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MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON : LONDON. CORNER of MINORrES and ALDOATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs H. J. Montague. D. James, and T. Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 730 CUPBOARD LOVE, by F. Hay. Atter which, at 8, a new and original Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO .1:10:"ES, by James Albery. To conclude with the new and successful iiurlesque, DON CARL' )S ; or, The Infante in Arms Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power. Amy Fawsitt, T Levis, and A. Newton. Doors opeß at Seven. Commence at 7.30. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. 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Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly, NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking Price 4s 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE Manufacturer, 225, Piccadilly NATIONAL INSTITUTION for DISEASES of the SKIN, Gray's-inn-road and Mitre-street. Physi cian, Dr. BARR MEADOWS, 49, Dover-street, Piccadilly. Ave rage number of Patients under treatment, 1,000 weekly. Free letters are available for necessitous applicants. THOMAS ROBINSON, Hon. Sec. H OSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT, Golden-square, W. President—the Right Hon. the Earl of STRAFFORD, F.R.S. This Hospital has relieved upwards of 24,000 patients since its foundation, and is in great NEED of FUNDS to meet the heavy current expenses. EDMUND WYLD, Secretary. WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith, w.—FUNDS are urgently needed, and the Committee earnestly appeal to the benevolent to assist them in carrying on heir useful work. T. ALEXANDER, Sec. and Sup. SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (late Dreadnought).— Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE MOVED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green wich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without in troduction or recommendation. The Society's offices are re moved from the City to the same building. KENDALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary. CITY of LONDON HOSPITAL for DISEASES of tht CHEST, Victoria Park. Special APPEAL for the NEW WING. Amount still required, 44,000. Number of beds now occupied, 120. Number of beds available with proposed addition, 104. The Hospital is entirely dependent on voluntary support. Bankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co„ 54, Lombard-street. HENRY SEWELL, Hon. Scc. Offices, 24, Finsbury-circus. RICHARD P. SLATER, Sec. TOE SUN.—LATEST EDITION to be seen every Evening, at Eight o'clock. Mr. Cimmiai's, "The ilVheatsheaf," High-street Camden-town. TILE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at air BEAUMONT'S. "The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W. fiL EX.A DER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, I\ o. 4, Old Cavendish street, Oxford-street - 11 HE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at W. slk.arErs camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY . EVEIN J I, Y 29, 1870. needs the alliance, or at least the neutrality, of Italy. It is probable that this last is the most which he will get. An offensive and defensive alliance may be the wish of the KING, it is certainly not the wish of the people of Italy. Already they have given conclu sive evidence that they will not have such an alliance. The Chambers have given VISCONTI VENOSTA to understand that a large por tion of their members will not suffer any French alliance, and the prospect of it has already led to serious disturbances, which in Milan have, it is reported, culminated in a fight between the populace and the police. The.rumour is prevalent that GARIBALDI is ready to rise; and of course it is added that he has received large supplies of Prussian gold. If this be true, the Italian Government will need all its forces at home to act as guardians of the peace, and there is little chance of any active alliance with either of the two comba tants who are about to deluge Europe with blood. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Sailors arriving from foreign parts, soldiers returning from furlough, and poor persons coming from large British towns where smallpox is always present, spread - the infection in some cases. Vaccination is not always successful in Ire land. According to the returns of the population, the number of vaccinations last year by dispensary medical officers should have been 150,000, whereas less than 118,000 children were vaccinated. Eight of the deaths which occurred from smallpox last year took place in the union of Castlebar, where an outbreak of smallpox had occurred in 1868. The Poor Law Commissioners reported that this was clearly traceable to culpable negligence in not adopt ing the measures provided by the Legislature for enforcing the Compulsory Vaccination Act, and also to the operations of an inoculator. OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. ITALIAN OPERA, Drury Lane.—La Traviata. 