The Sun. — London, England, 1870-09-30 00:00:00

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List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-fre E. MOSES and SON'S Estabhshments 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. OORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD. YORKSHIRE. HEATRE ROYAL DRTIRY-LANE.—SoIe Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CEIATTERTON.—This Theatre having been re-decorated under the direction of Mr. C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., IS NOW OPEN for the AUTUMN DRAMATIC SEASON. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate. at half-past Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from Sixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four Guineas. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. MISS NEILSON will appear in the character of AMY ROBSART, in the Drama of that name, THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. R. T. C. KING will appear in the character .ol Iv VARNEY, in the new Drama, entitled AMY ROBSART, THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. ItTR. MORTON TAVARES will appear in the character of TRESSILIAN in the new Drama, entitled AMY ROBSART TEIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRITRY-LANE. ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by Martin Becher, at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING.- -THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSART ; a new Historical Romantic Drama, written by Andrew Halliday ; founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated novel "Kenilworth," with new and characteristic scenery by William Beverly, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYALDRUB,Y-LANE. _ALM Y ROBSART ; new drama: Characters by Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Vokes, Kemp, J. Mortin, and Rosins Vokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSA.RT ; New Drama, characters by Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, J. B. Howard, Brittain Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon, Vokes, F. Stanforth, H. Naylor, and Fred. Yokes, THIS EVEN ING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROSBART; New Drama. The Overture and Incidental Music selected and composed by W. C. Levey, executed by an increased Orchestra and numerous Chorus. The Ballet and Grouping of Crowds arranged by Mr. John Cor mack. The whole produced under the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling at a Quarter to Eight THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. A MY ROBSART.—The costumes from designs of an eminent Artist, the gorgeous Revels at Kenil worth, including the Procession of the Ancient Britons Saxons, Romans, Normans, &c, and ending with the coating Pageants on the Lake, illustrated by 300 auxiliaries, THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. - 100 H 0 BUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated VOKES FAMILY will appear at Eleven o'clock THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. This Evening, at Seven, WANTED a THOUSAND MILLINERS, Mr. J. Rouse, &c.; at a quarter to Eight, The RAPPAREE, Messrs. Herman Vezin, W. Rignold, J. Clayton, A. Rayner, E. F. Edgar, Shiel Barry ; Mesdames Katharine Rodgers and M. Cooper; to conclude with THE HAPPY MAN, Mr. Shiel Barry, &c. ATAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, CHISELLING. Mr. David James. After which, at 8, the Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, by James Albery. To conclude with the successful Burlesque, DON CARLOS ; or, The Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, 11. Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, A. Garthorne, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Fawsitt, T. Lay's, and A. Newton. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH. This Evening, at 7, A DAY A FTER THE WEDDING ; The School for Coquettes. Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Bufton, and F. Hughes. The New Ilurly. Burly-Esque, "THE IDLE 'PRENTICE." Messrs. Terry, ?aulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Bufton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c. ; and, THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. MA DAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER STREET. On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial ; King William of Frussia, and Count von Bismarck. Admission, is.; Children inderlo years of age, 6d. Napoleon Rooms 6d, extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. WONDERFUL TALKING MACHINE, in vented and constructed by Professor FABER, of Vienna. The greatest mechanical curiosity in the world. .XHIBITING HOURLY from eleven a.m., till ten p.m. Ad ;ii( I .18.; reserved seats, 2s. ;, children, 6d. Palais Royal, kyle-street, Oxford-street, W. ‘flOn- , PA'S HORSE nud CATTLE SPICE, jn nr. y•Pac eta only, of all Corn Chandlers in London, and (if all Grocers, Druggists. and Corn Dealers in the iountry. NATIONAL INSTITUTION for DISEASES of the SKIN, Gray's-inn-road and Mitre-street. Physi cian, Dr. BARR MBADOWS, 49, Dover-street, Piccadilly. Ave rage number of Patients under treatment, 1,000 weekly. p ree letters are available for necessitous applicants. TMOMAS ROBINSON, Hon. Sep. MEN'S CLOTHING. Dress Coats. Ozfk.)r d Coats , SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1870. Woerth, at Sedan, at Metz where the gallant defenders are still unconquered—she may yield at last to superior numbers and to supe rior generalship, without undergoing in the recogni tion of this superiority any intolerable humiliation. Once France realizes this, the negotiation of peace becomes practicable. If the pride of its rulers only yields somewhat, Paris may even yet be spared the horrors of bombardment. TOPICS OF THE DAY. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (LC ), FHE PUBLIC sUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND OARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20e _ Per ream. s. d, Fine Cream Laid Note; a cheap paper.— . : .... .. ... .... Superfine Cream Laid Note ; much approved 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 ... ..... ... 2 6 Large Commercial Note Papers 35., 48. 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Sold in bottles, 3s each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, uclud ug brush. Red Bull Wharf,Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. p ALAIS ROYAL, ARGYLL-STREET, OXFORD CIRCUS, W. PRESIDENT H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., &c. H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., &c. H.R.H. Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, K.G, The Right Hon. the Secretary of State for War. CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE : Lieutenant-Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, V.C.M.P. SECRETARY: Captain Charles Burgess. BANKERS : Messrs. Coutts and Co. Grand Fashionable MILITARY MATINEE AND SOIREE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. (At 3 and 8), UNDER THE MOST DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE, in Aid of the Funds of the NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR RELIEVING THE SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS. By the kind permission of Colonel Muller, the Juvenile Band of the Duke of York's School (Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea) will attend. Several Popular Artistes have also kindly volun teered their services for this occasion. Tickets, 55., 35., 25., and is. (Children Half-price) may be obtained at the principal Libraries and Music Warehouses, and at the Palais Royal, daily. PALAIS ROYAL, Argyle-street, Oxford Circus, W. Dr. CoRRY's Great National Entertainment, IRELAND its Scener),, Music and Antiquities. Magnificent scenery ana splendid Dioramia Effects, With Songs, Duets, Choruses, Characteristic Dances, and Mirth-Provoking Irish Sketches. Every Evening at 8. Wednesdays and Saturdays at 3 and 8. Admission, ls. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. ; Numbered Stalls. 3s. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY-LANE—A Domestic Hercules. Amy Robsart. Phobus's Fix. LYCEUM—Farce. Innisfallen, or the Men in the Gap. SADLER'S WELLS—Farce. Hamlet. QUEEN'S—Midsummer Night's Dream. Farce: GAIETY—Ballet. Betley. Bluebeard. PRINCE OF WALES—M.P. Queen Stork. Locked In. VAuDEvlLLE—Chiselling. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STRAND—On and Off. School for Coquettes. Idle 'Prentice. Chops of.the Channel. PRINCESSES'—Wanted, 1,000 Milliners. The Rapparee. The Happy Man. ROYALTY—Our Nelly and F. M. Julius Cnoesar, the Irregular Rum 'Un. OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicaments. Handsome Is that Handsome Does. Undine. NATIONAL STANDARD—LittIe Emily. Venus versus Mars. PALAIS BoYAL—Dr. Corry's Panorama of Ireland—Pro fessor Faber's Talking Machine, &c. ALHAMBRA—Grand Ballet and Varieties. CaEnoßNE—Fireworks, Ballet, &c. MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. Is.; extra rooms, 6d. Sr. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening. • ' • k ' z4ig 44-u, WOMEN AT THE SEAT OF WAR. Miss Elizabeth Garrett, M.D., who has been attending on the wounded at the 'seat of war, writes to the limes to say how usefully women could be employed in France just now—women who have not been trained as hospital nurses, but who, neverthe less, are willing to render help on behalf of the sick and wounded. Miss Garrett thinks large numbers of women might superintend, for instance, wayside kitchens, the staffs of which might be made to include a cook, a drudge or kitchen-maid, and a nurse, the remainder being ladies. The latter, Miss Garrett thinks, would work more rapidly, and in a more intelligent way than uneducated women ; they would be honest in the use of stores and would check waste and disorder in others ; they would be able to speak to the men in their own languages ; they would give the tonic of pleasure as well as food to their patients; and, above all, they would represent by their pre sence the deep sympathy which England feels with both France and Germahy—a sympathy which she i 4 constantly thought by both sides not to feel for either country. The advantages of wayside kitchens to wounded, hungry, or retreating soldiers, Miss Garrett thinks, are of the utmost value. To the wounded they are so especially. If sick men are only fed in time the surgeon has a chance; if they are starved he has none. Miss Garrett's remarks upon the value of female assistance in the neighbourhoods of battle fields, are supplemented by Miss Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., a lady who was an active member of the sanitary commission during the late American war. THE ST. MARTIN'S PLACE VOLUNTEERS. "S. G. 0." writes to the 7 imes to claim forbearance and consideration on behalf of the staff of volunteers in St. Martin's-place, who are labouring to organise efficient relief for the sick and wounded of both armies. They have, he maintains, great difficulties to contend against. As consignees of specie, the y have to exercise great caution in their investments ; as consignees of goods, they have to find the best and cheapest methods of despatch, and regulate the supply to each particular place. The money contri butions they have received approach £200,000, while the material aid supplied is reckoned by hundreds of tons. All this demands endless correspondence, and the sorting of the material, the establishing of foreign agencies for the stores, the finding and equipment of surgeons, the keeping up of the com munications with the authorities abroad, which is now very difficult, entail an immense variety of work on every member