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Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, K.G, The Right lion. the Secretary of State for War. CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE : Lieutenant-Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, V.C.ALP. SECRETARY: Captain Charles Burgess. BANKERS : Messrs. Coutts and Co. Grand Fashionable MILITARY MATINEE AND SOIREE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. (At 3 and 8), UNDER THE MOST DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE, In Aid of the Funds of the NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR RELIEVING THE SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS By the kind permission of Colonel MUller, the Juvenile Band of the Duke of York's School (Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea) will attend. Several Popular Artistes have also kindly volun teered their services for this occasion. Tickets, 55., 35., 25., and is. (Children Half-price) may be obtained at the principal Libraries and Music Warehouses, and at the Palais Royal, daily. PALAIS ROYAL, Argyle-street, Oxford Circus, W. Dr. CORRY's Great National Entertainment, IRELAND ; its Scenery, Music, and Antiquities. Magnificent Scenery and Splendid Dioramic Effects, with Songs, Duets, Choruses, Characteristic Dances, and Mirth-Provoking Irish Sketches. Every Evening at 8. Wednesdays and Saturdays at 3 and 8. Admission, is. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. ; Numbered Stalls. 3s. "I am, Sir, yours obediently, "L. F. DE _CANROBERT (née MACDONALD), Vice-President of the Soci6t6 des Secours aux Blesses Francais. " Windsor, Sept. 10. " P.S.—Further contributions will be gratefully received at the depot of Messrs. Piesse and Lubin, 2, New Bond-street, London, W." THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY-LANE—A Domestic Hercules. Amy Robsart. Phobus's Fix. 4 LYCEUM—Farce. Innisfallen, or the Men in the Gap. SADLER'S WELLS—Farce. Hamlet. QUEEN'S—Midsummer Night's Dream. Farce. GAIETY—Ballet. Betley. Bluebeard. PRINCE OF WALES—M. P. Queen Stork. Locked In. VAUDEVILLE—ChiseIIing. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STRAND—On and Off. School for Coquettes. Idle 'Prentice. Chops of the Channel. PRINCESSES' —Wanted, 1,000 Milliners. 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MOSES and SON supply every description of _12.4, clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes: also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all' climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any article exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-fre E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. 00RNE.E. of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH BRADFORD. YORKSHIRE. -A- HEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.—SoIe Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.—This Theatre having been re-decorated under the direction of Mr. C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., IS NOW OPEN for the AUTUMN DRAMATIC SEASON.' Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at half-past Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from Sixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four Guineas. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. MISS NEILSON will appear in the character of AMY ROBSART, in the Drama of that name, THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LA KE. MR. T. C. KING will appear in the character o► VARNEY, in the new Drama, entitled AMY ROBSART, THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. MR. MORTON TAVARES will appear in the character of TRESSILIAN in the new Drama, entitled AMY ROBSART THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by Martin Becher, at Seven o'clock • THIS EVENING.- -THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSA RT ; a - new Historical Romantic Drama, written by Andrew Halliday ; founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated novel " Kenilworth," with new and characteristic scenery by William Beverly, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYALDRU.RY-LANE. A MY ROBSART ; new drama: Characters by Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Vokes, Kemp, J. Mortin, and Rosina Vokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. A MY ROBSA.RT; New Drama, characters by Zi Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, J. B. Howard, Brittain Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon, Vokes, F. Stanforth, H. Naylor, and Fred. Yokes, THIS EVEN ING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROSBART; New Drama. The Overture and Incidental Music selected and composed by W. C. Levey, executed by an increased Orchestra and. numerous Chorus, The Ballet and Grouping of Crowds arranged by Mr. John Cor mack. The whole produced under the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling at a Quarter to Eight THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. A MY ROBSART.