8.30. A DELPHI—At Seven, The Robust Invalid. Free Labour. PRINCE OF WALES'S—A 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. QUEEN'S—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Axe and Crown. VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos. WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH 13',C K. Egyptian Hall, Pic cadilly, every Evening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn ings at 3. Admission Is, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 ; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. Zo LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily (except Sun days). Admission, ls. ; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. MADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 30 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls.; extra THE TRAMWAYS BILL. The amendments made in the Tramways Bill in the House of Lords consist chiefly of additions to the measure as it left the Lower House. One new regulation sought to be introduced is in favour of allowing the promoters of a tramway to sell their undertaking to any person or company or local authority or corporation after it has been opened for traffic six months. The Peers also seek to have it designed that nothing in the Tramways Act shall interfere with the rights of any owner, lessee, or occupier of mines or minerals lying under or adja cent to any road along or across which a tramway is to be laid. Trustees of thoroughfares, more over, the Lords desire to see entitled to compensation in respect of the use of their roadway. They filially suggest that tram ways be placed only in the centre of roads and that penalties not exceeding £5 and 40s. respectively be strictly enforced for injury to the rails or con veyances or for non-payment of fares. The Tram ways Act is intended to apply only to England, Wales, and Scotland. LORD BURY AND THE WIMBLEDON REVIEW. Lord Bury has written at some length to the Time 3 in answer to the charges made against the Volunteer Review at Wimbledon. lie admits that the total effect of the review was not encouraging, as three regiments had scarcely the strength of three companies each, but he maintains that it is not the fault of the Volunteers that they have not the organisation of an army, when it is the deliberate policy of their superiors to give them none. The Volunteers devote time, personal service, and a good deal of money, but organisation is a thing which they cannot give themselves. Most of the confusion at Wimbledon resulted, he believes, from the Staff of Division Generals, and the system on which they are trained. Lord Bury proceeds to recount his Wimbledon experiences, and states that while he was . giving orders to one division of his brigade, the other began executing a series of extraordinary and unexpected movements under con flicting orders received, through a succession of aides-de-camp, from different staff officers. The changes of front which have been so severely criticised may have been badly executed, says Lord Bury, but he considers the only wonder to be that under such circumstances they were done at all, If, when he was an aide-de-camp, he had given an order to a battalion commander instead of to the brigadier, be thinks his general would have sent him home with a tolerably severe admonition. The volunteers want more time for their movements than the regulars, but it is no saving of time to throw, them into confusion. Lord Bury considers the blame rests with the young officers who are attached to the general's staff for the day, and who think it fun to gallop about with orders, rather than to the officers themselves, and he wishes to direct the attention of the authorities to a point which, in his opinion, explains a good deal of the supposed ignorance and incapacity of volunteers. A NEW IRONCLAD. Foreign Governments do not seem to participate in the prejudices that compel English inventors to deny the benefit of their genius to their own country. This fact is especially remarkable in inventions con nected with military art and shipbuilding. During the past week the Fethi Bulend, or the Great Vic tory, built from the designs of Mr. Reed, the late Constructor of the Navy, fo- the Turkish Govern ment has been tried at the Maplin Sands, off Sheer ness. is this is the second of a class of vessel built for the same Government, and as all Mr. Reed's endeavours to persuade the Admiralty of the advantages of his improvements have failed, it may be interesting at the present moment to call attention to them. The Fethi Bulend is of about 1,600 tons burden, with a length between perpen diculars of 255 feet, and an extreme breadth of 38 feet. She is armed with four 121 ton Armstrong guns of the Woolwich pattern, and these are en closed in a central battery, defended all round, and above by the heaviest armour plating. The engine room boilers, magazine, and the other vital parts of the ship are protected by 9 - inch armour plates, and the less important parts by plates diminishing from six to four inches in thick ness. These plates are subtantially " backed." By a new arrangement of the ports, aided by the tapering form of the hull fore and aft, each of the guns, in addition to broadside firing, can be fired in a direct line with the keel, obviously a com manding advantage in chasing an enemy or in defending her self when pursued. The new iron-clad is fitted with Admiral Inglefield's hydrostatic steering gear, by means of which she can be steered from any point below deck. In action, therefore, there is no neces sity for the presence of anyone on the upper deck. At 'the trial a mean speed was obtained of HI knots an hour, and the gear answered admirably. She is schooner-rigged, and her funnel is the only thing to be seen on deck at a distance. She is not of very handsome appearance, but as she is built for work and not for ornament, this can be dispensed with, Her real beauty will be seen in action. - TREATMENT OF THE