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Alsace and Lorraine having been traversed by the German armies, Champagne has been entered, and suddenly all the corps d'arm6e are at cross purposes. Unlike contending players at chess, however, the competing principals at the deadlier game of war, are constrained to carry on the play, under these circumstances, uninterruptedly. The CROWN PRINCE and his army are between MACMAHON and the capital. MACMAHON is marcli ing in hot haste from Paris towards the frontier, the CROWN PRINCE pursuing him by forced marches. Roughly putting it, that is the altered situation. Precisely at this turning point in the campaign, when everything is opened to conjecture, a writer, whose name breathes of the revolutionary atmos phere, just as the hands of an artilleryman in the midst of a fight are grimed with gunpowder, thrusts himself forward among those who are discussing the course of events, and from his neutral stand point, here in England, draws the most sinister conclusions, throws out hints of the most malign tendency, adventures upon statements of the most unjustifiable character. M. Louis BLANC has been living here in London in the midst of us for years. He has enjoyed the protection of our laws as an exile, almost uninterruptedly since the date of the Republic of February. For his abilities he has been respected, during this protracted interval of his expatriation. With his Republican principles we have nothing whatever to do. But now, after all these years of his peaceful sojourning among Englishmen, it must surely be apparent to every one, even to himself, that he should act with fairness, that he should act with honour, in regard to the land in which he has been so long living without molestation. Instead of so acting, he has gone directly counter to the law. He has most unjustifiably written from this neutral country that we are not neutrals, that we are exulting over the agonies of pne of the two great belligerents, that we are all wish ing success heart and soul to the other. Let M. LOUIS BLANC express his own opinions as freely as he pleases, but let him not undertake to interpret ours. In doing so, he is certainly making a very despicable return to the country in which he has found both rest and respect—by traducing, that is to say, the national character, and, more even than that, by doing everything he possibly can to sow seeds of ill-will between his native country and the land of his exile—between France and England. VARIOUS Prussian official despatches, alike confi dent and decisive, intelligence from different neutral sources, and a remarkable lack of pertinent news from Paris, all go to prove that the Germans have gained two more victories, and that the second great army of France has suffered two serious disasters. The telegrams hitherto received are not all that could be desired, either in point of fullness or clearness, especially of date; but they suffice to establish the news of another French reverse —one of so dangerous a character that the whole army of MACMAIION is in jeopardy. At least two battles have occurred, the most precise news being given of an engagement at Beaumont, which is situated on the west bank of the Meuse, half way between Stenay and Mouzon. Here, ac cording to a telegram from the KING to the QUEEN Of Pnuest4, the troops of MACMAHON were attacked by the Saxon and Bavarian corps and signally beaten, leaving " thousands of prisoner.? v and twelve cannon in the hands of the Germans. The fight seems to have ended in a complete rout. Disastrous for the French also was another battle which took place at Carignan, which is on the eastern side of the Meuse, between Sedan and Montmedy. These re ports from localities on opposite sides of the river lead to the obvious conclusion that MACMAIION was attacked whilst crossing the Meuse, in the endeavour to reach Metz. Part of his army had reached Carig nan, and wore there defeated; the remainder met with a complete reverse whilst waiting to follow their comrades. More it would be premature to say in the absence of more complete information. There can, however, be no such hesitation in pronouncing upon the manoeuvres which have led up to these defeats. The generalship of the French leader has again proved of the most wretched description. As at Metz, vacillation, waste of time, and the absence of a fixed plan, have thrown away the fine force which, by great exertions, had been gathered under MACMARON'S standard. It is impos sible to conceive anything worse. MAcMAiforr had been eight days on the march, and had yet per formed not one half the journey which might have been accomplished. Eight clays should suffice for the whole distance between Rheims And Metz. The French Marshal had the start of the Germans by two or three days, for it is now an ascertained fact that the CROWN PRINCE was not aware of his adversary's movements until two full days after they had commenced. 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If he and all his host be captured, the result will be only he natural reward of his strategy. TOPICS OF THE DAY. 235. I 235, 21s. I 265. 