—The costumes from designs -LA- of an eminent Artist, the gorgeous Revels at Kenil worth, including the Procession of the Ancient Britons Saxons, Romans, Normans, &c, and ending with the floating Pageants on the Lake, illustrated by 300 auxiliaries, THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. DHOBUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated YOKES FAMILY will appear at Eleven o'clock THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. This Evening, at Seven, WANTED a THOUSAND MILLINERS, Mr. J. Rouse, &c.; at a quarter to Eight, The RAPPAREE, Messrs. Herman Vezin, W. Rignold, J. Clayton, A. Rayner, E. F. Edgar, Shiel Barry; Mesdames Katharine Rodgers and M. Cooper; to conclude with THE HAPPY MAN, Mr. Shiel Barry, &c. AUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, CHISELLING. Mr. David James. After which, at 8, the Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, by James Albery. To conclude with the successful Burlesque, DON CARLOS ; or, The Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. 11. T. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, A. Garthorne, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Fawsitt, T. Laws, and A. Newton. ROYAL 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, E. Bufton, and F. Hughes. The New Hurly- Burly-Esque, "THE IDLE TRENTICE." Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Bufton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &C. ; and, THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. MA DAME TUSS AUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER STREET. • On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial ; King William of Prussia, and Count von Bismarck. 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"The Society, thanks to the abundant resources placed at its disposal, has been able to send forth as many as three and four ambulances per week, costing from 60,000 f. to 200,000 f. each, each ambulance accompanied by a staff of surgeons and- infir miers, with tents, beds, linen, medicines, surgical instruments, and all possible necessaries. Help has been sent to all towns where the sick and wounded have been lodged. The entire dis tribution of the wounded over the whole of France (given over by the Intendance Militaire to our Society) has been organized. Ambulances have been established iu every railway terminus, and at many important stations, where a day and night service is established, to receive the wounded on their first arrival. "These are some of the services which our Society has been able to render, besides many others too numerous to detail, owing to the generous spmpathy which has been shewn on its behalf, for which our dear country and her poor soldiers are deeply grateful. FREN WOUNDED. DONATIONS are earnestly solicited ; and every article that can be consi dered useful and beneficial to the wounded will be gratefully accepted and duly forwarded by Piesse and Lubin, acting for the Societfi des Secours. 13 , hostilities should be agreed to, during which the Constituent Assembly might meet and decide the competence of the Goiernment to conclude a peace. Germany would thus have a guarantee that the terms arranged between. M. JULES FAVRE and the CHANCELLOR of the CONFEDERATION would be accepted. But the delay would be advan tageous to France, would enable her to better re organise her armies, and therefore a counterbalancing gain must be offered Germany in the shape of the three fortresses. This proposal was not a hard one. Toul has actually surrendered ; Stra4- .bourg, in spite of the unquestionable ability of General UHRICH, cannot resist much longer; and Verdun, the well-known place situated between Chalons and Metz, is of no use whatever to the French at present. It would appear at first sight that in rejecting such an offer the French FOREIGN MINISTER culpably threw away an excellent chance of saving his country from further woe. There is, how ever, more than one consideration which may have powerfully contributed to this negative decision. In order to give the Germans possession of the most important of the three places--Strasbourg—it would be necessary that General UHRICH should be willing to surrender it, and it is by no means certain that he would consent to do so. He took the command of the fortress in the Im ' perial service ; he may refuse to acknowledge or obey the Republic. It is not known that he so disowns the new Government, but if he does, the Ministry may be excused for sparing themselves the humiliation of his open refusal to obey their mandate. Of greater influence still may be the temper of the Paris populace. Cut off from all communication from without, any Government whatsover now established in the capital would be at the mercy of the armed people, much more a form of rule which the people themselves set up. The power which created can as easily destroy. It is certain that M. FAVRE and his colleagues can have no power, at the present juncture of imposing terms which are unacceptable to the inhabitants of Paris. The neces sity may be unfortunate, but the Republican Ministry can hardly be blamed for it. It would not be easy to find a Government which could main tain its freedom of action under such circumstances. It must not be forgotten, likewise, that the armis tice would not be a peace, but only a preliminary to one; and it would be quite useless to strike the initiatory bargain if there was no pros pect of arranging the final one. This consideration has probably had more influence than any other in determining the answer of the Provisional Ministry. All the world knows the basis on which Count BISMARCK is prepared to treat for peace, and M. FAVRE must be equally well, if not . better, informed. If he learned that the differences between the two parties were irreconcil