The Sun. — London, England, 1870-08-01 00:00:00

• EMOSES and SON, -11124 CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER of HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. B RADFORD, YORKSHIRE. - L - 1 MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of L.A. G .. ENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING. Frock Dr.. 233 Oxford Camb. Coats. Cut,. Coats. Coats. 255. 255. 17s. 18s. _ 303. 303. 21s. 225. 358. 355. 265. 28s. 428. 425. 30s. 325. 503. 50s. 365. 365. 635. 60s. 425. 425. Also at Also at Also at Also at other prices. other prices. other prices other prices MOSES and SON beg to remind the public LA• that the cheapness of an article depends entirely pn its quality, and they venture to affirm that every article sold by them is , z.ensiderably cheaper than what can be obtained at any other ho isc hi England. E. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTI Summer Suits. Tourist Suits. Summer Trousers. Also at other prices Also at other prices. Also at other prices. Also at other prices ORDERS by post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. U MOSES and SON'S PRICE LI Tof E BOYS' CLOTHING : Knickerbocker Suits. Eton Brighton Harrow Suits. 1 Suits. I Suits. 9s. 6d, 13s. 641. las. Gd. Also at Also at Also at i ' Also at other prices. other prices. other prices. other prices, aVMOSES and SON supply every description of • clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages , occasions, and all classes : also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any article exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-fre E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON : LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDUATE. 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 7 30. CUPBOARD LOVE, by F. Hay. After which, at 8, a now and original Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO 110;;ES, by James Albery. To conclude with the new and successful Burlesque. DON CARLOS ; 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 open, at Seven. Commence at 7.30. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 38 each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, includ ng brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth po girder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from Oec , ty, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price lb. dd. Bed Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. THORLEY'S HORSE and CATTLE SPICE, In Penny Packets only, of all Corn Chandlers in London, and Of all Grocers, Druggists, and Corn Dealers in the Country. RUPTURES-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 182), is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred :Medical men to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moc- Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and elm ness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can not fail to fit, f)rwarded by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manu facturer, Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. Pt Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd. An Um bilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly, OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS, A DELPIII—A t Seven, The Robust Invalid. Fre • Labour. I'IUNCE OF WALES'S—A 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. QUEEN'S—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Aso and Crown. VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos. WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH B. )( K. Egyptian Hall, Pie cadilly, every Nvening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn ings at ii. Admission Is, 2s, 35. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Ilan, Every Sight, at 8; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. Zo LOGICAL CIARD6ris, Regent's-park. Open daily (except Sun days). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, fid. MADAME TUSSATJD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls.; extra HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ..............33 after 4 I Afternoon 1.) 17 11 it‘ i r i t igLb* ~‘• MORNING EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST •1, 1870. gluttonously—Count BISMARCK, forsooth ! ye gods '• casts up his eyes with exemplary dismay at the notion of the eagerness of France for territorial aggrandize ment. ' Reading Count BISMARCK'S telegram to Count BERNSTORFF, and turning immediately afterwards to M. DE LAVALETTE'S oral explanation, we cannot by possibility, but feel utterly aghast both for the one and the other of them, because of their statements being absolutely contradictory, and entirely irreconcilable. Black is white, and white is black— Fair is foul, and foul is fair ; Hover thro' the fog and filthy air. Between them certainly there is hard-swearing. Both cannot possibly be right. On one side or the other there is clearly—how shall we call it—perjury ? According to Count BISMARCK, the proposition was thrust upon Prussia by France, at first and at last, not once, but again and again. Take a single sentance from his telegram to Count BERNSTORFF—" The draft of treaty published in the limes contains one of the numerous propositions which have been made to us since the Danish conflict up to recent times, through official and non-official French agents, in order to bring about a treaty between Prussia and France for the object of mutual aggrandisement." Contrast with which a single sentence culled from the remarks deliberately