The Sun. — London, England, 1870-12-13 00:00:00

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CouNTRV BRANCA,. • RAD.IIOII,III, YORKSIIME. f I) ATIM ItOYAL 1)11,1. Y-I.AX ryeasee and Menem, MT, it, a elhaTalITON.•-Thts rheatre having been re-decorated under the direction of Mr. 1. Phipps, F_S.A, is now Open for the A trrum N o n MATIC SEASON, THIS EV - ENINO, Dee. 13. Doors open atihaif-past Six, commence at seven o'clock, and terminate at halt-past Eleven. Prices to the publio parts of the Theatre - 'from *ixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four Guineas. Dox-oflice open from Ten till Five daily. A MY ROBSART.—Miss VICTORIA VOLES. In consequence of this lady's great success in the above character on the (menden of Wednesday evening, Nov. 9th, and an Wednesday radii - dug; Nov. 23rd; Mr. Chatterton begs to announce that Miss Yokes will REPEAT the IMPERSONA-, TION on, WEDNE.4DAY, Dec. 14, on the occasion of the DENEFIT FOIL THE SUFFERERS OF TINS. "THE APTAIN.' • Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. ISS NEILSON will appear in• the character of AMY ROBSART, in the Drama of that name, T SiEVENING, Dec. 13.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LAKE. "'AIR.' T. C. lirNG will appear in the character of VI VARNEY, hi the new Drama , eutttle4 AMY ROBSART, TIII3- EVENING, Dec. 13.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. DOBUS'S FIX, in which the celebra t ed 11 YOKES FAlkilLY will appear at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING}, Dee.I.3.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LAN.E. AMY ROBSART; a new Ilistorical Romantic Drama, written by Andrew Halliday ; founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated novel " Kenilworth," with new and -haracteristic scenery by William Beverly, at a Quarter to Eight o' clock THIS EVENING, Dec. 13—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. A MY ROBSART ; new drama: Characters by Inss N EILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Yokes, Kemp, I. Mortln, and Itosina Voices, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock 'MN EVENL.Nf, Deo. 13.—TILEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. A" ROBSART; New Drama, cbtxractere by Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavaree, J. B. Howard, Drittain Wriveht, Y. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawden, 'Yokes, F. ` Bt forth 11. Naylor, and Fred. Vokes, THIS EVEN ING, Doe. 13.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSART; Nov 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 i:tack. The whole produced under the direction of Mr. Edward Air ling at a Quarter to Eight THIS EVENING, Deo. 13. fIfEATILE ROYAL, DRURY:LANE. DOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by Aittartin Becher, a tjEleven o'clock THIS EVENING , Dec. 13. —THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LAND. A J)ELPHI THEATRE ROYAL.—SoIo Pro x_ • priotor, Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER ; Managers, Mr. B. *ETISTAII and Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.—TAIS EVENING, at 7, THE GRE.EN BUSILI43, OR ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Miami, Madame Celeste, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Mr. liillington, Mr. Ashler, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. C. H. Stohenson, Mr. C. Sennet , &c, To conclude with THE "AW,LINEWS HOLLIDAY. Mr. t roiire Rouse and Miss Emma itaruett, T. JAMES'S TFIErbT3i E.—Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. JOHN WOOD. LAST WEEK OF FERNANDE. This Evening at 7.46 great play, FI4RNANDE, Messrs. Farren, Leeson, Lin Rayne, Murray, and L. Brough Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Larkin, Miss Fannie Arnugh, Miss Turner, and Mrs. John Wood.—Doors open at 0.30. At 7, TO OBLIGE BENSON, by Tom Taylor, Esq. Messrs. Harry COX, Grainger, Mervin ; Misses Marian Inch and H. Everard, At 7.45, FERNANDE. At 10.30 CHRISTMAS EVE, by C. S. Cheitnruan, Esq. Messrs. Harry Co Leeson, aud Vonel Brough.—Box.otlice 11 to O. No fees. OPAL STRAND THEATRE. dole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGII. This Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE. ]►iessrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Duna% and F. Hughes. The Tearyyly-q, ••TAIL IDLE 'PRENTICE," Messrs.Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; M.:Ames Amy Sheridan, E. Barton, Santley, lee, Goodall, &c. AT.NUDEVILLI4.I TIMATRE, STRAND.- V Lesseem--Messrs. H. 3. Montague, 1). James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7 CifISELLLNO, gr. David James : after r which TWO ROSES (165th night), by Jamesl Albery. Conc with ELIZABETH. Supported by Me4srs. J. Montague', David James . and T. Thorne, kc. ; Mesdames Li . elly Power, A. Newton, and. Amy Fawsitt, &e. GLOBE THEATRE, NEWCASTLE-STREET, STRAND:-----Matiageress, Miss ALLEVNE.—LAST FIVE NIGHTS OF TUE SEASON.—BOARD AND RESIDENCE At T. Grand 'Ballet, THE THREE ROSES, or the (111q1i EN ONE, as danced by Madame Colonna and Troupe a© %59 consecutive Nights. The TAMING OF THE SHREW. To Conclade with ITAILCO SPADA, in which Madame Colonna sad, Troupe • will appear in ..their favourite eharacteristic DANCE. I New and Original Burlesque, by if. C. Burnand, Esq., entitled THE WHITE CAT, id active preparation for Christmas. SPECIAL consequence of the serious indisposition of Miss kiloyne, the • New! 