of the staff. Not the least troublesome part of their duties, according to the advocate of the committee, is the obligation of reading and replying to the manifold correspondents who write " to be informed," " to suggest," " to advise," to offer their services, or to propose improvements in the management. His only sur prise is that Colonel Lindsay and his colleagues, the Lthiesi Committee, - anti the w4le staff in St. Martin's Place, have been able to bear the heat and burden of a w.)rk whose full amount and nature no one could have foreseen, and he begs those who may regret that some things have not been done,to remember that great tact and care were necessary in dealing with the prejudices and tempers, national and personal, of the military 'and medical authorities on both sides. There is naturally some jealousy of our interference, however valuable our aid, because the fact of our assistance being wanted at all is more or less a reflection on the belligerents. "S. G. 0." is confident that when " this awful war has taken its bloodstained record into the realms of past history," England will have good reason to be proud that her people of every class and creed responded so heartily to the uplifting of the Red Cross. FIELD ARTILLERY. The Times in an article discusses the subject of field guns, and the importance of strengthening the British army in regard to its artillery is forcibly urged. The journal gives a 'multitude of instances of the power and usefulness of artillery in the field when a general knows how to make use of it. As much, says the Times, might be said of garrison artillery, and the siege of Sebastopol and the noble defence made by the French fortresses are cited in proof of the soundness of the argument. Mac- Mahon's army had to lay down its arms at Sedan pri marily on account of the disposition of the Prussian rifled field guns. The Times has lately pointed out the neccessity for more powerful pieces, if the British army is not to find itself overmatched in strength with equal numbers, but it now admits that this deficiency is not to be compared with the want of men and horses, carriages and equipment. It is im possible, exclaims the leading journal, to resist the conclusions of Lord Elcho on the subject, or to doubt that though we have guns enough, of a kind once the best in Europe, but now weaker than those of the Prussians, Russians, and Austrians, there are not nearly enough men and horses to furnish the lowest admissible proporLion— three guns per 1,000 men, infantry and cavalry —for an army 60,000 strong. The exi gencies of modern warfare demand that all field artillery shall be able to act independently, and to that end the gunners must be carried swiftly to distant parts of the field of battle, so that the guns may be brought to bear in great numbers on the same point at a critical period. The Prussians, Austrians, and Russians have the means for doing so ; the English have not. The guiles adds that field guns can no longer be brought within the range of infantry. Breech-loading small-arms have settled • that point, and there is not the slightest use in doing so, for the power of rifled guns is nowhere greater than outside the range of rifles. AN INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE. We shall soon witness large democratic demonstra tions throughout the United Kingdom for the pur pose of putting an end to the war with France. The delegates of various Democratic associations in London have held a meeting, at which the best means of influencing Germany to cease hostilities were taken into consideration. The meet ing was in favour of forming a committee to organise demonstrations throughout the country, "to call upon the GovernMent to use its moral influence in stopping hostilities." The Democrats do not, however, care to remain content with mere talking, and in proof of their earnestness they propose that in the event of the Government declining to mediate in the manlier proposed, an invitation should be given to delegates in all parts to form a deputa tion, "to call on Germany, in tke name of the democracies of all nationalities, to desist from any further prosecution of the war." AMERICAN VIEWS OF THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. The New York Times points out the moral weak ness of Prussia's position, and says that the marvel lous series of victories which led the enemies of France from the Rhine to the gates of Paris were the work of united Germany. Prussia unaided might have found a match in France. When the terms of peace come to be discussed, however, the King of Prussia alone speaks, and commits Germany to a policy which is not popular with it, and wthich at any other time it would angrily have repudiated. Ile refuses to discuss the question of terms with the present Government of France, and assumes the right to say what is the legitimate governing authority of the country which is at the mercy of his armies. The King of Prussia puts himself and his cause wholly in the wrong by fastening upon the conflict an issue with which the conquering armies haVe no concern. The New York Herald declares that King William is unwilling to make peace with the Re public because he hates and fears Republicanism, and consequently he is in a great dilemma. He ought to know that no government forced upon France by his bayonets could stand. The only safety for the Prussian King and for France, and the only chance for permanent peace, is for the King to recognise and treat with the Republic. He cannot overthrow the Republican spirit of the age, and if he cbstinately attempts to do so he may soon lall as apoleon has fallen. THE STRASBURG CLOCK. During the heroic resistance which Strasburg has made to the invaders, the fate of the world-famous ' cathedral has excited no little anxiety. The rough soldiers of both armies felt concerned in the welfare