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VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs. H. 3. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, CHISELLING. Mr. David James. After which, at 8, the Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, by James Albery. To conclude with the successful Burlesque, DON CARLOS ; or, The Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. H. Irving, G. Honey, Lin Rayne, W. H. Stephens, and T. .Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Fawsitt, T. Lavis, and A. Newton. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGII. This Evening, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING ; The School for Coquettes. Messrs. Crouch, Turner; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Button, and , F. Hughes.,, The New Hurly- Burly-Esque, "THE IDLE PRENTICE. Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesd ames A my Sheridan, E. Buf ton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c. ;and, THE CHOPS OF TH E CHANNEL. MA DAME TITS S A UD'S EXHIBITION, A BAKER STREET. On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial ; King William .of Prussia, and Count von Bismarck. Admission, ls.; Children underlo years of age, 6d. Napoleon Rooms 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. ykrONDERFUL TALKING MACHINE, in vented and constructed by Professor • FABER, of Vienna. The greatest mechanical curiosity in the world. "AIIIBITING HOURLY from eleven a.m., till ten p.m. Ad rlf ls.; reserved seats, 25.; children, 6d. Palais Royal, trgyle-street, Oxford-street, W. r i IJOBSE ~,(t CATTLE SPICE, eis only. or all Corn Chandlers in London, and Of all Grocers, Druggists. and Corn P.ealers in the I ountry. - )ITION of " TM , : SUN" a t LATE . eningtou-kstruet, "The Wellington. - T HE Mr BEAUMONT'S. Strt,nd •01 4 7 4),1g 4;NVUttiis> - 1:;1 4 MOSES and SON. 1 1 • CORNER of MINORLES and A.LDGATE. \JEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER of HART-ST-1023M CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. 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ISuits. 93. Gd. 13s. 6d , 19s. 235, 16s. 6d 21s. 265. , 265. 325. 1 325. 30s. 365. • I 365, 48s. 1 48s, Also at other pl ices. Also at Also at I Also at other prices. other prices. other prices. MOSES awl SON supply every description of ..1114 • clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all 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 ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. OORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD. YORKSHIRE. HEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.--Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTOL—Thts Theatre having been re-decorated under the direction of Mr. C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., will RE-OPEN for the AUTUMN DRA MATIC SEASON THIS EVENING. Doors open at half past Six, commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at half-past Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from tlixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four guineas. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. MISS NEILSON will make her First Appearance at this Theatre, in the character of AMY ROBSART, in 'the Drama of that name, THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. /t 4 R. T. C. KING will appear in the character of i VARNEY, in the new Drama, entitled AMY ROBSART, THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. _ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by ! Martin Becher, at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING.— THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSA RT ; a new Historical Romantic Drama, written by Andrew Halliday : founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated novel " Kenilworth," with new and characteristic scenery by William Beverly, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSART ; new drama : Characters by Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Vokes, Kemp, J. Mortin, and Rosina Vokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSART ; New Drama, characters by Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, J. B. Howard, Brittain Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon, 'yokes, F. Stanforth, H. Naylor, and Fred. Yokes, THIS EVEN ING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE AMY ROSBART; New Drama. The Overture and J Incidental Music selected and composed by W. C. Levey, executed by an increased Orchestra and numerous Chorus. The Ballet and Grouping of Crowds arranged by Mr. John Cor mack. The whole produced under the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling at a Quarter to Eight THIS FVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSART.—The costumes from designs of an eminent Artist, the gorgeous Revels at Kenil worth, Including the Procession of the Ancient Britons Saxons, Romans, Normans, &c, and ending with the floating Pageants on the Lake, illustrated by 300 auxiliaries, THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. PHOBUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated YOKES FAMILY will appear at Eleven o'clock THIS EVENING.