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MOSES and 3ON'3 oaiy and accurate system i iA.d .46e o x f sett- n uats o n i re a LiftAb t l s eil i ti t lto to execute otk ors by post -11 MOSES and SON'S F ROOK CO kTS, 245. to (J 3 E GYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY Brvery day at 2.30 and 8 p.m. .POOLE and YOUNG, the Proprietors and Exhibitors of the Overland Mail, by Telbin and Grieve, Albert Smith's Egyptian Hall Panoramas, beg to announce a now subjeit— THE PRESENT WAR Between the French and Prussians. Each Picture on 500 square feet of oanvas, and painted by England's greatest scenic artists. THE NATIONAL MUSIC. THE FINEST QUARTETTE IN EUROPE. POOLE AND YOUNG, THE EGYPTIAN lIALL °Nix: TIIE WAR--POOLE AND YOUNG'S PANORAMA, DRESS GOATS, 25t5. to GOs. NI MINIM,/ TROUSERS, lls. (3d. to 21s. DRESS TROUSERS, 12e. 6d, to 26€. MOURNING WITS, 28s. to £5, MOSES and SON invit, special attention • to their largo stock of (IEN TLEMEN'S DRESSING ROBES, at 18s. to 20 Guineas ; the asaorbment is unequalled for variety of materials and designs, and neatness and elegance of finish. f risll_; SUN, I,ON DON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1g70._ handily instead of the shake of at pouncet,hox—a characteristic romiyk, that, having been dropped within heating of young BONAPAILT E, led, oventwdly. , to JrNOT'S advancement to the- • Dtikedoro . A twante, and, for a while, even to the Viceroyalt: , 4-4 Portugal. Similar shifts and Bituilar coolues!- have been of not unfrequent occurrence during the last few months at the seat of war among those who arc there, simply as civilian on-lookers, in the midst of the extraordinary and destructive battles fought out, principally by cannon, as 7.7e1l ashy smaller arms of precision and of enormous range—sometimes without the crossing of the swords and bayonets of the belligerents, in the winning and losing of a great historical battlefield. Anyone obtaining per mission to *accompany one or other of the armies for the purpose of witisessing the pro gress of the campaign would obviously—and by necessity did—run repeatedly imminent danger of coming to grief while Death was reaping his harvest right and left of them, sweepingly, pitilessly, and undiscriminatingly. Professional en gagements have already carried, still to this present moment are carrying, these same resolute, and en terprising newspaper correspondents, throng* the manifest perils by which they are, in the sitnpie exercise of Their jourrotlistic duties, confronted. Be sides the newspaper correspondents, -how ever, them are others, wholly private, indi viduals, who have run, who are still running, pre cisely the mime hazard for the purpose of adven turously beholding with Their own eyes the fluctuations of the great war of 1870, here and there, in various parts of France. Fortunately among these there has been numbered a keen-eyed young civilian as observant as the Hon. C. ALLANSON Wart, who has dared more than the ordinary run of the war correspondents of the newspapers, perhaps by reason of the very fact that all the while he has been hampered or restrained by no sense of respon sibility. Free to follow his own impulses, and careless consequently of keeping within the reach of the readiest channels of communication, Mr. ALJ.ANSON WINN has been enabled, before the war chews any sign of slackening its fury, to recount, in the form of a goodly volume of 360 pages, what he saw of it himself at the battles of Speichern, Gorze, and Gravelotte, his narra-, tive being a record * of two months' cam paigning with , the Prussian army of the Moselle. Repeatedly during the course of this narrative tile descriptions were so vivid in their colouring that the pen in the hand of the enterprising young author seems almost to have given place to a luminous and and clnomatie pencil. The reader turning the leaves, is there with him orr the foughten fields, now of Speichern, now of Gravelotte. The hecatomb of victims is there all but - visibly before him, piled up in appalling mounds by the 'growling roar (as of wild beasts ravening for their prey) poured out by the Gatling-gun .and the Afiirailleuse. Chaotic though the whole war seems to have been from first to last, bewildering in the confusion of its incidents, astounding almost beyond the, powers of accurate calculation through its de structiveness, it yet would appear already that the future historian .of the great campaign of 1870 will love a far more reliable and. a far more abundant supply of facts, of details, of statistics, and of authentic. anecdotes than has ever Web, furnished le regard to a gin le orunpeiga for thfe advantage of any previous annalist. Whoever the future historian of the Franco-German war may lx), ho will certainly be under, immense obligations to men► like the ALLANSON WINN and the run of the news paper, principally, oE course, the English newspaper, war correspondents. TOPICS OF THE DAY. , . thvy toek, the Ft,eoch fought ; with great valonc. Their courage c 1414. ,not seem to have dosertqd thorn titter those se m defeats. 0 • YREN-qil QA PTIVE OFFICERS 1;. , - ac days.rtst the'lltilepentlance .14el l jo has beeii protests'ifgains . t intrigues . by Imperialist agents in view of an ultimate restoration. These protests are from French -officers, prisoners of the war, and are very numerous, some being 'signed singly, others collectively. The last . one published la signed by three generals and upwards 0t.130 other officers, principally captains and lieutenants. It iactory. Some of them have „ ;reallfdiatiliguishel ,themselves in cases of enivvency: In ono:case a C:iichester boy served temporarily its mate on the death of the captain at se A:; in an6thot a! boy was eLtrusted with the .belm ale, when the ship was despaired . of. The extra learning Of the insti tution serves them in good stead in these sulden emergencies, and some of them earn double wages by acting as ship's carpenters. In the five kindred institutions of the Refuge between 500 and GOO destitute boys and girls are educated, fed, clothed, and trained to earn their own living. • r 11E1 EAT RE 110 VAL, lIA Y —'l l w e ty l_. first Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDY.- Is EVENING (Tuesday), to commence at 'Seven, with the IA OLF AND THE LAMB. