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ALRAMBRA —Grand Ballet and. Varibt ies. CuzzonNt—Firevvorks, billet , &c. ST. J - Akts'a HALL—Ohristy Minstrels. Every evening. MADetNLE TUSEATID'S Mak-IS-Street) —From 11 a.m. till 3 p.m. arcl7 till 10 p.m. ls.; (yam rooms, 64. POLYTECBNW—PsciitsNITT ) s Clbasta. Afternoon and Evening. gijg-2 c r i *, • tit vitt ) 444+0 LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1870 Tu responsibility of the war, according to the view of our leading contemporary, devolves, now that tte ENTEROR is gone, upon the Republican Govern ment. We cannot see this. We cannot but think, • in fact, that the solemn declaration formally set forth by the King of PRUSSIA in his very first Pro clamation is pfbof positive to the contrary. It is demonstrative of the .truth, such as we maintain it to be, that any such deduction is simply illogical. King WILLIAM declared that be waged was not against France, but against the Emperor NAPOLEON lIL Nov that the EMPEROR has suc cumbed, now that he is a prisoner at Wilhelmshahe, the one object of the war as defined by the KING might be regarded as accomplished. Hence, • putting the implication it was insisting upon rather coarsely, the Gaulola said the other day that after the collapse of Imperialism at Sedan on the 2nd Septenther—if the Prussian Sovereign in spite of that collapse continued his march upon Paris, if he did not at once sheath his sword and withdraw his forces northwards he was—a liar. Without going any such brutal length as that, it is snrely allowable for us to insist that the KING has placed himself in an entirely false position, when, after having emphatically assorted that he made war against the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. , and not against France, when the EMPEROR is his prisoner, he still carries on the war against France, and with every appearance of doing se @ outranae. Again, in that same first Proclamation of the Prussian Monarch it was most positively insisted upon that Germany entered upon the contest not With any view whatever to territorial aggrandisement, but simply and solely for the vindication of the rights and liDerties and independence of the beloved Father land. Nevertheless, in flagrant contradiction to that most positive avowal, Alsace and Lorraine have been alized and occupied with an evident determination that they shall be absorbed and incorporated with the other south -eastern possessions of Allemania. Insomuch is this proceed ing again, en the part of the German KING, irrecon cilable with his claims to be regarded as truthful and consistent,that cum more the GauloiB blurts out the trucculent gibe that he is a liar. Count von BIS MARCK himself has very recently volunteered to the • Pall midi Gazette Correspondent the avowal that the Prussian resolve la to seeare to themselves henceforth, if possible, the ocoupation and retention of the two great fortified places of Metz and Strasbourg. These, Prussia will insist upon holding, as material guarantees, that France, whether Republican or Imperial, will, for the future, be on her good behaviour in regard to Germany. Retaining Alsace and Lorraine, taking forcible possession of Metz and Strasbourg-, continuing her march upon Paris—now that the EMPEROR iS a prisoner of war at the Schloss Napoleon Prussia is clearly acting inconsistently with her own programme. Prussia is clearly placing herself quite deliberately in an entirely false position. Now that NAPOLEON 111. has surrendered, now that the chief part of the Imperial army has capitulated, the consistent and honourable course open to Prussia would be this— to sheath her victorious sword, to open negotiations with the Government, such as it is, now in power at Paris, to insist upon France indemnifying the conqueror for the expenses of the war, and to define the articles of a treaty of permanent pacification between the belligerents. Instead of this the lbar is continuecl, the Prussian forces are still advancing upon Paris, the sword of Germany is still resolutely unsheathed, as though the King's declaration had been the very reverse of what it actually was, as though he had asserted that he made star against France, and not against the Emperor NAPOLEON THE - present situation is full of startling conttasts. Any number of morals might be drawn from it, any number of sermons might be written upon it. Never, for instance, was there a more wonderful text than "August 2nd and September 2nd." Those two dates mark one of the Most sudden catastrophes that the world ever saw, On August 2nd the. French artilleiy fired its first shot, the terrible mitrailleuse made its hoarse voice haaird for the first time, sad the open town of Saarbriick was shelled because the French were getting impatient for hostilities. It was on September 2nd, just one month later, that the French troops, driven almost from end to end of France, *ere—sach, of them as had not perished—fleeing wildly into Sedan before the, frightful storm of shot and shell that made the little krdennois fortress a Teri tattle hell upon earth. The sqldiers had had enough of war then, and Ear more than enough. Thousands of thorn were only too glad to ' be sent prisoners of war to the city which they were, to have entered as victors. But tire contrasts are not confined to one part of Europe. One of the most extraordinary results of the war will be found far to the south of France. Any how v.. may hem , that the Italian troops have Tossed the Roman fiontier unopposed on their way to Roma:. Yet it vale less than three years awa that NAretr..