So lucrative has the abomi nable avocation of these persons been that when they were ordered to pay a fine of £5O, with the alterna tive of imprisonment, they were " evidently astonished and delighted at the result," anal handed to their solicitor a £lOO note. These creatures. or their employer, had been instru mental in decoying girls from Belgium during a num ber of years, for what purpose it is needless to state. It is a pity the career of the two women should have been allowed to go on in uninterrupted prosperity. An acquaintance with the inside of a prison would have had a beneficial effect. There is some satisfac tion, however, that the vicious establishment has been broken up. MR. EDMUND BEALES A. JUDGE. The new judge, who- is well-known for the active part he has taken in politics of late years, and as the President of the late Reform League, is the second son of the late Mr. S. P. Beales, of Cambridge, and brother of Mr. P. Beales, who has been several times Mayor of Cambridge. He was educated at Eton, and graduated at Trinity College, Cam bridge, in 1825, and became M.A. in 1828. O n the 25th June, 1830, he was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple, and practised as an equity drafts man and conveyancer. Mr. Beales will commence his sittinws next month. The Spectator has reason to believe that M. Thiers has not, as the Daily News says, come hither "oh his own hook," but has been sent by the Provisional Government to arrange any terms of peace that may be asked—short of what seems to be the German sine quit non, a territorial surrender. RUMOURED ASSASSINATION OF THB CROWN PRINCR of PRUSSIA. —A report was current in certainly usually well-informed City circles on Friday that the Crown Prince of Prussia had been assassinated—whether shot by Francs tireurs, or the victim of such a special blow as that destined for Napoleon I. at Schonbrunn, was not stated. We are glad to say, however, that no confirmation of this report had, down to a late hour, reached the Prussian Embassy ; and that most diligent in quiries in the quarters likely to know the truth lend not the slightest countenance to the rumour of an occurrence which would certainly have had the most de plorable consequences on the future character of the cam paign.--Telegraph. LONDON CHI LDREN.—It is a marvellous life when one' comes to think of it, that of the child of the London Sack streets. Its very play is a serious matter, partaking of the nature of a struggle for existence in con sequence of it always being an absolute necessity to have an eye out for passing cabs and coal-waggons. But there is much more work than play in• it. There is probably not one of these children that is not .wrfectly competent to take charge of a small ma,rketiti. , commission and bring back the change correct t the uttermost farthing ; and most of them are a thou sand times more profound in the current price of groceries than a country bride making her debut in housekeeping. AII their early training tends to give smartness, self-re liance, and presence of mind. Long before it can walk a London child is made familiar with all that turmoil which so paralyses and terrifies the country mind. —Pall Mall Gazette. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. It has long been a wholesome rule with the British As sociation to make its Saturday sitting as light as possible. Even when, as is the case this year, there are no regular organised excursions to occupy the after part of the day, it seems to be accepted as quite the proper thing that the work done in the various departments should be reduced to the minimum, and should be got over as rapidly as may be, nor is there want of reason in this, for as a little know ledge is a dangerous thing, so too much science is awe ari some thing, and a breach of a few hours midway between the first and the final days of the meeting to be devoted to something else than then the consideration of speculative theories or demonstrable facts is not to be despised. Such a breach this year is perhaps doubly valuable because there is so much to be seen in Liverpool and the neighbourwood of a kind which can be seen no where else. The chemists and those who favour the chemical section, with a wisdom as pleasant as it is practical held their sitting not in the Royal Institution, where they meet daily, but at at St. Helens, whither they went to inspect the Chemical Manufacturing Works with which that district abounds. This left only eight sections sitting in the town, and of the papers brought forward in these none were of very special interest. Indeed, if the truth be confessed, which is whispered in many quarters, the whole character of the papers and the dis cussion of the present meeting have lacked that force and interest which has appertained to those of.formeT meetings. Those to be reproduced next week however may go far to rectify this. Of the lectures and addresses there can be found little to complain. The effort of Professor Tyndall last night was a worthy sequel to the inaugural deliverance of the president ; and the lecture of Sir John Lubbock at night, on savages, his favourite and well studied theme, thoroughly sustained his reputa tion. The qpnomic science and statistics section, always an important one, had under its notice, to-day, a variety of subjects of considerable interest; as usual the question of a patent law cropped up, the discussion being raised on a paper presented by Dr. Vank hurst, in which it was pointed out that the practical evils of the present system were-1. The indiscriminate granting of patents. 