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, W. Gordon, Iladame E. Fitzwilllam : after which, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new Fatty Comedy., in Three Acts. entitled TIIE PALACE OF TRUTH. Characters by lir. Buckstone, Messrs. Kendal, Everill, Clark, Rogers, Braid,- Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. Hill, Fanny Wright, and Fanny Gwynn's. After with% UNCLE'S 'WILL-- Mr. Kendal and Miss Robertson. Concluding with BLUE DEVILS. Boi ofEee open daily from 10 till 5. NIA DAME T 3 U S it . i lJZS EXHIBITION On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial ; King William of irrusgia, and Count von Bismarck. Admission, ls.; Children underlo years of age, 6d. Napoleon Rooms 6d. extra. Open . from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC. Professor Pepper "ON THE WAR, AND TILE DESTRUCTIVE IMPLE MENTS USED THEREAT," daily at quarter to 8 and quarter to 8, with Elaborate Pictorial Illustrations, which have been sup plied by the War Correspondents of the Polytechnic, dcc. Mr. Suchet Champion will sing the German, French, and English Patriotic Songs.—Tho Explanation of the Ghost as usual.—THE PRA - EGER FAMILY give their CONCERTS daily at quarter past 4 and quarter past 9. DOYPTIAN HALL. Prices to Roolo and Young's Banerama of the War, 3e., 21 0 ls pAMIUDGE AND COOPER,- MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (EX ) THE PUBLIC bUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE 1)1110ES, AND JARRIAGE PAID to the 001131fitY ON ORDERS OVER 119 a Per ream. e.d Fine Cream I.aid Note; a cheap paper . o Superfine Cream Laid Note; much approved - . 4 0 Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note ;especially recommended 5 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note . 7 0 Straw Paper, " Patent;" adapted for rapid writing 3 6 Large Commercial Note Papers. 35., 4a. Se., and 8 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream._ ......10s.. 6d., 12s. 6d, and 14 6 Outisidee Foolscap Letter Paper for scribbling. 4e.; ruled ditto, 4 6 Tinted Lined Note ...... five quires for is. M., OF 5 6 New Vellum Wove " Club House" Note, five quires for 2s. cd. Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4a 6d, be 6d, &68 8d .. Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s 6di ..... per 1,000 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., COLOUR STAMPING (nefiet) reduced to ls. par 400. Polished steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An ILLUi3TBATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases. Desks. post free. Established 1841 fOHN ,GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY gyTOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; ives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from ilecay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. had Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thamea.street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair Lll,_ to its nristine hue, no matter at what age. J NO. GOSNE LL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder fill liquid. It isnow offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, is each; also is., 7s. tid., and 15s. each, Includ ing brush. Bed Bull Wharf., Angel-passage, Hi, Upper Thames-street, Lon ion, E.C. ANY GENTLEMAN requiring the comforts of a HOME in a respectable and cheerful family, where there are no other lodgers, to board or not with the family, as required, may hear of the same by applying to A. L., Mr. Hawkins, Post Office, Liverpool-road, Barnsbury, N. IFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms of 1.4 the past eleven months the National Lifeboat Institution has contributed to the saving of 918 lives from various ship wrecks and 24 vessels from destruction. It has also expended L 23,287 in the same period on its Lifeboat! Establishments, in addition to granting £2,023 for rewards. The Institution has now 223 Lifeboat StatSOns under its man agoment. Contributions are earnestly solicited, and will be thankLully received by the London and Country bankers, and by the Kecre tary, Richard Lewis, Esq.,. at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. THT-41A TRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY-LANE—A Domestic. Hercules Amy Robsart. Phobres ILvirmABEET--The Wolf and the Lamb. The Palace of Truth. Uncle's Will. Blue Devils. ADELNII THEATRE.—Milliner ' s Holiday. Green Bushes. VAUDEviwz—Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the Invisible Armada. STRAND—On and Off. Living at Ease. The Idle 'Prentice. Gnenu—Board and Residence. Taming of the Shrew. Marco Spada. Ballet Divertisement. OrEuA ComrQuE -La Joic Fait Pour. Le Vicomte Letorieres. ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. l'erna.nde. Christ mas Eve. OLYmPio—Nell and (Burlesque) Paul and Virginia. ROYALTY Wealth, and Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat. GAIETY Happy Village. Fra Diavolo. Trombea calzar. Quzsbr's--Day after the Wedding. Midsummer Niglrtig Dream. STANDARD —The Wife's Tragedy. Ballet. Vicar of Wakefield. HOLBORN—The Married Bachelor. The Odds. Jezabel. PRINCE or WALES'S. - Queen Stork, Ours. Locked In. PoLvTmune—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After noon and Evening. EGYPTIAN HALL—Poole and Young's Panorama of the Franco-Prussian War. AXPHITIIRA'PRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the Arena. ------- ST. JAmF,s's HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. PALMS ROYAL—Professor Faber's Talking Machine. The Wizard of the East. ALHAMBRA—Promertado Concert. MADAME TIISSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 11. M. till 10 p.m. ls.; extra rooms, 6d. says :-- While•our country is making vigoro.ns efforts to repulse the foreigner, the Bonapartist is seeking to foment dissen sion- by the • report of an Imperial restoration, to be seconded by the French army now imprisoned in Ger many. We prisonm of war, protest against such attempts, and we declare that we will never join, either now or at any future time, in