The Sun. — London, England, 1870-11-11 00:00:00

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AemMY ROBSART; new drama: Characters by Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Vokes, p, J. Mortin, and Rosin Vokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Nov. 11—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. AMY ROBSA.RT; New Drama, characters by Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, J. B. Howard, Brittain Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon, Yokes, F. Stanforth, H. Naylor, and Fred. Yokes, THIS EVEN ING, Nov. 11.—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. Nov. IL— THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by Martin Becher, at Eleven o'clock THIS EVENINO,Nov. 11. —THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AEBDELPHI THEATRE ROYAL.—SoIe Pro prietor, Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER : Managers, Mr. B. STER and Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.—THIS EVENING, at 7, THE GREEN BUSHES, OR ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Miami, Madame Celeste ; supported by Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Mr. Billington, Mr. Ashley, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. C. H. Stephenson, Mr. C. Sennet, and Mr. Charles Wilmot. And THE MILLINER ' HOLIDAY. Mr. John Rouse and Miss Eliza Johnstone. 1 T. JAMES'S THEA TR E.—Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. JOHN WOOD.— This Evening at Eight will be 'presented (for the twenty-fourth time in England) Victorien Sardon's great play, FERNANDE, revised by Sutherland Edwards, Esq. Act I. Reserved, Act IL Loved. Act 111. Won. Act IV. Triumphant. Cha racter by Messrs. Farren, Leeson, Liu Rayne Murray, and Lionel Brough ; Mrs. Hermann Vesin, Miss Larkin, Miss Fannie 'trough, Miss Turner, and Mrs. John Wood.—Doors open at 6.30. At 7, TO OBLIGE BENSON, by Tom Taylor, Esq. Messrs. Harry Cox, Grainger, Mervin ; Misses Marian Inch and H. Everard, At 8, FERNANDE. At 10.30, ONLY Dby John Oxenford Esq. Messrs. Young and Grainger ; Misses Adair and Turner.—During the vacation the family circle has been recon structed and decorated.—Box-office 11 to 6. No fees. ItItOYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH. Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE. Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Buft6n, and F. Hughes. The New Hurly-Burly-Esque, "THE IDLE TRENTICE." Messrs. Terry, Faulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Button, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &C. ei LOBE THEATRE, Newcastle-street, Strand.-- `T Lessee and Manageress, Miss Alleyne. TAMING OF THE SHREW ; great success of Miss Alleyne as "Katharine ; " Mr. Fairclongh ss "Petruchio." MARCO SPADA. Una nimous approval of Madame Colonna and Troupe in the BRIGAND DANCE, at 8.45. An Original Comedy, together with a New Ballet, will shortly be produced. GLOBE THEATRE.—This Evening, at 7, THE SECRET : at 7.45, MARCO SPADA ; Messrs. Walter Lacy and Fairclough. Madame Colonna and Troupe in a grand BRIGAND DANCE. TAMING OF THE SHREW Alleyne and Mr. Fairclough. To conclude with BOARD AND RESIDENCE. _ TATES I EDITION of " THE SUN to m pTied as soon as published, eentaining b.ll the LATEST N10N 1.4 nd SPORTING INTELLIOENC PI, by ti W. HARRIS, pzi A.gent, 4, Blackfriars-road London. T HE KNICKERBOCKER SUITS, 9s. 6d. to 40s. ETON SUITS, 15s. to 40s. BR GHTON SUITS, /Bs. to 48s. D RESS SUITS, 255. to 68s. I HEA ME ROYAL DR L. Y- LA • Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CIIATTRRTON. —This Theatre having been re-decorated under the direction of Mr. Q. I. Phipps, F.S.A., is now Open for the A.lrrum N DRA MATIC 4.1": IA SON, TATS EVENING, Nov. 11. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at hall-past Illtrren. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from Sixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. MtilISS NEILSON will appear in the character of AMY ROI3SART. In the Drama of that name, EVENING, Nov. 11.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LA PIE. 4R. T. 0. KING will appear in the character of - VARNEY, in the new Drama, entitled AMY ROBSART, THIS EVENING, Nov.II.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE, SUIT, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 187 C. niz; tters which during the last autumn or two seemed of all engrossing importance—but of calamities un paralleled in our generation, and a threatened disaster such as the modern civilised world has never witnessed. The ordinary disputes and rivalries of parties and sects fall into insignificance beside the stupendous narrative of the last four months, an .1 the weight of the responsibility under which they spoke, taught linisters more than usual reticence. Mr. GLAD ONE, indeed, said that he hoped for an early peace, e f, .r a peace which should be in its character s, ii:A:;:ed just ; but though he was but expreftiing u .an . .mens desire of his hearers, he could give the ~ not the faintest indication of how that desire t.. be fulfilled.: The PRIME MINISTER was gla I to turn as quickly as possible from so pain ful sad SO dangerous a subject, while Lord GRAN VI L wh,kso position compelled him to be, if not more explicit, at least more communicative, entered at ,ome leagth upon the question of the armistice. Ile told us little that was not already known through the ordinary channels of information ; for the Government has received no official intelligence as to the course which the negotiations took, or the manner in which they were broken off—a lack of diplomatic courtesy, it may be remarked, at