of this splendid work of art, for the French boast of it as one of their national celebrities, while the Ger mans claim it as the handicraft of early German artists and architects. According to the official German account recently published, however, the edifice had received very little injury, and, unless the last few days of the firing were more destructive, we may hope that the cathedral reached the day of surrender comparatively unhurt. The defenders established an observatory in the clock tower, and the attempt to dislodge them caused the besiegers to fire in that direction, which they had previously carefully avoided. Happily, only some panes of glass were broken. The Strasburg clock, even in hese days of elaborate mechanism, must be ranked among European marvels. Its origin dates back as fir as 1352, but the actual working clock of the present day was constructed by Schwilgne, a Stras burg artist, in 1840. It was said that his townsmen put out his eyes, for fear of his making another for a rival town, but happily this is not authenticated. The hours are struck by a figure, while an angel turns an hour glass with running sand. The quarters are struck by figures illustrating the four ages of man moving round a skeleton mower. At noon is the grand display, when a procession of the twelve apostles pas,es before a figure of the Saviour, each inclining a, they pass. A cock crows three times and flutters his wings meanwhile. Besides all this, the clock stews the month, day of the month, Zodiacal sign, clominical letter, procession of the equinoxes, and several other scientific details. When leap year comes round the 29th is faithfully recorded. The clock is worthy of the noble cathedral in which it sands, whose history is traced back to the days of Clovis. It was destroyed by lightning in 1007, S and rebuilt some years later, the tower not being finished until 1413. Ten thousand workmen, it is said, 1 tboured at it without payment. The carvings and statues are wonders of mediaeval art, while the spire rises 468 feet, or 64 feet higher than St. Paul's, the body of the Church being higher than the towers of York Minster. ,„,,,...,„ C - 4 - PA) • Cann -.'* Irtfdar HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, SEPT. 27. • The Queen went out in the morning, accompanied by Princess Louise, and her Majesty drove in the afternoon with Princess Beatrice. The Lord Chancellor and the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the Royal family. P.LECTION OF LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. The election of Lord Mayor for the City of London took place yesterday at the Guildhall, the two candidates for the office being Mr. Alderman Dakin and Mr. Alder man Gibbons. According to rotation and seniority the former would have stood for election last year, but in consequence of ill-health he was unable to serve, and the honour fell on Mr. Alderman Besley. The proceedings yesterday were marked by unusual excitement in consequence of various questions being put to Alderman Dakin, by Mr. Jones, watchmaker, and liveryman of the City, the most important of • which respected that gentleman's pecuniary position. The peaker observed that the citizens had always presumed that any gentleman who presented himself as a candidate for so high, ancient, and honourable position, 1.8 that of Lord Mayor of London, carried with him that domestic position which would enable him satisfactorily to discharge the duties of such an office. fe had now to ask Alderman Dakin, as being anxious for t he honour of the City, wheth er h e knew of any pecuniary circumstance that would prevent him from the proper tischarge of the duties of the office. (Hisses, and cries of " Order.") He put this question because rumours had teen afloat which he wished to give the Alderman an opportunity of declaring unfounded.—Alderman Dakin s.Lid he had great pleasure in answering this question, and Legged to assure the honourable liveryman, as o tie who had been connected with the City of London forty years, and with the Corporation a q uarter of a century, that in asking for election to so high an office as that of Lord Mayor he should consider himself unworthy of the place if he could not give a satis factory answer to the question. (Applause.) He must r.nhesitatingly state that he should not attempt to assume s ach a dignified office if there was the slightest occasion for the question that had been put to him. (Renewed ap plause.) The names of the two candidates - were then rut to the Livery, when there was an overwhelming show of hands in favour of Alderman Dakin. The Aldermen then retired, when their votes were taken, and the Sheriff, on nturning into court, announced that their choice had f Alen on Alderman Dakin, who was declared elected a midst considerable applause. A vote of thanks to the retiring Lord Mayor terminated the proceedings. EXTENSIVE FIRE AT CHELSEA. A fire, attended with a great loss of property, and almost fatal results to a large number of persons, happened in one of the spacious establishments in Oxford-terrace, I:ing's-road, Chelsea, yesterday morning. The building v'as numbered 34, and was in the occupation of Messrs. llossi, Grassi, and Co., eating-house proprietors. The discovery was made about 2 o'clock, when numerous 1 ,clgers and the proprietors and their families were their beds asleep. They were fortunately made sensible of their danger, and with great difficulty they managed to reach the street in safety. Some hours elapsed before the flames could be extin guished, and then not until the premises, consisting of eleven rooms, were, together with the valuable contents, a early burned out, and the roof burned off. The total loss is very considerable. The sufferers were insured in the Royal and Law Union fire offices. The pre mises of Mr. J. Heaven, a draper, No. 33, and those of Mr. G. Hardcastle, No. 35, are also more or less damaged by fire, water, and removal. DESTRUC nvE FIRE AT OLD FORD. About 3 o,clock yesterday morning, as a Police-constable of the K Division was passing along his beat he discovered Viat the premises of Mr. R. Foskett, a furniture dealer, No. 141, Roman-road, Old Ford, were in flames, and the inmates fast asleep in their beds. He succeeded, with assistance, in getting them out of the building uninjured. The flames were eventually extinguished, but not before Vie premises and contents were nearly destroyed, and Vie roof burned off. The sufferer was insured in the Phcenix Fire Office. BRITONS LOCKED Up IN PARIS.