any enterprise of that kind againSt the-will of the nation. It is obvious that if it is designed to restore the Em peror by the army of prisoners there will be serious trouble in first disposing of the " non-restorera." fierce of these officers disclaim responsibility for the great surrenders. MR. BRIGHT AS A NRGOTIATOR. The Daily News. contains a noticeable declaration of it semi-Official kind respecting It is erroneous to conclude, it says, as some writers have done, ttfltt the President of the Board of Trade would be a proper person to send on a mission to Washing - ton,with the view of settling the Alabama claims. The reason given is that ' Dlr. Bright \t'otild not be prepared to. make any concessions be yond those whicli the British Government has already offered. "It is a eni;4stke to suppose that Mr. Bright , takes a more American view of American claims and pretensions than the rest of his colleagues. He was , formerly in advance of them ; but they have come up to his original position, which the Clarendon- 1 Johnson Treaty embodied, and he has not gone be yond it." It appears, then, that in order.to nego tiate with any prospect of success we must find some public man who is prepared, as a foregone conclu sion, to yield tnoxe than the Clarendon-Johnson treaty yielded. In that ease it may, perhaps, be as well to dispense with special envoys. TIM MILITARY EDUCATION COMMISSION. The digest of the evidence given befere the Royal Commission on Military Education (so far as officers are concerned) has been issued. The evidence is extremely comprehensive, no lees than ninety wit nesses, ranging from commanders-in-chief of portions of our army down to under officers at the schools of engineering having been examined. The generality of the witnesses seem to corcur in the opinion that practical military in struction is already imparted in regiments. The in struction, however, might be improved by having the entrance .standards in geometrical knowledge at the military colleges' rendered more difficult ; and by confinhig the study of higher mathematics principally to engineering. The advisability of "weeding out" inefficient cadets at an early stage of their course at the Military Col leges, and the necessity for a more lenient regulation of the subjects for the last term examinations, admit ting a larger development of classics, are strenuously commented upon, 'chiefly by officers who only re cently left the colleges for real service. Cramming and the necessity for it are discountenanced, mid the Public School system of management is generally spoken of as imperative for -n liberal military e duration . Aluestions respecting the expediency of altering the positions of the Conned of Military Education, by substituting for it n Director General ; the utility of all line officers passing through Sandhurst ; the advantages and this advantages of the nomination system ; and the , improved social regulations wanting in the great artillery and engineering academies, are all discussed iully in the report, which is altogether an important publication. PREVIOUS EXPLOSIONS AT BIRMINGHAM. •A list has been made of the• explosions which have occurred in Birmingham. In 1859 a serious accident took place on the premises of Messrs. Ludlow, percupsion cap manufacturers. The accident occurred in the roc rri where the dangerous - process of 1‘ mixing " or preparing the fulminate was carried on. It was a matter of sur prise that only two deaths followed, for much damage was done, and only the bare walls of the factory re mained. In the same year another explosion occurred at a percussion cap manufactory in Whittall-street, which until now has been the most dreadful that had happened in Birmingham. The establishment had a heavy order for the Turkish Government, and had taken • on extra hands. Seventeen persons were killed on this occasion. In 1802 the oldest percussion cap, manufactory in Birmingham was the scene of a disaster, when seven were killed and thirty injured.: It was stated that the dan gerous work of nixing was carried on in the cellar of the premises in consequencesof heavy orders on hand, instead of being dene away from the factory, as was ordinarily the case. In 1868 a terrible acci dent occurred at a fog sigtial manufactory at Saltley, IM during a heavy Storm, in consequence cf a shed containing fog signals being struck ,by lightning. Four girls were burnt to death by this catastrophe. At the ammunition factory at Witton frequent explosions have happened. One occurred in 1869. During the present year three Viol{ place in tix weeks horn the 6th of October to the 18th of November, by means of which thirty-nine were disabled and subjected to great sufferings. From the last two accklents eight deaths resulted. THE OAKS COLLIERY. The old workings at the Oaks Colliery, which have .been closed for four years, have been re-entered and explored. As it was known that they contained the nojc rity of the bodies still unrecovered from the accident, an exploring party was organised as soon as the road from the new colliery was made clear. No accumulated gas was found, which was attri buted to the effects of the fresh air that entered from the new pits by means of the bore-hole. No bodies were found in the lower level pit, but in the top level were the bodies of the Barkers, father and son. They wore laid together near the face of the coal. The features of both were preserved, and were 4 once recognised by those of the explorers who had known them living. Among the latter was one of the. sons of Barker. The bodies of the collier Jones, - and his son, who had been among the workers, were also discovered close to their % w'Srking place, and these were easily identified. There was r indicfttion of any, fire having taken pliece from Bike explosion. Owing to falls of the roof it was found impossible to enter the new works from the old pit. The exploring party is