2. The want of accuracy in describ ing the nature and limits of the rights secured by the patent. 3. The cost, vexation, and unsatisfactory character of the trials of patent causes. The remedies which he suggested were twofold suggestions for the efficient work ing of the existing law, and the introduction of addi tional provisions both of constitution and adminis tration. The proposed remedies might be thus classified. 1. Conditions precedent 'to the granting of patents. 2. Provisions to secure accuracy of description and definition. 3. Conditions precedent to litigation. 4. Provisions in regard to the trial of patent causes. With regard to the first point, the present function of the law officers of the Crown should be either absolutely abolished or essentially modified. Next, the grant of a patent should be preceded by an examination by competent examining officers. The result of that examination should be made in the form of a report, and if favourable, a grant should at once be made. If unfavourable, there should be the right of appeal. On the second point the specification which was the patentees' charter should be reported upon by competent officers. On the third point, prior to the institution of proceedings for infringe ment, the report of an examining officer should be obtained, based upon the statement of the applicant as to the precise nature and extent of the infringement. On the fourth point the trial of patent causes should be conducted before a judge sitting with assessors. By such means it was contended that the total amount of litigation would be lessened, and that simplicity and efficiency would be given to the administration of the patent laws. The giving to inventors a limited right of property in their inventions would afford them the best security, while with the least practicable interference with free action, it would confer the greatest advantage upon the public. In the Economic Science and Statics Section Mr. James Heywood read a paper " On the aptitude of North American Indians for agriculture," in which he stated that in the " reserves to which they were limited or driven in Canada they had shewn a decided tendency towards farming with every prospect of be coming prosperous and respectable persons. He gave many interesting details respecting the " Tuscaror a Reserve ' in Canada, especially in - connexion with missionary efforts. ith regard to the United States Indians he said it appeared from the report of the joint committee of the two Houses of Congress, that generally the condition of those on the borders of the Pacific shewed that they paid great attention to the rearing of horses and cattle ; that they managed their farms with intelligence and industry, which would do credit to more civilized people, and that some of them were comparatively wealthy. He urged the importance of the Governmenss of both coun tries giving more direct aid to these people with a view to encourage agriculture among them. Sir Stafford North cote having recently seen the Indians on the Red River settlement, said he could bear testimony to their general appearance being most satisfactory and promising. They were clothed, and comported themselves in such a way that it required a close inspection to say whether they were Indians or a more civilised people. They Ind made considerable progress in farming and civilisation, and, indeed, as regarded all the Indians in the Old Dominion the problem had been or was in a fair way of being solved ; but they could not convert all at once the hunting races of the far West into a;Ticulturists, and they should be dealt with with more care. Our great aim should be not to mould those Indians according to our own particular idea but to assist them in ivorking out their impfovement in their own way and encourage them in hunting and pastoral habits. He said the treatment of Indians by the Hudson's Bay Company had been highly successful and observed that an important feature was the prevention of the sale of spiritous liquors, of which the Indians them selves admitted beneficial result. Mr. R. N, Fowler, M.P., expressed his satisfaction that the treatment of Aboriginal races by civilised communities was receiving more attention than it had hitherto done; their object should be to civilise and not, as had occurred in too many cases, to exterminate them. In reply to a question, Mr. Heywood said that the population of Indians in the Tuscorora did not increase ; they were prosperous. Mr. Bromilaw pointed out the evil effects of the consumption of spirits among the Indians, and con demned the harsh treatment which they received at the hands of the white man. He expressed the opinion that the race would ultimately die out, but thought we should do all we could to delay, and, if possible, avert that fate. The staple of the scientific aliment to be consumed by the frequenters of the mathematical and physical science section was of a character so imperatively demanding a digestion of the highest order that courage sufficient to attack it was found only in a very few. None but the iQorant would deny the importance of such inquiries as those dealing with the theory of elliptic and hypelliptic function's, or with lineal differential equations, or small oscillations of a rigid bone, but it would require much eloquence to induce the generality of visitors to