the headquarters of Versailles. But Lord GRAN VILLE, though giving no news, availed himself of the opportunity to express with characteristic dig nity and frankness his sense of satisfaction that the effort at intervention had been made. The English Government, be said, desired to see Germany come out of the war strong in her unity, and would deplore seeing France unnecessarily humiliated or enfeebled. They were absolutely without jealousy respecting the means by which an honourable and permanent peace may be obtained, though they were ready to contribute any amount of labour to attain that object. Lord GItANVILLE, in the course of his speech, made especial reference to the absence of party spirit and the unanimous desire to strengthen the hands of the Government which has been 'mani fested in both Houses of Parliament and throughout the country during this trying crisis. Such feeling, he remarked, was never wanting in this country in times of international difficulty ; and though Lord GRANVILLE could not say so, all who have closely followed the fortunes of the war must be sensible that it is the want of this feeling that constitutes even now the most disastrous difficulty and the most vivid danger of defeated and invaded France. siege of Paris shall be acknowledged, if any argu ments of, his can bring abort such an end. He declares in the Times that it would be the height of injustice to tell the Germans their morality is unchristian, and that they are not worthy of the title of a civilised nation, merely because, after having driven the invader beck across the frontier, they refuse to simply present their bill of blood and march home. What would England have said, be asks, if Germany had preached in such a tone when the Sikhs ha I re crossed the Sutlej, and the Maharajah bad surren dered himself a prisoner to Lord Hardinge ? Professor Muller declines to believe in the plea for merciful dealing set .up by another correspondent of the Times ; who contended that the I)uc de Gramont de. dared war, relying on the truth of the insult alleged through the newspapers to have been offered by the King of Prussia at Ems to Benedetti. The business of statesmen, lie holds, is of too grave a character to be transacted in news papers, and a 'declaration of war, in answer to an article in a periodical, would, according to all laws, remain absolutely cruel and diabolical. The Oxford Professor, with his accustomed succinctness, lays bare a proof that Bismarck's policy since 1860 has been peace, and he declares although long since the measure of national wrath in Prussia was nearly full against France, that statesman held the vial in his strung and steady hand till the ate de Gramont dealt it his wanton blow, and the vial broke. The time has now come when France must plainly yield to the inevitable as the result of all her foolhardiness and presumptions dictation, and she ought to yield to it with dignity, as behoves a great nation. TOPICS OF THE DAY. r rIIEATRI I : IZO - 1 - A , ii A YMAi: KET.—MIt. nrcl.:-;ToNE respectfully inform,: his friends and the public that this Theatre is now Open for the Season. Sneridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS Beim: nightly received with ent:.a siasm, will be repeated until Friday, November v-111. (iii Satur day, the 10th, Mr. Gilbert', L.h, Comedy po,,itively be pro duced. UNCLE'S WILL, a ercat success, also every evening, This evening (Thursday) and during the week, at 7, AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. Mr. Buckstone, Jun., and Miss Fanny Wright. After which, THE RIVAL‘i, "Sir Anthony Absolute," Mr. Chippendale; " Captain Absolute," Mr. Kendal ; " Sir Lucius O'Trigger," Mr. Averil ; "Bob Acres," Mr. Buck stone " Faulkland," Mr. Bowe ; " David," Mr. Rovers ; " Lydia Languish," Miss Robertson ; "Julia," Miss Caroline Hill ; "Lucy," Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. After which UNCLE'S WILL. Miss Robertson and Mr. Kendall. Concluding with MY' HUSBAND'S GHOST. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. OPERA COMIQUE.—Grand Entrance, 299, Strand. Messrs. LESLIE, STEELE, flyid NORTON, Lessees. Triumphant Success of Mdlie. Df&J.:IZET and her great French Compans'. Crowded houses and delighted audiences in this New and Beautiful Theatre. OPER A COM I Q U Male. DI JAZET as a TRAVELLER, To-NIGHT ! DJJAZET as a PROFESSOR, To-NIGHT ! ! 14,111 e. Dg-TAZET as a BPORPSAIAN, To-Niows ! ! I Millie. DAJAZET as a TIALID BOY, To-NIGHT ! ! Wile, DaYAZET as TILE NINRQUIS OF LAUZUN, TO-NIGHT. OPERA COMIQUE.—MDLLE. DEJAZET and. her Great French Company in three new pieces to-night, A AD NIGHT SOON PASSRS, THE MARQUIS OF LAUZUN, A CUP OF TEA. Notice.—At the request of many French and American families, and in accordance with the custom in French and American Theatres, ladies will be allowed to retain their bonnets in the First Circle. Commence at S. PEEP 0' DAY.—Grand Ii i Romantic Drama, written by Edmund Falconer, TIIIB 14VENIIT6 (Friday), NOT. 11.—PEDECES.18 THEATER. PEEP 0' DAY.—The PATTERN FAlR.—lrish Jig and Faction Fight, illnatratod by ROO lam. Women, and Children.--PRINCESS'S THEATIUL pEEP 0' DAY.—The OLD QUARRY, or FOIL DIIITIV.-Bthrtling Sensation Scene, THIS HITRATING (Friday), Nov. 11.—PRISOESe8 i nA DAME T USSAU D'S EXHIBITION, BAILER STREET. On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial ; King William of Frussia, and Count von Bismarck. Admission, is.; Children underlo years of age, 6d. Napoleon Looms 6d. extra. 