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. This Evening, at Seven, WANTED a THOUSAND MILLINERS, Mr. J. Rouse, &c.; at a quarter to Eight, The RAPPAREE, Messrs. Herman Vezin, W. Rignold, J. Clayton, A. Rayner, E. F. Edgar, Shiel Barry; Mesdames Katharine Rodgers and M. Cooper; to conclude with THE HAPPY MAN, Mr. Shiel Barry, &c. HE LYCEUM THEATRE (Sole Lessee and T Manager, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER). THIS EVENING, _ _ New and - Original Irish Drama, by the author of "Peep o' Day," entitled " INN ISFALLEN ; or the Men in the Gap." Box-office now open. Acting Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. Also at, other prices. Also at other prices Eton Suits. I' E SUN L(L's, DUN, SATURD LV, SEPTEMBER 24, X 670. government of the kind, which may poibly he a success, should be permanently installed in Paris as one of the fruits of the German victories. In no other way can we interpret the extraordinary proclamation rat Rheims. The real meaning of such manifestoes as that of Rheims is that the German leaders regard the Go vernment of France as an, tirwri question: the place left vacant ..by the EMPEROR is not yet filled up, they urge; and until it is, the late rtgime, scattered 2 though it be, cannot be considered as de prived of its functions. They are waiting in the hope that something may turn up to avoid this ugly nostrum of a Republic. Delay may produce complications, and com plications lead to changes. If the Reds; for instance, commence street fighting, an outbreak of this kind would obviously put the Germans in pos session of everything, and.:at the same time render another "Saviour of Society " needful. In brief, a 3 matters stand, there seems perfect justiee in the con clusion that King WILLIAM and his diplomatists have it at heart to prevent, the establishment of a possibly successful Republic on the frolitier of Ger many, where Republicanism is very prevalent. Ger man blood is not to be shed in furtherance of a prin ciple which German holders of power most cordially detest. THE Postal changes effected within the last thirty years are as marvellous in their way as the changes effected within the remembrance of the present generation in the means of locomotion. They are as marked, in fact, as the advance made by the electric telegraph upon the old, clumsy, arm-swinging sema phore—evidencing as complete a transformation as that marked by the contrast of an express train whirled along a modern railway, when corhp'ared with the old lumbering stage waggon with a wicker basket slung on behind for the humbler passengers, a ramshackle conveyance familiar enough to the students of HOGARTU and to the readers of "Roderick Random." After Sir ROWLAND HILL the deluge—that is of millions upon millions of penny stamped letters and penny stamped newspapers. Before the advent of the great Postal Reformer to St. Martin's-le-Grand—corre spondence crossed and re-crossed in the writing of it, correspondence seldom penned, correspondence conveyed slowly and charged exorbitantly ! Don't we perfectly well remember letters in those old days, before envelopes were invented, when they were laboriously indicted on large quarto pages, curiously folded, ;and lapped into one another when so folded, and sealed with sealing wax —or, as in the instance of MARY the housemaid at Mr. NupxrNs's, the Mayor of Ipswich, and of Mr. JOHN SAIAUKER, the livery servant in attendance upon CYRUS BANTAM, Esq., the Master of the Ceremonies, at Bath (all of these, characters familiar to those who are well up in their "Pickwick " ) the wafers of which bore upon them the impress, the latter of a street-door key, the former of a thimble. Since penny postage came as a boon some thirty years ago nous avons change tout cela. We have the swiftest and the cheapest trans mission of correspondence, W e h ave th e book post and the pattern post, and now in a very few days more we shall have the halfpenny post cards, and the halfpenny stamp for newspapers. How, in truth, the declension might be expressed in the famous line— " Small by degrees and beautifully less :" not in LEIGH HUNT'S quaint parody upon it— " Small all at once and hideously little." For less than a halfpenny we cannot in reaso ► hope now to have either our newspapers or our corre spondence transmitted through Government agency. The happy limit has at last been reached. One only improvement can we yet dream of—to wit, the ranking by the halfpenny, not of a newspaper weighing six ounces, but of six ounces of newspapers TOPICS OF THE DAY. render each class as perfect as possible for the par ticular service required. MR. REED'S VIEW. The theory that the centre of gravity having been placed too high in her Majesty's late ship the Captain:, had led to her loss, is altogether disputed by Mr. Reed, whose observations at the meeting of the British Association have now reached us in full. The cap sizing tendency of the vessel could not properly be said to have arisen from the low position of the centre of gravity. Mr. Reed declared that if there had been two ships exactly alike, with the centres of ravity exactly in the same position, and if the one had had high sides and the other low sides, •the one with lowj sides would have been lost and the other not, under the , same conditions of weather. He was afraid that the real lesson of the Captain's loss would not be learnt as it ought to be. Mr. Childers was un happily a great believer in ships constructed on the same principles as the Captain. This vessel's want of stability in a moderate gale exemplified the causes of her destruction. It was true that if the centre of gravity had been so low as to giva the Captain the same leverage at large inclinations as the Monarch, she would not have capsized ; but the _ _ very principle of that class of ships was that they should carry great weights aloft, and it was per fectly idle to dream of