-ox was sending his troops, as fast as steasa could take them, front Marseilles to Civita Vecchia, in order to prevent the unification of Italy. ' A united Germany he had not been able to prevent, had not dared to oppose by force ofarms ; but a united Italy he would not suffer, lox ha was strong enou gh to forbid it. GARIBALDI some ten years ago said that VICTOR BMMANVEL should be crowned on the OaPitol• NAPOLWOM sowed that he should not. GAMBALIA Came into collision with NAPOLEON' in the 'petikin of his Deputy-Ge'neral an FAILLY, aird victory was on the side of the big battalions. The IHE SUN, LONDON, TITURSDAY, SEPTEMI3ER 8 , 1876 4has,s.epots did marvels, wrote DE FAILLY 'to hie master, 04 413 i t C.ll l lRf3 to 71,aS that GARLD A LDI WilA ma& a iisone-r and the POPE remehmd at Rome. Then came- the deluge. 'Then the fountains of the great denp were broken up. 'then chaos came back again. And now what dowe see through the storm-clouds, through the thick smoke of battle ,? Forty thassand Italian troops are drawing nearer and nearer to the territory of the PONTIFF. The Sovereign who protected him is discrownecl and imprisoned ; the Oeneral who fought for him moped -the merciless. resentment of his own infuriate troops only , by death. And what alma. GAZIDALDI Will he,. old and I;triaeN renew Ms youth like the eagle's, now that the old longing of his earlier days it about to be fulfilled? Will he Still perform Iris vow, and crown Vie'Voa 1-landuzaJF.L King of Italy, complete from. Sum 4io Syr:louse? We doubt it. GAILIRALDI has long lost faith In the Galan name Ba; believes only in. a Republio l and will devote to its establishment Rich strength as he still.retains. He and his fellow Republipuks will nbt even be content with Rome. They are demanding back from. France the provinces which France has taken from Italy Nice, the pro- ABM which gave Ganmnan birth, and which CAVOUR so unwillingly surrendered in 18001 even Obrsica, - which became Fbench in 1768, just in time to make the first of the BONAPARTES a Frenchman. It may be that Prussta, 'which desires to see a strong Italy, act as a check upon France in the:south, will favour these views and support these demands. But it is . too early us yet to say what will happen there. The proclamation of the Republic in France will 1 give an immense impetus to the revolutionary party throughout Europe, and nowhere more so than in Italy. Only one thing is certain ; if VICTOR EMMANUEL is to retain / his crown he must march upon Rome. Italy will throw him over, will abolish monarchy altogether, if the first King of Italy shrinks from completing the task upon which the Italians have set their hearts. It is not certain, under the present altered conditions of Europe, if even this step will save him. If he does not take it he will certainly be lost. There Is one more contrast yet in store. We have already alluded to it. What is to become of the POPiO Where will he betake himself The British Government will give him ticsosnmo dation at Malta if he should chow's to betake himself there but is hardly likely that the head of Roman. Catholic Christendom. will consent to be the subject ci a heretic Sovereign. It 18 more probable that he will remain where he is, allowed full possession of a palace rind a garden. Or are we to see the clays of Avignon restored, and France, which will have no sovereign of her own, giving shelter to him who has been declared the supreme lord of Christendom ? ' Tins is no time for recrimination. Europe passed , suddenly out of a state of profound peace into one of desperate warfare. We say emphatically "suddenly" because when the Prime Minister of France and a man of the experience of Mr. ILimfugisln declared almost simultaneously, and in almost identical language, only a few days before the memorable 6th of July, that the political atmosphere was pro foundly calm, it is , clear that the present war is not an event that there was any reason to anticipate. On that account there is no reason' to blame our -Government for having reduced our military defences, and the fact that they had to raise 20,000 additional men in August is no ground for condemn ing them for