265, THE FRENCH PEOPLE AND THE WAR. The war which is likely to prove so disastrous for France was only too popular in the capital and the cities, but there seems good reason to doubt whether the rural and agricultural classeswere as well pleased to leave their farms and their flocks to face the needle gun. Mr. Howard, M.P. for Bedford, assures us frcm his personal experience in several parts of France that the industrial classes have had quite enough of warfare in times past, and are now only desirous of cultivating the arts of peace. The French people as a body did not want this war, and the declara tion of it was made without their knowledge and consent. As during the last few weeks Mr. Howard has been travelling through France on agricultural business, he is well qualified to speak with confidence of the sentiments of the classes with whom he came in contact. His constituents are so much in earnest in their resolution to relieve the sufferings of the wounded, whose numbers are every day unfortu nately increasing, that they have resolved to institute a house to house visitation for the collection of funds, linen and suitable articles for their assis tance. THE ENGLISH IN PRANCE. Mr. Thomson Hankey writes to the Times taking up the other side of the question with respect to the treatment of English visitors in France, and feels it simple justice to say that he believes the stories of the incivilities met with are most exceptional. He has been in France with his family since the middle of July, staying principally at Auvergne, but latterly in several towns in Touraine, Britanny, and Normandy. He has been thrown entirely among the French, and has con stantly met and conversed with those of all classes, chiefly on matters connected with the war. He has heard expressions of sorrow, and heard also that no sacrifices can be too great to drive the Prussians from France ; but he has never heard one single expres sion of anger or displeasure against England, nor has he or any of his party met with one single expression of incivility since their arrival. From the commence ment of the war he has heard it declared that every effort should be made to restore the prestige of the army, but there was little agreement as to what form of government wuuld be the best to secure it, although out of Paris the feeling appears to be pretty general against a Republic. WAR AND HUMANITY. 1 i" S. G. 0." writes again to the Times on the sub ject of the Continental war, and wishes to direct public attention to the real nature of the scenes that are now enacting in France. He is not surprised that the French should refuse to allow their foes to take their wounded through Belgium, because the more that die the worse for the Fatherland. He asks what England can do, and believes nothing re mains but for her to look on, indignant, but compas sionate. He considers that we ought, in the name of common humanity, to put aside all feeling as to the cause of the awful carnage, and throw all our energies into the work of endeavouring to alleviate some of its horrors. The yet alive, to be found in bruised and battered tenements of mortality, cry aloud to us. The cry is not one of tongues, come it in French or Prussian language, it is the human voice ; let us heed it. He is acquainted with the working of the National Society in Aid of the Sick and Wounded, and knows it is their wish that the help which England contri butes to their cause should be received as aid simply to the sick and wounded, without any reference to nationality. He earnestly advocates the claims which the society has on the attention of all who can promote its success. He would also say a good word in support of every society which can shew that it provides those special matters that are now so cruelly needed for the French and German sick and wounded. LORD ELCHO ON MILITARY ORGANISATION. Lord Ekho is determined that we shall not rest in false security as to our military organisation. In the existing state of Europe he thinks it desirable to en lighten Englishmen as to the painful fact that itwould be impossible, under present circumstances, to send any force for service properly equipped in all details. When we see in the French army the fatal effects of such want of equipment and prevision, we must agree with Lord Elcho that this is not a case in which ignorance is bliss. His judgment, he tells us, has been formed after much communi cation with military authorities and officials connected with the army. H e is, moreover, entirely unbiassed by political feelings, belonging to neither party: Lord Elcho repeats the substance of hi s in formation, which represents our military equip men t s to be most imperfect. One of the statements is th a t the ammunition for our field artillery is in a most lamentable state, while when we turn from the condition of our material supplies to the men them selves we find the case no better. We have under taken, says Lord Elcho, to make war, if need be, on