INSANE. The twenty-fourth annual report of the Commis sioners in Lunacy, which has just been published, presents some interesting facts to our notice, The chief failure in the working out of the system arises from the difficulty of supervising the subordi nates who are placed in charge of the patients. It is so far satisfactory to find from the reports that these attendants are of a better class than they used to be, but it is unfortunately shewn that many serious defects still abound. The Commissioners attribute these abuses, in a great measure, to the enlargement of the asylnm buildings, whereby the only safe guarantee against temptations to the exercise of power has been removed. Some years ago it was reported that Ilanwell and Coble) Hatch were not confined to their original purpose of hospitals for the treatment and cure of the insane, but the warning was un heeded. The Commissioners have an onerous task imposed upon them, for they have the supervision of 55,000 lunatics, which is an increase of 20,000 in twelve years. Their chief anxiety is to rescue the insane patient from the dangers to which he is exposed from the " unchecked humours and ca prices of ignorant, careless, and cruel attendants." SMALLPDX IN IRELAND. In the year 1869 only 18 deaths from smallpox were registered in Ireland. The disease can scarcely be called indigenous to the country, and where it exists it has been introduced from beyond the sea. STREET REFORMS. Mr. Page, formerly Acting-Engineer of the Tunnel, writes to the Times on the subject of street reforms, and suggests many improvements that might be made. He condemns the present system of pouring water over streets from which the dirt has not been removed, and objects to the dust-cart system as injurious to health and traffic. He pro poses that boys should be employed to clean the streets, and then to water them by the hose-pipes screwed on to the mains of the water supply. The dust-carts should be as near the ground as possible, so that their contents need not be exposed, and when filled should be securely covered. If the dust holes were cleared twice a week it would be an improvement on the health and comfort of all around. In conclusion, Mr. Page remarks that as paupers to the number of 127,600 have to be supported, the labour of these persons might ho turned to account by im proving the sanitary condition of the metropolis. Ile considers that under a system of engineering autocracy the poor rates of the country could be greatly reduced. THE WASTE OF WATER. Droughts have of late years been sufficiently common in Europe to draw the attention of English men to a fact which, in their anxiety to secure an efficient system of drainage, they are very likely to forget. Too little water is as bad for the se_sil as too much, and in the general desire to get rid of all super-fluous moisture there has been no sort of provision made for storing the rainfall in case of pro tracted drought. We all knuw the unfavourable con sequences. The failure of the hay crop of 1870 has cost England dearly. The dairy farmers in particular have suffered greatly this summer, and their cattle have been miserably short of water. We have not, indeed, reached the terrible condition of some parts of France, in which people have been absolutely for bidden to water their herds, no water being used for any purpose but that of quenching human thirst. We have lost and suffered enough, however, to make us wiser for the future, and while the rainfall of this country is what it is, it must be our own fault if we cannot devise some simple and inexpensive system of storage by which the excess of one season may be applied to the deficiencies of the next. POVERTY INTENSIFIED. Of all classes of the community who suffer from the dire evils arising out of poverty, none are to be pitied more than the blind. Unable to seek indepen dent fields of labour, their condition compels them either to take refuge within the grim walls of a work house or to appeal to the generosity of the streets. The silent pleading of the blind man led by a dog, whose instinctive keenness has been developed by long training ; is one of those sights to be met with in every country that has undergoie the faintest polish of civilisation. In our larger towns, however, the helpless poverty of those afflicted by blindness has attracted the attention of Christian charity, and attempts have been made to lessen the sting of misfortune by establishing institutions where work, instruction, and recreation are combined. One of the best known of these institutions has its head quarters in the Euston-road, London, at which place the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind has long laboured to ameliorate the condition of these helpless people. In connection with this establishment, classes for instruction are held in different districts. Some of the proteges of the institution are engaged in selling goods, the manufacture of blind persons; others, again, who are unable to work, receive pensions ; and it it stated by Miss Elizabeth Gilbert that 175 blind persons are benefited by the association. During the year 1869 the sum of £2,500 was paid in wages and ?ensions, and an appeal has been made to the gene rosity of the public for funds to enlarge the useful ness of the society. The objections against alms giving as tending to encourage idle habits are wholly wanting in cases of this kind ; and by putting this unfortunate class in a position to assist themselves, not only is pauperism decreased, but a laudable im