able it would be idle to waste time about pre liminaries. We nave expressed the opinion that the German terms, hard as they are, ought to be accepted. There seems not to be the slightest prospect of gaining better by sacrificing Paris. But if the French Government think differently, it would be useless to raise false hopes bv . an armistice. THE startling news respecting the proposal of BAZAINE to surrender his beleaguered army is im portant indeed, if true ; but the report must not be accepted in its entirety without further information. It is officially announced that the Marshal sent a letter to Prince FREDERICK CHARLES, which missive was forwarded to the KING ; but there is as yet no authentic intelligence as to its contents. Rumour naturally enough suggests that the letter must have contained proposals for a surrender, and it is asserted that BAZAINE was wil ling to capitulate on condition that his men, retain ing their arms, were allowed to go free on giving their parole not to serve against Germany again during the next three months. Several objections to this hypothesis present themselves. In the first platy it is not new, for it was mentioned by the correspondent of the Cologne Gazette several days ago ; and it is likely that if a pro posal of this kind had been made at that time we should have heard more about it ere now. In the second place, it is not a very pro bable theory, for if the French general were in a position to demand such favourable terms, he would be in a position to hold out altogether. His resist ance is so important that if he is possessed of nearly all the energy with which he is credited, lie will de fend himself to the last extremity, and then he will be in no condition to ask that his troops should betake themselves and their accoutrements to any place they may select, to recommence fighting at the end of three months. It is not easy to conceive how anybody, in or out of Metz, can credit the Germans with the folly requisite for agreeing to such a proposal. The mere fact that BAZAINE made it would be sufficient to convince his enemies that by a little longer waiting the fortress and all the troops in it will become abso lutely theirs. Lastly, this presumption that the French Marshal is not in a position to hold out any longer, is at variance with the general tenor of the latest news from Metz One or two persons who have been imprisoned within the place testify to the abundance of food. An officer, wiiting to one of the German papers the other day, said that some time must elapse before Metz could be starved out. The Daily News • correspcndent, writing from Frankfort, says that the German officers he has met with all' agree that the fortress is thoroughly impregnable, and well stored with provisions and ammunition. The limes correspon dent, on the 21st, took a view of Metz front the adjoining heights, and saw by the banks of the river, cattle enough "to convince one that from famine, at all events, the garrison need not capitulate for some time to come ; unless, indeed, .the rinderpest, which is rapidly spreading in the surrounding district, should find its way into the place." Of course BAZAINE may be beset by grave difficulties of which the outside observer can know nothing : but food is the principal consideration, and 430 long as a supply remains it is difficult to conceive of any misfortune which would induce a marshal of France to abandon the last hope of his country, if there be any hope. BAZAINE'S assistance is of the utmost importance. In order to keep him safe in the fortress 150,000 Germans are required to guard the works which have been thrown up around it, and thus the besieging force around Paris is so reduced as not to exceed in num ber the garrison inside. BAZAINE could scarcely perform a more important work, if he and his men were at liberty, provided always that he possesses supplies and mewls of holding out. All things considered, it would be unwise to hastily conclude that this last terrible blow has befallen France. If the news, however, should prove correct the mishap will furnish an overwhelm ingly powerful reason why the Provisional Govern ment should accept whatever terms of peace can be procured. wish to hwniliate Prussia, and when war was de clared in July, there were decided outbursts of enthu siasm in Paris. The members of the present lklinietry have clear consciences, but a large proportion of the inhabitants of the capital are guilty. The hostility shown through many years by France towards Prussia has been sufficiently general in the country to justify the German statesmen in exacting an assu rance that it shall not again take an active form. But the French people cannot be held responsible for this war in the same way that the English are respon sible for an act done by their rulers, say the passing of the Irish Land Bill. Englishmen discussing this responsibility question are apt to forget that the late Imperial Government arrogated to itself the express mission of saving the people the trouble of deciding for themselves. It was personal rule, fatherly and independent of the people's will. There was no " appeal to the constituencies" on any great question. Only at fixed periods, quite irres pective of great crises, was there a sham appeal, which only brought out in stronger relief the absolute nature of the real ruling power. If such a Govern ment has any meaning at all, it must surely mean that the sovereign stands or falls I y his deeds, and that if he reserves to himself the glory of his reign, he ought not to throw upon the people Co weight of the discredit. If NAPOLEON was forced into this war by the weight of public opinion, it may be pertinently asked why he refused to do so many things which the nation wished, and persisted in doing so many things to which the nation objected. A despotic Government must govern well, or the reason for its existence is wanting. The fact that NAPOLEON took all sub stantial authority into his own hands may have no influence with the Germans, but it ought to in duce Frenchmen to finally decide that the system has proved itself unworthy of the interests committed to it, and must never be tried again.