one or other of the two great Powers now engaged in mortal strife, and our total regular force, where with to garrison Great Britain and Ireland, and to assist in expelling either Prussians or French from Belgian territory, consists of 180 guns, 10,654 cavalry soldiers with 6,539 cavalry horses, and 50,870 infantry soldiers. The flying column from Aldershot marched into Wimbledon with companies having a front of 15 and 16 files and artillery bat teries at half their war strength, though 39 horses were borrowed. As for the Army Reserve, only nineteen men volunteered for it this year, of whom 10 were rejected, and under the new Army Enlistment Act no men can be obtained. for the Reserve under three years at soonest, though in the last two years the War Minister has reduced the strength of the regular army by 21,000 men. The Secretary for War has begun at the wrong end, and the way he has dealt with our small standing army is a dangerous error in the application of a sound prin ciple. The 'l imes, in commenting upon this letter, says it is easier to explain or excuse the policy of our military administration than to disguise the results to which it has led, but that no War Minister or Chancellor of the Exchequer could have kept pace with the sudden and unlooked for demands now made. DISCOURAGEMENT OF VOLUNTEERS. A volunteer officer in a corps of 1859 writes to the Pall Mall Gazette on the condition of his corps after so many years' anxiety and cost. It consists chiefly of recruits, for older men disappear every year. Few can join in prize shooting, which is the only inter esting part of the work, because the rifles are such that a good shot cannot be sure of hitting a hay ' stack at five hundred yards. Battalion drill is attended three or four half-days in the year. Not a man in the corps has a great coat, or ever heard of a kit, or knows what rations mean, or has the slightest idea of encamping, except with three meals a day , provided on tables and their railway fare'. paid to and fro. The expenses have been heavy, though if the corps continue till next summer the remaining debt may perhaps be paid off, but this will only have been accomplished by the hateful help of bazaars, balls, and concerts, begging and receiving subscriptions as a personal favour, and the unceasing contributions of the officers to current or extraordinary expenses. There is little reason to expect the accession of good recruits, because the bourgeois class justify their unwillingness to allow their people to join by quoting the contemptuous opinion which has been expressed by the authorities with reference to the volunteers' work as a whole. it is not surprising to fled that the writer has resolved to resign his com mission by next spring, unless means be officially organised for turning their work to real account. He intended in 1869 to do the State some service, but did not reckon on making himself ridiculous, or being assured, on competent authority, that he was simply useless. THE DISESTABLISHED CHURCH. The Rev. Dr. Reichel, a Churchman of some eminence in Ireland, contributes a paper to the Contemporary Review on the prospects of the Irish Church. He considers it discouraging that the largest subscribers to the Sustentation Fund (which has not yet reached two hundred and fifty thousand pounds) have been with three exceptions bishops of the Church itself. He points out the ill effects which are sure to follow the delusion now dwelling too widely in the public mind, that the Irish Church has been permanently left two-thirds of its endowments, simply because the Irish Church Act respects the interests, vested interests, of its present clergy. Dr. Reichel, in his remarks on this subject, says:—" Probably nothing but the stern logic of facts, as one clergyman after another dies, leaving no funds to provide for a successor, except in the hitherto unexorcised liberality of the parish, will teach men that it is God's law that the Church shall be maintained, not by the clergy, but by the people." Dr. Reichel does not make any allowance for the ignorance of the Protestants of Ireland with respect to the full action of the Church Bill. It is stated that although all church-going people in the sister country are aware of the Church being dis established, one half do not know what disestablishment means, or the exact require ments of the Church in the future. It is all very well for Churchmen to grumble at the laxity of earnest ness, but it can scarcely be expected that laymen will comply with all demands for help,• until they know under what circumstances their clergy are to be sus tained in their livings, or cashiered, or whether they themselves can exercise any choice in the distribution of rent charges. When laymen, and clergy men themselves even, are thoroughly cognisant of all the changes that will begin to be experienced on January Ist, and of the line of conduct necessary to be pursued by the former, the general support to the Sustentation Fund will probably no longer be withheld. The very fact that the bishops, who must