introducing into ships of that kind a position for the centre of gravity which should counteract the tendency to heel over consequent upon the great weights carried above deck. These remarks Mr. Reed made with some emphasis to shew that the low free board of the Captain and her heavy masts and sails had jointly served to make her heel over after a certain point of inclination, and so founder. Mr. Reed concluded his speech at Liverpool on Tuesday with the following remarkable expression. "The loss of the man-of-war taught us that it did not matter whether a man was a Minister, an admiral, or a cap tain, he must not indulge in idle dreams and delusions upon scientific questions, but must bring his proud head down to the altar of science and pay proper homage there." TWO NEW WAR VESSELS. R.M.S. Vanguard and the Cerberus, the latter intended for;: the Australian station, have recently been launched, and are r now being tried and filled with stores for their respective services:at sea. The former vessel is an armour-plated iron ship carrving ten 12-ton guns besides four 64-pounders. The result of official trials satisfied some authorities that in her sailing qualities the vanguard was much faster than the other three ships of her class, namely, the Audacious, Invincible, and Iron Duke, although of the same build, tonnage, and horse power. It was, however, decided to make a further trial on ,rrhursday, to see if;, the superiority could be main tained. After two runs on the measured mile, how ever, the thrust bearings of the vessel became heated, and it was deemed prudent to postpone the test, in order to have the defect remedied. The Vanguard is a noble specimen of shipbuilding, and is stated by scientific men to . lbe a ship that can at all times be handled with confidence and safety. The Cerberus, which will shortly leave England for her future destination under: the command of Navigating-Lieutenant William Panter, R.N., is a turret ship. The difficulty respecting a crew for her has not yet been overcome, although the wages at first offered have been increased from £2 10s. a month to £4 10s. The Cerberus is at Chatham. SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS. NEWCASTLE, FRIDAY. The first business of the members and associates, this morning, was to hasten to the Town Hall, where Lord Neaves, the President of the Department of Juris prudence and Amendment of the Law, delivered his inaugural address. Having referred to the difficulties of his task in dealing with the question of the reformation of the law, his lordship said : " I confess I belong to the old, perhaps the antiquated, school, that considers it the para mount object in the reformation of the law to establish it on just principles, and to procure its good administration; and I consider that reform to be the best which gives us the best law, with as little delay and at as little expense as is compatible with goodness. One element of the goodness that I speak of will be best understood by con sidering what law is in its essence. The causes that lead to bond fide disputes in law are of four different kinds. The law may be certain, but 'the facts are uncertain. The law may be certain, but the subject to which we have to apply it is uncertain, from the uncertainty or am biguity of words used in some written instrument or orally uttered The state of the facts may be known and certain, but may he new, and not expressly ruled already, and it may be thus uncertain what legal principle is ap. plicable to it. Both the state of the facts may be uncer tain, and the law applicable to them may be unfixed.' These points were argued out, and in the course of his remarks, the President expressed his opinion on the sub ject of trial by jury, saying, " I believe it, on the one hand, to be an excellent mode of educating the men who take a part in it, but further, and which is of more rele vancy here, I believe it to be the best mode of deter mining certain classes of facts falling within the compre hension of ordinary men, and requiring merely good sense and good feeling to judge of them. In such ques tions I think the honest instincts of the jury-box a surer and safer instrument, than the mind of a judge with his special tendencies and scrupulous refinements." Passing on to notice the improvements necessitated in the law, Lord Neaves, at great length, stated his views, which may be summarised thus. First, the best security that can be obtained should be given to the grave, mature, and deliberate decision of new questions of law, of an abstract nature and general application, so that, when once decided, they may remain permanently fixed and unquestioned. Second, the improvement by every pos sible means of the phraseology and general i structure of deeds of contract and conveyance, and of our Acts of Parliament, so that as few questions of construc tion may be raised, and as little doubt en tertained, of the true meaning intended. Third, that special consideration should be given to the best manner of ascertaining facts according to the nature of the case, and of separating the facts thus ascertained from the law applicable to them. Fourth, that in all pro cedure, whether for • ascertaining facts or deciding law, no pains should be spared, and no care grudged, to con vince the lieges that there is every desire in courts of law to find out the truth and to decree justice, and that, humanly speaking, the best means are taken by which wrong may be put down and right made triumphant. Finally and consistently with these great leading