— Western Morning News. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WAR. ONE of the points most keenly discussed during the present war h,is been the question as to whom the responsibility of the strife is to be attributed. In deciding that the French must pay the penalty of their aggression, the Germans argue that if the EMPEROR'S Government male the war, the French people heartily endorsed it. To a certain extent this assertion is true. The French of most parties have undeniably displayed a THE VOLUNTEERS AND THE WAR OFFICE. The other day we noticed a letter written by the Lord Mayor of London, in which he made a stirring appeal to the patriotism of the citizens to use every effort to increase the strength of the volunteer force in the metropolis. "A Volunteer Officer of Ten Years' Standing " writes to the leading journal on this subject, and asserts that the War Office positively refuses the services of volunteers ; and in support of this statement he remarks that an artillery brigade in Liverpool, which had increased from a single battery in 1859 to eleven full batteries in 1869, was anxious early in the current year to further increase their strength. They hal also in view the fact that large brigades eau be more economically worked than small ones, and an application was made to the War Office for the requisite authority to strengthen the force. Not withstanding that a large number of men offered their services, the War Office declined to sanction the proposed increase. Another brigade in Liverpool has been similarly snubbed, and we believe that that port is not singular in the treatment it has received. OUR DEFENCES. At the annual meeting of the Montgomery Agri cultural Society some appropriate speeches were delivered on the subject of the war. The Earl of Powis, in giving " the Army, Navy, and Reserved li,rces," pointed out some of the deficiencies which exist in our present system. Our little regiments that could not turn out three hundred and fifty men Aldershott would not go far in resisting the French and Prussian masses. Mr. Cardwell, how ever, was hardly the man to infuse a Promethean s;ark into the skeleton army or put flesh on its dry b(ries. He came to the conclusion that in future arrangements for the defence of the country members of Parliament must consider whether the army arrangements did not demand something every year more than the knocking off of •5,000 men from the estimates. The Vohinteers were V:e most popular force, but when the Government vas asked to provide them with Sniders, the Secre tary for War told them that from a due regard to economy he preferred to keep the Sniders, as he .pleasantly called it, in store, which they just found out meant stored away in the backwoods of Canada! Mr. Wynn, M.P., said that whatever might have ben our sympathies with Germany in the first instance, the opposition to France must have been stifled in the compassion which her sufferings in duced. In dwelling on the horrors of the war, he pinto(' out what it would be to us to see the vast army of an invader encamped at Tunbridge Wells, London cannonaded, and neither ingress nor egress pnmitted to or from the capital. - England could not h.) too thankful for having escaped the horrors of war. THE WORK OF WAR. The pictures drawn of the sufferings of the wounded lying for days and nights untended on the battle field, jolted along rough roads or crowded in s. itling hospitals with scarcely the barest necessaries of food provided for them, have been so vivid and so plinfully interesting that little attention has been pad to the distress occasioned in other quarters by the royal pastime of war making. The sufferings of I the civil population have been, indeed, less sudden a . id less violent than the agonies of those maimed and tortured by shell, needle gun, or mitrailleuse, but they are not less real, and threaten to be even more prolonged. The districts trodden by the hostile armies are not merely impoverished ; they are reduced to famine. . Independently of the vast and ullooked for demands for the support of hundreds of thousands of non-productive consumers, the actual produce of the soil has been destroyed and the means of future cultivation taken away. The mayors and curds of several French villages which have been desolated by the war, have given a touching descrip tion of the condition to which they are reduced. The provisions which were accumulated in time of peace have been seized for the sup port of the belligerents. The fields have been trampled down, the barns and stable 3 fired. The h3rds and flocks have been carried off; there has been no harvest, and not even seed corn remains to