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An ILLtiBTICATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Oases. Desks, post free. Established 1841 LONDON SCHOOL BOARD, MARYLEBONE DIVISION. TO THE RATEPAYERS OF THE Division. ELECTORS, At the request of Inhabitant Ratepayers of each 01 the four Parishes, 1 submit myself as a Candidate for a seat at the London School Board. I desire that every child in England be educated, and that the education be as complete as may he consistent with the age at which he must enter upon the business of life. I cannot deem any education complete which does not include religious subjects. 1 desire that the Bible be not only read but taught : and am convinced that the Education Act may be loyally and honestly carried out without any violation of the rights of conscience. I can devote to your service abundant leisure ' • and if, in the course of events, I return to parliamentary life, I trust that your interests will not suffer from the opportunity thus afforded of defending the Education Act against unwise attack, while advo cating every reform which experience may hereafter recom mend. I am, yonr obedient Servant, FRANCIS SHARP POWELL 1, Oambriage-square, Hyde Park, 7th November, 1870. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY-LANE—A Domestic Hercules. Amy Robsart. Phobus's Fix. HAYMARKET—An Alarming Sacrifioe. My Husband's Ghost. "Uncle's Will. ADELPHI THEATRE.—Milliners' Holiday. Green Bushes. VAiinzviLLß--Chiselling. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STRAND—On and Off. Living at Ease. The Idle 'Prentice. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—Peep o' Day and Great City. ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. Fernando. Only a Halfpenny. Gl.oßE—Board and Residence. Taming of the Shrew. Marco Spada. The Secret. OLYMPIC—LittIe Emily and (Burlesque) Panl and Virginia. OPERA OOM/QUE -A Bad Night Soon Passes. The Marquis of Lauzun. A Cup of Tea. GAIETY—The Happy Village. Zampa. Trombalcalzar. SADLERS WELLS.—Virginius. Farce. STANDARD —Vicar of Wakefield. Operetta. AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in ale Arena. ST. JAMES'S HALL—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. PormEcmuc—Professor Pepper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening. CREmoßNE—Fireworks, Ballet, &c. NEW SURREY—A Striking Similarity. Link by Link, Nobody's Chill. QuEEN's—Aunt Charlotte's Maid. Midsummer Night's Dream. RoYALTY—Wealth, and Stranger, Stranger than Ever. HOLBORN—Farce. The Odds. PALAIS RoYAl,—Professor Faber's Talking Machine. Siege of Paris. ALHAMBRA—Promenade Concert. MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. ls.; extra rooms, 6d. SCHOOL BOARDS. Mr. John Stuart Mill has been discussing the con stitution of School Boards with the residents of Greenwich. He observes with reason there is some ground for apprehending that the religious question may absorb public attention, and that while persons are contending for denominational or secular instruction, they may lose sight of every other point. One class of individuals he would exclude altogether from School Boards—those who think the poor must not be too much educated. In education, says Mr. Mill, there is no such thing as too much, though, of course, it is desirable to begin with the most useful. Intelligent Americans attribute the low rate of pauperism in their country to the fact that every workman, being educated, can turn his hand to any thing. Mr. Mill holds that it is insufficient to teach a man how to read unless you give him a taste for • reading, and in this respect be thinks the Scotch parochial schools have been especially Successful. He thinks those candidates are to be dis trusted who are anxious to increase the number rather than to improve the quality of schools. He wont, like to see a proportion of women on the School Boards, as there are girls to educate as well as boys, and women have not only more experience, but more practical ability in the teaching of young children. Working men, too, aro indispen sable, if the Board is to be thoroughly efficient and popular. No class is more in earnest about educa tion, or more free from party purposes. In conclusion, Mr. Mill counsels his hearers not to select their representatives too exclusively from the residents in their own districts. The constitution of the School Boards is creating some excitement at present. Mr. Duiley Baxter foresees two possible difficulties which make him refuse to pledge himself in favour of the Bible instruction which Mr. Girdle stone and his supporters require. A rate-supported school may be situated in a Catholic locality and be mainly supported by Catholics, or a Catholic school may be transferred to the School Board. In either case Mr. Baxter does not see how Bible teaching can be insisted on. THE PRESERVATION OF INFANT LIFE. A. deputation 'Waited on Mr. Bruce at the Home Office with the view of ascertaining his views with respect to future legislation for checking the present sacrifice of infant life. Mr. Charley, M.P., introduced the deputation, which represented the association recently formed for promoting a bill which would deal with the secret "putting away" of infants. The suggestion made to the Home Secretary was that: the registration of births should be compulsory, that all places where children are taken to nurse should be registered, that all persons who act as midwives should be licensed, and that an inquest should be held on every child dying when in the hands of a hired nurse. Mr. Bruce thought that the making of stringent laws as to places where where children were brought up would cause many to be put away altogether. He assured the deputa tion that the Government wer3 inquiring into the subject, and if an official measure were not