objects, every means should be employed to make the administra tion of law as expeditious and as little expensive as possible. The all-important question of food was discussed in the Health Department, where Mr. Phillips Beavan read an interesting paper on "The Legislation to Preveat Adul teration of Food and Drink." The following facts in relation to the legislation. on the subject ex isting in other countries were given, as the result of special inquiries made through the Foreign Office and at the various Consulates and Lega tions. In Rhode Island, the penalty for adulteration of food, drink, and drugs, or for selling unwholesome food, is imprisonment up to six months, or a fine up to 200 dollars. In Missouri the adulteration of food is a misde meanour, punishable with imprisonment up to one year, or a fine up to 500 dollars; but adulteration of intoxicating liquors with strychnine or any other injurious substance, is a felony, punishable by imprisonment from two to five years • so in others .of the States. The Prussian Penal Code provides that any person selling adulterated or spoiled-goods shall be liable to a penalty up to fifty dollars, or imprisonment for six weeks, with confiscation of goods. In these cases it is not necessary that the seller be aware of the adulteration, for he is liable just the same. If death ensue, the seller is punished with death ; but if only severe bodily injury, the penalty is imprisonment from ten up to twenty years. At Konigsberg there is an additional law respecting the sale of damaged meat, and particularly of pork containing trichince. At Leipzig the same regulations are in force, but the police are not active. At Hamburg, if any injury happens to the buyer, the seller is liable to be imprisoned for from three months to four years. In Holland the Dutch law is very similar to the Code Napoldon, and inflicts a punishment of im prisonment for from six days to two years, with a fine of from 16 to 500 francs. The adulteration of bread with copperas or vitriol is dealt with by an imprisonment of from two to five years, and a fine of from 200 to 500 francs. Not only is punishment provided for people who mix ingredients for adulteration, but also for those who manu facture or sell the ingredients, knowing that they are to be used for adulteration. In the Economy and Trade Department a voluntary paper on the Opium Traffic was read by Mr. J. W. Chesson. He remarked that our whole policy towards China had been affected by our connection with the fatal poppy, and that, judged by a moral standard, it was im possible to regard with complacency either the past his tory or the present position of the opium traffic. He contended that if we were not responsible for the acts of past generations, we were, at all events, responsible for •compelling the Chinese to lega lize the foreign opium trade, and for taking up the ground, that whether the drug was harmful or not, India could not, and would not, give up the money she would lose by surrendering this branch of her revenue. He disputed the truth of the statement made by Mr. Grant Duff that " the cultivation of the poppy was a very favourite one." It was certainly not a favourite cultiva tion with the ryots, who were virtually coerced into grow ing opium, and who were so fleeced by Khuttadars and other agents and spies of the Government, that, after they had paid their rent to the Zemin dars, and conveyed their produce to Patna or Benares, their balance sheet more frequently represented a loss than a profit. Having explained the nature of the oppressions from which the ryots suffered, he commented on the injury which was inflicted upon India by the extent to which the best soil of the country had been taken up with the cultivation of the poppy ; and remarked, that if the richest lands of that empire were perverted from the benefical function of supplying food for man to the production of poison for the Chinese, the revenue derived from the sale of that poison only exhibited one side of the account ; there was another which should be represented, not only by the money value of the food which was lost to the people, but also by the enhanced price of every species of grain. The exceptional nature of our connection with this drug had vitiated the whole of our relations with the Chinese empire. In reply to the argument, that if opium were no longer sent from India to China, the only effect would be to increase its cultivation in the latter country, he said that if the Chinese insisted upon poisoning themselves in spite of our stopping the supply from India, we should at all events cease to share the guilt. At present the Chinese might fairly argue, that if opium was to be forced upon them they had better cultivate it -for themselves, because they could grow it cheaper, and of a quality less delete rious, than the preparation which they now received at the hands of Christian Englishmen. But Pagan justice might yet prove itself wise and powerful enough to em ploy strong measures to rid the country of a curse which, so long as it existed there, must torment the con science and humiliate the pride of every upright man of English blood who contemplated the future of the Flowery Land. This section was also furnished with an important paper by Mr. Chadwick, on the " Chief Economical Prin ciples for Consideration in Relation to National as against Standing Armies, as displayed in the Present War on the Continent." It was argued that the principles of a national as against a standing army, of an educated as against an uneducated rank