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E MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of G ENTLI MIEN'S CLOTHING CONTLNUED: , 1 4 , " ,„; Summer Tourist Summer Dress - Suits. Su its. Trousers. Trousers. 245. 245. 10s. 6d. _ 15s. EVENING EDITION. 2Ss. 28s. 12s. 6d. 16s. 6d. 365. 305. 14s. 188. - 40s. 425. 15s. 6d. 21s. — 455. 48s. 17s. 6d. 245. CONSUMMATE generalship on the one side, 555. 525. 208. 265. wretched generalship, or no generalship at all on Also at Also at Also at Also at the other, bring at this moment into very startling other prices. other prices. other prices. other prices nny. 4 wnrs 4- +Le. ....,e.,..14,. ...f 1-1,... ,-,";1: 4n..., OTT 014,11,1 a of Vs•esssesn ORDERS by post are punctuality, and the eas, measure introduced by E. MOt guarantee a faultless fit. attended to with care and 3y and accurate system of self -ISES and SON enablda them to E MOSES and SON'S PRICE Li, - Tof - BOYS' CLOTHING : Knickerbocker Suits. 9s. 6d. 13s. Ed 16s. 6d, Also at other prices. Eton Brighton 1 Harrow Suits. Suits. I Suits. 15s. 183, 19s. 235. I 235, Also at Also at I Also at other prices. other prices. other prices. MOSES and SON supply every description of • 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. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH, BRADFORD. YORKSHIRE. AUDEVILLE THE ATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs. H. J. Montague. D. James, and T. 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A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can not fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manu facturer, Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. & Singld Truss, 165., 215., 26. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 4_ s., and 525. ed. Postage, is. Bd. Au Um bilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly, PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I Thomas Hankey, Esq. R. W. Crawford, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. The report and balance-sheets of this association for the year 1869, exhibiting in full details the amounts assured, ages of the members, with particulars of the invested fund, may be had on application to the chief office, or to the agents. The annual income from premiums is From interest on investments ........... The invested fund, after payment of all claims, 415 000 The whole of the profits divided among the members. Cash bonuses have already been allotted to the assured, amounting to £lOO,OOO. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. 15, Moorgate-street, June 1, 1870. CONSUMMATE generalship on the one side, wretched generalship, or no generalship at all on the other, bring at this moment into very startling contrast the results of the military systems of France and Germany. Before little more than a week is over after the commencement of the campaign Marshal LEBEUF is dismissed and disgraced, his name becom ing a byeword of opprobrium among the Parisians. Within a few hours Marshal BAZAINE will have to give evidence of his capacity for better things than those accomplished by his predecessor. Mean while the principal leaders and organizers of the great host of the German invaders now already far advanced in the northern province of France, has been affording the world new and signal evidence of the justice of his claim to the high, and amongst living captains, the almost unrivalled reputation he has enjoyed as a military strategist ever since the rapid and daring campaign finished with a crash upon the field of Koniggratz. From the very com mencement of the present war until now it has been sufficiently apparent at every step which of the two great belligerent Powers was prepared, and which was not, for the emergency. In each instance it was the Minister of War who was virtually and actually the Commander-in-Chief. At the head-quarters of the confronting armies there have been all the while, there still are, as nominal commanders-in-chief the two Sovereigns. But upon lIELmuTH MOLTKE in the one instance, and upon ACHILLE BAZAINE in the other, devolves the re sponsibility of directing practically the warlike operations. Between the belligerents as we have said, in point of generalship, no comparison whatever can be fairly instituted. Until now, the French have blundered, nay, more than that, have bungled throughout. With regard to the Germans it has been exactly the reverse. - There has not been, from first to last, one perceptible flaw in the whole of their arrangements. Swarming towards the southern frontier from so many different parts of the North German Confederation, they have been gathered together and have been since then handled in huge masses with the precision of machi nery. And in the Royal Princes the great guiding and directing intellect of MOLTKE has found the genius, the daring, and the dash, most desirable in co-operation, to the right hand and to the left, here in the advance southwards parallel with the eastern frontier line of Luxembourg, but more especially in the advance with a rush beyond the southern borders of the Palatinate of Rhenish Bavaria. At Saar briick Prince FREDERICK CHARLES, the CROWN PRINCE at Worth or, as the French, for some occult reason of their own, prefer to call it Reichschofen, just as they always prefer to call Waterloo Mont St. Jean—have proved themselves worthy hitherto of a military chief who as a warlike genius has no other rival, among living men, than the famous Commander-in-Chief of the army of the American Confederates. It is with this immense advantage arising from the prestige thus acquired, to the right hand and to the left, by his attendant Princes, that General MOLTKE is now going to deliver battle against the Imperial forces of France when those forces have been gathered together, and are standing in a manner at bay in front (f Metz, marshalled by the baton of ACHILLE BAZAINE under the eyes of the Emperor NAPOLEON. Upon the issue of the momentous battle now impending rests the future of the Imperial dynasty. The position of the EMPEROR is desperate. It is an alterna tive for him of utter ruin, or of possible extrication from that dilemma by rolling back the enormous forces of Germany from the banks of the Moselle, across the Sarre, Rhinewards. ... £64,000 ~. 