spend their mornings in listening to discussions upon them. The Mathematical Section, therefore, was only thinly attended. Sponges formed an important item in the discussions of the Depariment of Zoology and Botany of the Biology sec tion, and some exceedingly interesting details were fur' nished respecting them, and many curious specimens were exhibited. Of these the most notable was the Portuguese globular anchor sponge, which proved very attractive, it was explained that it was discovered embedded in mud, and surrounded with a white filmy maize hanging down from it, and much resembling the whitened beard of an elderly gentleman. The specimen in question was brought up- in the tangle of a dredging machine, and it was stated that it was one of several which when they were first seen clinging to the tangle had a most startling appearance, looking not at all unlike a series of heads of murdered children. This, at all events, was the idea which suggested itself to Professer Wyville Thompson. There was also exhibited a very fine specimen of a pentacrinus from the coasts of Spain and Portugal. This is the first ever discovered in a northern sea. Another paper contributed to this section was one on the Pearly Nautilus, by Mr. Henry Woodward, which pointed out the special interest attaching to the nautilus, on account of its bust geological as well as wide geographical range, extending from the lower silurian strata to the present period. As a centre of attaction the Anthropological, or as it is by the votaries of the science preferred to be called, the Ethnological Section, maintains its ground, though the papers read referred only to the explanations of the Victoria case at Settle, in Yorkshire, a description of remarkable earthworks at Wainfleet, in Lincolnshire, and remarks upon ancient sculptures and works of art from Irish cairns and on some forms of ancient miterment in the County . Antrim. The Geography Section, which had to submit to the temporary absence of its president, Sir Roderick Murchison, was also 'well attended, and some interesting information was afforded on the South African gold fields, and a variety of matters cognate to the science to which the section is devoted. The geologists, though by no means a feeble, are not a popular folk, that is as far as regards their discussions, so that the audience in their department was somewhat select. Mechanical scienceis an abstruse subject not easily understood, even by the aid of diagrams. So the members as a rule stay away rather than attend the section. Nevertheless, some good solid facts in reference to new inventions and appliances were communicated. In the several papers read bones were to the fore ; in the department of anatomy and physiology, skull bones, hip bones, and shoulder bones, they were all discussed, and were only attractive to a limited circle. Sir John Lubbock's lecture to the working classes was on the social and religious condition of the lower races of man. It set out with an account of some of the differences existing between savages, and then passed on to notice their views and habits, in reference to marriage and relationship, upon which points, some interesting details were furnished. Sir John concluded by observing that it was clear that the lowest savages are entirely deficient in the idea of marriages and of family, and that the position of women is wretched in the extreme. The ideas of relationship, founded on marriage, have only gradually been acquired, and thus civilization has raised the position of woman, and in making her alrelp meet instead of a slave, has purified and softened all the conditions of social life. The higher posi tion of woman is one of the points in which we see most clearly the enormous advantage of civilisation over barbarism. On the subject of the religion of the lower savages it was shown that it is very unlike that of most advanced races. Indeed, in many respects it is time very opposite. Their ' deities are evil, not good. They may be forced into compliance with the wishes of man. They require bloody, and rejoice even hi human, sacrifices. They are mortal not immortal, a part of nature, not the creators of the world. They aro to be approached by dances rather than by prayers, and often approve of vice rather than of what we esteem as virtue. The ideas of religion among the lower races of man are intimately associated with, if indeed they have • not originated from, the condition of man during sleep, and especially from dreams. The Fetichism of the U? was spoken of next as being a step in advance, though,' was stated it was mere witchcraft, and the next st a o e, Poternism, was dwelt upon at some length, and veri f aptly illustrated, the lecture concluding with a sketch o the way in which science had served the cause of religion' so that men, instead of believing only in gh° 4B ' came gradually to—the recognition of the soil At length, imitating this belief with that in P „ beneficent being, he connected m or ality with religion, step the importance of which it is scarcely possible to eve' estimate. Having argued that every increase in sc. iell i e ce d brings with it an elevation of religion, Sir John concluded thus :—The time then has surely come when scientific we° the need no longer stand on the defensive, but may call b state which is now making a great' effort to esta blis a national system of education, and even sliqr,?