ere this know the effects the Church Act is likely to cause, have so munificently lent their aid, gives somewhat of confirmation to this supposition. THE SCALES OF ENGISH JUSTICE. Whether or no the First Napoleon was right in calling the English "a nation of shopkeepers," it is certain that our laws are apt to take a very commer cial view of the relative value of life and property. The sentences passed by our magistrates shew us sometimes singular contrasts between the punish ment received by the man or woman who is suf ficiently depraved to defraud the State or his neigh bour of money or property, and the much smaller offender who only half kills his wife or disables his companion. Our Metropolitan police records of Wednesday give us an instance of this. A labourer, named James, was brought up at the Westminster police-court, charged with assaulting his own son, a child ten years old. The neighbours who had called the police in gave a terrible account of the father's brutality. He had apparently become alarmed himself at the con sequences of his violence, for he had put the boy in a pail of water to wash the blood from his wounds, and the police found the water reddened with blood. The shirt the child had worn and a thick broom-handle, broken with the blows, were smeared with blood. The boy was stripped in court, and was found covered with wounds and bruises, his head being cut open and both his eyes blackened. The man, who had told the police he had a right to correct his own child, said, in his defence in court, that the boy had gone out to play in the street while left to mind the house, and the fire was out when he himself came in from work. The magistrate said that correction was necessary in moderation, but the prisoner had inflicted it im moderately. He, therefore, ordered him to find two sureties in £2O, to keep the peace towards the boy for three months, apparently thinking the offence so very trifling that no punishment for the cruelty was necessary. Meanwhile, in another metropolitan court a labourer and his wife, who had sytematically defrauded the Hackney Union by representing them selves as totally destitute, when the man had work and the woman did washing, were sentenced respectively to six and nine months' imprisonment with hard labour. We have not, after all, advanced much since Hood's days, when "flesh and blood " were "so cheap" in comparison with material things which represented money. THE LATE LORD ABERDEEN. The melancholy circumstances of Lord Aberdeen's death, while on his passage from America to Mel bourne, are made additionally painful by the fact that the nobleman was only in the 29th year of his age. His lordship, who was the sixth Earl of Aberdeen, sat in the House of Lords as Viscount Gordon. He succeeded his father in the year 1864, and in 1868 he left England for Canada, where he remained until his departure on his recent ill-fated voyage. Since ..,..... .. 1861 the earl has been captain of the 2nd Aberdeen shire Rifle Volunteers. It was the fourth Earl of Aberdeen who was First Lord of the Treasury from 1852 to 1855. The family is descended from a common ancestor with the Marquis of Huntly. The new Earl of Aberdeen will be the second brother of the deceased John Campbell Gordon. LARGE SPOTS ON THE SUN. A member of the Observing Astronomical Society, writing from Bristol, says that at the present time the sun presents an interesting appearance in conse quence of many dark spots being visible on various portions of the disc. These are so large and well defined that they can be distinctly seen with a small telescope. They are also visible through a smoky glass. The largest spots may be seen about thirty degrees above the equator, and are therefore situated in the sun's northern hemisphere. The individual spots are of all sizes and forms, and are constantly changing in their shape and appearance. He adds that he observed the enormous spots visible in April and May last, but he thinks that these are as nume rous, if not so large. A Glasgow clerk was on Wednesday fined for having put into a public cab a boy who was suffering from typhus fever. He intended to have the boy taken to the Fever Hospital, but did not say a word to the driver about the boy's condition. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills are an infallible remedy for bad legs, and all kinds of wounds. The surprising sale of these invaluable remedies in every part of the civilised world is the most convincing proof of their efficacy, of which, were further proof required, the long-list of voluntary testimonials received from grateful patients in all quart ers o f the globe would amply supply it. They speedily cure bad legs, old wounds, scrofula, and all diseases of the skin. Thousands of persons, who had long and severely suffered from these dread ful maladies have been cured by these medicaments after other moans had failed ; and it is a fact beyond all doubt that there is not a case, however obstinate, or however long-standing, which they fail to relieve. METROPOLITAN GOSSIP.