19,000 NATIONAL INSTITUTION for DISEASES of the SKIN, Gray's-inn-road and Mitre-strhysi cian, Dr. BARR MEADOWS, 49, a d ea Piccadill eet. P y. Ave rage number of Patients under treatment, 1,000 weekly. Free letters are available for necessitous applicants. THOMAS ROBINSON, Hon. Sec. EXACTLY twenty years ago the first sod of the first Indian railway was cut. At that time it was intended to construct only two small experimental lines—one of 120 miles in Bengal, one of 30 miles in Bombay. At the present time there are 4,628 miles of railway open, and they form the favourite stock for British investors in search of au investment that shall be almost absolutely safe, and which shall yet offer a somewhat better rate of interest than the sweetly simple Three per Cents. How popular this class of securities is in this country, is shewn by the fact that of the 48,793 holders of Indian railway shares on December 31st, 1869, 47,985 were resident in England. It is to be wishel that the proportion was not so large. It is to be wished that the 394 native holders were ten times as numerous. The more we can interest the natives of India in the public works of that country, the better our guarantee for their good conduct. We want to do better than make them obedient. We wish to make them thoroughly loyal, and personally interested in the maintenance of our rule. In India more even than in many other countries, railway shareholders have reason to support the Government. The lines are, for the most part, constructed by private com panies; but this has been done under an arrange ment whereby the Government promises to make up the interest to five per cent. where the receipts do not yield that return upon the capital. At the present time the average earnings are considerably below that amount, and are scarcely 3f per cent. Therefore the stability of the Government is a very important con sideration to the nearly sixty thousand shareholders HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT, Golden-square, W. President—the Right lion. the Earl of STRAFFORD, I.R.S. This Hospital has relieved up war d s o f 24 , 000 p a tients since its foundation, and is in great NEED of FUNDS to meet the heavy current expenses. EDMUND WYLD, Secretary. WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith, W.—FUNDS are urgently needed, and the Committee earnestly appeal to the benevolent to assist them in carrying on heir useful work. T. ALEXANDER, Sec. and Sup. SSAVIOUR'S HOSPITAL and REFUGE . Alfred-terrace, Upper Holloway, N.—Thi s Institutio n affords a Refuge for Women seeking to abandon a life of sin, especially those about to become mothers, and provides a Home for the Children of such. FUNDS are very urgently NEEDED. Bankers, ndon and South Western (Holloway Branch). HUGH R. GOUGU, Hon. Sec. THE LATES I EDITION of "THE SUN" supplied as soon as published, containing all the LATEST NEWS t.nd SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H W. HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Bittekfriars-road London. 10 MOSES and SON, E. CORNER of ALLNTORLES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER of HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. BRIthFORD, YORKSHIRE. E MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of GENTLE: Also at other prices EN'S CLOTHING. Dees ; Oxford Cytti. Coats. 309. 213 355. 265 , 425. 30s. 50s. 365. Also at Also at other prices. other prices EMOSES and SON beg to remind t • that the cheapness of an article depends em quality, and they venture to affirm that every artiole is , _tonsiderably cheaper than what can be obtained ho ise in England. Camb. Coats. Also at other prices ;he public tirely on its sold. by them at any other NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, nclud ng brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, :3, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. NEW PATENT ULASTIC STOCKINGS, I , J KNEE-CA.P3, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the L( gs, Sprains, itc. They are porous, light in texture. and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking Price 4s 6d., 7s. Gd., 10s., and 16s. each Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE Manufacturer, 229, Piccadilly THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1870. THE WAR.—TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. All im portant events telegraphed DAILY, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., to Newspapers, Clubs, Exchanges, and Reading Rooms, for THIRTY-NINE SHILLINGS per QUARTER prepaid. Two or more telegrams sent every day. - Commercial News and Markets on moderate terms. CENIRAL PRESS, 112, Strand, W.C., and 2, Telegraph-street, E.C, OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. PRINCE OF WALES'S—A 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. QI , EEN'S—At Seven, 5.1 y Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown. VAVDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos. CHRISTY 3.INSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wee nesiays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily except Sun days). Admission, ls. on litondaya, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. MADAME TIISSAIJD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3 0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ....... .30 after 4 I Afternoon ........47 after 4 and debenture holders. Any event which menaced the Government would most seriously affect the market value of this class of securities. The total cost of the Indian railways actually open has been about £79,000,000, which gives £17,000 a mile. The amount will probably seem high, when it is remembered that the most costly item in the accounts of English railways —the purchase of land—is a very small item in India• Moreover, it will be urged, labour in India is much cheaper than labour in England. But it must be borne in mind that if Indian labour costs little, it is of comparatively little value. Rice-fed Hindpos have not the pith and vigour of the British navvy ; and as a matter of fact, a large portion of the railway works has been accomplished by labourers imported from England, and who have had to be paid higher wages than they get at home. Another serious addition to the cost has arisen through the necessity of prepar ing in England and shipping from thence the more important constructive works such as iron bridges. The width and the shifting beds of the Indian rivers have rendered it necessary that these bridges should be of extraordinary length. One now con structing for the Madras Railway consists of fif ty eight girder openings of seventy feet each. On some of the lines heavy engineering works have been necessitated by the nature of the country. Every line starting from the west coast south of Kurrachee, has to surmount the Ghats—the mountain barrier which runs parallel with the coast from Baroda to Cape Coin orin. One great advantage Indian .railways have over British : the first have been constructed from the beginning, according to a pre de: ermined plan. There has been no battle of rival companies in Parliamentary Committee-rooms ruinous to all but the lawyers and the surveyors. Certain prominent positions had to be brought into communication with each other, and that has been effected without opposition from landlords bent upon being bought off at a heavy price. The happy consequence is that although the number of railway passengers is absurdly small, as compared with this country —it is but about sixteen millions a-year—the companies can afford to give a moderate tariff of fares. The journey from Calcutta to Bombay, which can now be made direct in seventy-two hours, and which is nearly 1,500 miles in length, costs but £l4 first-class, £7 second class, and £2 13s. third-class. That is, first class passengers are charged a little over twopence a mile, second-class passengers a little over a penny, and third-class passengers considerably miler a half penny. We have mentioned the low figures of the passen ger traffic. This is due partly to the tact that the Indian native population, which must of course form the larger proportion of passengers, is for the most part stationary. Where agriculture and not manu factures is the chief employment, there is little locomotion. That the natives do, however, appre ciate the railways is she*n by the fact that out of the 16 million passengers all but about a quarter of a million travelled by third class. The railways have in fact proved wonderful civilisers, and have done more to break down the laws of caste than all the direct efforts which we have used for that purpose. This desirable change will be greatly accelerated when the main lines are fed by the small branches running off on either side. Anglo-Indian travellers are interested still more in the completion of the main lines. It is a fine thing to be able to make an unbroken journey from Bom bay to Calcutta, and from Calcutta to Lahore. But what is wanted, both for military and for social pur poses, is the completion of the Punjab line, and of the line to Peshawur, the one connecting the Pun jab capital with Kurrachee, the other with the northernmost frontier of British India. Unfortu nately, the Indian government, instead of hastening the completion of these lines, is spreading the works over a long series of years. Except the abandon ment of these lines, no greater mistake could be made. The Scinde line, for in stance, is at present a heavy drain upon the Indian treasury simply because it leads nowhere. When it is connected with Moultan and Lahore it will no doubt be as profitable as the great completed lines. Unhappily the Government has resolved to spend twenty years on this work, thus postponing for that period the time when the money expended will be yielding a proper rate of interest, besides depriving India of the commercial and the military advantages which would result from the speedy completion of the great scheme of railway communica tion. There has been too much of this false economy in England, where the new Palace of Justice has been kept unbuilt, and the telegraphic service has been starved, in order that Mr. LOWE may make a better appearance with his budget. These postponements, however, involve only inconvenience, and an uncertain pecuniary loss to the public. In India postponement may lead to a great military disaster. TOPICS