and file, have not been accepted by the military authorities in this country any more than by the authorities in France, but for the economical question, it is important to observe that they have been put in distinct and decisive issue in the great campaign between the armies of Germany and France, which is a conflict between a national army and a standing army ;, between an army in which civilian element prevails in the rank and file, and an army of exclusively military training ; between an army of (comparatively) short barrack and camp service —of men who are the greater part of their time engaged in civil productive occupation, from which most of them are taken direct, and an army of men long—of almost life-long—service, exclusively of barrack and camp occu pation. The front ranks of the Prussian national army are chiefly composed of the civilian element. The working of the element of education in the ranks of the German national armies is a most important subject of observation in an economical point of view. The edu cation of the French commission officers is well planned on paper, but in the field it has been found to be very defective. Out of 130 commissioned officers taken at Woerth, it was found that 17 could not write: The edu cation of the entire body of the German commissioned officers is reported to be at least equal to that of the offi cers of our scientific corps, the engineers and artillery. But, such as it is, the Prussian authorities are not satisfied with it, and they propose, on the grounds of military efficiency, to discontinue the education and training sought for here of an exclusive standing army or military caste, and to assimilate the commands to the civilian element of the ranks. The French officers have under their command a ra-k and file of men generally indifferently educated, and a large proportion positively ill-educated, and some, the Turcos, in a state of almost' primitive barbarism. The Prussian officers have under their command a rank and file of men generally well educated in the national schools. It has excited surprise in the places in France, where the German troops have been stationed, that even the privates could all write. The French leaders appear, fromtheir entire and boundless confidence, to have made the mistake absolutely of supposing that they had the same sort of German rank and file to deal with as that encountered by Napoleon the First—a rank and file a great part of which only recently emerged from positive servitude, and PARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (EX rHE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND JARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s .... .... 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Locked In. VAuDEvlLLE—Chiselling. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STRAND—On and Off. School for Coquettes. Idle 'Prentice. Chops of the Channel. PRINCESSEW—Wanted, 1,000 Milliners. The Rapparee. The Happy Man. ROYALTY—Our Nelly and F. M. Julius Cncesar, the Irregular Rum 'Un. OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicaments. Handsome Is that Handsome Does. Undine. NATIONAL STANDABD—LittIe Emily. Mars. Venus versus ALHAMBRA —Grand Ballet and Varieties. CREmonNE—Fireworks, Ballet, &c. MADAME TIISSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 11 a.m. till 3 p.m. and 7 till 10 p.m. 18. ; extra rooms, 6d. ST. JAMES'S H A Lt. —Christy Minstrels. Every evening. PoLYTEcHNlC—Professor Pepper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening. OUR RESERVE FORCES. The Lord Mayor of London is of opinion that if he•voice of England is to be potential in continental politics she must be strong at home, and taking this as his primary stand point, he appeals to the patriotism of his countrymen to increase the efficiency and strength of the reserve forces. He has had, he says, schemes submitted to him for protect ing the Thames from the attack of a hostile knee, but whilst he is fully con vinced of the desirableness of adopting measures to guar() the entrance to the river and its mighty commerce, he thinks the hands and hearts of English men are after all the strongest forts. Speaking of the London volunteers the Lord Mayor says that while their efficiency in drill and in rifle practice is all that could be wished, they did not attain to that numerical strength which the London volunteers ought to reach. There are three things he points out which are necessary to place the volunteers in the position he desires to see them occupy. The first is more men, the second, additional sub scriptions, to be equally divided among the four regiments, the third " a good easy come-at-able _ ._ range for rifle practice." The subsidence of the enthusiasm which characterised the volunteer move ment in the beginning, has entailed upon a few commanding officers the heavy burden of maintaining the force. Notwithstanding this drawback the volunteer force becomes daily of more value to the nation. The employers of labour, the Lord Mayor remarks, by giving their men oppor tunities of learning a soldier's duty, may materially add to the strength of the London regiments. He has invited the officers in command of the city regiments to furnish him with a practical scheme for enlistment, and an estimate of what funds are required to maintain the volunteers in good working order. The example of the Lord Mayor might with great advantage be followed in other parts of to kingdom. ➢IR. JACOB BRIGHT, M.P., ON THE WAR. Mr. Jacob Bright, at a political gathering in Manchester, alluded