petus is given to Christian work. UNLIMITED BELIEF. To preserve the charming innocence of youth while your hair is turning grey, to have a thorough belief that, after all, the word is much better than it is painted, is surely a state of mind to be envied by a philosopher. But there is a stage beyond this, as the columns of the daily papers frequently testify. Genth men who have money to spare, and not know ing what to do with it, persist in asking people to borrow without security. People in the last stage of consumption are requested, nay, implored, to be cured for a postage stamp. Professors, learned in chemistry, will remove corns and bunions at something less than nothing a dozen, and not unfrequently a barber will shave your face, and throw in a breakfast into the bargain for the mere honour of the thing. Again appeals for help are put forward in such an artless, unsophisticated manner, that surely a lifetime must be spent in attaining the style necessary to perfect success. What but long training, close application, and a dash of genius, could produce anything like the following, taken from the Times :—" Help,—A gentleman, pursuing his studies at the University, whose prospects are greatly im peded by the serious illness of his wife, is reluc tantly compelled to adopt the present means of soli citing AID, in order that she may have the benefit of a sojourn at the sea-side, the sole hope of her restoration." It is to be trusted that the hopeful gentleman will not be disappointed, for he certainly deserves success. WILDBAD. One of the most deserted of the towns in South ern Germany now is Wildbad, that antique little place between Carlsrube and Stuttgard, in which healing waters bubble from the earth, and round winch rugged and beautiful scenery is so conspicuous a characteristic. So deserted has the place become within the past fourteen days, that the apartments taken for the Princess\of Wales, and in possession of which Her Royal Highness has already enjoyed a sojourn in Germany, have been offered for a mere song to any tourist who would like to remain in spite of wars' alarms in the once fashionable rendezvous. The town has now a melancholy air, presenting more the appearance of having suf fered desolation than of being only threa tened with it. Some venturesome residents, how ever, believe that it is not even threatened, that neither of the contending armies will intrude upon the ground. Nevertheless the streets are empty, and the i!u , t off the feet of between 3,000 and 4,000 visitors has been left behind upon its thorough fares. Among the few remaining men of note are Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian Minister at Berlin, and Baron Werther. These two gentlemen were seen walking together a few evenings since. Whether the fact can be taken as significant of an early alliance between Prussia and Russia, or whether it can be taken as implying that Wildbad is now wretchedly miserable for single promenaders, speculators have not yet postively decided. tonal ermlar. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, JULY 28. The Queen and Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Viscountess Clifton, and Her Ma jesty walked in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise. The Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley arrived at Osborne yesterday, on a visit to her Majesty. FASHION ABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-DAY. Last Day of Goodwood races. METROPOLITAN GOSSIP. THURSDAY. Still the Secret Treaty. That is the great topic of con versation on all hands, and will be more so than ever at the time these lines meet your readers' eyes, for this after noon Lord Granville will make a statement with respect to the affair, and it is thought pro bable that Mr. Gladstone will make a simul taneous statement in the Commons. No event of recent times has caused so much widespread consternation and anger. The existence of the Treaty is thoroughly believed, and the communication which Napoleon made through the Daily Telegraph on Monday with regard to Prussia's alleged proposal to take Holland, only confirms the belief. In fact the French Govern ment itself does not deny it. It is only the London Standard, more devotedly imperial than the Journal Offieiel, which is suicidally destroying its character and position by persisting in denouncing the document as a forgery, in the face of all the evidence to the contrary which is supplied in its own columns. There is little doubt but that the document was communicated by Bismarck to the very able Berlin correspondent of the Times, and by him seat over to his chiefs at Printing house-square. The point with regard to which we are most interested just now is, not as to the authorship of the treaty, the treaty is so entirely one-sided that there can be no doubt upon that point—but as to whether, as alleged by the Brussels correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette last night, the four days between the announcement of war in the French Chambers and the formal declaration of the war to the King of Prussia by Count Wimpffen were occupied on the part of Napoleon in urging the prosposals of this Treaty as a last condition of peace. However other reputations may have suffered by the revelations of the last few days there is nothing in them but what redounds to the credit of Lord Granville. He certainly is not open to the charge of having slumbered and slept while robber-diplomatists were plotting a huge international burglary. Mr. Hammond, who is