brought in, the association had a right to expect Govern ment support.. Mr. Charley incidentally observed that the children put to baby farms were killed in the proportion of 50 to I killed • by the parents. BAZAINE'S PRECEDENTS Marshal Bazaine, in his proclamation to his army, Consoles them for the catastrophe of Metz by quoting the examples of eminent generals, who had been com pelled to suffer the same fate. One of his officers, who has made it his business to study military history, denies this, and says that in the records of no time or country can he find a parallel case. At the famous capitulation of Ulin, Mack had but 30,000 men, and he had suffered a serious defeat before being shut up in an ill-sup plied place. Vercingetorix at Alise, an ex ample which has to be sought for at a vast interval, was not only beaten before he suf fered himself to be invested, but did •not capitulate till a desperate struggle had shewn him the futility of his efforts. Coming to the French generals, whom Bazaine especially cites,. the comparisons, are not more appropriate. Massena at Genoa : after a valiant struggle, imposed his own conditions on his enemy, and was allowed to cross the French frontier with arms and baggage, and soon after re-com menced hostilities. Kleber was only a simple brigade general at Mayence, under the orders of General oyre", and when the ' garrison capitulated they kept . their arms, and only pledged themselves not to fight against Prussia for a year. In Egypt at a later period, Kleber gave a different answer to the demand for the capitulation of Heliopolis. Gouvion- St.-Cyr, who surrendered at Dresden after the , retreat from -, Russia, only capitulated, after a long resistance, on condition of _returning to France with his troops--•a condition not .fulfilled by the allies. Marshal Bazaine at Metz may, therefore, enjoy the unenviable distinction of furnishing the only instance on record in which so large an army surrendered without first sustaining an irreparable defeat. Is PEACE POSSIBLE Professor Max Muller is determined that the right nd Imour of the German nruiy in persisting in the RUSSIAN SILK. The Russian manufacturers have been urged by the newspapers of St. Petersburg and Moscow to extend the production of silk in Russia. The war has affOrded them an excellent opportunity, as the industrial progress of France and Germany has been checked, and their energies to a great extent. paralysed. here are 180 silk factories in the Rus sian empire. The raw material comes from the Caucasus, and the goods produced are valued at 700,000 roubles yearly. Hitherto these goods have nut been exported, as no more are manu factured than are required for the home supply, but the Russian journals wisely argue that a great extension might be given to the manufacture o silk, as the raw material is plentiful in supply and excellent in quality. It is believed that with energy and perseverance, Russian silk might prove a great success; and eventually compete in a satisfactory manner with the trade of Germany and France. THE AFRICAN DIAMOND FIELDS. The "rush " to the diamond fields in Africa con tinues without any abatement. According to the latest advices from the Cape diamonds of extraor dinary size and value have been discovered, and so great is the excitement produced by the finding of these pr_•cious stores that ere long not a family in the colony will be unrepresented at the fields. The resources of the waggon-makers are severely tested, the builders working night and day in order to meet the preparations of those anxious to improve their fortunes. Portable wooden houses are being constructed for erection at O-i-amanta. Oxen are advancing in prices, and the exodus of the working and producing power from Natal is creating great uneasiness. The ownership of the diamond region is still disputed, the Free State continuing to urge its claims. The President of the Transvaal Republic is reported to be working at the diggings. Several colonial and civil servants ' had, according to the latest advices, obtained a long leave of absence for the purpose of going to the fields. • MISGOVERNMENT IN CASII➢IERE, The people of Cashmere are suffering greatly from misgovernment. To add to their distress, a partial failure in the grain crop has occurred, and the Euro p!,an War has materially affected the trade in shawls, the manufacture of which beautiful and costly articles the staple of Cashmerian industry. Pnris which found so much occupation for the looms of Cashmere no longer cares, were she in a position, to trade in shawls; at least she has no present desire. It is rumoured in Cashmere that the Maharajah, who derives a considerable revenue from the stamp duty 0:1 shawls and from monopolies connected with the culture and treatment of wool, intends to enter the London market as a seller, and do like some other potentates have done—enter into commercial life. • • elm r . . tutu 111 r HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Nov. 8 The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, walked out. Her Majesty drove out in the afternoon, attended by the Marchioness of Ely. Professor Lister, Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen, ar rived at the Castle, returning to Edinburgh the same day. A bonfire was lighted on Craig Gowan in the evening, and a dance took place in the servants' hall, in honour of the engagement of Princess Louise to the Marquis of Lorne. The Queen, Prince Leopold, and Princess Bea trice were present part of the time. Mr. E. J. Reed, C.B. late Chief Constructor of the Navy, has recovered from his late severe attack of illness, but is still at Manchester. THE SCOTCH EDUCATION BILL.