_ itself ready to assist in the prosecution of scieutin(_' research may call on the clergy who exercise as' great an influence no longer to ignore in ° elementary and other schools the great disoveries of the last thousand years, but to assist us in making thew 111 , °f t " generally known to the people of this country, confiatellte that a better acquaintance with the laws which regW ° ' the beautiful world in which we live would not only diminish the evils from which we suffer, and add grea t ur lYy to the general happiness, but also tend to develops 0 , 4 moral nature, to elevate and purify the whole charee" of man. The President of the Liverpool Medical histitutioci Mr. E. R. Bickersteth, entertained a select number the visitors at a soir*e at the Philharmonic evening. will On Monday afternoon the general committee to decide upon the place of meeting for the next and f % lowing years. There is little doubt that, as far as regat . .,, 1871, Edinburgh will carry off the palm. Brighton, h", ever, will, it is expected, make a vigorous onslaugh t ° the suffrages of the members. On Monday the new Pr e sident will also be elected, who will be Sir Ws ll3lll Thompson. ARREST OF MARSHAL .VAILLANT. The Paris correspondent of the Telegraph, writing ' 9ll Saturday, says :—" The great sensation of (to -day is t he arrest of Marshal Vaillant, which took place about fil l o'clock last evening. The Marshal was engage d in roughly sketching a plan of the new works lately commenced to strengthen the fortress °I Vincennes. He had shewn a perinis de circidati°° such as General Trochu grants to some few P er ' sons in whom he places perfect reliance. The soldiers eu duty did net quite comprehend how such a pass should e ll. title the visitor to make drawings, and some murmurs b e ' gan to rise. The Marshal was- accompanied by a gentle" man in plain clothes. Some one raised a suspicion ths' this individual might be a Prussian officer. . L 4-11 angry crowd assembled. Then a Zouave b° ldl/' stepped forward and arrested the artist, not long ag° the A high and mighty Minister of the Imperial household, an even still a Marshal of France. The National Guards duty at the fort were instantly called out, and the officers hastily thrust Marshal Valliant and his CO W ; panion into a cab,which they escorted with bayonets we d. Passing through the Place de la Bastille the al ° made a furious onslaught on the prisoners, and t he , National Guards seemed u n a bl e or unw illi ng to prote ° ' them. At a most critical moment M. Garnier-Paol who happened to be passing, sprang into the cab al harangued the tr oo p s th roug h th e w i n d ow . Th e y repuls e the crowd, and proceed e d t o th e Hotel de Ville, expectia to find General Trochu there. He had just left for his residence at the Louvre. Marching thither, the peoP le ,', who had gathered from every point, mad e a n other atta c ; in the Rue de Rivoli, so violent that the Natio ns ! Guards presented their bayonets. At this most inausl 3l ; cious moment two persons thought it opportune to bil °l ' " Vive l'Empereur 1" They were first knocked (W il d then trampled on, then knocked up again, 81 4 finally found an uncomfortable protection in the arras the escort. On reaching the Louvre it was discovered that General Trochu had gone to Mont Val6rian, whence . l le did not return till a late hour. The mob and the journal" ., , and the quidnuncs waited long to hear the Marshal's fA te m i but, up to this time, we only know that he remala t iL custody. I am not prepared to deny that things look ill with this member of the late Committee of Defers ‹, worse, perhaps, than I have ventured to say as yet print. But at the same time there is downright 1 1111 , 3 ed in Marshal Vaillant's proceedings, if they be as is su- a petted. He had in his own possession, as, Marshal and as a member of Count Palikao's comnaitT: every plan of the fortifications that had ever been 3 0 1 One simple inquiry, put at a dinner table, or in the cou rse of a morning call, would have gained him all information as to the new works proposed. Instead of adopt this simple course, we are to suppose that a gentian °. of mature years, and as shrewd as any member of dig Imperial household—which is saying a great deal for 131 :1 4 shrewdness—would shave off his whiskers all at once, at go in company with a Prussian colonel to the wor d themselves, and then and there make sketches of thy' The story is imp ro b a bl e ; b u t i n th ese ti mes th a t is no ov jeotion at all to it s p ro b a bility. N ever th e l ess , I shall n et, believe in Marshal Vaillant's gu ilt un til h e h as been At e ' and very likely not then." THE MASSACRE IN CHINA. There is some reason to fear that the all-engrossi.l interest of the Continental war will prevent due attenn being given to the horrible massacre at Ti e n-tsin. D'fb o e . who are personally acquainted with th e p ar ti c ulars of th e catastrophe, or in any way specially interested in tile matter, are evidently apprehensive that such will be case, and are striving to enlist publi c s ymp a thy .