dismissing 21,000 in March. At the same time it cannot be too distinctly understood that the condition. of affairs has entirely changed since the spring. Not only are the halcyon days of L universal 'peace not arrived, but it is only too plain that a war may be declarCd without warn ing and without just excuse. This being so there is not a single nation which can feel sure that it will not have at some time or other to fight for its existence,. This is no case of sudden panic such as befel us in 1858 and 1860. We do not suppose for one moment that the French, after they have made peace, will revenge the criticisms of the Times by invading our shores. We cro not imagine that Prussia, albeit Victorious, is so lustful of territory or' so enamoured of bloodshed that she will send her few iron-clads up the Tyne or the Humber. The danger is not of such a kind that it need make us rush into costly because hasty, and therefore inefficient, preparations. There is no chance of our repeating " PALMERSTON follies" in the shape of enormous fortifications which we should never be able to man. The war now raging bas taught us how small a part fortifications play in a campaign. Metz has but served as a trap to detain the principal French army, •and as for the other fortresses they have for the most part simply been passed by the invaders who have pressed on through the country far in the rear. The one lesson we have learnt, or at all events should learn, is that even in time of peace we ought to have an army capable of expansion at the shortest notice. The problem of a cheap efficient _national defence I is not easy to solve,. On the one hand we cannot endure the cost of a large standing army 5 on the other hand the force which we do maintain ought to be available for active service promptly, This would be the case even if we had merely our own country to defend. But it must be re. membered that we have taken upon ourselves • obligatiort towards other countries which may have to be fulfilled almost at a day's notice. Everything therefore depends upon our reserv►' forae-, too fail as numbers are concerned, this is adequate for all the demands that are likely to be made upon us% Bat then, unfortunately, it exists to a great extent oily on paper. Undoubtedly, as Lord ELcuo remarked in his letter to the Tunes, to which we have already referred, Mr. CARDWELL'S principle as set forth by him in his speech on the Army Estimates, is sound. Unquestionably, it is right to keep down the numbers of a regiment while maintaining • the cadres, provided you can be sure of filling up the numbers—of re-clothing the skeleton with flesh when required. But this is just what Mr. CARDWELL would find himself unable to do if England were unhappily involved in war. Our army reserve,' speaking in the strict technical sense of the word, consists of two classes I the first contains only 2,000 ma the scsond doo, indeed, cantata 19,0110, but of 'Heap; 14100 wife pensioners, excellent, Eloitliprs, yet •spmewhat antique for laeo to depend upon in the time of a great national struggle. Besides these two classes are the militia, 20,000 in number, and the j volunteers, 200,000. The militia are liable to serve abroad in time of war, the volunteers are liable to serve only in the defence of the country if it should r be actually invaded. Both are short of officers and short of arms. The militia would possibly be able to co-operate with regular troops in a little time; the volunteers are for the most part individual units having no interdependence, incapable of acting together—a collection of sharpshooters, in fact, asefui for guerilla warfare, useful to fire at an advancing enemy from behind hedgerows, but wholly unfit to perform any military manoeuvres save marching past and some other few review-day accomplishments. This state of things is neither creditable nor safe. ,Unfortunately Mr, CARDWELL does not seem to be alive to it, We dt itot blame hint fer the past, f'o as we have said it was impossible to, foresee the • events now passing. We do blame him that he does not take steps to supplement what is wanting and to remedy what is tuniies, I3e spernsto be bent upon maintaining tire same arrangements as were provided in the early part of the year. The notice that only a very small proportion of the candidates who passed recently the examination for direct commissions will be able to obtain commiz,zions, reads strangely .tat a time when our militia is most inadequately officered. The conduct of the Govern ' ment towards the Volunteers also is most unwise. altbough, some few changes just announced are steps In the right direction. By all means let the War Office insist upon efficiency before the public- money is granted—but when efficiency is attained there ought to be no niggardli ness. Our army is essentially one of defence, and relying upon that the Government has