uttered by Count LAVALETTE in his conversation with Earl GRANVILLE—" Ever since the year 1865, M. de BISMARCK has constantly endeavoured to carry out his own plans by endeavouring to turn the attention of the French Government to territorial aggrandisement." In/the presence of these lamentably opposed deOla rations referring to the past—now that war has com menced, thereby distracting attention to the present and to the future—we suspend our judgment. When the deadly campaign shall be over, and the victims destroyed in the conflict are buried away, and the wounded and mutilated are laid up in hospital, and the struggle is at an end, then, if not before, the truth in this matter, not a part of it, but the whole of the terrible truth in this matter must be dragged to light, and the meaning o f this secret outline in draft of a treaty between France and Prussia made plain to all men. The elucidation of the mystery has become necessity. It is due to the conscience of Christendom. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE NEW LORD JUSTICE. The appointment of Mr. Mellish as the new Lord Justice, makes an exception to the rule that a Chancery judgeship should be filled by a Chancery lawyer; but good reasons are to be given for this departure from the generally accepted course. There. was nobody in particular amongst the Chancery bar who might have been designated for the post. Mr. Mellish is not only one of the first of common lawyers, but is skilful in equity as well. In view of the coming union of law and equity, it will be highly advisable to do something in the way of uniting the two classes of lawyers, and thus accustom the Chan cery barristers to the precision of the common law, and the common lawyers to the more liberal views of equity administration. RATTENING IN SHEFFIELD. Notwitstanding the efforts which have been made to check the outrages of trades unions in Sheffield, but little progress has been effected. The ratteners have again been at work in the town, and four bands have been stolen from the premises of Messrs. Sorby. They belonged to a workman, a pen-blade grinder. On the horsing of another workman the ratteners wrote some threatening words, " Look out Sam, thy kale will come next." The . police were duly informed of the theft, and a search was instituted. During the course of the day, the whole of the missing bands were _found in various places, but unfortunately the perpetrators of the outrage have not been discovered. It seems that no reason can be assigned for the commission of this act of violence, for the particular trade has no union, and it is therefore a mystery how that body could have been affected. 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., 75. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE Manufacturer, 228, 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, lion. Sec. HOSPITAL 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. KEMBALL 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, £4,000. Number of beds now occupied, 120. Number of beds available with proposed addition, 164. 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. THE SUN.—LATEST EDITION t o b e seen e very Evening, at Eight o'clock. Mr. GILMAN'S, "The Wheatsheaf," High-street Camden-town. THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at Mr BEAUMONT'S. "The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand THE LATEST 1411)1TION of " TI-IE SUN supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W. EXA DER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, o. 4. 01(1 Cavendish street, Oxford-street r HE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at W. MiTil'S Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden- LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1870. ENGLAND'S Neutrality, in regard to this terrific war in which France and Prussia are the belligerents, was, at one and the same moment clearly defined and nobly emphasised by Mr. GLADSTONE, on Saturday evening, during his impressive speech at the Mansion House, when responding, in his capacity as Prime Minister, to the LORD MAYOR'S toast of her MAJESTY'S Government. It was defined and emphasised by him, this neutrality of England, in words that deserve (until peace returns) to be in scribed in letters of gold above the leading columns of every newspaper in the United Kingdom, and over the swing doors to the east and to the west of the central ball of the Houses of Parliament. The particu lar words we are here referring to are these—and they are words that fell from the lips of Mr. GLADSTONE on Saturday evening, in tones of solema and most weighty significance—" We must not," said the PRIME MINISTER, " presume too much upon a partial experience in anticipating the time when, as we fondly hope, this conflict may be brought to an end ; but it is our duty to take care that, be it long or be it short, we may have done nothing, when the time of reconciliation comes, to forfeit the friendship and the good opinion of any of those who are engaged in this conflict." One of the most brilliant wits who even lived, that most cynical analyser of human motives, who was himself both a man of the world and a philosopher, the Due DE Ro CHEFOUCAULT, has among his Maxims given utterance to this wise morsel of advice to his fellow-creatures—That one should always treat an enemy [observe, an Enemy !] as though he would one day become once more a friend ! And there is surely, upon the very surface of it, wisdom in the recommendation. And it is the wisdom of moderation. If to