diplomacy. incarnate, and who told Lord Granville a few hours before the Duke of Gramont's famous speech in the Corps L6gis latif, that never were continental politics so calm, never was peace so assured, may indeed make us question the reality of that wisdom which we used to think so profound. But Lord Granville was new to office ; he had scarcely been installed in Mr. Gilbert Scott's new building, which Lord Palmerston insisted upon spoiling, when this thunderbolt fell out of the sky that experienced political weather prophets, like our permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs declared to be absolutely cloudless. It would have been a trying time for Palmer ston or Clarendon. How much more was it trying for a statesman fresh to office. Yet there is nothing through. out the correspondence, so far as Lord Granville is con cerned, that the most critical reader can censure, nothing but what he must praise. There was quickness to realise the gravity of the situation, promptitude in dealing with it, perfect courtesy to all parties, yet no shrinking from the truth. And even when most sorely tried, when after having offered the mediation which France had asked, and after having obtained the solution of the difficulty which France had demanded, that power still persisted in its sanguinary resolve, the exquisite courtesy of our Foreign Secretary did not fail him ; and when all hope of peace was at an end he still continued his efforts to narrow the limits of the conflict, and to exempt from it, as far as possible the commercial and trading interests of the various States. Altogether Lord Granville has done very much to redeem English diplomacy from the reproach under which it has long laboured. He has shewn that it is possible to be outspoken without being rude. The Secret Treaty will have laid upon him a still more difficult task. The Duke of Gramont, whose name has become so prominent during the present month, is well known in England. He married the daughter of a Scotchman, Mr. Mackinnon, formerly M.P. for the corrupt borough of Lymington, whose town house was just opposite the Marble Arch. Mr. Mackinnon, who was the head of the clan, died but a few weeks ago, and his daughter the Duchess was over here quite recently. If the current rumour as to the identity of the " Eng lishman " through whom Napoleon communicated his confidences to the British people in Monday's Telegraph be Correct, that confidant is a gentleman with a rather remarkable career. During the Aberdeen Administration he was Secretary to Mr. Gladstone, and he was just about to undertake the responsibility of a Colonial governorship when it was discovered that he had been doing business on the Stock Exchange. This sort of business did not seem compatible with his re lations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the appointment was revoked. During the American Civil War this gentleman became special correspondent for the Times in the Southern States, and his clever, but very one-sided letters had no small share in enlisting the sym pathies of the upper and middle classes of England in behalf of the Confederates. He now turns up in a new capacity, but unfortunately for him the very morning that his letter appeared, the Times published the Secret Treaty, and thus deprived him of his eclat. Mr. Woods, who was for many years engaged on the Times, but who joined the Pall Mall Gazette when that journal appeared as a morning paper, will represent the Scotsman on the Prussian side. M. Thiebland, better known as " Azamat-Batuk," has reached the Franco- Prussian frontier, and will correspond for the Pall Mall. lam informed that one reason at all events, if not the sole reason, why Mr. Motley has been recalled is that he has not fulfilled his instructions. He was ordered to bring the Alabama question to a settlement. Instead of doing so he wrote back to Washington that it was better to keep it open. Mr. Frelinghuysen, who has been nomi nated as his successor, is said to be much more friendly towards this country. One thing is certain—the next move must come from President Grant's side, not from ours, and this Mr. Otway has distinctly stated. A paragraph has gone the round of the papers that the Queen will be at Balmoral about the middle of August. Probably this arrangement was intended, but it is in credible that it should be carried out in the present crisis. Of course, if her Majesty were the cypher that some per sons suppose her to be, it would not matter if she were in the Highlands or in the Orkneys. But as she expects to be consulted on all foreign despatches which are not of 'a merely routine character, it cannot be possible that she should take herself 600 miles away from the seat of Government when we may at any moment be called upon to fulfil our duty to Belgium in amore decisive manner than by pourparlers. It so happens that the present Government is not strong as regards its knowledge of foreign affairs. Mr. Gladstone did indeed establish his reputation by his letter about the Neapolitan prisoners, but no knowledge of diplomacy was necessary to write this, and since then he has taken little part in foreign politics. Lord Granville and Mr. Otway are both new to their work, and the former Minister refers to his own inexperience in one of the despatches where he laments the death of Lord Clarendon at this juncture. On the other hand, the experience which the Queen has gained during the 33 years of her reign in her communications with different Ministers should qualify her to give