-THURSDAY, To-day is "the first," the day associated by tradition with sport, above all other days. What a contrast be tween here and there; between this country—with its scattered bands of partridge shooters trudging gaily over the stubbles, lunching heartily al fresco, and passing social evenings in flirting with pretty women or in discussing the day's bag and France, with its wasted fields and ruined vineyards, with its soil swarming with nigh a million of invaders and its manhood armed, not with fowling-pieces, but Chassepots, bringing down not partridges, but men, the shooters themselves too often the victims of this battue. The very elements seem to sympathise with the differ ence. In France there have been torrents of rain. Here in England we have, after a few hours' rain, brilliant sunshine once more, sunshine of many hued magnificence—days so clear that on that land of mist, as it generally is—Dartmoor— you might have seen a day or two ago from sea to sea, have had sight of Lundy Island, in the Bristol Channel, in the one direction and the slopes of Torbay in the other. And then think of the cities—think of London with its quiet squares and deserted parks, and West-end people such as are still at home leading soporific lives ; or the City, with its tide of life and energy that never ceases, whether it be in the season or out of the season ; and then think of Paris with its pleasure population in full flight away from the place, with its suburban population flee ing for shelter into it, with its streets resounding to the roll of cannon and baggage waggons, with its Bois de Boulogne, the most beautiful park in the world, the fold of nigh a million cattle and sheep which browse upon the choice plants and trample down the plantations, and befoul the fountains ; think of Paris laying in food by the ton against a siege, preparing for the departure of its Government, never knowing any day what changes the night may bring, what revolutions, what overthrow of institutions, or think of the other towns of the two countries : Brighton, Scarborough, Ilfracombe, Aberys with, and all other places of resort crowded with gay visitors till there is scarce a place for them to lay their heads in ; and Metz, beleaguered by myriads of sol diers, Strasburg battered and ruined, Phalsburg in flames, until little more than the shell of a town is left; or think of any of these open places which the Prussian Uhlans have taken possession of while the inhabitants did not venture to offer the slightest opposition. Think one more of our Queen keeping holiday at Balmoral, and the Prince of Wales making sport at Abergeldie ; and then of the Emperor Napoleon, sick and broken hearted, following his retreating army, his only child severed from him, and hovering on the frontier of a neighbouring State, in order that he may take refuge there directly necessity compels, and the Empress alone, deserted, vainly straining every nerve to prop a falling dynasty and ward off the impending crash. Think of all this ye sportimen as you trudge the stubbles, and then ask yourselves what ye would do if the evil case in which Frenchmen find themselves were yours. The desperate state of things in France has had one good effect on this country. It has induced some of those who care for the defence of England to declare that they will no longer be responsible for that stupendous sham, our reserve forces. I say purposely "some," for unfor tunately there is no proof at present that Mr. Cardwell and his colleagues have awakened to the seriousness of the position. We know that all England, except the Government, knows that our Volunteer army would be all but useless in the event of war. It forms the nucleus of a most valuable defensive body, but it has no organisation, and if we were invaded to-morrow, the Volunteers would be simply so many sharpshooters acting almost independently of each other, useful to carry on a desultory warfare from behind hedges, but useless in the open. The Volunteers themselves are fully aware of this, and they ask that the evil may be remedied. But those who can do so offer no assistance. The country is fully prepared to spend the money that may be needed to make the citizen soldiers an efficient army ; but the Government will not take advantage of this readiness. This is the more to be regretted, because the present demand is not the result of a foolish panic. The volunteer force may have originated in a panic ; but no one is frightened now, and no one would think of disbanding the force. The fact is simply that the nation has beeu looking on at the great conflict abroad, has been taking to heart the lessons of the war and would profit :by them, but Government will not allow it to do so. Mr. Cardwell makes no sign, except that he has sanctioned the volunteer campnear Plymouth, which, I mentioned in my last letter, would probably be formed. But as to arming the volunteers with Sniders, or offering them inducements to become efficient, or giving them that which they most need, efficient officers, such things are not dreamt of. A