endeavoured to take tinfairoductntage of the Volunteers. They have offered their time, Government takes also their money, , The Government is enabled, to obtain credit for its budgets 'because (thanks to the volunteers) it 1s able to reduce the army estimatos. But it is not fair to °onside* the volunteers as a valid. foree for reasons of economy, and to snub them as inefficient when. it becomes a question of expenditure, if the volunteers are worth anything it is most un just to throw upon them the burden of pro viding ranges and travelling expenses and such like items, or else compel them to resort to the undignified expedient of fancy fairs. It is nothing less than disgraceful that our Volunteer Force should have to depend for its funds upon the sale of baby-clothing. There are many other grounds of grievance; and not the least of them is that the . r Volunteers are still kept without efficient weapons. The Government has undertaken to supply our citizen soldiers with arms, and has fulfilled its promise so badly that it is difficult to hit a haystack at 500 yards with the weapon now in use. There are many other grounds of complaint and' alarm. We have not space to detail them on the present occasion. But we cannot consider without dismay the condition in which a large army would find itself as regards commissariat and all that relates to what is now called the control department, if England were by any evil chance to be engaged in another con tinental war, =as OF THE DAY. Two tcHNE.4 ix A CARER& The Emperor Napoleon has during his Attu' ' career passed through many strange scenes, but perhaps nothtfig has been more remarkable than the , diversity which has occurred in the cireumstauces under which he treated of peace with German Sovereigns dating the last eleven years. In 1859 ' the Emperor Napoleon met the Emperor of Austria in a cottage in the vicinity of the Lombard battlefield. He was then in the full pride of success, and elated with the victories of the Italian campaign. The interview was of brief duration, but it determined the fate of Lombardy. It is difficult to realise that it was the same man who so recently met the King of Prussia in a small room near the battle field of Sedan, No longer the conqueror but the conquered, the proud defender of Italy had become the ruined Emperor and the defeated leader of the crushed armies of France. His position is far worse than that of the Austrian Emperor, for he was not a prisoner, and was enabled to return to his throne. These momentous interviews are the turning points of the career of the Emperor. As he stepped from the Loin- , bard cottage the most distinguished Sovereign of the world, so he left the room near Sedan the most unfor tunate of living rulers hereafter to fill a dark page in the annals of disappointed ambition. From the time when ho dictated terms of peace to the Austrians, to the day when he told the King of Prussia that he had iv) longer the right to accept terms on his own authority, his power had visibly de clinkl, and those who watched his career attentively could discern the gradual but certain loss of his prestige. Casual observers, however, will not trouble themselves with such observations, and hence the sketch of these Imperial interviews will remain a striking illustration of the rise and fall of human power, and the uncertainty that attends on such fitful careers as. that which culminated at Solferino, to set in snch a starless night as that of Sedan. THE BATTLE OP SEDAN AS A MILITADX LESSON. The 7 //nes thinks that the battle of Sedan conveys a creat military lesson, for it was decided entirely by the fire of artillery. The superiority of the German guns in weight, range, and precision was most decisive, and it was ,this which brought about the capitulation of Sedan, and the surrender of the French army. It was deemed necessary for Sedan to give up, although smaller places were holding out against the enemy, because it had no chance against the artillery which the Germans had brought to bear on it.SThe great military lesson of this battle must be applied to ourselves The recent reductions affected the artillery as well as the infantry of our army and changes have been proposed which do not seem consistent with the ex perience so fearfully gained at Sedan. This is scarcely a time when' we should elect to choose the French system, and to discard that of Prussia. It was not the advantage of numbers which gained the day for the Germans, and the Emperor Napoleon himself declared that ho owed his defeat to the force of his enemy's artillery. We must &so bear in mind That our army should keep up its strength in artillery, which is of more importance than infantry and cannot be so readily supplied or ex temporised. We should lose no time in improv ing the condition of the British guns, and we possess means and material for rendering them the