valuable counsel, of which there may be great need just now. The war, or seine other cause, has quite disorganised our telegraphic service. The complaints of delay are both loud and deep. They may well be both. It has repeatedly happened during the last fortnight that the news of im portant events has not reached the newspaper offices by telegraph until long after it might have arrived by train. Last week's rise in the Bank rate, known in the City at noon was telegraphed to a newspaper office less than 250 miles off, at three the following morning. Very urgent repre sentations have been made to Mr. Scudamore, but at present without much effect. Mr. Gladstone has been following Dean Stanley's example and bringing together men of different religious HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning.. ..36 after 2 I Afternoon ..........56 after 2 LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1870. A CROTCHETTY Wednesday was everything con sidered about the aptest day in the week that could have been selected for the PREMIER'S latest expres sion of his opinions in Parliament. In the midst of the stupendous responsibilities devolving at this time upon every member of the Cabinet, but more espe cially upon himself as first Minister of the Crown — when all Europe is awaiting with breathless suspense the first shock of the collission between the giant armies of France and Prussia, Mr. GLADSTONE'S equanimity is such that he can, as M. OLLIVIER would express it " with alight heart," explain certainly with placid deliberation to the astonished House of Commons the reasons which have led him at length to alter his opinions entirely in regard to the Ballot. This, moreover, at the fag end of the session, when his thoroughly practical and hard-working Government had already covered itself with honour by the laborious furthering of two such momentous achieve ments in the way of comprehensive legislation as the Irish Land Bill and as Mr. FORSTER'S elaborate and carefully considered scheme of National Education. Regarding as we do with so much complacency the application at last of the machinery of the Ballot to our more than ever comprehensive scheme of popular representation, we cannot, of course, do otherwise than rejoice over the acquisition of a recruit of so much importance as Mr. GLADSTONE to the fast growing army of advocates now bent upon applying the safegutrd of secret voting to the wonderfully multiplied possessors of the franchise in our en larged constituencies. At the same time, it cannot be a matter of surprise to us for one moment, that a wit, half cynic, half humorist, like Mr. DISRAELI, should, in witnessing the spectacle of this complete conversion, especially in the midst of the out burst of a great European war, amuse himself with bantering the Prime Minister, almost, we might say, if the phrase were sufficiently parliamentary to be decorous in our so applying it, of chaffing him, upon the almost ludicrous, upon the certainly anomalous effect of time, place, and circumstance. However this may be, there is the fact at any rate that Mr. GLADSTONE has avowed himself a convert to the Ballot. The Government had long previously withdrawn their own bill. Mr. LEATHAM had pro duced another. Several members of the Adminis tration had given their support to the draft of au enactment at the time of its introduction. And at length, on Wednesday afternoon, . the PRIME MINISTER himself, who had never once before opened his lips in the House of Commons on the subject of the Ballot, though he had often voted against it, stood forward manfully to avow his conversion, his complete and absolute conversion to the principle of secret voting, now that the imperial Legislature has taken household suffrage as the basis of the national representation. Latterly the conviction has more and more come home to us that the Ballot was at length and in very deed approaching; that it was at hand ; that it was fated to be our next great parliamentary reform. If we were unconvinced before, we must needs have been satisfied that the fact was so, now, when the PREMIER, himself, towards the immediate close of the session, in the very midst of the bitter anxieties arising out of this appalling rupture of the peace of Europe, deems it advis able to rise in his place in the Commons and there announce the fact and explain the reason of his conversion. Hitherto, though constitutionally not very susceptible to a joke, Mr. Gladstone may have relaxed the severity of his features before now while considering the pros and cons in regard to the ques tion of the Ballot, when arguments like those of SYDNEY SMITH have been adduced against it in his hearing. As, for example, when in his good natured way, that most delightful of political humourists, spoke of a hypothetical Ballot mob as—" A set of deceitful wretches wear ing the wrong colours, abusing their friends, pelting the man for whom they voted, drinking their enemies' punch, knocking down persons with whom they entirely agreed, and roaring out eternal duration to principles they entirely abhorred." Now, however, as MOLIERE'S Doctor in Spite of Him self expresses it, we have changed all that. The area of the franchise has been widened. Household suf frage has been secured to the borough constituencies. Its extension to the counties, eventually, the Prime Minister regards as merely a question of time. Having sanctioned these enormous changes, the Legislature is bound, according to Mr. GLADSTONE'S frank and simple way of putting it, to see that the