large portion of our boasted stock of Sniders is in Canada, for instance, and it was but a few days ago that an official announcement appeared, warning the successful candidates who had recently passed the examination for direct commissions in the army that only a small portion of them can hope for appointments. All this is very provoking and very sad. As for the head of the State, she turns a deaf ear to all remonstrances. Journals of the highest class which are usually the most cautiously loyal, are now speaking their minds plainly about the absence of the Queen from her Ministers. But this plain-speaking produces no effect except to elicit the announcement that her Majesty in tends to remain at Balmoral till November 2nd—consider, ably longer than usual that is. November 2nd ! By that time all Europe may be at war ; or, what is more likely, a Republic will have been proclaimed at Paris. One would have thought that the old Horatian maxim would have been remembered at such a time as this—Tua res agigur, parks cum proximus ardet. The Pope, at all events, must be of this opinion now. His position is very critical. A letter from Rome tells me that much excitement was caused at Civita Vecchia by the arrival of the armour-clad British ship of war Defence from Malta. As soon as she had anchored in the Roman port, Captain Salmon sent a cypher letter to our representative at Rome, who replied to the commander of the defence in the same way. It was at once inferred that our Government had renewed its offer to take Pius IX. to Malta, and to keep the ship in readiness for him. Should his Holiness gratify English pride by eating roast beef in the palace of the Grand-Master of the Knights of Malta, it is scarcely likely that he will go there in a British ironclad. He has a charming yacht, which was built for him in England, is called the Immaculata Concezione, and has a perfect bijou of a chapel. By the way, who is going to succeed Mr. Odo Russell at Rome now that he is coming back to take the place held by the late Mr. Spring Rice ? Lord Granville has no nephews, I believe ; but he has a brother, the member for Bodmin, who might perhaps pre. fer the post of Charge d'Affaires at Rome to that o' whipper in at St. Stephen's which he refused some years selected for the post should be a member of. the Westerp Circuit, and should be of the same politics as the Govery ment of the day. Now it so happens that the 'Wester! Circuit just now does not possess many eminent Liberal lawyers. There is, of course, Sir John Coleridge, brit b e could hardly take the o ffi ce w hi c h hi s colleaeve 11° '; declined on the grou n d th a t e l ec t or i d o no t a pprove; sinecures. Mr. Cole s t an d s nex t , b u t h e , even , his position satisfied th e B r i s t o li ans , would sor e % l be likely to acc e pt th e R ecor d ers hi p , beeat i 'l it is always e x p ec t e d th a t th e R ecor d er w ill not p r actises: Bristol, and Mr. C o l e , wh o now fi n d s t h e c i ty on the , t v ;: i3 a productive fi e ld, wou ld l ose money b y giving uPth clients there i n exc h ange f or th e l oca l j u d ges hi p . 8 matter remains unsettled for the present, and ne knows how it will be ar range d. M eanw hil e th e Govew ment are not best pleased th a t th e Attorney General , have brought them i n t o th e i r p resen t dil emma s i m pl: regard to a few noi s y ag it a t ors i n th e west. The to be learnt from thi s ma tt er i s one f or t h e B r i s t o l! lay to heart. If th ey are so very part i cular a s maintenance of he dignity of thei r j u d ge th e y plus' him accordingly. For instanc e , M r . R usse ll G u ru, Recorder of 1 i e"'on,makes £7,000 a year, and has than once rein s ed a vuisne judgeship, Some curiosity 'is felt as to what may be don' Hertford House, Piccadilly, now that the ee , Marquis has pas ;e craway from the world in the raj his life as a Parisi t i ybarite. Hitherto it has bee of the oddest lil > , -, 1 in all the Metropolis—in thi heart of the Metropolis—right in the middle of grand and beautiful street with one called Piccadilly. Hertford House, it be said, has never in its present ' shape quite built; it ;has never, at any rate, finished. ,For years it has looked like a house m ban. Not observe, like a house in Chancery—a implying ever pane of glass in it smashed up to the g.,,„ rets or dormer wi n d ows if th ere were any, and otheorw' in the last stage of squalid filth and dilapidation. Notbi°s at all of this kind was visible in the town house of t be wealthy'Marquis who disdained to be a Londoner. 