composed of picked men, and great intereSelms excited among those who have relations and friends unrecovered when they heard that the workings ha I been ve opened. WORK TOR HOIWELESS BOYS. Lieutentmt-Colonel Gillum, the Superintendent of the Boys' Home, Barnet, explains that his institu tion at Ohurch Farm has been at work ten years. It began with four inmate?, and has.now' sixty-one. Boys are received who may be on the very verge of crime so long as they have never been convicted, and their moral, mental, and physical qualities aril trained until they are sent out as honest emigrants, soldiers, sailors, or labourers. Another account, supplied by the manager of the Chichester training ship, tells us that the Beings boys, trained for a sea life, are ,becoming more and more sought after. During the eleven months just ended 158 boys have been shipped for the first time, 75 for the second, and 61 for the third. In the four years of the Chichester's training work 700 boys have been rescued. from the streets and received on board, and the re turns furnished of their conduct ale extremely satia- LITXEIIII3/JIIG. The statement that Prussia had resolved upon the annexation of Luxemburg is discredited by some English journals on the ground that, in view of the irritation caused by Gortschakoft's repudiation of the Black Sea treaty, Count Bismarck is hardly likely to commit. the outrage of violating another engagement. It may be wise, after late experience, not to set limits to Bismarckian audacity. The Gortschakoff pro cedure may have encouraged the Prussian. The Daily Telegraph Berlin correspondent says the two are acting in concert. At any rate, the evidence that the transfer is designed is too substantial to be despised. At Brussels, Amsterdam, and Berlin, the arrangement is universally retarded as settled. It is even announced, and no contradiction has yet appeared, that notice of Prussia's intention has been given to the Butch and Belgian Governments. The German press has carefully written up the subject for some weeks past, and the Teutonic papers usually work with an object. They do not often preach terri torial doctrines which are disagreeable to the powers that be. TnE TREATY OF 4807. The treaty of 1867 assigned .to Luxemburg a position of neutrality under the wing of Holland. For many years previously the , °rand Duchy be longed to Holland, but was at the same time a mem ber of the old German Bund, and so connected with the Diet. As time wore on the Dutch Government became more and more jealous of the interference with the affairs of Holland which this connection with the Diet involved. It was not averse to sacrificing Luxemburg altogether; and the changes of 1860, by which Prussia became supreme, greatly in creased the Dutch desire to get out of danger. If it was perilous to maintain such a connection with the Diet, it was much more perilous to maintain it with Prussia. Negotiations were opened between the Governments of Paris and the Hague for the sale of the Duchy, and thus arose the famous Luxemburg question. Prussia refused to permit the sale; France resolved to carry it through ; and a war was prevented only by the Confe rence at London, •and the compromise which ensued, Prussia undertaking to evacuate the terri tory, which was declared to still belong to Holland, but to remain neutral, under the guarantee of the great Powers. Prussia now seeks, according to all appearance, to annex the Duchy, on the ground that its neutualkty has bgen violated by the passage through it of escaped French prisoners, amt on other pretexts sham* trilling. THE LATE FIGHTING'. Ono of the correspondents at Versailles, who seems to be the ideal Jenkins, reports that Prince Frederick Charles drove, broke, and routed the Loire army like sheep the we befell, last Last week these sheep fought four battles, in two of which (key were the assailants. This has been a wonderful war, and not the least wonderful event in it is the rallying of th 3 Loire Army. It was unquestionably beathit on the terrible days ending on the fourth. But it was not converted into a flock of sheep. So stubborn was the fighting of the 7th, Bth, 9th, and 10th, that though the Duke of Mecklenburg claims the victory, his bulletins are far from triumphant, and he was not able last week to advance more than five miles in as many days. General Chanzy, what ever his talents may be, is evidently a fighting general. Ho does not march about, but goes at the enemy. The German accounts testily that in the battles on the north of the Loire, ending on Satur- *" What I saw of the War at the Battles of Speichern Gorze, and Gravelotte." By the Honourable G. Allanson Winn. One volume, pp. 360, with Map and Music. William Blackwood and Sons. OPPOSITION TO TRAMWAYS IN IRELAND. There is not -a single street railway in Ireland. Years . ago Mr. George Francis Train made very energetic appeals to the residents of Dublin to have rails laid down in the streets, but his " flabbergasting" disgusted those whom he sought to win over to the movement. The want of funds decided the antago nism against the scheme. Once again an attempt is being made to introduce the tramways into Dublin, whore wide streets and comparatively small traffic really offer facilities for them ; but the car and cab-owners on this occasion have come forward as opponents of the plan. The agitation raised on the side of this bOdy 'will, at least, tend to one good, namely, that of allowing them to see that they will have a right, once for all, to consult their own interests' better• than before. Perhaps it may even, induce them to deal in horses which are not all bone and tail, and in vehicles which are not lampiess, small, noisy, and dangerous in the extreme. The car proprietors told the Lord 'Mayor of Dublin, on Saturday, that the introduction of tramways would entail a loss to GoVernment of £5,000 annually. This is the sum now derived from the total