exercise of the franchise should be free and protected against the violence of mobs and the organised influence of property. It is not, at the same time, as an unmixed blessing that he accepts at last the notion of the Ballot, but rather as a choice of evils. However reached, that at any rate is the conclusion he has arrived at. And as an augury of the success awaiting, even at this late period of the session, Mr. LEATHAM'S tentative measure in regard to the Ballot, the second reading of the bill was passed on Wednesday without a division—passed, not sub silentio, but with cheers below the gangway, cheers that, under the circumstances, could hardly be wondered at. THAT a revolutionary movement is threatening in Italy will surprise no one who has watched the current of events. For some time past the revolutionary party in . England have been preparing to strike a great blow, together with their brethren on the Continent. The present crisis gives them an opportunity of striking rather sooner than they anticipated. There is little reason to doubt that NAPOLEON has resolved to with draw his troops from Rome, not so much, perhaps, because he needs the few thousands of French soldiers who are in the Italian peninsula, as because he opinions in order that they may have an opportunity of comparing notes. Recently he gave a breakfast at Carlton-house-terrace, and among the guests were Lord Lyttleton, the Bishops of Lichfield (Dr. Selwyn) and Bath and Wells (Lord Arthur Hervey), the Rev. Dr. Rigg (editOr of the London Quakerly Review), and the Revs. Henry Allon and Baldwin Brown, the well-known Dissenting ministers. A funny scene took place in the House of Lords on Thursday evening. The Commons' amendments to the Lords' amendments on the Irish Bill were under discussion, and it became Lord Hatherley's duty to put a question from the chair as to whether their lordships would consent to accept these alterations. But he did not know how to do so, and it became neces sary for Mr. Shaw Lefevre, clerk to the House, to give the Chancellor the necessary instructions: Now both Lord Hatherley and Mr. Lefevre are somewhat hard of hearing, and they could not hit the matter off. Then Lord Granville came to the Chancellor's rescue, and he not succeeding in making the matter clear, Lord Halifax appeared on the scene, but these did not suffice, and so Lord Cairns offered his aid. The end of it was that Lord Hatherley said he had three questions to put to the House, but he put only one, and the two others remain undecided to this day. Five years ago one of the greatest magnates in the City was a certain German Jew, who had taken to himself an English name. He was at the head of a gigantic financial company, which dealt with millions. He got into Par liament, and he was courted by all sorts and conditions of men. Black Friday came, Overend and Gurney collapsed, so did the financial company in question, and its moving spirit found it advisable to move to the Continent for a time. He had not done badly for himself, and while others were ruined, he was not only "not a penny the worse," but a good many thousands the better. Of late he has returned to London, has set up again in grand style, has lordly offices, and keeps the crowds who throng his reception room waiting an unconscionable time. No doubt he will soon be seeking a seat in Parliament again, and no doubt he will obtain it. After all there is nothing like self-con fidence. With that you may do anything. You may win the confidence, and get hold of the cash of those who if there were anything in the proverb " Once bitten twice shy," should have nothing at all to do with you. BRITISH ARCH/EOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Several of the members of the Royal Archaeological Institution made an excursion yesterday to Ashby.de-la- Zouch, Tutbury, and Tamwol th. Others inspect the tem porary museum in the free library, which is rich in Roman remains, and has a fine show of Roman pottery. Among the historic portraits were Prince Arthur and Prince Rupert, and there were several articles of dress belonging to Queen Elizabeth. Among the autographs were those of Queens Mary and Elizabeth,Kings Edward VI. HenryVll, and VIII. and Richard 111., with two charters by King John. There are also many ancient manuscripts and a quantity of armour. The Mayor of Leicester, George Stevenson, Esq., invited the members of the Association to a conversazione at the Museum, to which the principal residents of the neighbourhood were invited. THE CHARGE OF SCUTTLING A `HIP. At the Mansion House yesterday further inquiry was made into the charge against Hector Gillies, ship owner, and John Fitzgerald, master mariner, for scuttling the ship Admiral Napier, with the view to defraud the Azienda Insurance Association of Trieste of £6OO, for which the ship was insured. John Gordon, who was mate of the ship when a former witness, Somerville, was the captain, deposed to the details of a conversation he heard between Gillies and Somerville about getting rid of the vessel, which led him to leave her, and give information to Captain Dounward, who instituted the present prosecu tion. Witness's evidence confirmed that given by So merville, as to the offer of £2O made to him by Gillies to lose the ship. The next witness, James Buddy, of Gravesend, stated that he was mate of the ship from Dublin to Liverpool, and from thence to Aber deen. On the 7th of June the witness discovered a leakage near the master's cabin. The captain, however, made no effort to have it