11 , 11 e . mansion stands th ere t o thi s present moment, as it Pct,'. stood there for yea rs p as t, sp i c k an d span f rom th e han d ' of the contractors—pl a t e g l ass, s t one f rom para pet basement, nobly proporti one d, l o ft y, , broad, deep, i,..t o ot shell in fact of a superb resid ence . N ot hi ng more ! • a window blind visible. The spacious r ° ,, ° . ll 7i ii ghastly empty. The g ran d en t rance a mere 11 `7, surface of door-pannelling, unp er f ora t e d b y a keYb ° ,, unencrusted with a handle, unenc um b ere d w ith a knocks:' It is and has all along been too clearly opened to the 1 1 6 ,4 of day and night t o a d m it o f it s ever b e i ng r egav A as a house inhabited even by a ghost. „ glass beehive might just as well be looked upon anyone as haunted. It has simply, all this while, I repent, appeared for all the wo r ld as if it were under some ev ill) a , - e or malediction. As a L on d oner I h ope and pray that h very first thing the n ew M arqu i s w i ll do in regard t°13513 property will be to take Hertford House in hand, to 6 11. , it, to furnish it, and then t o i n h a bit it ! I can th en for 0„ ; first time for years, and I d ou bt no t many other L on doie would say the sam e thi ng, wa lk w i thout a qua l m al°/ )g the noble pavements of Piccadilly. I hear great things about the Bishop:of Winchester': visit to the Channel Islands. The churchmanship a to j part of his diocese was of the lowest type, lax, lazy , het slovenly. Dr. Wilberforce was not the man to sU things to contin ue i n th a t f as hi on, so he has been rs'l and rousing the c l erg y i n fi ne s t y l e, h o l d i ng confirnasti°r in churches whe re suc h an event h a d not b een kno wn' a generation, and gi v i ng genera l di rect i ons to the cl erfgo rir for their guidance, which, if they follow them, wil l i t y duce a remarkable change in the religious condition of island. mo t At length it seems as if D r . A rno ld' s dream were 374 to be fulfilled H e l ong h oped for the time no' the churches of E ng l an d would be available for D i sse nt as well as Churchmen, an d it i s pro b a b le that before 'l°, we.shall see the leading Nonconformist preachers ° cc pying Church pulpits with the consent of the bf ol lo This in itself is r emar k a bl e. S t ill stranger is the faeLt the movement seems to be now directed .by the Church party. This party has of ate shewn itself In. laudably alive to the importance of reforms. The revis i :, of the authoris e d vers i on an d t h e proposal to admit 14:e conformists into thei r p u lpit s are great steps i n a dvsn for which they deserve the highest praise. The discontinuance o f th e T oma h awk can scarce ly - wife g taken any one by surprise. It had miserably fallen ° l , since the day when it electrified London by its auto ously clever cartoons a b ou t th e P r i nce of Wales and ' o f Emperor Maximili an . Those were re a l w orks , fte' art. Latterly th e engrav i ngs were week n 0 week substantially the same. I n all of ° I :0 the skeleton was th e p rom i nent fi gure, an d be 'ir neither novelty nor beauty. Some time ago when , e if William Russell borrowed money to extricate O n- p from his difficulties, he had to take the Tomahal 4 5 a part of the loan, just as Jew money lenders make Y °ll o l borrowers take bad wi ne an d worse p i ctures. I °il No fin hardly add th a t th e mem b er for Norwich did not "' the Tomaha . wk re-establish his fortune. vt Sir Charles Dilk e , M.P ., i s t h e mem b er of Parlia-;e4t who contributed th e i n t erest i ng letter about " Errants " on the battle -field to the Times on Wed'' day. Mrs. Stowe has comm ence d a new story in a New -04 periodical. It is entitled " Pink and White TY O4I/19 1 7 e ' Judging from the opening chapters, the tale appears t° ,o directed against a phase of the ladies' side in the 'w ill , 51r. rights' question. I l earn a l so f rom A mer i ca that f el, Charles Reade has h a d a l arge sum pa id hi m for hi s no to " Put yourself in hi s pl ace ." Al so t h at Dr. She: to Mackenzie is writing a Memoir of Charles Dickens, b ° published by Messrs. Peterson, of Philadelphia. . CI-1 • 6 A11) . \ , Z - 1 , _, ..., 4. "st , . , Ntytte:Ay /fr. 1 1 . eiltri w-----ttrito ti4l,, HER MAJESTY. ago. BALMORAL, AuG• v efi t The Queen, accompan i e d b y Pr i ncess Beatrice , out this morning. In the after noon th e Q ueen d rove to the Glassalt s t int accompanied by the Princess of Wales and Prince O r of Sir Thomas and L a dy Bidd u l p h had the hon our dining with her Majesty yesterday. THE CABINET. irie 6 A London corre s p on d ent o f the Manchester -°1 after referri ng t o Lord Halifax's attenda nce on the ' 4 ,1 '. lit at Balmoral, adds :—" There is no doubt that our c 1 1 56 macy at this crisis is managed by a sub-committee of 0- 1 Cabinet, consisting of Mr. Gladstone, Lord Granville , Lord Halif ax —th e most influential survivors of . 