best in the world. This is one of the most sig nificant of the lessons which each day of these stirring times brings before us. VICE TIRED OF FRE2QOII RULE, It would seem by accounts received from Florence that the people of Nice are inclined to take advan tage of the disorganisation of the French Government to break off their connection with France. A deputa tion from Nice has waited on the Minister for Foreign Affairs to represent their views. The inhabitants of Nice, thoy declared, were tired of supporting the tyrannical yoke of France. They had not returned a single Frenchman in the late elections, but had chosen Italians, and the French papers had not dared to criticise the elections. The young men refused to join the Garde Mobile, and secret societies had been l'orwed b . Mazzinian agentS were numerous, and all was. peddy for s general rising. Affairs were urgent, aid the Italian Government ought to take immediate steps for the annexation of the province to the Italian kingdom; or, at least, they should give the people some hope. The Foreign Minister said he could not make any declaraction on such a subject, and the delegates retreated, not too well satisfied with their reception, and openly. saying that they had . done their best to keep the direction of affairs out of the hands of the Republicans, and should now give up the attempt. FRENCH EQUALITY AND GERhIAN UNITY. Mr. Henry Labouohere writes at some lingilt in reference to the attitude of the English press. and people\ respecting the proposed cession of Alsace and Loriaino to Germany by France ; but if a German army invaded England and overran Kent and Sussex, Englishmen would be the first to cry out if the French calmly discussed and almost recommended the stcesision of those tWu ooturties. France, he believes, was in the wrong in declaring war,. but the idea that two French. provinces should be incorporated into Germany by mere brute farce as .Poland was into Russia is a Monstrous and wicked one, which Frenchmen have a right to expect Englishmen to endeavour, officially and unofficially, to hinder. France made a great mg)take in allowing Imperialism to rule over her for twenty years, but in regard to social and political equality she is immeasurably, superior to:Germany. In Prussia and the other German States a hard and fast line separates the nubility from the rest of the world., Every Cabinet Minister in Prussia is a noble, and most of the officers in the German army.. France, whatever her faults, has done more than any other country to break down class barriers. Her generals and statesmen do'not owe their position to birth, and there is no Brahminical caste vow to govern, and therefore English working men and the English middle classes should, Mr.: Labouchere considers, sympathise with France, and protest against her d:snaemberment.., CHINME .OFPICIAL6 AND THE MASSACRE. The English papers published in China are still full of details of the terrible massacre of Tien-tsin, and plainly intimate their conviction of the compli city of th© Chinese officials in the outrage. One paper cites a number of incidents to prove that the actual perpetration of the massacre and pillage by the fire guilds was encouraged, if not led and directed, by two of the highest military officers, and it appears that a warning, three times repeated by the British Consul, was totally disregarded, While the authorities found means to control the rioters as soon as they proposed to attack other foreigners than the French. Moreover, none of the rioters had bec:i apprehended when the mail left, and the tenour of the official proclamations was anything but satis factory. It is said that Chung How, the Represen tative of the Foreign Board of Tient-sin, one of those officials whose names are specially mentioned in con nection with the massacre, is to be sent to Paris as a special ambassador to explain matters to the Emperor of the French. As matters have .turned out, before he reaches Paris he will find a change of dynasty, and the rulers of the French too busy with wholesale slaughter to take up the question of the missionaries, but sooner or later, no doubt, France will demand reparation for the massacre. The Overland China Mail suggests that some expla nation for the savage attack on the French may be found in a few words exchanged between the late Mr. Anson Burlingame and the then French Minister of Foreign Affairs, La Valette, who used menaces against China which Burlingame said he would repeat at Pekin. The account of the tragedy, given by the Protestant missionaries to her British Majesty's Consul at Tien-tsin, does not, however, confirm this -view, as they distinctly state that the animosity of the mob was far from being directed against the French alone. All the Protestant chapels, American and English, eight in number, were destroyed, and many converts ill-used and