—When I went upstairs. I found Wodehouse sitting like patience on a stool, with a number of Britons round *him, who wanted to get off out of Paris. Wodehouse very justly told them that Lord Lyons had given them due notice to leave, and that they had chosen 4 their own risk to remain. The Eritons seemed to imagine that their Embassy was bound to find them a road by which they might safely withdraw from the town. One very important Briton was most indignant—" I am a man of wealth and position. lam I , ot accustomed to be treated in this manner. What is the use of you, sir, if you cannot ensure my safe passage to Ehgland? If lam killed the world shall ring with it. I shall myself make a formal complaint to Lord Granville," said this incoherent and pompous donkey. Exit man of position fuming, enter unprotected female. Of course she was a widow, of course she had lost half-a-dozen sons, of course she kept lodgings, and of course she wanted her " hambassader " generally to take her under his wing. I loft Wodehouse explaining to her that if she went out of 'aris even with a pass, she might or might not be shot i,ccording to circumstances. I will say for him that I s!iould not he as patient as he is, were I worried and badgered by the hour by a crowd of shrieking women and silly men.—Daily News Paris Letter, Sept. 18. Camb, Coats. LONDON FRIDAY, SEPT. 30, 1870. IF as yet " out of the nettle danger" the belli gerents have failed to " pluck the flower safety," several of the great military leaders on both sides have contrived, sword in hand, to carve their way through all the ghastly horrors of the campaign to the glory of a heroic reputation. For the recognition of this, success is not needed. UHRICH sur rendering at the head of his 17,000 men after his prolonged and desperate defence of Strasburg is as noble and heart - inspiring a spectacle as that of " FRITZ" riding into Palaisan in the midst of the clang of martial music, after having triumphantly passed through a long series of sanguinary and decisive victories. MAC \ , IAHoN rolled into the ditch at the close of the battle of Woerth, with one epaulette torn off by a cannon ball, and his coat skirts riddled with needle gun bullets, MACMAHON prostrate with ft fright ful wound—apparently a death wound—in his thigh, in the midst of the appalling carnage at Sedan, so far as personal heroism goes, captivates our admiration as completely as General vox MOLTKE, without a scratch upon him, organising victory in the seclusion of his moveable study, and upon one historical field after another, watching calmly, from his saddle, by the side of the KING, the radiant result of his organisation. Success is not essential, we repeat it, in the building up of a heroic reputation. Even when it has come to the worst, when the bitter end is of the very bitterest, as in the instance of Poland, the fame Avon in the deadly struggle is often that of the victim, not of the vanquisher. Even when a dauntless career is closed by au overwhelm ing defeat as in the instance of that very incarna tion of the Genius of• War, HANNIBAL, the son of HAMILCAR, the glory woe. by SCIPIO on the field of Zama, in no appreciable way whatever eclipsed the peerless repute of the Carthagenian. If only France would realize the very simple truth we are here insisting up' n, that—having vindicated her heroism, even in the fruitless %defenco of Strasburg, at Toul, at, METROPOLI rAN GOSSIP.-THURSDAY. ) Alderman David Salomons, M.P. for Greenwich, had rather a nzauvais quart d'heure last night among his con ; stituents. They are thoroughgoing Liberals and great economists, only it must be understood that Government must not economise at their expense. It is a fine thing to knock two millions off the military estimates, but then this must be effected without reducing the establishments of Woolwich and Deptford by a single man. As this con ' d i don was not complied with, the electors are very angry and ' are particularly displeased, that Mr. Gladstone did not yesterday give them the opportunity of speaking their mind. Some of them seemed to think that the Prime Minister's absence was due rather to fear than to press of business. Viewing the whole of Europe through Deptford and Woolwich spectacles, they thought it much more likely that Mr. Gladstone should be afraid of their clamour than that he should be occupied by the tremen dous European crisis. As a matter of fact, I happen to know that the Premier is incessantly occupied by foreign affairs. Those who have the good fortune to serve him in the capacity of secretary have found their posts this summer as arduous as that of bar risters in large practice during term. They have had to work early and late, and holiday has been to them a word without meaning. In connection with this subject I cannot refrain from expressing my astonishment at the complaints made even in Liberal circles at the apathy of our Government with respect to mediation, both as regards the present crisis and that which preceded the war. Even the Times has, within the present week, intimated that if Lord Granville had spoken with sufficient plainness the war would not have broken out. That the public should have a short memory and forget to-day what was