OF THE DAY. mons, he has addressed a letter to the Daily News on the subject. Sir Henry states that nothing was further from his thoughts than the idea of engaging the English Government to interfere by force of arms in favour of France, or of the Emperor of the French against his German antagonists, whose cause he be lieves to be a just one. What he wished to express was, that if a fitting opportunity should occur, the Government would endeavour to bring about a peace, before France, a nation with which England has been for many years in intimate and friendly alli ance, was too severely humiliated. While acknow ledging the friendly conduct of the Emperor to this country, the distinguished diplomatist condemns "the unscrupulous levity with which he rushed into the conflict in which he is now risking his dynasty and his life." seem to be woefully commingled together, and thinkers on the subject must see that any straight line of political sailing is becoming out of the ques tion, on the Irish side of the channel. We do not recollect all the elements of Captain Harman's speech at Longford, and therefore cannot say what particular popular fancy he failed to gratify on the hustings, but evidently he gained experience there, for in his speech to the Dublin electors he has expressed himself in favour of every possible reform movement that has been agitated for by so-called Conservatives and Liberals in his country for the last two years. He would vote for the Ballot. He had the same views upon the subject of the Permissive Bill as his antagonist. On the subject of Education he would side with those in favour of the denominational system ; he would give all parties a dole of money and let them educate their people as they liked. He would vote for the immediate and unconditional release of the Fenian prisoners. He believed that if Ireland had a Parliament in College-green, where Irishmen could manage their own affairs, there would no longer be disaffection, and the country would become free, rich, and prosperous. Lastly, he would inform the electors that he came for ward neither as a Whig nor a Tory. He was of no poli tical opinion whatever. He came before them as an Irish man oimply. Ireland alone was his motto—the shamrock, the green, immortal shamrock; with the green and the orange united they would win their glorious- freedom. What resident of Dublin with a vote can fail to be satisfied with this programme ? THE EMPIRE AND-AFTER ? • There is some reason to think that the news from Paris, bad as it has lately been, has been toned down by the writers from a suspicion that letters are opened. But at any rate it is agreed on all hands that one more battle will "do for" the Empire. The Spectator says it is well understood that the majority, led by M. Buffet, will in the event of a new disaster, declare the Empire at an end, and General Trochu ad interim Dictator of France, reserving ultimate power to the Corps Le"gislatif, which will thus be a Convention. When France gets through her diffi culties, and a permanent form of Government has to be chosen, the Spectator thinks the old majority will try to restore the Orleans family. These princes are now established at Br usselA .ready:. to_ ant when the moment comes. It will, howeVer, be no easy matter even for General Trochu to set up an Orleanist kingdom. The Left will demand a Republic, and though the Left is small it has all Paris at its back. It is not at all unlikely that the capital will be embroiled in civil war, and the Germans will be left to do as they please, the whole country being before them. GERMAN SUCCESSES. The Spectator says that Germany stands at the head of the world. The Germans have been only eight days in France and already a third of her army I.as been scattered. In all probability, before another week has elapsed, the "Napoleonic Empire, born in a military massacre, will have perished in a military rout, and Europe will be face to face with the well known figure, so fascinating and so terrible, of France risen in Revolution." The Imperial system has borne its fruits : the staff was con trolled by a mere favourite, whom no marshal would obey, and the Entendance so utterly broke clown that whole divisions were left for twenty-four hours without bread, and a fear that the men might starve delayed for a time the massing of the troops. The Spectator thinks that the situation of the Em peror is almost hopeless. He is Cmsar, not king; he must have victory, or be dethroned. The Emperor must fight where he is ; Metz and the Empire must fall together. It fears that tlie fall of Metz will make the German triumph so dangerously complete that un less King William misuses advantages the war will be at an end, and Germany for a generation the arbiter of the world. SIR HENRY B ULWER ON THE WAR. Some misconception having arisen with regard to the remarks made by Sir Henry Bulwer on the oc casion of a recent discussion in the House of Com- THE WAR AND THE ➢MONEY MARKET. The Economist, in discussing the position of the money market, objects to the reduction of the bank rate. It believes that it will do no harm and that next week there may even be another reduction, but a delay would have been preferable. Every day brings startling news. Within a week we may fairly expect to know whether the French or the Germans will win the great battle before Met; whether or no there will be a revolution in Paris, whether the empire will survive the crisis or not. The issue of such grave events must certainly affect our money market, and may turn back the tide of