° 11 , 1 ,' 3 ,t half of the martyred French. Th e genera l b e lief is although the French mayhave behaved unwarrantablY o o t aggressively on several occasions, the popular fury Was A li re t directed solely against them, but they were the ~e y victims of a general war of exterminati o n, b e cause 1 :0 were living in the native city two miles f r om the fote l e a t settlement. •It has been pointed out that the g re e n be characteristic of the present Manchu dynasty has an the exclusion of foreigners from China. No Frenchu l ie was involved ill the Yang Chow riot, and the hostilitY,, Formosa was only directed against British subjects. it; American was attacked two years ago, and v ia missionary who was murde r ed l as t y ear a t Tier': ve was an Englishman. No foreign ambassadors 11 1 0 yet been allowed to see the Emperor on the g o o that he is not of age, but he has received ambassaOa from Thibet and Corea. It is universally believed is openly asserted that the Mandarins were accomplic e Lty the late massacre. It is not sur p r i s i ng th a t grea t a 0.,: oe exists among the foreign residents of Ti en -t s i n , w ho 115 1 ,1, collected for mutual protecti on , un d er th e British Cel ls e J Mr. Lay. The English are sa id t o b e d e teratil l „a to join the Fren c h i n exac ti ng retr ib ut i on , ,ti g . are drilling themselves and practising with rim o r t Great displeasure has been created by the rell re that the British ships have been ordered not to h at. even should the Shanghai se ttl emen t b e attacked, be merely to take the fugitives on board. There seems to et a general belief among the natives that England wn - Yhe act, which, if this report be true, is not unfounded. id native converts are suffering persecution, and it iS j a i° three of them who are imprisoned are daily torturee,,De make them confess having been employed by murdered Sisters of Mercy in kidnapping children. RAILWAY EXTENSION.—The Duke of Sutuerio Da is extending the railway from Golspie to the confin es ; Caithness, at Helmsdal e — a di s t ance o f a b ou t eirla e miles—his grace being at th e w h o l e cos t. The li rl ' ,„ o st already so far advanced th a t it w ill b e opene d througtoy in spring next. But as about fifteen miles are Il e ce completed, and this portion may now be of sfr o s to the locality, and especially to the winter fishery, ° do. been arrapged to work it d u ri ng th e i n t erven i n g Inl o so As it happens, the heaviest works, an d consequentlY,'"„aa which will take time to complete, lie between Golsple Dunrobin, so that it was nece ssar y t o t rans p or t a tie r motive on the coach road from th e f ormer t o the l° s. point, a distance of about two miles. This was sue ., factorily accomplished by the aid of one of ";;;,,g Thomson's road steamers.- The locomotive „ t he placed on a lorry, but in consequence of the wheels a jai lorry sinking into the road, it was found necessary t° down a wooden tramway, which was continually lo °l/ Z l lO forward as progress was made. The road-st eam er 11 „ 3 .,c0 difficulty whatever in drawing the heavy l oa d. il the assisted the Duke of Sutherland, and sev era l o f his g , t he assisted at the work, and Princes s Ch r i s ti an an d Duchess of Sutherland were spectators. THE FRENCH TROOPS IN BELGiu2,r,—Ta O VOO Virton and neighbo ur h oo d th ere are now d a il y about a pe French soldiers arr i v i ng , w h o are e ff ect i ng t h e ir eoe „ hy from the Prussia ns . Th ose w h o h ave means try to g4.'hel a roundabout way to P ar i s . At th e r ate " t i j e are arriving and have to be " interned, camp of Beverloo, which can hold ten thou:l;ere men, will soon be full. Great discontent prevails ! f oe alnong the prisoners. They receive exactly the t he rations as tie Belgian soldiers, and they complain ,°„ 0 -0, quality of the bread and of the meat, which, as I " a ll, are not to be complained of ; and, above d at 'of the absence of wine, of which they us e i ots home to receive daily rations. These coraPi a ul remain, naturally enough, unheeded, as in Bela a 0,4 the Imperial military system of giving plenty, °`, s tore and wine to the soldiers and of not having su ffi elell" ;q , - tecl• of guns and ammunition is but imperfectly aPPr ec— e bra s The prisoners also complain of having to do then' s c os. the domestic work of cooking and cleaning their r ° the As the Belgian exchequer is sufficiently drained b,Y, °`,; set cost of armed neutrality, it is lik e ly enoug h that ,of vants will be engaged to wait up on th e thousa i ne j its French prisoners that have t o b e k e pt f or an in° period.—Correspondent of Pall Mall Gazette. Cog; BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.- -GRATEFUL AND, io . PORTING.—The very agreeable character of this prePara' et te rendered it ageneral favourite. The Civil Service Ga t whi ch marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of th e natural laW s t i " govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, ati cocoa, careful application of the tine properties of w ell-selecte , gon teli, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a d e an ctil?„ flavoured beverage which may save us man y heavy on ly bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. So ld ath l tin-lined packets labelled—JAMES Errs SL Co., Iloinceer Chemists. London. —Ad vt. ho a lde P D UNV I LLE Co., Belfast, are the largest ew le of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r 01 1 7 SO; by the medical profession in preference to French bran4 ta tior plied in casks and cases for home use or exportat.on. 4 1"..,. 5 1 .1 Do: on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Bop:* *Wog' tillertos, pelfast nr at thai London Offices, 4, Beaufortm Strand, W.O. THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGIT r O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. 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