be sown. if the ground, instead of being turned into one vast grave, were ready for the tiller and the sower, and the seed at hand, the labourers would still be wanting—carried off for active or indirect service. Starvation threatens the unfortunate peasantry, and should they struggle through the winter, there is too much reason to a pp re h en d an ou tbreak of pestilence in the spring. Englishmen, moved by this terrible account, are preparing to send pecuniary assistance to these afflicted districts, which are starving ) , while two great nations are disputing their possession. CANON LIDDON AND THE POSITION OF ENGLAND. Canon Liddon writes to the Telegraph to defend himself from the charge of national self-sufficiency brought against him in reference to a recent sermon at St. Paul's. The Telegraph complained that the celebrated preacher seemed to convoy to his audience the idea that the Deity had intervened to fence round Great Britain with safeguards, as a proof that Tie regarded it with exclusive favour. Canon Liddon maintains that he did not say and could not have said with a good conscience that he believed .heaven regarded Great Britain with pecu liar favour,- though he thinks it must be for some great end that we are so mercifully spared from the sorrows which visit our neighbour?. Ile does not consider our spiritual and moral condition has merited our exemption from this war, but holds that our safety is due, not to any precautions or natural advantages, but to a mercy for which we cannot be sufficiently thankful. Tie is the more . f. trill 1 ; _ ,i/ &* .+.;‘; ITU Tar. - HLIR it AeIES 7' Y BALMORAL, SEPT. 24. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and at tended by the Marchioness of Ely, drove out. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the Queen. The Earl of Fife, Lady Agnes Duff, and Viscount Mac duff had alPo the honour of dining with her Majesty. Summonses have been issued for a Cabinet Coun cil to be held at the official residence of the First Lord• of the Treasury, in Downing-street, on Friday next, the 30th inst., at two o'clock. WHOLESALE PLUNDER.—AS an illustration of the manner in which we, in common with some other London journals, are plundered by provincial contempo raries, we find that our Paris Letter of Wednesday week was reprinted by the Daily _Review of Edinburgh on the 17th as an original c -mmunication from their own correspondent. Some of our contemporaries who have remarked a similarity between the letter of our correspon pondent describing the battle of Sedan and the accounts in the New York papers, are not apparently aware that our letter was telegraphed to New York by the American Associated Press on the afternoon on which we published it.—Pall Mall Gazette. BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.--GRATEFUL AND COM- FoRTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only i n tin-lined packets labelled—JAMES EPPS ct CO., Homoeopathi Clsemists, London.—Advt. DUNVI LLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of :whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is recommended by the medical profession in preference to French brand . Sup• plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation, quotationF 6z, et application to Messrs DIINVILLE Co., tilleries, Belfast or at thei tAngion 0 1.11Cet. 4, Royal Irish Pis leilulortl;iiildbi, rgi).l SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS. • • NEWCASTLE, MONDAY. The President of the Health section, Mr. Robert Raw' lin son, .delivered an address of considerable practical value to a general meeting of the members and associates this morning. On the subject of sanitary works, he said, "They may be simple in country districts, but in towns they become compound and therefore complex. Personal care and labour are, however, required under all con ditions, and this fact has not, as yet, been generally appreciated ; hence arises, from personal and municipal neglect, much of the nuisance wrongly imputed to sani tary appliances. The physician and the sanitary engineer must both, as a first lesson, learn the simple laws of nature, that they may know their weak ness, as also in what may consist their power. The grand phenomena of nature cannot be controlled. Sanitary science, before it can be of practical use, must be learned by statesmen. The strength of a nation is in its health, and where there is the healthiest community there bodily purity and morals will have the greatest develop ment. Empires, monarchies, and republics have this lesson to learn. In the cities of the Republican States of North America, the worst sanitary defects of the wors t cities of Europe are being repeated. The sanitary engineer of the future will know nothing of `refuse matter' other than as a useful product, whi ch properly applied to the soil, will add to the wealth of the community. The aim and end of statesmanship ought to be to ensure to every individual born in the State means of health and of morality. Each Englishman's home should not only be his castle, but his, hospital. Charity will not then degrade but will elevate ; • and that alone will be true charity which assists the poor to assist theta' selves, and so to live, independent of almsbegging and almsgiving. We are now proud of our charities of our public hospitals, which cost £l,OOO per bed, plus the ad ditional expenses of administration, in which hospital beds sick