plundered. These gentlemen deliberately state their conviction that the massacres, if they have not had official authority, have had official recog nition. The Protestant clergy and Missionaries of Shanghai have sent a feeling address of condolence to the Jesuit Fathers, and many other sections of the community have followed their example. The victims were interred at Hong Kong with all due honour, all nationalities being represented. Father Raimondi, a Jesuit, delivered an eloquent funeral oration. Chung How has tendered the French money compensation, and has offered to rebuild the cathedral, the houses of the Sisters of Mercy, and the chapels in splendid style. THE BARMAID SHOW. The novel euterprise of holding a barmaid show, now • being undertaken at the North Woolwich Gardens, a very popular resort in fine weather for Londoners, promises to iresult successfully. Mr. Holland, the promoter of the exhibition, has provided that every girl who does not win a prize by reason of her appearance, her smiles, or her cAluetry is to have five per cent. of the receipts she takes from customers. This arrangement securing all the maids against loss, added, probably, to the desire for ad miration almost always characteristic of the fair sex, no doubt caused the entriefi of competitors for favours to be as large as they are. A contemporary, in justifying the exhibition, contends tkat this is not a time for hiding lights voider bushels. Fine cattle go to Islington,, fine dogs to the Crystal Palace, fine fruit and flowers to the Botanic Gardens, fine babes to Highbury barn, and why, therefore, should not fine barmaids spew themselves at Woolwich And why should they not be followed possibly in time by footmen and members of Parliament ? On Tuesday it was remarked that some of the girls behind the handsomely decorated "bars" were de cidedly good looking. "A stylish girl in a brown dress, with a cataract of curls falling over her chignon, being the loadstone of a great many silent young men on one side of the room, while opposite to her, at the bar in the centre, a young lady in a striped blue silk with brimming eyes, had a numerous clientele of her own." Other girls, perhaps as nice looking and fully as well arrayed, were left blooming alone. There were many philosophic spectators of the exhibition who expressed fears as to the bickerings and heartburnings the competition might occasion. They probably conjectured rightly when they decided that such heartburnings would be certainly felt, hut on the other hand girls who did not carry off the honours perhaps might have a sort of consolation in attributing their ill-fortune to some undue forwardness on the part of those who won. By all accounts, however, no want of propriety was noticeable on the part of the girls, and if no further harm than a temporary qualm at not being made a favourite, results from the enter tainment, it will be looked upon at its termination as a proceeding which after all was not very inconsistent in this moral but enlightened age. SHIP BUILDING IN THE UNITED STATES. The American shipbuilders are not inclined to resign themselves patiently to the injuries inflicted on their trade by the prejudices of the Protectionists. . A shipbuilder of some standing and experience writes to the New York Times, setting forth the grievances of his fellow-workers, and declaring that only liberal legislation and reduced rates of living can remove the depression of his trade. In corroboration of his words the New York Times, which is the con sistent advocate of a more enlightened policy, states that not a single vessel of any magnitude is now in construction in the port of New York, a steam barge for carrying market produce on the North River being the only craft in the builders' hands. Many of the better class of mechanics have gone westward as farmers, others have taken up different trades or sunk into common labourers, If there were n sudden demand for good shipwright s they would not, consequently, be forthcoming imme diately. The shipbuilder says that the first great want is the free admission of shipbuilding materials and to obtain this the builders must co-operate with other trades in reforming the tariff. Secondly there must be a reduction of prices generally and wages must come down. The general diminution of cost must be preceded by u return to specie payments, and by an abandonment of the incontrovertible cur rency. Meanwhile, says the Times in summing up these wants, much time must be spent, and the , county needs ships. Shall it buy them ready made or wait indefinitely MR. KENNEDY OF MARYLAND. At Newport, Rhode Island, John Pendleton Kennedy, of Maryland, has lately died. H e was a statesman and an author, and represented the best element in American society. was prominent in Congress as a member of the old Whig party, at the time when Clay and Webster were leaders there. He was Secretary of the Navy in 1852. 