to the war on the Continent at some length. His speeeh on this head was re markable for the very hopeful view the hon. gentle man took of" human events 2" as he vaguely phrased it. He told his audience that he did not share in the despondent feelings of those who, in face of the frequent and bloody wars in an age of Christianity and knowledge, are com pelled to abandon, or nearly all hope of a peace-loving world. The only ground which the lion. gentleman seems to have based his confidence upon, is the fact that wars are shorter in the _ . esent age than in former periods of history, and in his opinion the results of modern wars are " far greater and less frivolous." In times past, he said, the conclusions of campaigns was in favour of sovereigns, not of peoples, but now the reverse was, he thought, the fact. He entertained the hope that the people of Germany after the present war would demand to- be governed according to their own ideas, and that the Government would not distract their attention by military enterprises. Mr. Bri„,(Yht con demned in emphatic terms the contemptible ambi tion of France. The chastisement she had received was well-merited. Despite her humiliation France, be believed, was destined under a stable Govern ment to be one of the noblest nations of Europe. The pre-requisite, however, was popular instruction. 1 u conclusion he approved of the neutral position assumed by England, and his remark that the policy of the Government would be sanctioned by the majority of the people of this country was loudly cheered. FISHING IN SCOTLAND. It is said that there has rarely been so successful a season for salmon fishing in the Scotch rivers as the present one. The Deveron, the Spey, the Earn, and the Tay, all are yieldint , salmon, grilse, and sea trout in abundance, On the . last-mentioned river a gen tleman is stated to have landed no less than eight salmon in one day, the largest being a fish weighing 311bs. A propos of salmon fishing, a queer contra , diction of the theory that the fish can only thrive in clear water has been afforded in San Francisco this year, thousands of fine salmon having shown themselves in the muddy waters of the Sacra mento. In Mexico • fish are so plentiful that they were Seen ascending every stream (com municating with the ocean), even up those narrow ones which could easily be jumped across by..the fishermen. In Scotland the more distinguished fishers this season are numerous, and of both sexes, Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox, the Earl of March, the Bi4hop of Rochester, and the Duke of Richmond being some of the most notable of the visitors. POSTAL CHANGES, Numerous changes in the postal arrangements have been announced to come into operation on and from the Ist of October next. On the date named circulars, when they are wholly or in part printed, engraved, or lithographed, may be sent under the regulations of the book post. The book post rate will be reduced to one halfpenny for every two ounces or fraction of that weight. No book packet may exceed 141bs. in weight, nor may it exceed two filet in length, or one foot in width or depth. Postage 4mps, as we have already intimated, ,eilf the value of three half-pence, will be issued for sale to the public, as will post cards bearing an im pressed half-penny stamp. The postage will, in future, be one half-penny for every two ounces or fraction of that weight; but the pattern and sample post will be restricted to bond fide trade patterns or samples of merchandise. Goods sent for sale, or in execution of ft n order (however small the quantity may be), or any articles sent by one private indivi dual to anoner, which may not actually be patterns or samples, are inadmissible. The changes with regard to newspapers have also been officially made, the most prominent being the introduction of the half-penny rate on registered newspapers. ADMIRAL ELLIOT ON THE CAPTAIN. Admiral Elliot, as an intimate friend and supporter of the late Captain Coles, writes to the Times to de fend the opinion that a sea-going turret ship, with a moderately low freeboard, can be constructed, and prove a perfectly safe sea boat, while at the same time it developes superior fighting qualities to any ship with a high freeboard. Very erroneous con clusions have, in the Admiral's opinion, been drawn from the recent tragedy. The general belief appears to be that the Captain was capsized on account of her low freeboard, hurricane deck, and top weight of turrets; that turret ships, with moderately low freeboard, are not qualified to carry , any masts at all; that masts are ,essential to sea-going cruisers, and that turret ships should be built without masts as pure fighting ships, only available for a few days run, and that for sea-going cruisers we must keep to the high freeboard. Admiral Elliott dissents entirely from these conclusions, and maintains that want of stability was alone the cause of the disaster. This was an error of construction, perfectly apart from the design of the ship on its general principles. Another Captain can, he declares, be built with the same conditions of freeboard and turrets and hurricane deck to carry the same amount of canvas with safety. Ile does not, however, advocate this, and would prefer re ducing the amount of roasting. Our merchant navy sets the example that ships intended tor great speed milder steam should have limited or auxiliary sailing power, and it is from running counter to this scientific requirement, that we have failed to excel in any one point in the Royal