money now coming here. Such a result is unlikely; but the case is not without precedent, and what the Economist calls "the attractive efficacy of 0 per cent." would have availed to keep the money here. As for the suspension of specie payments in France, the Economist thinks it is not likely to hurt us. There is only the Bank of France to consider, as the private banks which formerly issued notes are all either merged in it, or perished. Incidentally, the suspension will tend to lessen the strain on the English market, as the Bank of France will no longer compete with the Bank of England for the metals. Money is, at present, plentiful in Lombard street; and, though some persons are too sanguins with respect to foreign affairs, not taking into account the remaining possibilities, our financial contemporary is of opinion that the whole horizon is " singularly cheerful" as compared with what it was a week or two ago. THE VOLUNTEERS. One effect of the war between France and Prussia has been to draw public attention in Eng land to a subject which has especial attractions for the nation at large. The birth of our volun teer army dates from a time when England was in fear that an attempt would be made to invade her shores, and it was prophesied that with the cessa tion of these fears the movement would fade away. In this case, as in others, the prophets failed in their predictions, and the volunteer force still re mains as popular as ever. It is acknowledged on all hands, however, that the Government authorities have done very little to promote the success of the movement, and for some time suspicions were not wanting that the cause was to be attributed to jealousy, if not to actual dislike. Of late matters have improved in this direction, and some assistance has been rendered by a Parliamentary grant. But the great majority of the volunteers are still dissatisfied, not only with the amount granted to those members of corps who have proved themselves efficient, but with the organisation of the force itself; and especially loud have been the complaints as to the officers. In too many cases they* have been selected less with a view to their know ledge of military duties than to social position and wealth; and it is feared, and justly so, that in an emergency the volunteers would fail to realise the expectations of the country. In a letter to the chair man of a volunteer officers' meeting, lately held in the metropolis, Lord Elcho, who has been one of the most consistent supporters of the movement, called special attention to some of these points. Bearing in mind the impatience of the critics, he advises the volunteers to refrain from making further appeals to the War Office, but to rely on themselves till the question is dealt with by the nation and by Parlia ment when it reassembles. One thing Lord Elcho says ought to be insisted upon, as an immediate condi'ion of continued service—that they should be armed with breech-loaders. As there are 300,000 of these in store, there is certainly no reason why they should not be at once served out for practice. THE ARMY IN INDIA. We learn, with much painful regret, that the health of our troops stationed in India was so deplorable last year that the mortality almost equalled that of the Punjab cholera year -1801, after which a thorough and lasting reaction for the better was supposed to have set in. Sun stroke and fever, as well as cholera, visited the soldiers in 1809 to a most alarming degree in all portions of India, outside Madras and Bombay, and the wives and children of the troops were scarcely less exempt from sickness than the men, although the latter were obliged to be more exposed to the action of the weather. Dr. Bryden says the death rate proves that one person in every ten has been cut off from among the military population. The only apparent remedy for stopping the extension of disease, he believes, will consist in the erection of new barracks at all the stations. Unfortunately, however, the desire of economy has caused a cry to be raised against the construction of such institutions. In one instance at Barrackpore, a new building has after indefatigable perseverance been reared, and the improved health of the gunners and their wives who have been moved there ought to stimulate the efforts to have other comfortable structures of the kind placed at any cost elsewhere. At Barrackpore it is said the bombardiers are lodged in much better houses than the officers in Bengal. THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE BILL. The Solicitors' Journal, regretting the fall of the High Court of Justice Bill, hopes that proper precautions will be taken against any break down next year. This session the bill broke down chiefly because Parliament, especially the House of Lords, was unwilling to delegate to any outside body the power of forming a code of procedure. But there is now no reason why the code should not be framed during the recess, and submitted to Parliament along with the Bill, instead of laying before the Houses the mere outline of a measure for uniting law and equity, without any code of precedure. "The code of pro cedure ought, in outline at least, to be prepared at once, . not only because Parliament is hardly likely to pass the measure at all till it is done, but also because it must be done sometime before the act can come into operation ; if not don') be'ore the bill passes it must be done after; and, therefore, if the Government do not set about the preparation of the new system of procedure at once, they will be deliberately wasting