111 Congress he was th e foremost man to g i ve a id to Professor S.F. B. Morse in demonstrating the practi cability of the electric telegraph, and he drew 4, the resoluti o n by w hi c h t h e money was appro priated for stretching the first magnetic wire from Washing . ' • ton to 'Balti more , as an exper i men t. the Navy Department be carried out the re emorable expedition to Japan, by which the ports of the East we re opened to th e co m merce o f the world. It i s a fact little known to Europeans or Americans that be g a‘l3 the earliest direction and encouragement to th e generous impulses of the late Mr. George Peabody' with whom he was on terms of intimacy. Kennedy was distinguished for his literary attain' ments. Ile was the friend of Thackerav, and for plied the rough draft' of the passage in the "Vir ginians," which relates the campaign of Braddock. His loss to the United States is. the more to be de plored as his countrymen possess so few scholars and gen tlemen. tart .I'`ll.-trr--:--#.lllllll}lr. HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, SETT• In the morning the Queen drove out, accompanied 131 Princess Beatrice. The Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Mary 1 - 431/. celles were in attendance. The Marquis of St a ff or d, th e E ar l of Rosebery, T, Halifax, and the Hon. Lady Biddulph had the honour(); dining with the Queen and the Royal family. AFFAIRS IN ITALY. A letter from the Florence correspondent of the Temps says :—" The M arqu i s S p i no l a, Colonel °f the Guides, the husband of the morganatic daugh ter of the King, -went to . Paris, to see th e Prince' Clotilde and learn her intentions: The Princess very positively refused to return to Italy for 0 , 6 time being. She would even have detained her children a this had been allowed. Prince Napoleon is still at Florence, and is to be seen every evening driving with 139 aide-de-camp and one of the aides-de-camp of the 16 0 Having fulfilled his mission, which was somewhat vogu e ' the Prince seems to have reflected that as the Emper or would not have hi m a t th e camp, an d did not want be in Paris, he had better remain where he was. But ther e is no denying that the Prince at Pitti finds himself sore, what in the position des c rib e d by Ci cero when Caesar visit his villa at Poussoles. The King, leaving him at Florence, has gone to ruralise at Petraja, on the neig h i bouring hills, where he has one of the Medicean villas the 17th century, which are full of ~frescoes' illustrating the history of France and its r e ; lations with T uscany . Italy is not w i t hout apprehension of a com p u l sory extension of the war, I'l3' .she is inclined to convert the affiance of neutral Pow erg into an alliance for mediation. She seems inclined to support firmly, under any ci rcums t ances, th e i ntegr ity °`, France. There are, moreover, some serious political O r rests which rest in the idea of peace at any Pr ice ' for fear of a greater evil. As for RI the Government has ass em bl e d on the P3P, frontier forty thousand men rea d y f or a f uture strugg't It will not be begun under present cir cums t ances w itha l incentive and without some diplomatic support, but it ie plain that it is hoped circumstances will bring abou t ,: solution of some kind. Th e L e f t accuse Wh t u. Moderate party and th e f ormer Roman coninlitt,- of preparing a m ovemen t t owar d s V i ter b o in concert : the Government t o occupy t h e terr i tory without hom e , thus seeking, a partial and unsatisfactory settlement, instead of the grand and true solution which consists '" occupying Rome itself with resolution and promptitticl ° ' This is not denied by the G overnmen t supporters, sllll° ' declare that they will proceed in due course. I " about to post this lette r , w h en I rece i ve d terrible n°, 4 " The rumour is current th a t It a ly i s no t w i t h ou t f°`' 6. respecting the intentions of P russ i a i n regar d to Pei 6. r The Left urges the Gover n m en t t o en t er th e Papal tety ritory, and declares that the fate of Italy deP° ll ei perhaps on an immediate entry into Rome. The Depil tj h of the Left residing at Florence, with M. Rattazzi at head, are in favour of passing the Tiber, and march 7, on Rome. If this is ;lot done, they threaten to agittl • and meetings have been held at Parma, Milan, Turin, All is ready on the frontier. E very thi ng i s arrang e an entry into the Papal territory at the first sign Trains, ambulances, nothing is wanting. Will the e ntb . be made. The Ministers have held severa l c ouncils wit ] ; out coming to a decision. NOthing is known of the• determination, though much was said yesterday of ill° table delays, of the opposition of P r u ss i a , th e influence (3f Bavaria, &c. To-day all this is contradicted. Prl sei , we are told is willin g t o agree t o th e so l u ti o n of th Roman question in the Italian sense ; the troops enter the Papal dominions and march straight t o 8011 . I have no private i n f orma ti on. The mo d erate partYl3:!, some French sympathies. Th e L e f t, s i nce t h e l as t co" asters, has grown more and more frantically p r ussil The .Reforms, of M. Crispi, sets forth the demands Wit Italy should make in a Congress wh en s h e is Rome, It is as follows :—" Italy should be read to speak to s Congress of the States of Enrl: from the height of h er sea t a t Rome. 