an enemy one should so act, according to the advice even of a sagacious man of the world, how much more incon testably ought one so to act, to act thus equably and dispassionately, not to an enemy, but to a friend ! In this instance, not to a friend, but to two friends—and to two friends who are more than ever sensitive as to the manner in which we are acting towards them, for inasmuch as they are TIM confronting each other in deadly antagonism. As to this most suspicious secret negotiation that has been going on between them as to the barter ing of Belgium, and Holland, and Luxem bourg, we must, for certain, when the right time comes, demand a full and exact explanation about that from both of them. But, meanwhile, so long as we are occupying a neutral position in regard to the two infuriated belligerents, it behoves Eng land so to act—as the PRIME MINISTER has said "it is our duty" so to act—that when the fondly hoped for period of reconciliation has arrived, WE MAY HAVE DONE NOTHING TO FORFEIT THE FRIENDSHIP AND GOOD OPINION OF ANY OF THOSE WHO ARE ENGAGED IN THIS CONFLICT," that is of our friends and allies, King WILLIAM I. and the Emperor NAPOLEON 111., of the 40,000,000 Prussians and of the 40,000,000 Frenchmen. HARD-SWEARING is the only name for it—this frightful contention as to the draught treaty between ' France and Prussia. The impression produced is like that most undesirable one experienced in a Court of Law when two opposing witnesses each upon oath solemnly attests in regard to one and the same fa , :.t opinions diametrically opposite. On Friday evening the matter in dispute was formally brought under the consideration of the House of Lords by the Earl of MALMESBURY. By permission of Earl GRANVILLE, the noble lord put to the SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS a direct inquiry as to any light he could possibly throw, in bis capacity as a responsible Minister of the Crown, upon that, to say the least of it, mysterious document. Lord GRANVILLE, in reply, read to the House of Lords two other documents nearly as mysterious, each of them, certainly, in many respects quite as remarkable—documents that may be described at once as statement and counter statement. The former, that is the statement, was the full translation of a telegram from Count BISMARCK to Count BERNSTORFF. The latter, that is the counter-statement, is the exact report of Lord GRANVILLE himself (in a despatch addressed to Lord LYONS as her BRITTANIC MAJESTY'S ambassador at the Court of the Tuileries) of an explanation given to him in the course of conversation by. the Marquis de LAVALETTE, the French Ambassador Referring to Count BIsMARK'S communication alone, Lord MALMESBURY on Friday evening spoke of . the drift and purport of it as in his opinion only devisib le as "appalling." Lord MALMESBURY, in so speaking of it, had no knowledge whether at the moment of M. DE LAVALETTE'S point blank contra diction ! If he speaks of one document as "appallin g' what word is there that can adequately define the effect produced by the two—by the statement and counter-statement when placed in direct juxtaposi- . tion ? Each gives the lie direct to the other. The mutual recrimination is worse immeasurably worse than the old pagan to quoque. By each the quoque is utterly repudi ated. Respectively the one accuses the other of being the wicked tempter, the accuser himself, of course, being innocence personified. It so happens, of course, that neither the one nor the other comes into court, as the phrase is, with clean hands. Spoliation is not unknown to either. Instance in France—Nice and Savoy. Inst ance i n regard regari Prussia—portions of Denmark and the whole of Hanover. Nevertheless, with a charming forgetfulness of Nice and Savoy, M DE LAVALETTR talks to Lord GRANVILLE as though the absorption by France o f any portion of her neighbour's territory were anything less than shocking to his imagination. Count BISMARCK on the other hand—even Count BIS MARCK !--whose appetite for territorial gain in 1866 grew with what it was then feeding upon so very 10s. Gd 12s. 6d . 15s. 6d, 17s. 6d. 15s. , 18s. 1 18s. 19s. 235. 365. I 365, THE LAW COURTS. A parliamentary paper containing the details of the votes and estimates for building the new law courts signally exemplifies the strange laxity with which the great work is carried on by the Govern ment. The total amount, according to a revised estimate, required for the purchase of land was £889,000, of which £887,000 had been spent up to March 1870. Only £2,000 is needed to complete this portion of the outlay, and this has been voted for the year 1870-71. But when we come to the sum required to build the courts we find that of the whole amount esti mated-2750,000,0n1y £2,000 has been spent, and only £16,000 has been voted for the coming year. At the rate of £16,000 a year, the courts will be finished in about forty-seven years. Will Mr. Lowe be kind enough to explain why a larger vote is not taken and the work advanced? It must be finished, and might as well be done sooner as later. INDIAN AND BRITISH COLONELS. The Select Committee, whose duty it has been to inquire into the complaints of certain colonels of the British army in consequence of their being superseded by colonels of the Indian army, has succeeded in detecting in a few cases positively genuine grievances. The claims c f British colonels who commanded independent columns and brigades during the hottest period of the Indian mutiny have been quietly passed over in the disposal of more distinguished titles, while