done two months ago may be excusable, but that journalists should be so oblivious of important events is unpardon able. They have apparently forgotten all about the urgent despatches which Lord Granville wrote during the first fortnight of July. It was on July 4th that he took office, amid the congratulations (offered the day following) of Mr. Hammond, at the unparalleled clearness of the political atmosphere. It was on the afternoon of the sth that he received the news of the Prince of Hohen zollern's candidature, and from that time until the decla r.ttion of war on the 15th, he was incessantly engaged in writing to our ambassadors at Paris, Berlin, and Madrid—Lord Lyons, Lord Augustus Loftus, and Mr. Layard—with the object of preventing the war. At last, when it became inevitable, he warned France that if she persisted in making war after the with drawal of the original ground of complaint, public opinion would be against her.. Persons who doubt the energy or the prudence of our Government should study the des patches, which, be it remembered, elicited praise from both political parties in Parliament. In truth, there is need of confidence in our statesmen just now. • The political horizon becomes more clouded every day. The refusal of France to accept the terms which Bismarck demanded as the conditions of an armistice, will make future negotiations more difficult than ever. Now that Strasburg has been captured, Prussia will riot let it go again, will not consent to its being dismantled, but will make it a " second Gibraltar." Nor can it be doubted that she will do the same with Metz, and that she will emand the cession of the country right up to the Vosgesd Mountains. The frontier line will in all probability be still further strengthened by the purchase or Luxemburg from the King of Holland, who would be only too happy to sell that very undesirable estate of his. Bismarck's onerous conditions will go far to reduce France from a first to a second class nation. Meanwhile there is too much reason to fear that Russia is preparing to take advantage of the French collapse to strike that blow in the East which she did not venture to strike so long as it would have called an Anglo-French army into the field. Many accounts coincide in speaking of the great military preparations of the Czar. General Fleury endeavoured to persuade him that his interest lay in an understanding with France ; but the French warrior-diplomatist was not able to entice the Court of St. Petersburg into a Russo-French compact. Even if there were ever any prospect of it, there is of course none now, and Russia has only to reckon with England in making her calculations. It is probable that English opposition to Russian designs is not reckoned as a very serious matter. A well known English man of letters lately returned from western France tells me that, respecting the late French Government, which goes far to explain the collapse of the French armies. He says that he met with the son of a Norman farmer who had just been summoned to join the army. Only a very little while before this he had been drawn in the conscription, and being an only son his father paid for a substitute 2,000 francs (280). This fact was represented to the military authorities, but they said it made no difference, the young man must serve. " Then," said he, "at least you will repay the 2,000 francs." Not a bit of it. "And so," said the young man to my friend, " I am going to fight for those rascals who have robbed my father. Well, if I get a chance of shooting the Pruss, I shall shoot him, of course, but I will take precious good care to get made prisoner at the first favourable opportunity." A good deal has been said about the Emperor's private fortune. Very probably the amount has been greatly exaggerated, for if Napoleon took freely he had to spend freely. At the same time it must be remembered that more than one handsome fortune has been left either to him or to his son. It is only about eighteen months ago that the Prince Imperial inherited the large fortune of the Countess Bacciocchi, who died of smallpox. The Napoleonist London journal La Situation accuses the Orleans family of spending their money in political bribery. The Duke of Montpensier is openly accused of having furnished the gold which was paid to Admiral Topete for inducing the Spanish fleet to mutiny at Cadiz, the incident which led to the fall of Queen Isa bella two years ago. I suppose the Situation has never heard the old motto " Honi soit qui mal y pease" By the way, it is two years to-morrow that the last of the Bourbons abdicated, and all that time Spain seems to have got on very well without either Monarchy or Republic. The Pall Mall Gazette of last night had a rather sharp article upon the four newspaper correspondents, who wrote to the Times, denying the assertion made by M. Thiebling, (" Azamat Batuk") as to Prussian outrages upon French women. The article was in some measure deserved, but the Pall Mall is not wholly right in treating the four writers of the letter as journalists. Mr. N. P. Woods is one, was in fact for . a short time and until lately, on the Pall Mall's own staff, but is now correspondent for the Scotsman. Mr. Ernest Hart is a well-known London medical man, and is so far a journalist that he used to edit the British Medical Journal. But Mr. Arthur Leech, and Mr. M. G. Maclaine are rather mili tary than literary men. Mr. Leech is Major of the London Irish Rifle Volunteers, and usually President of the Irish Eight at Wimbledon, He is a retired military officer of means, and I believe represents no journal on the battle-field. So, too, Mr. Maclaine is a retired young officer of the 6th (the Carabineers) Dragoon Guards. One would like to know what our French visitors who now throng the streets of London think of this province of houses. London happens to be unfortunately