0 0 who got us into the Crimean war, and, as manY 14 judges think, laid the seeds of this terrible busineo. their policy in the Danish war." SIR JOHN PAXINGTON ON THE WO Sir John Pakington, at th e di nner o f t h e W or n°o shire Agricultural Society, on Th urs d ay, sa i d he reP a jv that the prospect of thi s coun t ry not b e i ng i nvo lve ttf' war grew better daily ; but woe be to that h jcb under whatever politi ca l name it m i g h t b e known, " allowed the defences of England to decay. o bi [lt may be recollected that it was through Sir , 0 of Pakington's instrumentality that the home soldie r at' our army were furnished with bre ec hl oa d ers (sn ider r tern) on the opening of the Austro-Prussian war 1866.] Id be As I am in an inquisitive mood just now, I should like to ask who is to have the vacant garters. There are two vacant—Lord Clarendon's and Lord Hertford's. Why the latter nobleman got his it would be difficult to say. But is not the time come when honours should no longer be conferred upon peers of indifferent character simply because they are peers, in preference to commoners who have really earned the highest distinction that can be bestowed ? There is some talk of conferring one of the garters upon the Duke of St. Alban's. Surely but for the, tradition which holds a duke, whoever he may be, more worthy of honour than the most illustrious states man, this hero of a not very savoury escapade would give place to Mr. Gladstone, and allow the Prime Minister of England, though a commoner, to have the first stall in the chapel of St. George's, at Windsor. One more question. How about Mr. Bright ? Is he well, or is he still an invalid ? Politicians of both parties have shewn him great consideration in his absence. But in times like these we can scarcely continue to have Cabinet Ministers incapable of work. Mr. Bright's de partment probably does not suffer from his absence, for he never was much of an administrator. But b , 3 ought to be aiding his colleagues just now with his advice about foreign diplomacy and home armaments. Perhaps it is as well that he has not been able to do this. But then, if his advice is likely to be such as they could not accept, ought he to continue a member of the Cabinet ? There are Ministers and Ministers, some who work hard at their bureaux, some who are invaluable at Cabinet Councils. Mr. Bright is certainly not one of the first, and if his opinions are not likely to have weight, cui bona his Ministry ? The Attorney-general must now be likening himself to the man who had a donkey and was immortalised by 2Esop. Sir Robert Collier's acceptance of the Bristol Recordership did not please his constituents ; his refusal of it does not please his colleagues. The Govornment, in fact, find DUNVILLE and Co., Belf d aS l t ;is a h re the isk hi i r a les o t rao ho l " t e r themselves in a fix. The Recordership is, next to that of of whisky in the world. heir 01 m ea ed s t 3 al a l , r d o ca fes s s e i s or in preference to London, first in honour and dignity, and it has always b Fren y ch brand' ; t ioe been held by a lawyer of high position. At the same ( 1 n application to MessrsorDlT.7llll;arliaigrropia time, it is essential, according to precedent, that the person s u t l r m a r n i d es . , w se .o lf . ast ; or at tivi t o 4 w i an ofpceE3 4, Royal Beaufort 111.16 .11E MONSTER HOUSES OF LONDON.—It WOU l e t , .ceresting to k now whether, when the Gr e at o spoke of ns as a na ti on of shopkeepers, he knew ~,nod, manner of shop s we k ept, or what was within, be"-re" above, and beneath them, or if he knew, did he eve r , flect that we could not drop out of the march of h il „tiol ) , thought, but must p ress onwar d st i ll ? For the 'roe has gone onward in this respect, and it may be sal" il c l3, the shops of th e me t ropo li s stand unrivalled, not so Il s iO perhaps, for the fa u ltl ess e l egance w hi ch marks Pil th e emporiums as for the s y s t ema ti c an d so li d business 0,. place. Take some of the l ea di ng houses • instance Ae o tb) Swan and Edgar in the W es t, Messrs. Varn in the 0 .,, ° t tier or Messrs. Venables, of Whit ec h ape l , i n the East. P e o ' examples could hardly be quoted of how we carry °n or business. Take the latt er; h ere t h ere is a place for ey ep t thing, and everything_ is in its place. One dePa rt tolii is devoted to furniture of nearly every descriP A another to carp e t s exc l us i vely, another to silks and 11), other matt ers per t a i n i ng to ladies ' attire, and so othooo fact, it is lik e a num b er of separate houses cor°ot" under one roof, an d f orm i ng one gigantic establis th e But perf ec ti on o f arrangement is not the only aim° o the, proprietors. Their system b e i ng s t r i ct l y cash, esverecli' interest on the enormous c a pit a l requ i re d for a,2' ~ O s r trade, and avoids th e p oss ibil i ty o f b a d debts, which, tbe bined with the vast difference in expenses between the, East and West end of London, enables them to 0% 0 0 advantages of the lowe s t p r i ces , com bi ned with exeeqs of quality. Could the shad e o f N apoleon v i s it tt er some of the other establishments, and see to what an tent commercial matters are transacted, he would a,,A 10 ra that if we were a " natiou of shopkeepe" we excel iv " our profession.—Morning Post. si r ovevi, a sisa l° ly OUt , leSS °ll lian S $ to th e uSt P 3l e le3 r, t!a as 1330t e ie with 3 ,eutri e i idst ° f een ope • very' he t hat Sid e ' s houl d ee o bee ll orde r Ph r3sB ,ar• • THE EUROPEAN WAR A SECOND EDITION of THE SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGHT O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events.