Navy. With more beam, or less masts and yards, the Captain would, he thinks, have been perfectly safe. The builders of the Captain knew they had competitive trials in store, and were tempted to limit beam to obtain a small midship section for speed at the measured mile; secondly, to exaggerate the amount of canvas for speed as a sailing ship; thirdly, to raise the centre of gravity for a steady platform. The Captain beat the other ships on these three points, but they were all elements of instability. Admiral Elliot concludes that the lesson which this disaster should teach us as regards the navy of the future is, that we should classify our fleet, and I of attempt too much in one vessel,- but Also at other prices the public itirely on its sold by them at any other LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, 1870. THE negotiations for peace between M. JULES FAVRE and Count BISMARCK have not at present that promising appearance which the whole world must anxiously desire. It is, of course, scarcely likely that the French Foreign Minister would remain three or four days in conference without at least some hope of a satisfactory result ; it may be that good news is even now on its way here ; but it is certain all the same that the attitude of the German leaders, so far as it is revealed to the outside world, has not been of a character to encourage great expectations. If Count BISMARCK had been particularly anxious to make terms he would not have haggled for two or three days, as he has done, on the cinestion whether the Provisional Government can give a guarantee that its decisions will be re spected by the rest of the nation. What other per sons or party in or out of France can give any such guarantee? The EMPEROR is evidently in no posi tion to answer for the people over whom he lately reigned. Very little prospect is there that if he made a peace he would be allowed to establish him sell in Paris to carry out its terms. To whom, then, can Count BISMARCK look—to Marshal BAZAINE, or General UHRICH, or any other magnate whose dictum is much less likely to be endorsed by the voice of France than the treaty which may be signed by General TRo CHU'S Ministry ? If the German Ministers invented a Government of their own, it would be open to precisely the same objections As those now urged against M. FARE and his colleagues. The votes of the Constituent As sembly, which will be elected on the 2nd of October, will doubtless be looked upon as decisive ; but surely King WILLIAM and his advisers will not de- liberately prolong the horrors of war untilan assembly shall have met, settled what the government of France is to be, of what persons it is to consist, and then set this Ministry, which in all likelihood would be the same as that now wielding power, to make a peace. The risk of terms made by the Ministry of Defence being disowned by the Con stituent Assembly is so slight, that if the Germans are really anxious for peace they will not regard it. It is urged that if a treaty were afterwards disowned the French would be the gainers by delay. It must, however, be remembered that were the policy of the present Government to be thus condemned, it must retire, and another take its place. But where is another to be found ? And even should a Ministry in harmony with the Assembly be forth coming, surely the confusion of such internal division and strife would more than repay the Germans for the loss of a few days' time. That Count BISMARCK should hesitate on such flimsy pretences goes to prove that the council at German headquarters finds itself in a position of e )me embarrassment ; and the absurd proclamation of tho KING at Rheims,.about his intention to restore the EMPEROR, and the remarkable fluctuations of opinion in the German press, tend to the same con clusion. The conquering army has won more than its chiefs intended. The easy establishment of the RePublic is a kind of triumph to which King WILLIAM laid no claim, and which is exceedingly distasteful to him. lie is well known t o b e so strongly opposed to Republican principl es as . t o b e very willing to go s o m e l e ngth rather than I that a who were, as testified by Goethe, comp, ara tively torpid and apathetic to the results of the conflict. Th.ey hare had now to encounter men of another generation, whose_ patriotism and intelligence has been stimu lated national education. It is part of the case for t i r principle of national and short-service armies, thv at a less amount of expense, the principle gl a great numerical force ; and it is no answer that _thre French standing army has been over-matched i n numbe • But before Metz, the shorter-service and civilian force kept its ground against superior numbers of the long' service and standing army force, and has at other potints . prevailed where there has been no numerical overmatch. Mr. Cole, on competent military testimony, estima ted e that, on the principle of a national short-Belly' . army, a force of a million of men might be obtainv at seven millions less of money than now largely ert. haunts the ordinary tax-bearing power of our PoPula ti ° k At the conclusion of his elaborate paper, Mr.