men are treated at a money rate three times greater than the wages they could ever earn when in health. ' Our charitable institutions are the glory of our land,' but happy will that State be which neither possesses nor needs such form of glory. We repeat at our great musical festival the angelic chant `Peace on earth, good will to men,' but we read in our daily papers of carnage such as the world never before knew ; we cannot explain the terrible phenomena, but stand aghast in dread, fear, an d wonder. The war epidemic is upon the nations and must run its course. Sanitary science under such conditions as are now in existence appears to have laboured in vain. But it is our duty to work in hope and wait. War and carnage are not the end of Christian teaching ; we must strive to look beyond. the present, and hope for better times. The poet, using his divine faculty, states— "For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could se e ! Saw the vision of the wo r ld, an d a ll the wonder tha. would be." And in another verse the same poet embodies the hopes °f men, who believe in revelation and do not despair, in words with which I conclude this address— " Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing PurP °se runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the Pr e " gress of the suns." s In the Municipal Law Section a voluntary Paper oval I read by Dr. Pankhurst, barrister, on " Would the Lora Administration of Criminal Justice be Improved by th e appointment of Additional Stipendiary Magistrates, ands Petit the enlargement of the Jurisdiction of Quarter and Sessions." The legal organisation of a highly developed state of society ought to possess, said the write r ' the three following attributes—unity of con t tution, uniformity of administration, and l oc alisatio ° in point of application. He then p r oceeded to urg.,. that the jurisdiction of the quarter ses s ions should be,e, tended so as to comprise all offences committed within it:t territorial area, with certain specific exceptions, and t the jurisdiction of petit sessions should be expressl the clearly defined, and some system ad v ised of putting or into some relation with each other, and with the Qua Sessions, that by means of a procedur e of circuit, or itia t ration, a constant provision might be made on the slid e for the due and efficient administration of justice, Wl' the judicial authority presiding over these COurre should be judges of professional training and ade(Plo experience. A complement to these amendments on o f administration of criminal justice would be a s ystem f public prosecution, and the establishment of a court appeal in criminal cases. The doctrine of local juri e " o tion could not, however, be carried out until the lale, were codified ; but when these changes could be made tn administration of justice would be systematic and unif err t and the incidence and application wo u ld be local, an consequently, at once economical and prompt. of The special question discussed in the Repressien de - Crime Section this morning was one attempting t° monstrate the kind of measure that o u ght to be adopt ed with a view to the repression of habitual drunkennes_s: Two papers were read, the one p re p are d by Dr. Dicks°A the other by Mr. Dalrymple, M.P. The former d with the question of asylums for drunkards, and the la tr explained the nature of the Bill which the rneill for Bath has brought before the House of Commons. i t:." the discussion which ensued Mr. Safford, Mr. P.Atowf,,'"': Steward, the Rev. John Matthews, Mr. „unce, r. "' Mr. Carr, and others took part, and there was p i T x actiCal unanimous expression of opinion in favour of we n being adopted to remove. the temptation dru n '„; ness at present existing, anci to Prolide Ine o , - a e y for restraining those wb,o, have given a'„' to habitual intemperance. The desi• e ability of 8 1: branches of science being tau g ht engaged the attention of ih9edu 4 o , ll , the health section discusse4 many questions, most of which, however important sasr - i a tementary eel:l ° d e tion section, interest.were of mere National Pros Brit and F:iedial Security, formed t he u ner, subject of a voluntary paper by Mr. Francis F in the Repression of Crime section. He stated, as a V o l ; chievous anomaly, that whilst by the adequate applies of labour to the cultivation of the waste lands in the United Kingdom such lands could be made to produce vwci)oo commercial profit an annual value of at least £1, 94 , sterling in ordina r y ar ti c l es of foo d , we Aear foreigners in some years near l y 250,000,00 set ling for the very thi ngs which could b e profita bly produced at home. At the same time hundreds of tho sands of people were in dist ress f rom want o f work, h°lete ing precariously about the narrow lines which seP e :} o9 ; indigence, pauperism, and cr i me ; an d no t w ithstan l eo our large imports from abroad, the greater portion eve s g. of the employed populati on were under fed and snif t er if from an insufficienc3 of nu t r iti ve food which Ilaig ip 2 w , proper measures we re t a k en, be supplied from our land. o f " Disarmament a n d A r bit ra ti on " f orme d th e title e , paper by Mr. Thoma s B eggs , rea d i n t h e J ur ispruden c _ Department, wh ere th e D u k e o f N ort h um b er land P o l l.. sided. The author s t rong ly urge d th e a b o liti on of stat es ing armies, and the settlement