number of car licenses issued in Dublin, and the speaker who referred to it must have been extremely weak in argument when lie tried to persuade the Lord Mayor that every individual carman, in a large city, would extinguish himself and his belongings at the advent 'of the tramways. A TRADE OUTRAGE. That amiable body of tradesmen, the metropolitan hatters, have got into disgrace through an outrage upon a non-society member of the hat-making pro fession. It is a satisfaction to hear it stated that the quarrel arose among foreigners who have been allowed ingress to trade privileges, nevertheless it took place at an institution called the Coach and Horses, which is a recognised" house of call " for the trade generally. A man named Mollineaux, a Frenchman, who had, it is alleged, made a promise that he would not take Employment with non-society men, was induced to forego that stipulation. A few evenings since he appeared at the " house . of call " in Soho, and some Italian hatters bandied lum respecting his want of principle. The result was a serious quarrel in which the Frenchman received a stab in the alylomen that loft him almost at the door of death. It was fervently hoped that outiages arising indirectly or directly from the unions among tradesmen, had ceased, now that the rules and regulations of society and non society men were at last supposed to be fairly understood, but this last assault by a number of men upon a single individual proves that a dangerous spirit of enmity is still rife. THE SALMON FISHERY COMMISSIONERS. A. claim of a peculiar kind has been presented for the first time to the Commissioners, who for the past five years have been visiting the different sal mon fishery distriels of England and Wales. The claim has been made by proprietors of land in. Hampshire, and with respect to the legality of cer tain fishing mill dams for catching salmon in the river Avon. It was shewn at a court which the. Commissioners have held that the fishery in and about the town of Christchurch was an ancient one, and old inhabitants of Christchurch were produced as wit nesses to the fact. fn the weirs erected in the river are several sluices or hatches to regulate the water. In front of these there are upright rods called racks which stop the fish from passing up of down the river, and which detain them in fixed spaces till . netted. The owners of portions of the river claim still the right, now for the first time disputed, of catching the salmon. The question which may affect the arrangements made with reference to several other English rivers, has not yet been decided upon by the Commissioners—probably on account of its importance. DISEASE AT THE CATTLE SHOW. Some alarm has been occasioned among agricul turists by the report of a sudden outbreak of disease among the animals exhibited at the Smithfield Cattle Show. It proved on inquiry that the report was founded on fact, inasmuch as an official veterinary inspector has pronounced one of the animals there to be infected with the foot and mouth disease. It will be seen that so far the evil is of very slight extent, but, so strict is the vigilance now maintained over these disorders, that none of the beasts exhibited will be allowed to be removed alive beyond the metropolitan area. The same thing occurred last year, and is, of course, productive of great trouble and loss, but the wisdom of the course can hardly be questioned, when the contagious nature of the com plaint is remembered. At a meeting of the sub- committee of the Home Cattle Defence Association, in reference to this subject, a question was raised as to the origin of these outbreaks. Mr. Waffler, secre tary to the Association, said that he bad been told by experienced salesmen that some Dutch cattle exposed for sale in the Islington marko had been found to be suffering from foot and mouth disease. Beasts on their way from the Birmingham Cattle Show and elsewhere had either come into con tact with these animals, or had traversed the station about the same time. Resolutions in favour of the isolation of the imported stock were passed by the committee. The disease is diminishing in Somerset and Gloucester. M. FONVIELLE ON FRANCE. In an address delivered at the International Democratic Institution, M. Fonvielle, editor of the Liberte, expressed great indignation at the course pursued by some of the English daily papers, and declared that it was through German influences that they uttered such slanders against France and the French people. He was satisfied, however, that these journals did not represent the opinion of the people of England, and the French people on their part could distinguish tho difference which existed between the English Govern- ment and people. M. Fonvielle admitted that the array of the Loire had suffered a temporary defeat; but the mass of the army had conducted itself with spirit, and ho believed in the end that the enemy would be driven from France without gaining a yard of terri tory. As for the King of Prussia's humanity, while he claimed credit for not bombarding Paris, ho was quite willing to let its people die of starvation. King William reckoned upon riots taking place in that city, but so long as an armistice was not put forward, no revolutions would occur. The Republicans would not agree to an armistice. It was quite sufficient reason for the Paris Government to have declined to convoke the National Assembly that Biamarck desired the step to be taken. M. Fonvielle concluded by asserting that Paris had sufficient food to hold out for three months to come, before which period the "hordes of Prussia" would have been driven across the Rhine by the "citizen soldiers of France." AN UNPLEASANT RECEPTION. The ex-Queen of Spain, who is still sojourning at Geneva, does not appear to enjoy very great popularity in her adopted country. very awkward incident occurred the other day in which an attempt to do her honour