Indian officers, who served in the campaign under their orders, have obtained promotion above them. The many consequences of these proceedings may be guessed when it is stated as one instance that of two officers who attained the rank of colonel in 1866, the one being an Indian officer and the other a British officer, the Indian colonel will be made a major-general in 1870, while the British colonel will not be made a major general until about 1880. The injustice and dis creditable want of foresight exhibited with respect to the elevation of senior officers of English line regiments who served in India during the years of her greatest difficulties, have been so apparent to the committee that they make certain recommenda tions towards removing the most exasperating evils. The chief reform they desire is that promotion to the rank of major-general should cease at once, and that an amalgamated list of colonels should be im mediately formed from the British, the staff corps, and Indian local lists, from which promotions to the rank of major-general should be made by seniority, according to the dates of colonels' commissions. BELLIGERENTS AND NEUTRALS. The complaint of France that the English Govern ment is "cold, very cold," and the disposition of Prussia to find fault with us in respect of the non declaration of coal as a contraband article, are the natural corollaries of the present antagonism. " Historicus," whose letters on international law during the American war were of especial importance, has undertaken the task of pointing out how far the position .of neutrality may be held by England during the conflict. He is of opinion that the principles upon which neutrals are bound to act may be laid down in a few propositions. In the first place, there being no question of blockade, the trade of a neutral State with either belligerent is free in time of war as in time of peace, with the ex ception of articles being contraband of war. Secondly either belligerent has a right to seize and to confiscate articles . of contraband in transitu on the high seas on their road to the enemy, It is not the duty of neutral States to interfere with the trade of its subjects in contraband, with one exception, viz., the arming, equipping, and furnishing vessels to be employed as ships of war or transports for the belligerents. Fourthly, it does not belong to the neutral State to define what is or what what is not contraband; that rests with the courts of the captors. In the fifth place, the sole duty of the neutral government in respect of, contraband of war carried on by its subjects is to be passive, and not to interfere between them and the right of capture which is given in the law of nations. Applying these principles in the matter of coals, " Historicus" is not disposed to dispute that coals may properly be treated by a belligerent as contraband of war, and that a prize court would condemn a cargo of coal destined for the enemy; but then it does not follow that it is the duty of a neutral to restrain such a trade on the part of its subjects. The inevitable conclusion is that the remedy lies in the power of belligerent capture. THE FENIANS IN PRISON. . The sympathisers with the Fenians who are now confined i❑ prison will be, no doubt, gratified to kno w that the members of the Commis sion appointed to inquire into the treatment of the convicts, have, during their investigations at the Chatham prison in the past week, allowed Mrs. O'Donovan Rossa, wife of the most complaining of the confined men, to sit in court and hear the evi dence. The inquiry has, up to the present, been of a most searching character, and the questions whichthe commissioners put to the chief officers of St. Mary's prison, ought to give satisfaction to every fair minded man. Full information relative to the in investigation has been given, the principal witness being Dr. J. D. Burns, the chief medical officer of the convict establishment, who is in the habit of seeing the prisoners daily. This gentleman, it may be said, has given evidence which entirely negatives the charge that Rossa or any other convict has been the subject of improper or cruel treatment. POISON IN CUCUMBERS. Among the many benefits which our medical journals confer upon the public none are more impor tant than the alertness with which every token of danger arising from the use of unfit food is brought to light. A. warning has just been issued in the Medical Press and Circular that deserves to be widely known, and more . especially among the working classes. Anyone who has occasion •to pass, at this season of the year, through the markets devoted to their convenience, must be struck with the quantities of cucumbers which are disposed of. Now, the cucumber found in the market is generally obtained from plants forced in a warm damp atmosphere, and in addition to the saccharine and nutritious elements entering into the composition of this vegetable, there are also acrid and purgative principles found, not un frequently, in a state of concentration. The Medical Press and Circular states that many serious cases of illness arise, induced by a surfeit of the fruit. To remove this danger the cucumber should, in every instance, be sliced and purged of the preponderance of its acrid and purgative elements by treating with a little salt and then saturated with vinegar for some hours before it is required for use. It may be mentioned that, in tropical climates, the cucumber is cut into very thin slices, placed between two plates, and shaken, so that a good deal of its watery