of international disl m by means of arbitrati on . I n this se c ti on , a l s o, a 11° tary paper was presented on the subject of "A Pn r ment of Nations and International Abitration." " By what means may the Labour Market throug lic ' u e t• England be more equally supplied, with sp V ei ecial refer en to Local and Temporary Distress," was the special t Con discussed in the section of Economy and Trade. e f was introduced in a paper by Mr. E. W. H o lland, Id be whose suggestions was that the p oor -l aw sys t e m shoul d altered so as to enable Boards o f G uar di ans un der ee'''e, conditions to emigrate lab ourers w h o are dependent of rates for support. Seve ra l vo l untary papers treating toe ou " Calamities at Sea " were also read in this section ; ° o f by Mr. Henry Jeula, of Lloyds, furnished a f Unaberber statistics of casualti es on t h e ocean. In 1 869 the 1 1 4. ° 1 au of crews saved f rom vesse l s was 1,069, agn i , 11 %869, average of 686 ; f rom s t eamers t h e num b er was 5 9 "" in against an average of 29, while crews drowned were, 1869, 52, the average being 44. The lives reported,lcila 1869 were only 1,643, compar e d w ith an a verage or —Captain William• Dawson, R.N , in a paper on Social Conditio n of Merchant Seamen," contended that the social condition of s ail ors cou ld never be s factory antil their employers and officers were led to entl e , tarn a just sense o f th eir res p ons ibilit y as regards TS,,, spiritual as well as temporal welfare of their me n ' " Partnerships of Industry" were discussed in 5 P, prepared by Mr. A. C. Greening in a sub-division 0 ' Ae , Economy and Trade department. Soto tails of the co-operative movement were furnishel , „. i ed the conclusions arrived at were that the . results that s had fully proved the soundness of the principle, of failure did not disprove it, and that the argr ` me ss founded on the necessity of undivided power, d far trY• Same interesting; a it was true, did not tell against co- operation and i' that ol The Duke of Northumberland, i n the cow' se sitting of the section in which he presided, a serve- d i n g he thought that England could not dlo wither L t a Stan' ie army if for no other reason on aoeont ei her 001°11 te n "; He also expressed his opinion th a t suc h a , -.military sre; as that existing in Prussia was not ne‘je , ss ary nor ng . g o . ,ne sive, and would not have b een so if i% had been in at France at the present time. The Ladies Conference held i' u s last sitting this of noon, when the questions of " `4"4men as Ins Schools ; " " The Diet of Infwats and Young Childrlis and the " Rights and Wrings of Women ; wereares, cussed. A large number of members of the C„, r °ll ,," ss il. went to witness a latraeh from the yard of -1- ' — Richardson and Co. pectors .0,, The Irish Ambulance C said, now orps is,The complete. It is at present limited to 100 men' expedition will start from Dublin in a few days. [ADVERTIMMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills and Ointraent.-- Deranged Stomach, Sick Headache.—Our comfort, 11313; piness, and security, depend on the knowledge that meet diseases originate from apparently trifling begirm illgs !: and that a l arge p ropor ti on o f th em s p r ing from mattol... tion to the state of the stomach. Professor HollowaY turned his knowledge to useful account by disceve a r l % medicines which cure, without exception, the attend r he on disordered digestion. They ward cdff, likewse' well. torturing sick headache. The Ointment shoul d be vels rubbed, twice daily, over the stomach, liver, and bo . to them it penetrates, ansl aided by the Pills 111 i, mediately works such a revOlution as establishes perse,' digestion, LONDON TUESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1870. l'uu inhabitants of Tours seem to have been greatly excited by a statement that Count BisgtAncic demanded as the condition of an armistice, during which the terms of peace might be arranged, that Strasbourg, Toul, and Mont Valerien should be sur rendered to the German armies. This indignation was not unnatural. Mont Val6rien is the strongest of the detached forts around Paris, and the only work of the kind situated on the whole of the west side of the capital. Its surrender would involve tie very speedy fall of the city. But the people of Tours seem to have been deluded ; it was not Mont Valerien, but Verdun, that Count BISMARCK demanded in addition - to Strasbourg and Toul. .The Prussian statesman's proposal was that, as - the constitution of the Pro visional Ministry was irregular, a brief cessation of anxious to set himself right on this point and to dis claim the idea of such heartlessness as would be involved in looking on at the agony of France and saying " Dear me, are we not well out of it !" because any expression of opinion at such a time involves crious responsibilities. THE FUTURE RULERS OF FRANCE. It is half suspected by many influential French men that the Reds in France will shortly attempt a serious dmeute, which will tend to discredit the Republic to BO great a degree that the question of h a ving either aßonaparte or aßourbon again at the head of the Government will be revived with enthusiasm. A correspondent of a contemporary which is usually well informed, declares that it would be next to im possible to bring about an Orleanist restoration just now in France, except as it was brought about in 1814 and 