—We understand that Mr. Forster, who was at one time expected to draw up the Education Bill for Scotland, is not to do so ; and it is now rumoured that Lord Advocate Young has been requested to draw up the bill. THE LONDON POOR.—Pauperism in the metro polis exhibits a slight decrease as compared with the returns of last year. In the fifth week of October the number of persons in receipt of parochial relief in London was 132,537, and of these 34,628 were in the workhouses, and 97,909 were out-door paupers. The total shews a decrease of 3,645 upon the figures of the corresponding period in 1869. THE NEW VICAR OF BRIGHTON.—The Rev. Dr. Hannah, late Warden of Trinity College, Glenalmond, and Bampton Lecturer at Oxford in the year 1863, has just been appointed by the Bishop of Chi c h es t er Vi car o f Brighton. Besides his Bampton Lectures, Dr. Hannah is the author of a volume of "Discourses on the Fall and its Results." He has also edited, with discriminating learning, several of our old English poets. SLAVERY IN BRAZIL—The committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; having heard of the arrival in this country of the Count d'Eu, heir ap parent to the Emperor of Brazil, presented his Royal highness with an address. This document expressed an ardent desire for the complete abolition of slavery in the great empire of Brazil, and recommended complete, over all partial and imperfect measures of emancipation. The Count has replied, thanking the society for the kindness which dictated the presentation of the address. Twir, ENGLISH FREEMASONS.—At a meeting of the Freemasons of East Lancashire, held in the Free-trade Hall, Manchester, on Wednesday, B ro th er Li eu t enan t- Colonel Le Gendre N. Starkie was installed as Provincial Grand Master. The ceremony of installation was per formed by the Right Hon. Brother the Earl of Carnarvon, Deputy Grand Master of the Freemasons of England. In the evening a banquet was held in the Free-trade Hall, under the presidency of Brother Lieutent-Colonel Le Gendre N. Starkie, P.G.M. NINE HOUSES BURNT ' DOWN AT SUNBURY.— On Wednesday evening, between six and seven o'clock, a fire broke out at Smith's furniture warehouse, High street, Sunbury, near London, which spread rapidly to two shops adjoining and six small tenements, the whole of which werii completely destroyed. The Teddington Brigade and a detachment of the 10th Hussars from Hampton Court Barracks, with their manual engines, were in attendance, but their united efforts were unsuccessful for a long time in coping with the flames. NOTICE.—KINAHAN'S LL. Whisky Depot. Sinahan and Co. have removed to their new and spacious premises, No. 6a, Great Titchfield-street, Oxford-street, leading from Margaret-street, Regent-street, and Market-street, Oxford-street. Kinahan's LL. Whisky. —This famous and most delicious old mellow spirit is the very cream of Irish whiskies, in quality unrivalled, perfectly p u r e , and more wholesome than the finest cognac brandy. Can be obtained all over the kingdom, in the well-known sealed and labelled bottles, or in bond for exportation at the London Docks. Wholesale Agents to Messrs. Bass, Guinness, and Younger, and Dealers in Foreign Wines and Spirits. i s 4 "' " 4 - 4 : 02431 e** 14h., jj g nit ANA , erN • LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1870. THE record of the year 1870 is certainly far from cheering, and as it draws towards its close the pros pect grows darker instead of more encouraging. The faint hope of peace which glimmered across the political horizon a few days since:has passed abso lutely away, leaving us all the more dreary for its passage. Even the habitual festivities which en- liven' the ninth of a London November shared in the general - gloom, and the almost impenetrable fog which enveloped London during half the day would in any case have materially derogated from the brilliancy of Lord Mayor's Day. At the grand eitizthl banquet of the year the Ministers were, as usual, present, and eager listeners hung on their lightest word. It was no longer a'question of an Irish Land Bill or of Church Diseitablishment— METROPOLITAN GOSSIP.-THURSDAY. The uneasiness respecting our relations with the United States has increased since I referred to the matter a few weeks ago. The Times and the Pall Mall Gazette of yes terday contained remarkable articles on the subject, which, and especially the one in the latter paper, are well worth reading. The position is just this. American politicians wish to keep the Alabama sore open, both because it serves them as a good topic in their own political disputes, and because they believe that England will be drawn into the Continental imbroglio before long, and then it would be easy to enforce better terms than can be obtained now. For instance, if, as there is too much reason to believe, the Czar should claim a revision of the Treaty of 1856, the ostentatious affiance between democratic America and despotic Russia, which has so often obtruded itself upon our notice, would bear fruit, and the Washington Cabinet would be found siding with the St. Petersburg diplomatists, and endeavouring to compel us into a cession of British North America. It is well known that we cannot even now defend our American colonies against an invasion by land; though we could avenge it by blockading American ports and driving American commerce from the sea. This weapon would scarcely avail us if we were engaged in a conflict with so important a naval Power as Russia. Therefore it is that General Grant and Mr. Fisk will not consent to a settlement of the Alabama