collapsed In the most lamentable fashion. At Carouge, a Catholic commune, it was observed one morning, that extraordinary prepara tions had been made in the Church. Several arm chairs, one of which bore a royal escutcheon, were placed in tho choir. Great excitement was P, rn*itT V tvg AUK, LONDON, TUESDAY, DEOEAII3ER 13, 1870. A GLIMMERING of the first hope of a pacification has yet to appear, but already the Great War of 1870 is accumulating in its trail :an voluminous literature. Correspondents have collected . their com munications, and volume after volume comes into our hands, and takes its place upon our bookshelves. Written all of them currents °alum°, in the midst of every conceivable difficulty add discomfort they have often been literally committed to the winds of heaven on the wildest chance sometimes of their eventually somehow or another reaching their destination. Nevertheless, being penned for the most part from actual observation, their accuracy, as a rule, is some `thing remarkable. The incident of Colonel nor-. BERTON'S death . has illustrated in a terrible manner • the perils encountered by tiu”e unarmed chroniclers of the warlike events of the campaign. It is 'in no way hyperbolical to say of them that their pouncet in writing is like that welcomed by juNoT, then a private soldier in the ranks, when ho was scrawling a despatch on a arum head at the dictation of young NAPOLEON BONAPARTE during the siege of Toulon. .Everyone, almost, knows the story of the shell bursting close by them in the trenches, and nearly smothering them with sand, the soldier in the ranks shaking the dust olr Ithe scribbled paper, saying with a smile that it came produced, which was not lessened when at the hour of High Mass two magnificent carriages drove up, from the first of which alighted the es.- Queen Isabella, accompanied by M. Mermilliod, Bishop of Hebron, coadjutor of Geneve. The nova soon spread through the district, a crowd gathered round the doors of the church, and at the end of the Mass the Queen, on leaving, was greet° I with the most .uncomplimentary vociferations. The name of a personage residing at Geneva in an hotel close to that in which Isabella has taken up her abode for the winter was specially hooted, and the Queen was bitterly reprdached for having been one of the authori3 of tho lamentable war now desolating Europe, which has affected so disastrously the trade and commerce of neutral countries, more particularly of the canton of Geneva. It is said that the Queen had an understanding with the Empress of the French, to put her son on the throne of Spain, and that iroM‘this arrangement the first difficulties arose. In Switzerland even the sellers of vegetables read the papers, so that those political rumours aro known to them. UNEASINESS IN CHINA. Tho Anglo-Chinese papers, just received by the overland mail, exhibit great uneasiness and apprehen sion at the attitude of the natives towards Euro peans. At Canton permission to rebuild the native Christian chapel has been refused by the gentry, and further outrages are reported. It is mentioned as a significant fact that the Chinese are kept well informed of the progress of the European war. Native maps showing the position of the Prussians round Paris, and correct translations of the latest telegrams, have been widely circulated. Chung How, who is believed to have been deeply implicated in the Tientsin massacre, has started for Paris as special ambassador on the matter. He is accompanied by two French interpreters and an. English secretary. The China papers express great indignation that none of the officials suspected of complicity in the affair have been punished, and the fifteen criminals of lesser degree condemned to death for their share in the massacre have not been executed. SO much for what the Anglo-Chinese papers say. On the other hand, :Mr. Wade reports that all is quiet. Tho journals and the diplomatists in China never agree in their accounts. LITERATUBE. Principles of Comedy and Dramatic Eject. By Percy Fitzgerald. One vol. ; pp. 368.—Tinsley. The notorious decline of the drama in these days seems appropriately enough to have elicited an argument in regard to it—half protest, half remonstrance—from the last and best of the biographers of Garrick. To those unacquainted with the mingled earnestness and vivacity of the writings of Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, it may appear formidable rather than inviting that he should now set forth his views upon this matter in the shape of a treatise of such considerable dimensions. A large and (if weighed in the balance, literally, not metaphorically) ponderous volume, containing within it more imperial octavo pages than there are days in the year, may for them have an aspect more of warning than of invitation. Yet having ourselves taken heart of grace to peruse this large volume through from cover to cover before pronouncing an opinion upon its merits, we can at once premise that it is thoroughly readable, and in the mere style and man ner of it, as well as in the general soundness of its argu ment not unworthy of coming from the hand of David Garrick's biographer. The book is subdivided into seven parts, supplemented by a Postcript and an Appendix. As its title indicates, it sets forth what its author conceives to be the true principles of Comedy and of Dramatic Effect. Those principles have notoriously, for some years past, been either forgotten or disdained. It Is well that they should be at last re called for a moment to the popular recollection. Superficially it might almost seem as if the dramatic art had risen rather than fallen in importance. For, whereas formerly there were barely half a dozen theatres in Lon don—Drury Lane, Covent Garden, the Haymarket, the Surrey, the Olympic, the Adelphi—there are now-a-days upwards of twenty, " the cry being still they come," new houses being still projected