constituents are taken out, after which, it is treated with salt, lemon juice, and pepper. In this form it is more palatable than the way in which it is generally prepared here. AN ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE. The Anglo-American Times says that the subject of the Secret Treaty between France and Prussia furnishes England with matter for serious considera tion. She has leisure to reflect upon the course that has been pursued by her Continental allies, and must arrive at the conclusion that they have been untrust worthy. A genuine alliance can only exist when nations have interests in common, and England can nowhere find such a connection in Europe, but must seek for •it across the Atlantic. Distrust has prevailed for some time past, but the steady advance of Liberalism has created a general desire in England to cement an Anglo-American alliance. England must be con vinced that America is her safe and natural friend, and the publication of the Secret Treaty should show the insecurity of her position as regards her European allies. A strong tide of English emigration will do much to cement the alliance and strengthen the English feeling in the American element. RAILWAY TRAFFIC. There was a marked increase in the receipts of some of the more important railways for the past week, as compared with the returns of a correspond ing period last year. On the Great Western the increase was £9,140; on the London and North Western £4,550 ; on the Great Northern £3,550 ; on the Midland £3,130; on the Glasgow and South Western £1,719; on the Caledonian £1,666; on the North British £1,350; while on the North Eastern the increase amounts to no less than £8,975. On the other hand, however, the receipts of the Lancashire and Yorkshire were £1,955, and on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, £3,610 less than last year. The total receipts on all the railways of the United King dom were £900,019, and the number of miles open being 13,767, which gives £67 ss. per mile. For the corresponding week of last year the receipts were £863,072, the number of miles open 12,936, and the milage £66 14s. The increase on the aggregate receipts was £36,945, and in the number of miles open 831. SUGAR IN SPAIN. The cultivation of the sugar cane has hitherto been confined to the East Indies and the Mauritius, and the West India colonies. Of late, however, efforts have been made to introduce the cultivation of the cane and the manufacture of sugar into Spain, and it is stated that they have been a success. The principal site of the new cultivation is on the litoral between Adra and Marbella, and has an ex-, tent of from twenty to twenty-five leagues in length, and some miles in width ; the products occupy four teen sugar works, which turn out about 14,000 tons of sugar. In many places the cultivation of cotton is being abandoned, in order to substitute the sugar cane. Irtubt -EN SUED: Dress Trousers. 169. 6d, CONTRABAND OF WAR. The term contraband of war applies without ex ception to all naval and military munitions, and also to all goods conveyed to a blockaded port. It is, however, a vital point that a blockade, to be recog nised at international _law, must be effectual. It avails nothing to proclaim a blockade which can not be kept up; nor on the other hand does the safe arrival of one or two vessels at a given port in validate a blockade. With respect to goods in general the Solicitors' Journal points out that no hard and fast definition is possible. All sorts of things may be contraband according to their destination, the exi gencies of the belligerent at the port to which they are addressed, and a hundred other circumstances. Coal, for instance, may fairly be considered contra band if conveyed to a port in which belligerent steam tams are lying. Resin, rope, and other articles capable of being naval stores' may be contraband when shipped for a belligerent dockyard port. Horses may be contraband it shipped out to be landed for bellige rent use. Some articles are from their nature more capable of being contraband than others; thus it is very easy to understand the circumstances under which a cargo of saltpetre might be contraband, but (except, of course, as exported from or imported into a blockaded port) it is almost impossible to conceive how a cargo of violins could be contraband." FLYING SQUADRONS. The custom inaugurated last year of sending a flying squadron on a lengthened cruise, is about to be undertaken again this year. In spite of Sir John Hay's objections and predictions, and his reference to the 58 desertions which took place when the ships were in Australian waters last year, the latter are to be once more prepared with " all abundant supply of men and stores," for a voyage beginning in October or November at latest. There are few people amongst those acquainted with the general results of the last cruise, who will deny that the sea-faring and hardy life open to the men, the experience to be gained in managing corvettes in a rough sea, the benefit of thorough routine communication, and the under standing that springs up between officers and men, are all advantages of the best order, and are too valuable to be lost. Life on a cruise is in fact equi valent to camp life for soldiers. There is, how ver, much need, especially while the war continues, for all English armour-clad vessels to be near home. This cannot be stated too plainly, and it seems strange indeed that Mr. Childers, on Friday evening, did not see the force of Sir John Hay's eloquent argu ment on the subject. He