dispute. The best Americans condemn this policy ; but unfor- tunately, on the other side of the Atlantic, the best men are not the most influential, and they them selves, as soon as they get drawn into the vortex of the political whirlpool become almost as antagonistic to England as that famous General General Butler of New Orleans celebrity, who is just now coming to the front again, this time in the capacity of politician. The condition of our army all the world knows is so eminently unsatisfactory that Government will certainly have to amend it, and the subject, as I 'have before said, is now engaging the attention of the Cabinet. It is not so well known that the condition of the navy is by no means what it should be. When distinguished naval officers speak of Mr. Reed's ships as " the coffin Audacious class," it may easily be conceived that expe rienced men are greatly dissatisfied with the present position of affairs. The feeling in the service is that Mr. Childers has taken too much upon himself, and has endeavoured to supersede the Board of Admiralty, though he is without practical knowledge of naval architecture. When it is found necessary to introduce concrete and scrap iron into the bottom of our newest ships in order to give them stability, it is high time that a Royal Commission should be ap pointed to inquire into the whole question of,shipbuilding, with a view to securing both offensive power and security. The rumour that Mr. Reed has endeavoured to return to the Admiralty, is well founded. But with the excep tion of Sir Spencer Robinson, all the Lords of the Admiralty were opposed to receiving the ex-Chief-Con structor back. Sir Spencer and Mr. Reed are great allies, and the latter takes care to repay the debt which he owes to the former, by praising the gallant Admiral in the paper in Macmillan's Magazine which bears Mr. Reed's signature. Nor is Sir Spencer Robinson the only gentleman who has benefited by Mr. Reed's encomiums. His, partner, Sir Joseph Whitworth, and his brother-in law, Mr. Barnaby, receive an " honourable mention," as the judges at flower-shows say. Mr. Reed seems to have forgotten that there •is such a person as Mr. Crossland, though he, no less than Mr. Barnaby, is one of the three superintendents of the Constructive Department. Mr. Reed himself is an instance of what may be done with the pen of a ready writer. Beginning his career as the editor of the Me chanics' Journal, he got introduced to the Admiralty by his relative above-mentioned, and, though without special education for the work, he speedily rose, until he became Chief Constructor of the Navy. It is, therefore, rather amusing to find him sneering at the gentlemen who, with out professional knowledge, are " at their dire work in the columns of the newspapers and els6where." The description given to-day by the clever correspon dent of the Daily News (understood to be Mr. Henry Labouchere, ex.M.E!. for Middlesex), of the condition of Paris and the temper of the Parisians, would seem to imply that the surrender of the French capital is near at hand ; Ido not find that this is the impression among London philo-Gallicans. Even if Paris should give in, they hold that in other parts of France the war will be carried on for ten years before peace is asked. A quarterly reviewer who has for some years re sided in Paris, and who is the author of one of the articles in the current number of the oldest of the quarterlies, assures me that when beaten in .one city the French will flee to another, and that in every part of France they will keep up a harrassing warfare until the Germans are wearied out and exhausted, just as the Spaniards treated the French •in the early part of the century. I con fess to being somewhat sceptical on this point. In the first place the French have not, as the Spaniards had, an English army to help them. In the next place the French have hitherto shewn none of the resistance which my philo-Gallican friend so largely credits them with. Only read the details of the surrender of Dijon in to-day's papers, and you will see what amount of resist ance there is left. Whether there is fighting as there was in the capital of Burgundy, or unconditional surrender as there was in the capital of Lorraine, makes very little difference. Dijon has to yield in the end, as Nancy had at the outset. The post of Queen's messenger is never a sinecure; just now it is full of peril. To-day's Times contains the narra tive of Captain Robbins' narrow escape from being shot for a Prussian spy by Francs-tireurs. His hours were numbered, and no quantity of papers or passports would satisfy his captors that he was otherwise than they held him to be. It was only by the narrowest chance that he was enabled to escape death by flight. Captain Robbins is well known in West-end salons, and I am not altogether surprised that he should have been taken for a Prussian. His persecutors would have been even more ruthlessly bent upon his destruction if they had known that he has for wife a charming German lady. Lord Mayor's Day in London was "a caution," as the Yankees say. If to " Cimmerian darkness " (whatever that is), you add the ninth plague, you will have some idea of our condition at two o'clock yesterday afternoon. Old Londoner as I am, I lost my way in going across Hyde Park, and found myself in Pimlico, when I thought I had been steering for Piccadilly. Recovering my bearings, the thick pall became blacker and blacker, and the darkness more intense as I made across St. James's Park, and almost ran my head against the Horse Guards before I discovered where I was. The procession along the Embankment was