just now redolent of gas. In Regent-street, Waterloo-place, and other leading thoroughfares, execution is being done on the gas pipes, and the air is almost unbreathable. There is another curious phenomenon. Shoeblacks and news boys have turned philanthropists, and started boxes for the receipt of the pence of the benevolent, who desire to help the sick and wounded. A street gamin, is not exactly the banker one would choose; but, of course, the red cross conspicuously painted on his box forbids all idea of misappropriation. One of the effects of the war has been to break up several of the nunneries in France. English Rontan Catho lics who had sent their daughters abroad to some of these establishments, and who had not seen them for ten or fifteen years, and never expected to see them again in this life, have just received them back, with somewhat of the same feeling as though they were looking upon women risen from the dead. These ladies have received a partial dispensation from their vows, and are about to proceed to America, there to open conventual and educational estab lishments. They say that they have been expecting a revolution in France for the last twelve months, so recent events have not taken them unawares. The new halfpenny postage stamps have been issued, and are pretty enough. They are red, and about two thirds of the size cf the ordinary penny stamp. The halfpenny embossed cards are not yet for sale, and will not be issued until Saturday. It may interest your readers to know that Government pays the contractor who sup plies it with postage stamps 2id. per I,ooo—not a very ruinous per tentage, certainly. • Literature is still in the lowest depths of dulness. The literary journals find it hard work to get books for review, and their advertising columns have shrunk wonderfully. Sir Charles Mike, warned by the severe treatment which Mr. Hepworth Dixon's "Free Russia " received at hands of some of the critics, has deferred his own in tended work on Russia. Mr. T. A. Trollope's new " Siren," comes out on Saturday. Mr. Theodore [artin has been doing Horace for Blackwood's edition of " The Classics for English Readers." Mr. Jeaffresou has in the press a work on Oxford, which will do for that university what his recent " Book about Clergy" has done for that body. The tale " Against Time," which recently appeared in the Cornhill, is by Mr. A. I. Shand, who has bemi one of the correspondents at the seat of war, and is now writing a book "On the Trail of the War." Mr. Rossetti's poems -have reached a 4th edition. Lord Amberley has an article in the forthcoming number of the Theological Review on " The Religious Problem in Education." Mr. Scott Russell has one in Macmillan on the loss of the " Captain," and in the same Magazine Mr. Stopford Brooke has an essay on Ruskin's'" Lectu;es on Art." Mr. John Morley has written in the Fortnig , aly on " England and the War." Those who are puzzled to determine the provisions of the Education Act, after its many transformations, may End assistance in a little book, by Mr. Hugh Owen, jun., barrister, and head of department in the Poor-law Office. This gentleman has even thus early prepared an edition of the Act, with explanatory notes. His work contains an introduction, in which the provisions of the measure are set forth at length in plain language. Then follows the Act itself, explained by an adequate accompaniment of foot-notes. At the end are printed the various Acts incorporated with Mr. Forster's measure, with the excep tion of one or two very lengthy ones. The compendium is of very small bulk, and will be found very useful. SIR D. SALOMONS, M.P., AT GREENWICH. . On Wednesday evening Alderman Sir David Salomons met his constituents at the Greenwich Lecture Hall. The hon. baronet was accompanied by Mr. W. Angerstein, late M.P. for the borough. The Lecture Hall was filled to overflowing, and the great body of the meeting listened to their senior representative with attention. The proceedings were, however, incessantly interrupted by the exclamations of a small knot of roughs, who appeared to have been sent in to create a disturbance. Owing to this • cause Sir David's remarks necessarily partook of a frag mentary eharacter. Dr. Purvis was called to the chair, and, after a few prefatory remarks, called upon' [ Sir David Salomons, who said that nothing could be more complimentary than the presence of so crowded an [ assembly. He only regretted that his right hon. colleague • could not, in justice to the position he held and in the I present condition of affairs in Europe, be present. He had now to congratulate them on the great measures • passed during the last two sessions. In the midst of these benevolent desires and preoccupations on the part of the British Parliament and Government, there had suddenly arisen a conflict of which they had seen the beginning, but which it would be very difficult for any one to trace to the bitter end. The old hustings motto of the Liberal party used to be "Peace, Reform, Retrenchment, and Non-interven tion." Now, what was the meaning of non-intervention It was that we should not interfere in other people's quar rels. The rule had, however, this disadvantage, that if we did not go to help other people when they were in' trouble, we could not expect them when we were in trouble to come and help us. (Cheers). They might, however, re member what the Government had done in this unhappy contest. At the breaking out of hostilities our Go vernment succeeded in obtaining renewed pledges from both belligerents to respect the integrity of Belgium. The result was that, although there was war to the knife be tween France and Germany, Belgium had not been inter fered with. Was it nothing to have kept the faith of treaties and to have preserved Belgium from the horrors of war ? (Cheers.) There was no harm in going to Prussia and doing what we could now that France was sufficiently humiliated. (A cry—" Come to Greenwich.") He supposed they referred to the reductiuns. The House of Commons had its hot and cold fits of economy. A year or two ago there was a cold fit. Now there was a hot one, and the army and navy were to be increased. 