replied vaguely that the squadron would sail in about three months' time, and that he would meantime consider where they were to be sent. H.2d.S. Donegal, with one or two other vessels, went last year on a cruise, extending over only two weeks' time, and the effect on the several hundred men employed was even more gratifying than that produced when a longer and more tedious voyage was undertaken, inasmuch as there were no desertions, and no disasters to the vessels themselves. it is difficult to see why brief voyages like that of last year could not become the general thing, especially at a time when the bugles of war are sounding too plainly round England. THE GRACES OF WAR. It is quite right to say that a difficulty of no small dimensions precludes the possibility of defining with any ease all the points of etiquette necessary to be observed during war. This difficulty is not only true of nations desiring to be . neutral in the quarrels of others, but is also strongly experienced among men of rival countries actually at war. A pretty story is reported in the Temps from Metz. It certainly at first seems to convey that a wrong act has been done on both sides, but when one reviewing the features of the story again, says to himself " Well why not"—probably his large heart, as if he says; such words he most likely is possessor of a heart of no ordinary size, will allow him to think that after all no harm was done, and that on the contrary it was a wise little performance, as everyone in the affair was made happier by it. "Among the prisoners taken by the French in the skirmish at Niederbronn were two officers of the Baden army, who upon their arrival at Metz were lodged in the Hotel de l'Europe. These officers were about to join the table d'hôte, when a messenger arrived from Mar shal Le Bceuf to bring them to his quarters ; and an hour afterwards they were seen to return from the dinner table each with a lady on his arm, one being the wife of the Marshal." It would seem that the correspondent of the Temps has not a large heart, for he adds to his tale the following :—"I must not con ceal the fact that a group of officers who were taking their coffee upon the terrace were rather dissatisfied with this good-natured action of the Major-General of the Army. There exists in certain military circles of high rank a strong feeling against Prussia and her allies." THE ROYAL MAUSOLEUM. The Builder, by the special permission of the Queen, gives a view of the interior of the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore. Her Majesty's memorial of her lamented husband is, as is well known, a beautiful work of art, on which the labours of many artists have been engaged. The exterior and interior of the building are in different styles of architecture, the former being the work of Mr. Humbert, the latter of Professor Griiner of Dresden. The central monument was designed by Baron Marochetti, and the effigy of the prince was his last work. The tomb is wrought of a single block of gray granite, the largest known to exist without a flaw. It comes from the Cairngall quarries, Aberdeen, and rests upon a base of polished black marble from Belgium, presented by the King of the Belgians. The bronze angels which are stationed at each angle are also Marochetti's work. Costly and varied marbles adorn the walls of the Mausoleum. There are white marbles for the cornices and columns, and red Portugal marble for the other parts, while mosaic pictures and rich gilding add to the general effect. Paintings illustrative of scripture history are to adorn the wings or transepts and statues of four prophets are to fill the great niches. The windows are filled with stained glass executed in Munich. The texts describing the subjects are in German and English. An interesting fact in connection with the paintings on the ceiling is that one of them is the work of the Crown Princess. Altogether the Mausoleum affords a splendid memorial of the artistic talent of our day as well as of royal affection. UNSEEN DANGERS. The dangers that lurk unseen in every cranny might well drive the ordinary human being into a perpetual panic, were it not for that happy tendency of the mind to disregard all but possible events. An erratic comet might sweep us all off with as much ease as the housemaid brushes down the cobwebs from the wall, but, in spite of warnings, we go to sleep with the sublime indifference of philosophers, and our dreams take a brighter form than a huge fiery tail lick ing the world into a shapeless mass of dry cinders. The inhabitants of the Manchester-road, Bradford, have been fortunate in escaping the fate prophesied as likely to occur to us at some future time. It seems a Mr. David Taylor, a chemist and druggist, of that town, was engaged in emptying a cask of benzoline into smaller vessels, when a cat knocked over the candle. Alarmed and confused Mr. Taylor dropped a half-gallon measure filled with the inflammable fluid, and, of course, in the next moment the place was on fire, and soon left little in the house. A child in an upper room was fortunately saved and so was a cask of gunpowder, which had been stowed away in the attic—a locality about as dangerous for such a material as could be found. Whether with the benzoline at the bottom or the gunpowder at the top, one can hardly imagine a more pleasant dwelling place, except it be among the poisonous drugs in the middle. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, JULY 30. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Viscountess Clifden and the Hon. Florence Seymour. Colonel Ponsonby was in attendance on horseback as Equerry in Waiting. Prince Arthur arrived from London in the afternoon, attended by Lieutenant Pickard. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Princess Beatrice, attended by Viscountess Clifden, honoured the Rev. Geprge and Mrs. Prothero with their presence at the annual games of the Whippingham School children at Whippingham Rectory. Her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, ac companied by Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, 'and Prin cess Beatrice. The Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley have left Osborne. The Hon. Eva Macdonald has arrived on a visit. JULY 31. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Princess Beatrice attended Divine Service at Osborne this morning, The Rev. George Prothero officiated. Earl and Countess Granville arrived at Osborne last evening. LITERATU.aE THE QUARTERLIES. The Edinburgh Review. No. 269. Long,mans, The last article will be turned to the first by the majo rity of the readers of the Edinburgh. For is it not the review of Mr. Disraeli's "Lothair" by the old blue and buff Whig organ, the publishers of which are nevertheless Mr. Disraeli's publishers as well, the publishers through whose hands that very "Lothair" has run helter-skelter, over dedges and ditches, into a sixth edition, or a tenth thousand? After Blackwood's onslaught and Fraser's irony, the placability of the Edinburgh to the political-novelist, the leader of her Majesty's Opposition, will be some thing refreshing, we should imagine, to the latter. It is here said, and said very justly, that "Lothair," in com mon with the rest of Mr. Disraeli's political works, has some of the merits and some of the defects of a fairy tale. The world we live in, while reading them, is wildly unreal, not to say utterly unnatural and impossible in its extravagance. Instance in this last specimen, Mr. Ruby, the jeweller, that Rundell-and•Bridge and Storr-and-Mortimer rolled into one, with his strings of pearls large and plentiful as . the ropes of onions sold by Whitechapel greengrocers. Yet full justice is done by the reviewer to the surface wit and latent irony of Mr. Disraeli's fantastic lucubra tion. Besides this article there are among the contents of the current number of the Edinburgh two noble tributes offered to the memory of two great men not long since lost respectively to France and to England—there Auguste Sainte-Beuve, the greatest of modern critics, here Michael Faraday, the greatest of modern experimental philosophers. " Postal Telegraphs " is the title of a paper in which a masterly epitome is given of the history of that marvellous inven tion, by the aid of which the ends of the earth are brought together, and time itself, in one sense, annihilated. Other contributions there are of great interest, such as the one relating to the adventures of Audubon, the natu ralist. But, while fully realising all the merits, combined so conspicuously in the papers of the great Whig quarterly, it is impossible not to regret that, in the selection of its themes, greater care could not be had systematically for their including among their number those subjects more immediately affecting the great mass of their readers generally. ,The Quarterlies, as a rule, we would insist, should be more upon a level with their contemporaries. The com plications of the European war, which have just commenced, were, no doubt of it, of too recent an origin altogether to admit of any paper, on the subject, being included in the current number of the Edinburgh. But one might reasonably have looked, for example, in this number for a biographical and critical paper on the life and genius of Charles Dickens, in preference to either of the papers, already specified, relating to St. Beuve, and to Faraday. Education, Land Tenure,Reform of the Criminal Laws—subjects like these would surely in another way be far more acceptable than comments like those appearing in the present issue of the Whig quarterly namely on the Text of Chaucer and the Baltic Provinces of Russia. Readers of the Edinburgh would prefer topics more appropriate to the time and more suitable to the occasion. The Westminster _Review. N 0.185. Trubner. The place of honour is accorded, among the seven con tributions making up the bulk of this new number of the Westminster, to a second instalment of the " Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1815 and 1816,' with running commentaries thereupon. Many interesting particulars will be found, both in the letters themselves and in the running commentaries. Incidentally, for example, an excerpt is given from one of the former, dated 10th April, 1816, in which Lord Byron's portrait is sketched not unlovingly by the pen of his illustrious con temporary. "If you had seen Lord Byron," writes Cole ridge to his corespondent, " you could scarcely disbelieve him." Adding, as if in explanation of this—" So beautiful a countenance I scarcely ever saw ; his teeth so many stationary smiles ; his eyes the open portal of the soul, things of light and for light; and his forehead so ample and yet so flexible, passing from marble smoothness into a hundred wreathes and lines, and correspondent to the feelings and sentiments he is utter ing." Better than any photograph that sentence, because the limning here gives the play of light and shade, and of expression. A glimpse in a later portion of this paper is given of the acerbity with which Hazlitt depreciated " Christabel "—in acknowledgement, as