thus utterly spoilt, and a spectacle that would have been picturesque on a bright day, became invisible except you were under the noses of the horses. . Almost suddenly the cloud lifted, and by half-past three we found ourselves once more in the grey twilight of a November afternoon, through which the procession made - its way back by the old route, to the immense disgust of all persons whose business com pelled them to fight their waYthrough the crowds of roughs, who every now and then made charges like the German Landwehr, or through the still more formidable infantry composed of squalling babes in the arms of irate mothers. As for the speeches at the banquet, they were remarkably cautious, and Mr. Gladstone, having committed himself pretty deeply in the Edinburgh, atoned by most unusual reticence in the City. If the announcement made in a Dublin paper respecting the Marquis of Lorne should prove correct, we shall see quite a small revolution in the government of Ireland. It is stated that after his marriage with the Princess Louise, the Marquis (who, according to another statement, will be made a duke, and have precedence of all other peers not of the blood royal) will 'be made Viceroy of Ireland. In that case the Irish vice royalty will cease to be a political post, will no longer be subject to the changes and chances of Cabi nets, and the Castle will be a royal as well as a vice-regal court. What will become of the present bearded peer who now holds state at the Castle, after he has given place to his smooth-chinned successor does not yet appear. It is probable enough that he will not greatly regret his return to England, for it is no secret that neither he nor Countess Spencer is parti cularly fond of Dublin society, and they will be fully compensated by, let us say, the substitution of a coronet with two balls for one with five. The last time that a royal person held the viceroyalty was in 1529, when the Duke of Richmond, illegitimate son of Henry VIII., was Lord-Lieutenant. Thirty-five years before that his father, then Duke of York, was viceroy. What has become of Sir Colman O'Loghlen ? He used to be a most indefatigable speaker. Surely the perennial spring of his Irish oratory has not been altogether dried up. There was one subject which he made peculiarly his own, but which he seems to have dropped when he was put into office —the law of libel. The prosecution of Mr. Leng by the Earl of Sefton should quicken the Judge Advocate General into some of his old activity if anything can. Rarely has a harsh law been so strained as the law which makes a journalist criminally responsible for the deeds of another, has been in this case. As on many previous occa sions Lord Chief Justice Cockburn shewed himself strongly in favour of justice to journalists. It is greatly through his aid that they are no longer the pariahs of the law which they once used to be. But there is still great room for improvement in their position, and English journalists should combine to obtain for themselves immunity from a peril which does not exist in the case of their brethren north of the Tweed. I began the last paragraph with a question. I did not know then that I should be able to answer it ; but even while this letter is going through the press I find out where Sir Colman O'Loghlen is. Alas ! he is in the Bankruptcy Court, and, I suppose, he will have to give up his seat, Clare County—which once made itself famous by electing O'Connell—and his post, which, with its salary of £2,000 a year, will be available for some other Irish supporter of. the Government. Among those who have suffered by the war is M r ' Lecky, who, intending to pursue his studies on the Continent, with the view of writing another book, has found it impossible to carry out his inten tion, greatly to the regret of the literary world. Per contra the Quarterlies, like the newspapers , have benefited by the war. The Quarterly went into a second edition immediately, and has now reached a third, no unfrequent event since Mr. Elwyn resigned the editor ship to Dr. W. Smith. The Edinburgh was lagging behind until the Daily News announced that the last article Was written by Mr. Gladstone, and then the rush . for the periodical was so great that a new edi tion had to be issued at once, and Mr. Reeve's aspira tions must now in great part be fulfilled. Of another literary man I .am grieved to give bad tidings. Dr. oeorge Macdonald, who has long suffered greatly from ill health, and whose continued existence is almost a marvel to his friends, is again hors de combat , and is compelled to leave London during this season of atrocious fog and smoke. He will, however, continue to edit Good Words for the Young' Since Dean Afford resigned the editorship of the Contemporary Review that magazine has been conducted by its publisher, Mr. Strahan. The present number contains an article on the war by Mr. William Stigand, author of the article on Baron Hiibner's "Sixtus V.," in the Edinburgh Review. Dr. Macduff, a Well known Scotch clergyman, has retired from the ministry, in order to devote himself to liters" ture, which .he finds much more lucrative. This step has been somewhat severely criticised by his reverend brethren, who think that he ought not to have abandoned a higher calling fo r a lower. Dr. Hannah, who was till lately warden of Glenalmond College, and who is known by his literary works, and not least by his edition of Wotton and Raleigh's poems, has adopted the opposit e course to Dr. Macduff s, and has returned to minis" terial labours by accepting the vicarage of Brighton , vacant by the death of Mr. Wagner. But then it is not