stopped, and told the witness not to meddle with it, for fear he should make it worse. He might, the witness said, easily have rim the ship on shore, but he made no effort to do so. The ship went down head foremost, and the crew were landed at Lam lash. They saved some tools, among which was a large auger, which the captain threw overboard. At Lamlash witness quarrelled with Gillies, and told him that the ship had not been lawfully lost. Evidence confirmatory of several of these statements was given by William Lacy, one of the sailors, by two of the boys, and the case was remanded to the sth August. It has, we believe, been definitively settled that the session shall close ou Thursday week, the 11th of August, and Parliament will, if possible, be adjourned on that day. In the interval, however, Mr. Gladstone will be able to carry a bill, which he has introduced, to amend the Acts of the 37th Geo. 111., c. 127, and the 39th and 40th Geo. 111., c. 14, by enabling the Government to assemble the Parliament within six days, instead of fourteen days, after the public noti fication. The Galatea, Captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edin burgh, is to be docked on her arrival at Sydney, in com pany with H. M. S. Clio. ARCHDEACON HALE.--In the opinion of Dr. Bur rowes, the Archdeacon of London is steadily improving in health, and therefore no further bulletins will be issued. The death is announced of the Rev. Henry Griffin Williams, Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. The deceased gentleman was also rector of Preston, Suffolk, an office worth £5OO a year. Captain H. F. M'Killop, R.N., who some few years since proceeded to Egypt, to organise the Khedive's maritime forces, has been appointed harbour master at Alexandria. The rectory of Miserden, near Cheltenham, has been conferred upon the Rev. H. G. C un dy, M.A ., Pro fessor of Classics in Queen's College, Birmingham. The armour-plated ship Warrior left Spithead on Wednesday, to act as escort to the Princess Royal on her journey across to this country on a visit to her Majesty. The Semaphore of Marseilles announces that sixty eight Cardinals and Prelates have landed in that city , coming from Rome. The Vice-Principalship of St. Mark's Training College, Chelsea, is about becoming vacant. It is worth £l5O a year, with board, rooms, and other advan tages. DEATH OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP.—The Most Rev. Dr. M`Cabe, Bishop of Ardagh, died suddenly on his return from Rome. His remains were forwarded to Paris on Thursday. The Standard says that immediate steps are to be taken to place twenty-five battalions in a state of readiness for active service. Another authority states that it is intended to send a battalion of six companies of Royal Marines to Japan, to replace the Ist battalion 10th Regiment. On Wednesday Mr. Headlam, the stipendiary magistrate of Manchester, committed five men, named Ryan, Cowen, Bielenberg, Ogden, and Cook. for trial at the assizes, on the charge of having conspired to de fraud several merchants in Manchester. The prisoners, it is alleged, belong to what is known as the " long firm." Several armour-plated ships are ordered to be brought forward for commission, but where the men and stores are to come from appears to perplex the chiefs of departments. The special correspondent of the Birmingham Gazette says—l learn that Government is gathering to gether a fleet of ironclads to cruise in the Mediterranean, in case of eventualities. After all, there is a little activity —at the Admiralty. A man named Churchill, arraigned for the offence of bigamy, has been acquitted at the Lancaster assizes, the prosecution not being provided with legal proof that the chapel at which the alleged first marriage took place was duly registered. The Earl of Shaftesbury has given notice that when the House of Lords is in Committee on the Education Bill, he will move to alter one of the clauses in such a manner as to require the attendance at scoool of all children between the ages of four and ten years, instead of five and thirteen, as provided by the bill. A new club for the Conservative party is about to be formed under the auspices of the Earl of Dartmouth, Viscount Holmesdale, M.P. Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P. , Mr. Dimsdale,.M.P., Lord Garie ,s M.P., the Marquis of Hamilton, M.P., Mr. H. Cecil Haikes, M.P., and other gentlemen. A site in the immediate neighbourhood of the Houses of Parliament will be secured, and it is ex pected that the club will be opened on the Ist of January, 1871. Its precise title has not yet been deter mined upon. DEATH OF THE HON. F. CHARTERIS.—We re gret to state that the Hon. F. Charteris died from the effects of his wound, at his father's residence, in St. James's-place, at h a lf-p as t twe l ve p.m. yesterday, after enquring great suffering. Surgeon-Major John Wyatt, of the Coldstream Guards, was in constant attendance, and Sir W. Fergusson, Dr. Gull, and Mr. Prescott Hull, with other eminent surgeons, made every en deavour to save the unfortunate gentleman's life. The Queen was constantly informed of the progress of the case, and numerous inquiries have been made daily at Lord Elcho's house since the disastrous occur rence. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest.holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ommended by the medical profession in preference to French brand . Sup plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. 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