a year, deli berately postponing the reform of our courts without any necessity." The Solicitors' Journal likewise recommends that the work be entrusted to fit hands. No use to employ the Treasury draftsmen upon this business. Could not the two Judges of Appeal, Mellish and James, be induced, with proper help, to undertake the important task P AN IRISH ELECTION SPEECH. It is questionable if plain going Anglo-Saxons often take the trouble of reading over the reports of the speeches of Irish candidates for Parliament, but any who do cannot fail to be struck with the want of principle and want of thoroughness, as it were, in the politi cal sentiments of the men who ask for the support of the supposed party-minded electors. Irish affairs themselves, indeed, D UNV I LLE aid Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ommended by the medical profession in preference to French brand . Sup- plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Royal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfast ; or at thei London Offices, 4, Beaufort Buildings Strand. W.O. TArt . (tart &adv. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, AUG. 13. The Queen, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Churchill ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with Princess Louise and Prince Arthur. Prince Leopold drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Mr. Duckworth. AUG. 14. The Queen and Princess Louise drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Churchill. Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge was in attendance upon horseback, Prince Arthur, honoured Lord Alfred Paget by sailing with him in his yacht yesterday. The Queen and their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service at Osborne this morning. The Rev. George•Prothero officiated. Lieut.-General Viscount Templetown, K. C. 8., and Ad miral Sir James Hope, K.C,8., arrived at Osborne yes terday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. INCREASE OF LUNACY. The rapid increase in the number of lunatics in England and Wales during the last ten years is sufficiently alarming to merit attention, for on the Ist of January, 1869, the number of persons who were afflicted with mental disease, of whom there was official knowledge, was 36,762 ; but on the Ist of January, 1869, these figures had swelled to the enormous total of 53,177. We have, thus, an increase of over 16,000 in ten years; but even this is not the whole truth, since, in the same period, the lunatics detained in poor-houses had increased from 7,963 to 11,181. These are startling facts. Not withstanding the more humane system of treatment inaugurated within the last twenty years, the pro portion of recoveries has not been increased, and psychologists try in vain to overcome a disease which seems to spread with the rise of civilisation. What ever the cause, whether it be induced by the high pressure of the time, or by physical means, the subject is one that cannot fail to engage the atten tion of all who are interested in the welfare of humanity. A TUNNEL UNDER THE BOSPHORUS. The enterprising engineers of the age are not yet inclined to suspend their labours, and the last scheme on foot is a tunnel under the Bosphorus. We find an account of this in the current number of the Engineer according to Mr. Haddon's design. There is an enormous traffic between the two sides of the Bosphorus and the delay caused by the opening and shutting of the bridges of boats which form the only , means of communication is verytroublesome. A- tram way company is now constructing its lines on both sides, but little real profit is expected until the lines can be connected. Hitherto this has been impossible as the existing bridges are scarcely large enough for the ordinary passengers, to say nothing of the constant interruption. Tunnelling by the ordinary method is not to be thought of, as the water is extremely deep, with 20 or 30 feet of mud at the bottom. Engineers of the 19th century, however, are not to 'be lightly baffled, and Mr. riaddon, chief engineer to Turkish Government, has suggested • a means of solving the problem. He proposes to suspend or float a tunnel at about 35ft below the surface of the water, allowing uninterrupted passage to vessels of the largest tonnage. The Golden Horn has no tide. The tunnel is to be a wrought iron tube about 10ft. in diameter and 1,200 ft long. The gradient at each end, would be 1 in 50. It would weigh about 600 tons ; maximum weight of any train 400 tons; con crete and lining, to overcome the buoyancy of the tube 1,700 tons ; water displacement, 2,700 tons. Holding down chains of great strength will neu tralise the upward strain when the train is not passing. It is proposed to name this latest triumph of modern engineering invention after Daoud Pasha. THE HEAT IN NEW YORK. While Europe is watching the advance of hostile armies, America is trying to defend herself against an intangible foe, one who is generally' ooked upon as man's best friend. The intense heat of which complaints have been made at intervals all through the summer, seemed to reach its maximum during the last weeks of July, and the sunshine grew as fatal as an epidemic. Ninety-one deaths in a week from sunstroke are sufficient to account for the opening of a sunstroke hospital in New York, where two house surgeons are kept actively at work. Another•very sensible idea, which proves, however, the frequency and danger of the attacks, is that now adopted of having horse ambulances in the public streets, which at once convey