1815, by foreign bayonets. As, however, King William and the Prussian Ministers, for some mysterious reasons, seem to prefer Napoleon 111. to Louis Philippe H., it is almost certain that German influence would prohibit any likelihood of a Bourbon re-establishment, whereas it maybe used to replace the ex-Emperor. Count Bismarck's great object, it is said, is to have some one in France who will be powerful ()hough, and at the same time weak enough, to sanction the demolition of the fortresses which stand in the way of the new Rhenish boun dary, and one, moreover, who will undertake to repay the cost of the war immediately. All the Prus sian Ministers seem anxious to have a re-establishment of the Monarchy in some form in France, and as it does not seem to signify to them how damaged in popula rity the restored Government might appear to be, it is not improbable, in the opinion of this writer, that a Bonaparte dynasty may again be in power, should the Republicans not be sulli cently strong to accomplish, in its entirety, the national rescue they contemplate. The statement that Napoleon would refuse Prussian offers of restoration, it true, is not supposed to imply that, if asked by a large section of Frenchmen to again mount the throne, he would decline. There is reason to suppose that the end and aim of his past life is the end and aim of his life still; namely, to have his son as his inheritor in the Empire. As for Prussian interference, all semblance of that may be made to seem mythical. N ITRO-GLYCERINE RENDERED HARMLESS, The storage of nitro-glycerine at one time gave rise to . great uneasiness, and the occurrence of a recent accident has in some measure revived the feeling. At the same tirae it is of the greatest ser vice, and as a blasting agent may be considered more efficient and less expensive than any other explosive substance. The power of nitro-glycerine has been estimated as equal to from ten to thirteen times that of gunpowder. In the mining districts of Sweden, Belgium, France, and Germany it affords a saving of from fifty to sixty per cent. in quarries, and from thirty to forty per cent, in mines. It is satisfactory to find, therefore, that the risk of accident with re gard to this substance has been greatly reduced. M. Nobel, its chief manufacturer, has invented - a process for rendering it harmless. By being mixed with a certain proportion of alcohol it is wholly deprived of its explosive properties. A rifle bullet may be fired into it in this condition, and no effect be pro duce]. If exposed to the air the spirit will evapo rate, and the explosive properties return, but it may be preserved in a harmless state for years if placed in hermetically-sealed cases. M. Nobel supplies it mixed after this fashion, and water is added to it when it is prepared for use. The nitro-glycerine, on account of its greater specific gravity sinks to the bottom of the watery solution, which can be drawn off with ease. The utmost care is required in the manufacture of nitro-glycerine, for if it is not pure it soon decomposes and will explode spontaneously. If pure, it is safer than gunpowder or guncotton, respecting heat or contact with fire, • _ INSANITY IN ENGLAND. The statistics furnished by the Lunacy Commis soners do not exhibit a very satisfactory state of things. In spite of the progress made by medical and psychological science, in spite of the impiove went in the treatment of the mentally afflicted, and all the other social reforms on which we pride our selves, there is a decided increase in the number of lunatics. The difference between the Ist of January 1869, and the Ist of January, 1870, was no less than 1 ; 536, of which 1,430 were paupers: This total is exclusive of 214 so found by inquisition and residing with their committees, and the Board estimate tha t there are nearly 2,000 more in Scotland who are unreported, being maintained by their friends in private houses. In England and Wales there were 54,713 perso'ns of unsound mind last New Year's Day. In Scotland there were 7,310; in Ireland, 10,082 in asylums, and 6,579 at large. Ireland, how ever, can boast of a positive reduction of 174 in the total number of her insane, which is more than either of her sister countries can do. - The great increase of insanity, coupled with pauperism, is attributed partly to the excessive accumulation of the poorer classes in towns, and partly to im paired nutrition. Intemperance contributes its share, and out of the 6,316 patients in district asylums, 348 cases are ascribed to it. Hereditary causes produced, 707 ; grief, fear or anxiety, 368 ; reverse of fortune, 229; religious excitement, 167; love and jealousy, 172; and domestic quarrels and afflictions, 146. It must be added, however, that these proportions are anything but exact, as out of the 6,316 oases 3,196 are set down to " causes not known." Enough is stated, however, to give a caution to our over wise and over hurrying age respecting the value of a little mental discipline and moral self-control, else, it is but too evident, that instead of attaining the great end of mens sana in corpore sano the reckless self-seeking devotee of pleasure, ambition, or business, may pass the gloomy doors of the lunatic asylum. THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGIT F O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST N EWS of the WAR, and of all other events. Si L CitL Vid 4111 w 1 30] 'e4