'of have to demand Nice, Corsica, the neutralisation to Savoy. The list of the restorations which we hav ° 4 claim is not a short one. It will be a misfortune if 17 only demands what she sho u ld f ree ly t a k e —h er ca pit7 9 Such is the language of the a d vance d party, NOW e suitable moment for dem an di ng C ors i ca ! The Or language is held by th e G aze tt e o f Mi lan and the otil e t advanced organs. I gather, from these indications t l ', e you must not allow yourselve s t o b e i n fl uence d at Prf,, by the highsoundi ng wor d s of the Left. They will l o u t their tone, I hope, when France redresses her wrong' Do not be misled by them as your Government was ' .fi e merly by ambassadors respecting the sentiments of mark, Bavaria, and other places. WOREMENS 7 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, A GSr CULTURAL HALL, IBLINGTON.—The number of visitors' exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors, and 0 0 0 ' on the 29th instant, was 11,207. CRYSTAL PALACE.----ONE SHILLING DAY, Wedfl day, September 7, 1870 . —A dmissions by season t i c ke'' 729; ditto on payments, 1,870 ; total visitors, 2,599. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Fireworks will 011 ,,; mence at half-past s even thi s even i ng, and will include th y great bridge of Kehl d ev i ce , w hi c h h as proved 1314.18 successful introduction. T o -d a y i s th e b est d ay Of ,1:4 Autumn Flower Show. " Mas an i e ll o " w ill b e p l a yec' r Miss Blanche Cole, Mr. Henry ex., in the af t noon. PIMA° MONEY ADVANCED FOR LAND D.TPRO bIENT.—A Parliamentary paper just issued gives a r et_, to of the public money adv ance d i n eac h year f rom 1847, 186'9 inclusive to promote the i m p rovemen t o f lanc l l . o Great Britain by works of drainage. The ret9 from the Inclosure Commis s i oners s h ows the t p amount advanced during the period named, to have b y e £3,929,450. The return from the Inland Revel l a j Department shews that since 1849 0,762,266 12 s . a been paid into the Exchequer on account of these lno The amount advanced from 1846 to 1869 inclusive , J, promote the improvement of land in R e id. £2,044,315 Os. 4d. ; and there had been £1,999,5516x• repaid. The rate of interest was 3i per cent. th • TREACHEROUS A M M UNITION . —A • story Al rouses terrible indignation is circulated in the press ail i4 in the streets. The .Rappel thus tells it :—The other, W i an artilleryman in garrison at Vi ncennes hid himsel'o, a magazine of mitrailleuse cart r id ges , t o avo id g oie v duty. He took up one of them and o p ene d it. In P the of powder he found sand. A second a n d thi r d g avl t . same result. His comrades came in a n d ver ifi e d the l; e , They tried to explode the cartridge s , b u t t o no purao The officers experimentalised, but without success. the commandant ordered off the soldiers and a picket of cavalry over th e p l ace. But the % i x leryman slipped a quantity o f th e f rau d u l en t t he tridges into his p oc k e t. Th ese h e carr i e d to o ';'; i . new Government, to the newspaper offices, and all sP ee , There appears to be no doubt at all that such satt,o' o s tridges have been largely stored. Twenty cn u e. were seized in the magazines of Vincennes T r ait‘, Several others have been taken at the Hotel de ; e l/ One of the reclacteurs of the Soir asserts that he hin i , be has handled a hundred of them, and found thew I ?bet utterly worthless. A gentleman tells me that his brobtio has discovered cartridges of mingled chaff and sand / 0 ,4 stores of his regiment. There will b e a t err ible 01 , 0 7 0 about this. France is not yet accustomed to Mr. Bright's principle of free trade in a d u lt era ti ons , and is now but little in the mood for learning.—Telegraph. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest 11°1C li e ril of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r onirae - sor by the medical profession in preference to French brand9ooo o plied in casks and cases for home use or exp or t a ti on . Quo 0° on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Royal 11 10 0 30 tilleries, Belfast ; or at th.ei London Offices, 4, Beaufort Bu' Strand, W.C. THE EUROPE . AN WAR A. SECOND EDITION of THE SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGHT 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.