the stricken to their homes or to_the hospital. Since these means have been adopted fully two-thirds of those attacked by sunstroke recover, but the mortality of the cityduring the week ending July 24th was 341 in excess of the estimate, the increase being attributed by the regis trar to the excessive heat. When the hot weather began the deaths it occasioned were those of old men and young children ; but lately the young and middle-aged have been affected. Curiously enough, one of the victims has been a negro woman, the sur geon who attended her observing that he had never known one of her race succumb to the effects of heat before. When we find, however, that during this last "heated term" the temperature in New York city has ranged from 90 to 98 degrees in the shade, while at St. Louis it was 104 and in Illinois 106, we need not wonder that white and black alike find the sunshine a little too strong for them. One hundred and twenty-nine degrees is exhausting even for American energy or African endurance. The intense heat extends it is is said over a given space both in the 'old and new worlds while strangely enough in mid-ocean the Cambria and Dauntless have en countered rains and foggy weather. MEN • DRESSMAKERS. Those who pity the hardships and sufferings of dressmakers' assistants may not be aware that there are half-a-dozen dressmaking eAablishments in the city of New York where the work is chiefly per formed by men. In the second story of an establish ment in Broadway may be seen a quantity of big bushy-headed Hungarians, A ustrians, and Poles, sewing with great rapidity on fabrics of many hues and textures. These men work by the piece, and earn from twenty-two dollars to thirty-two dollars a week; they have served an apprenticeship in their native countries, where the use of men as dress makers is very common. The apprenticeship begins from the age of nine to thirteen. None of the men appreciate their trade sufficiently to teach it to their sons, but many of them have daughters who are more learned in the art of dressmaking . than many of the American sempstresses, tho Ugh they are not equal in skill to the'.r fathers. The Customs' officials at Liverpool, Queenstown, and Falmouth have been instructed to place in quarantine all vessels arriving from the Black Sea and the Darda- nelles, in consequence of the prevalence of cholera. TIIE VOLUNTEER FORCE. A letter addressed by Lord Elcho to the chairman f the metropolitan volunteer officers' meeting on Thursday has been published. His lordship after expressing his dissatisfaction with the proposal of Mr. Cardwell on the subject of the increase of the capitation grant, says :—" The question now is, what ought the volunteers to do in the present Eurppean crisis ? To me our course is plain. Make no further appeals to the War Office for increased aid. Let that question be dealt with, as I am confident it will be, liberally by the nation and by Parliament when it reassembles ; but let us meantime do our duty to our country. Let us strive by all possible means to increase our efficiency and add to our numbers by appealing to those who have left us to return to our ranks, and by holding up to those who have hitherto held aloof from us the examples of foreign patriotic fervour and love of country of which every post brings such marvellous examples. One thing, however (his lordship adds), there is on which we should insist as an immediate condition of continued service, and that is that we shall at once be armed with breech loaders. We are told that there are upwards of 300,000 in store. We say their proper place is in the hands of the reserve force, and that every militiaman and efficient volunteer should without an hour's delay be placed in possession of a Snider rifle. Then, if a further supply is required for store, let our muzzle loaders when returned be forthwith converted." Mr. Sothern is to appear this week at Brighton in a new comedy, entitled "A 3d. bit." Mr, Compton, released from the Haymarket, will fill a character in Mr. Tom Taylor's new comedy to be brought out at the Olympic on the 3rd September. The death is announced of Joseph Strauss, the un fortunate chef d'orchestre, who was so brutally assaulted by half intoxicated savages belonging to the Russian army a short time since. • It is generally expected that Lieutenant-General the Hon. James Lindsay will return home from Canada and resume his duties at the War Office at the close of the year. Colonel Layard, who accompanied his Highness the Nawab Nazim of Bengal to this country, will return India in October, to fill the office of Agent Governor- General at Moorshedabad in place of Mr. Buckle. The statement which has appeared in most of our contemporaries, that Mr. John Stuart Mill is about to publish a new and cheap edition of his " Logic," is incor rect.—South London Press. Nothing has yet been settled as to the way in which the regiments at home will be augmented, but the Brood Arrow has reason to believe, however, that the augmentation will not at present extend to cavalry. Some fishing boats brought ashore at Glasgow last week, from off Tyree, a large quantity of what ap peared to be the cabin fittings of a large vessel ; also a lalder and a door, the frame of which was of the finest mahogany. Mr. Robert LandelLs, whose sketches of the Crimean, Danish, and Austro-Prussian wars are familiar to the readers of the Illustrated News, now represents that journal at the Prussian head-quarters. A party of about twelve men proceeded on Thurs day to the house of Captain Houston, near Westport, county Mayo, and searched for arms. They found a gun, which they took with them, They used violent threats. This is the only agrarian outrage in Ireland reported for three months. 