we are told, of an obligation under which circumstances had placed the reviewer to the author of "Christabel." Re minding one of that sardonic and Rochefoucault remark of Sir Walter Scott's, to the effect that there is one thing some mortals can never forgive—being placed under an obligation ! An article on " Indian Taxation," with spe cial reference in it to " Lord Corwallis's Land Settle ment," follows, and is succeeded, in its turn, by a scarcely a propos political essay on "The Nationality Question in Austria." Had the reviewer, by preference, directed his attention to a consideration of the Nationa lity Question in Prussia, his labours just now would have been a trifle more acceptable to the gene rality of readers. Scarcely any power in Eurrpe admits less of a distinct question of nationality at all of any individualised oharacter than Austria that accumulation or ganglionic agglomoration of distinct and antagonistic and antipathetic nationalities. " The Future of the British Empire," the title of the next article has, on the contrary,,an ever present interest for every thoughtful subject of the Crown, no matter what externally may be the fortuitous concurrence of circumstances. When projects are 'seriously afloat for the systematic disintegration of the Empire, when men like Professor Goldwin Smith are at large with their wildly unpatriotic schemes for the loosening of the colonists rods of empire clustered round the imperial axe of English sovereignty, it becomes us, one and all, to give serious thought to the daring, and, as we ourselves, cannot but conceive incidious and sinister designs now meditated. The article on this vitally important theme contributed to the current number of the Westminster by one of its many able contributors, is a masterly and a most impressive exposition of the whole subject. We can heartily commend it to the considera tion of our readers. The cogency of its reasoning ap pears to us to be all but conclusive. The writer re probates in the strongest terms the suicidal notion of England voluntarily, wilfully, wantonly breaking up her colonial system. Some twenty of the probable, many of them inevitable, and all of them disastrous consequences likely to result from an abandonment of her claims by the mother country, are at pages 65 and 66 enumerated. A superficial paper on Shelley, a striking chapter on Colonial and American pauperism, and a final contribu tion in reference to the Papacy, complete, a varied and readable number of the Westminster, The Dublin Review. No. 133. Burns, Oates and Co. What is chiefly remarkable in regard to the current number of the Dublin, is the extraordinary variety of the themes descanted upon by the group of contributors. Besides the comprehensive notices of books,anda collection of Roman documents, and a Papal Brief address to Dr. Ward, Dilecto Filio Georgio Ward, by Pope Pius IX., the number of the Dublin Review, now just pub lished, contains nine exceedingly diversified articles, some of considerable pretentions, and all of them of more or less elaboration. Of these "The Council" is the theme of the last, with an especial regard to the Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith. The opening paper—suggested by a very sensationally entitled book by the Amateur Casual of the Pall Mall Gazette, James Greenwood, " The Seven Curses of Lon don"—undertakes to weigh Protestant London in the balance, and to find it wanting—in many things I Inter mediately, subjects as widely contrasting as the following are handled with varying ability by the reviewers—the " Education Bill" in the Commons, and the " Land Bill in the Lords"—the Chronicle of Eversham Abbey," and " Dr. Lee on Anglican Orders" Madame de Lafayette and Madame de Montagu" the " Authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews" and " Lothair I" One curious fact we notice in regard to " Lothair" and the Quarterly Reviwers, that whereas the Dublin undertakes to show (vide pp. 165-171) that Mr. Disraeli's last novel is a monstrous plagiarism from Miss Amelia Edwards's " Half a Million of Money," the Edinburgh, on the contrary, (vide p. 286, in a footnote), declares, in regard to the very same charge, that, " with the exception of a young English lord following to Italy the daughter of a Garibaldian chieftain, there is no re semblance in the circumstances of the narratives or in the personal delineations." The juxtaposed passages, how ever, given by the Dublin, cheek by jowl, are certainly, to say the least of them, very remarkable—they betray, at any rate, a strong family likeness. His Royal Highness Lieutenant Prince Arthur will not rejoin the Woolwich garrison for three months. Before resuming his military duties the Prince will enjoy a few weeks' shooting in Scotland. The Prince and Princess Christian visited Worces ter on Friday, arriving from Malvern at noon. They went over the cathedral and the Royal Porcelain Manu factory, and returned to Malvern about four o'clock. It is stated that a marriage has been arranged between Mr. Henry Crompton, a son of the late Mr. Justice Crompton, and the youngest daughter of Lord Romilly. Go anises ~. easily t 4 tio n. 9/ Al. I nont, uotorio Count ] gl.uru to Ql„,,Bemen - L he G o "ertur4 give e xr Point. a ccount again di W hich h several State s h Ward, ai THE EUROPEAN WAR. THE SUN, which is Published Every Morning at Eight o'clock, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper, will always give the LATEST N EWS of the WAR, and of all other events. I 1 Ifort ~I n eche: thre beg -a us, a after whit the