in various suitable parts of the Metropolis. The prospect in this respect, indeed, is rather alarming. Within the next ten years, our author agrees that it is not at all unlikely the present number of theatres, i.e„ a round score, may be doubled. Already it is a case of multa not nsultuse. Professional actors and actresses of any particular excellence, instead of being anywhere collected together in a good working company,,are scattered apart from each other at random, one or two only of any real im portance being engaged upon any single establishment. A strong cast, in consequence of this, is never possible now-a days. A solitary star may be seen here and there upon occasion—never a constellation. Besides which, the line of demarcation separating the theatre from the music hall has long since boen blurred and all but obliterated. Tragedy has merged into melodrama, melo drama into rhodomontade. Comedy has become exag gerated into farce, farce has been distorted into extravaganza, into burlesque, into grinning through horse-collars, tumbling as on the sawdust of a circus, dancing break-downs on cellar flaps, singing rhymed and choral idiotism. The Principles of Comedy, forsooth,'meaning character, humour, equivoque, repartee—nature and art exquisitely amalgamated—these are lost to us altogether, like the secrets of stained glass, of Greek fire, of prophecy, of incantation. These have been recognised as the • true principles of Comedy —witness this : dramatists like Colman, Murphy, Morton, Goldsmith, Farquhar, Wycherley, Jonson, Shakspere ; witness this again : comedians like Elliston, Palmer, Lewis, Harley, Dowton, Munden, and a swarm of other vanished celebrities. Whether those old world principles of comedy and dramatic effect may even now be revived for the delight of this present or of any future generation, may at least be regarded as a legitimate subject for conjecture and for aspiration. They are so regarded, at any rate, and are in that earnest sense descanted upon by Mr. Percy Fitzgerald. His book is a clever, wise, and gracious remonstrance. In writing it he has taken occasion to comment boldly and manfully upon theatrical managers and theatrical critics, upon actors and players, upon the state of the drama, and upon the style of the dramatists. The book is worthy of careful perusal, of earnest and cordial consideration. It is like letting a current of fresh air into a fuetid and poisonous atmosphere. We welcome it accordingly. t •_ ti T . S \ - ,fl 7 , , - c. : o ;: t: ':_• ; , :-.1 170 7 , s t lIER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Doe. 12. The Queen drove out this morning, accompanied by Prince Leopold. Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice also went out. The Duchess of Roxburghe and the Lord Chancellor had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Roya Family last evening. The Lord Chancellor left the Castle this morning. The Duke of Argyll and the Duke of Roxburghe have arrived at the Castle. On Saturday morning, a dense fog prevailed on the Mersey, and several collisions took place on the river. The West India and Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer, the Bolivar, which was anchored down near Egremont, was with difficulty reached by the tender, which had the mails and passengers on board. Several of the outward-bound sailing vessels .were compel Id to , keep to their anchorages in consequence of the state of the weather. • ----- FUNERAL OF MR. FREDERICK YOUNGE. The remains of the late Mr. Younge, comedian, and manager of the "Caste" Company, who was killed by the recent collision on the North-Eastern Railway at Brockley Whins, were on Friday afternoon interred in Elswick Cemetery, Newcastle. The corpse was brought by train from. Sunderland. The funeral cortege consisted of four mourning coaches and six private carriages. The pall bearers were Mr. J. P. Craven, Mr. J. W. Ray (the two principal members of the deceased gentleman's company), Mr. George Stanley (lessee of the Tyne Theatre), and Mr. , Joseph Cowen, jun. Among those present were Mr. Richard Younge, a brother of the deceased ; Mr. W. H. Swanborough, lessee of the Theatre Royal ; and other members of the theatrical pro fessio n engaged in the town. The coffin bore the following inscription ; " Frey derick G. Younge. Died December 6th, 1870. Aged 45 years." We may mention that there was also pre sent another brother of the late Mr. Younge, who bad only recently returned from Australia on a visit to hie friends. SIT() 'ATE"' The Gover 11 lore Bengal 11 , 14 tiler-in-C I .v ilsilie rs , at iorar, and tl Another re 4 11th it is ox 1 . every Brit Colonel Br Bite well al 1111 es from J 131 eoininlar Yakoob K ' 4B plunder& k The a hi:a bt Kra troops r ni abolished, sa' Tea *cis Indian salt Chinese The amo . 0,000 yo; Pl'esent quot (Per Grant There are (Itnnan, q tartly by th a % near She; Oecua The proc€ ci ccupation Natest exc d amn the r efutes. the 'vote, and The 2 ages L uxemburg taint suc v alueless all PRENC betachm cin the 9th, a hostile I l'epulsed. The left the enemy c apturing The 3rd °lithe Bth near Orl 4 . 1 4 on tilt tinder Gen In this 1111 rprised a nother br breath. A. aqua li kewise to an ambusl upo The gi The inha t ,hernselvel 1 4 order gleans. The nei .„,Loire con Fighting bat the re t he Army General °hanzy h aying th e Go , ktiministi de aux. eity M the Lo The re a ny milit. the army Inovemer were 1111.1 C At pre and reins to the az A con -M. G aml quarters found ON ti rrollOSS Ile had last thre Plaleric th em. Fight 4 41 the the Arn a Pprecia that on€ t he pr e y ch eck Charles, Th e Intssa gc ( - 1 1anzy With su thin gs tc)ry to i , '4l Way fro m ti ru 11 going TII It Prer u i 9ernia "lenert broker An toads 1 are str equ Woerl To rrent (BY TH E EUROPEAN WAR, The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGIT r O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events. lin o :