11IE _BM Frt ESS OF THE PEENCE.—Letters ironl Paris from persons about the Empress describe her Ma jesty as painfully changed and worn. She has scarcely slept for two hours at a time, but is unremitting in her attention to public affairs. Her attendants have the strictest orders to wake her on the receipt of every telegram.—Post. THE ARTILLERY VOLD NTEERS. —The Artillery Volunteers encamped at Shoeburyness commence their annual competitions to-day. An interesting week mar be expected, and the principal events will probably attract large and distinguished companies of visitors. THE WAR.—We understand that a pamphlet from the pen of an eminent writer, and expressing more than his individual opinions, will presently be published in England, in which, in the event of the final victory of the Germans, the ce3sion of Alsace by France to Prussia will be advocated as the basis of a Treaty of Peace.—Daily News. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—WO aro informed that the Royal Horticultural Society will hold It great show of Gladioli, Hollyocks, &c., on Wednesday text, August 17th, and prizes amounting to about £BO will be comp .ted for—amongst the names of the exhibitors who have signified their intention of competing are Messrs. Kelway and Son (Somerset), Mr. W. Chater (Essex), Messrs. Draycott and Sons (Leicester), Mr. W. Micti in (Oxford), Rev. H. H. Dombrain (Kent.) Rol Mint AT TIVICKENHAM.—On Saturday morn ing, at an early hour, a robbery was found to have been committed at the station of the London and South- Western Railway at Twickenham. The thieves succeeded in carrying off the donation box for receiving subscrip tions for the Richmond Infirmary, with its contents. The box was strongly affixed to some woodwork in the booking office, and the mai, with some portion of the back 01 the box, which was made of metal, were left be hind. It is not known what amount of m( ney was in the box, but there is no doubt it consisted cl iefly of coppers. So frequent have robberies been at Twickenham recently that the train which leaves that station at 5.40 a.m. is called the " Burglars Train." ROBBERY ON A FATHER. —A young Spaniard, 20 years of age, named Antonio B. Agacio, was arrested on Vriday, at Lytham, on a charge of robbing his own father of a sum of £2,300. He absconded in May last with a young woman, whom he subsequently married, and has been since chased by detectives through Fr —lce and Spain, back to England, from London to Wi , • ere, to Preston, and finally to Lytham, where he was • otured. When seized he struggled violently to get hold of two loaded revolvers, which his wife was going to hand to him. £2,000 was found in his possession. He was brought up on Saturday before the Liverpool magistrates, but the father refused to make any further charge than saying tint his son did not deny his guilt, and had given no ex plv.nation. A TRADE UNION OUTRAGE.—In the Crown Court, at Leeds, on Saturday, Thomas Shaw, a collier, was charged with having committed a murderou s assau lt on Willam Taylor. On the morning of the 28th of June the prosecutor was met at a place called Parkin Wood, near Ecclesfield, by five men, including the prisoner, who came up to him and said, " You work at the Folly Colliery ?" and, without waiting for a reply, the, prosecutor being in the act of explaining that such was not the case, knocked him down into a ditch, and while there kicked him savagely about the body and head. The other men came up and joined in the attack, some of them throwing stones at the prosecutor, whom they called a "black sheep." He identified the prisoner positively. Another man, who had been apprehended, was discharged by the magistrate. Thejury found the prisoner guilty, and Mr. Justice Brett sentenced him to seven years' penal servitude. There was a large number of colliers in the gallery, and the sentence appe are d t o s t r ik e th em w ith surprise. THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.—A. telegram from Mets states that the Prince Imperial is still at headquarters. This is very natural. No such danger menaces him that parental anxiety need yet send him back to Paris. Our evening contemporaries still, however, maintain that he is in London. This story is very silly, and quite unworthy of the papers who put it forward. They can easily verify the fact, and they should in common decency abstain— in the presence of the heroic attitude of the French ' army and Emperor—from publishing false news which would attribute cow ar di ce t o a f am il y that, in the per son of the Emperor, has often shown a courage only equalled by that of his Consort. The Empress boldly risked contagion when she nursed the cholera patients at Amiens and in the Paris hospitals, and both mother and father would sacrifice the Child of France than send him to a foreign shore, when the traditions of his name, and the act of every ploughboy, point to the example required of the Heir of the Empire.—Morning Post. HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Prostration of Strength.—When from unknown or undiscovered causes the system is weak, and the nerves unstrung, disease is certain to pre sent itself, unless some purifying and strengthening means be resorted to. To avert the threatening mischief in such cases no treatment can equal these excellent Pills. 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