every day that a living as valuable as this is available Mr. Wagner died worth £90,000, having held the prefer ment since the days of the Regency, and having owed his promotion to the late Duke of Wellington, who made him tutor to the present Duke. Brighton offers a combi nation of advantages—good society as well as a handsome income. This not always the case with good livings, and I suspect that Dr. Irons almost repents his promotion t 0 a Lincolnshire village, where there are only farmers an d peasants to converse with, and would gladly return to Brompton, with its West-end society, even at a pecuniarY sacrifice. Foremost among the books of the week which ha/ reached me are three : the first a reprint of a book pub lished many years ago, the second and the third the commencement of new works not yet completed. All three writers are notable men, a ll three are statesmen as well as men-of-letters. The first is Lord Lytton, erst Secretary of State for th e Colonies, and whose "Sing Arthur" has just been hand' somely republished in a volume of 443 pages by Captain Charlton Tucker, of Northumberland-street. It contain a new preface in which Lord Lytton gracefully withdraws the sarcastic criticism which he once dealt out to his riva worker on the Arturian Legends, Mr. TennY• son, "Miss Alfred," as his lordship then called him. The second work, for which I 103 indebted to the illustrious author himself, is by Lot. Lytton's not less famous brother. I refer to the Life o 1 Lord Palmerston, by Sir Henry Bulwer, published by Mr. Bentley, a work, far too important for me to dea with in this correspondence. The third is by M. Guizot and is entitled, " The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789, Relate for the Rising Generation." This work, of which two numbers have appeared, is being published in monthl 2s. parts by Messrs. Low and Marston, It Ills been tran lated by Mr. Robert. Black, and each part will contain several illustrations by De Neuville. It is very sad to rea M. Guizot's opening sentence—" Young France inhabits a country long ago civilized and Christianized, where, despite of much imperfection and much social misery. 38 millions of men live in security and - Peace under laws equal for all and efficiently up• held. There is every reason to nourish great hopes of such a country, and to wish for it more and more . o l freedom, glory, and prosperity." As the publishers re mark, "M. Guizot's opening sentences are a little out of time, if not of place, but it should be remembered that he wrote them in those days of peace which must come round again, and which universal hope sees not far off." But as I have said iu an earlier p of this letter, it is those who love France most who believe least in the near approach of peace. The art season promises to be unusually good. The number of exhibitions already open is very large, and it will shortly be increased. Mr. Wallis's French exhibi tion in Pall Mall is always one of the most interesting of the year, and this year proves no exception to the rule. Not only will the visitor have an opportunity of seeing there the works of many eminent foreign artists, but he will also, if he has admission to London art salons, have a chance of meeting some of the most eminent French artists, wh ) have by the war been driven over here to work, and who must have been uttering maledictions upon our climate during the past two or three weeks. Gerome, whose death of Marshal Ney was in the Royal Academy this year ; Fleury, best known by his picture of Charles V., at Saint Just, which was in the London and French International Exhibitions of 1862 and 1867; Daubigny, who exhibited in the Royal Academy this summer ; Saintin, who exhibited last year ; and Perrault, are all here, as well as Yvon, whom I mentioned in a former letter. Per contra, Mr. Jones Barker, the pupil of Horace Vernet, is gone to France to paint one or more battle pieces. Subscribers to the Arundel Society will regret to learn that the plates in' tended for this winter's issue are shut up in Paris. By way of consolation let me announce to them a welcome piece of news. They will shortly have an op portunity of seeing some of the originals of the old masters, as it is intended to have a second Winter exhi• bition of these great painters at Burlington House. This, if it at all approaches last winter's exhibition, will be grand success. A Cambridge correspondent says that at the corporation dinner on Wednesday night, the Rev. Dr. Atkinson (the late Vice-Chancellor) congratulated the university upon the fact that the entries this year were, larger than ever. He alluded to the noble offers made of late. These gifts enabled the university to bring certain studies up to the requirements of the age, and girt impulse had been given in this direction by the munifi cent offer of the Chancellor. Dr. Cookson, the master of St. Peter's, expressed the hope that one of the earliest topics to engage attention would be the purification of the river Cam. THE HOME ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION.—Life assurance, in principle, is an admitted duty of the fathers of families. The only objection to the existing highly respectable societies is that, owing to unforeseen acci dents, impoverished insurers may find it inconvenient to continue the payment of their premiums, and so lose their policies. The " Home Assurance Association. (incorperated under Act of Parliament) anticipates this very reasonable objection to insurance of life on the part of those persons with limited and temporary incomes , 'whose name is legion. 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