'The Government had got rid of Woolwich dockyard. (A. voice ; " Who did it?") A committee of the House of Commons did it- The notion on the part of the House, - the Government, and the shipbuilders of that day was to build ships so large that they could do anything but keep at sea. It would have been better if smaller ships, with less draught of water, and floating batteries had been built for the defence of our coast. These vessels, it was now admitted, were wanted, and , Woolwich dockyard would have been useful for build ' ing them. (Interruption.) Reverting to the subject of education, the worthy alderman remarked that the population of this country was supposed to be 25,000,000, and the children who ought to go to school might be taken at one-tenth of that number. There should, there fore, be 2,500,000 children receiving instruction in schools. There was school accommodation for about 2,000,000, but there were only 1,500,000 children receiving educa tion in certified schools. In Deptford, out of 4,597 there were only about 1,700 attending school. Of 5,053 children in Woolwich the average number receiving in struction was not more than 2,935. In Plumstead out of 2,450 children only 1,272 were on an average getting the schooling they needed, so that there were about 16,000 children in this borough who ought to be receiving the benefits of education, while less than half that number, or 7,679, were actually attending school. (Hear, hear.) Now, the electors of this borough would bye and-by have to elect a •School Board, and they should take care that this School Board was composed of the right sort of men, who would do their duty to the rich and poor alike. There were in Greenwich a great many endowed schools, and the School Boards ought to provide that those endowed schools should have their funds rightly employed for the improvement generally of the education of the people of the district. Sir David Salomons then replied to various questions put by his constituents. At the conclusion of his address Alderman Salomons narrowly escaped a vote of censure from his constituents. The following amendment to a resolution was proposed by working men :—" That this meeting is of opinion that Sir David Salomons has regarded the interests of the Corporation of the City of London, of which he is an alderman, as superior to the claims of the local interests of Greenwich, Woolwich, and Deptford ; that he has not consistently adhered to the pledges upon which the Nonconformists of the borough gave him their support, especially on the University Tests and Education questions ; and that he failed in his duty to the advanced Liberals in neglecting to press the Ballot Bill and other necessary reforms in the franchise." The chairman declared against the amend ment, but a protest was entered. THE MARQUIS OF AYLESBURY ON THE WAR. At the Marlborough Agricultural Association dinner on Wednesday the Marquis of Aylesbury in the chair, Sir George Jenkinson, Archdeacon Stanton, and a large party were . present. In proposing the toast of the Army and Navy the Marquis of Aylesbury said he drew lessons from the war. Two powerful neighbouring nations of military tendencies, and warlike ideas were in a state of permanent excite ment towards each other ; it should not astonish them going to war, and he did not think there was m u ch to choose between them. Our own insular position is our chief protection, but that was no reason for leaving our selves entirely defenceless, though with a good fleet we ought to be prepared. With regard to the land forces, when the troops returned from the colonies we would have 80,000 regular troops, 100,000 militia, and 150,000 Volunteers. Without discouraging the Volunteers, who were invaluable, there was no shewing that the military spirit existing, would not be dependent on them for defence. Country courage was the same in all nations; discipline was everything, and he strongly advocated the Prussian system. As he had astonished others three years ago, prophesying compulsory education, so now he prophesied every man would be com pulsorily liable :to serve his country. Recruiting for the militia he abjured, as it was taking from the line regiments. Every young man, with necessary exception, should be bound legally to serve his country two or three years, and it would not be found to be a great hardship to be liable to be called out to resist invasion. He was utterly opposed to voluntaryism in any form.—Sir George Jenkin son, as a county member, touched on leading topics, showing the futility of English attempts at intervention or doing anything, whereby a little army was swallowed up as a mouthful by a vortex of men. There was nothing more humiliating than brandishing the sword in the day of deliberation, and then in the dayof fighting brandishing simply the pen. He proposed the organisation of the reserve forces and the employment of half-pay officers. He had no sympathy with either com batants. If he had, he would have thought Prussia might have affected sufficient magnanimity to accept the terms France offered of completely disarming herself. There was no blacker page in history than the way in which the French people turned on the Emperor in the hour of adversity, chewing the danger of letting loose the tide of democracy, without even a government to treat +with the enemy. THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIG F O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST N EWS of the WAR, and of all other events. rut 151 Ti Ti fru ser ap ] br( by die th ( rig Tr f) alb (i t E Te,c, St(