- hies, submitted submitted the following conclusions : That standing arlr' l 7l composed of arank and file, trained and engaged exclusiveix in military service, have in the Erusso- Austrian war,,as. also in the recent war of France against Prussia, been de, feated by national armies, of a rank and file engaged chiefly in time of peace in civil and productive owe_ tions, and that those standing armies have been proved n to_ be erroneous In military principle. That standing armies, whilst they are the least efficient, than excessively excessively more' expensive, to tha extent of more tna4; double, those nci uof properly organised national armies, such double, that of Switzerland, and are further perniciousa li expensive, in the creation of war interests, of menac e ," lea f interest freedom, and external security. That it is to . other "P interest of the people of this country and of the France, and of the people of Germany, and of 0, countries, that the principle of national defensive for; ' composed of commands ac well as of rank and fie ' occupied to the greatest extent practicable in :ould productive works and service in time of peace, s the be generally and completely adopted; — w ith important addition of the transference of as much possible of drill and military exercises from the produc_ife, adult stages to the non-productive or school stages a d .., 11 „. as part of a sound national system of elementary m e, " t it tion, combining physical with mental training. -" a be recommended to the council of the association to con sider recommending to Government the ex pediency : setting an example to oth er l arge States in this respencv. 0 ' and of forwarding the adopti on o f th e se principles in a Y r international conferences that may ensue on the ret urn peace on the Continent. The discussion on the desirability and prac ti c abilitY 4 establishing courts of conciliation and arbit ra tion betwe el i employers and employed commenced yesterday in ° I1 ? the sections of Econom and Trade, and resulted 111_4, resolution being passed y unanimously to-day to the eh:en that the section desires to draw the attention of to' council of the association to the fact that in the opini° l l of the section the working of courts of conc ili a tion an. arbitration has been completely successful : that such cuart; should be established in other districts than those in will they at present exist ; that the Board should consist of w ao . equal number of representatives of employers and,,, e be ployed presided over by an independent chairman, ""„ f r o chosen by the representatives who should act as all u ta ,..Vat if necessary, and whose decisions should be final; the decision of the Board should be capable of legal sae forcement, the Legislature being requested to Pr ovl to some means of compelling the attendance of witness The give evidence to carry out thi s l ega l en forcement , -"'" Repression of Crime section was occupied also the reading of papers, and discussions on ; question in the working of the Prisons Act ns o' 1865 were entered into, and satisfactory °P illie o were expressed, especially with reference productive prison labour. The Municipal Law sectio employed itself with " Tribunals of Commerce ; I r y desirability of establishing them, and the powers t ' e " ought to possess." of The subject of "The Desirability, or otherwis.„.e, with the Prohibiting the Exportation of Contraband of Alv ufh though one of great importance, was not deeraet. s m i ,} ciently interesting to attract more than a ha?",., — of members to the section devoted to the discussion international international law. It is truth to say that of the Pai",. o read three at least had a tendency to dullness. A- 111° ' -- popular section was the one given to the consider: ation of educational subjects, the special question discus sea here, to-day, was "by what means can a direct con nee " tion be established between elementary and 8 0 ° 1 ,:: schools and the universiti e s." Th e rea d er s of papers w er e the Rev. Brooke Lambert, and the Rev. John Per civa l the latter of whom urged the creation ° an Education Minister, having authority over eve r grade of education. A discussion, vigorously maintai u , 's e d' ensued, in which all shades of opini on were represer on Considering that the question under consideration wa s ° that particularly affected the members of the Association of the sterner sex, it was curious to note to how 'are fln extent the audience was composed of ladies. The Ladies' Conference held at three o'clock densely Crowded. Miss Emily Faithfull read a paper on the special training of women. The paper commenced ,P a i pointing out that in consequence of want of dies` training many women were starving, if not worse. It contained a number of statistics shew how many women there were who had to ir‘li pend on themselves for support. The necessity of sp training was then argued at some lengl and the obstacles in the way of this specia training were stated to be the short s i g hte i d policy which rejects everything, for which t does not see an immediate return and the forlorn hope ° a possible husband in the fLse sentiment that 3 woman loses caste by training for, or wader taking, paid work. A long and interesting discussion ensued. At half-past four the general com mittee on:Married Women's Property Bill was held, g r ' Hastings, the President of the Council of the Association, and several other influential members, attended. A I°l4 report, declaring what th e Executive Committee had s c. complished, was presented. The meeting of working-men held in the Town Heil was a large and successful one. Mr. Isaac Lothian presided in the absence of Sir W. Armstrong. kr. Emily Faithfull occupied a seat on the platform. Rupert Kittle was the first speaker, and his address desa' with courts of arbitration and conciliation, which, he argued, worked well on the whol e , an d ought to be tended. Mr. Goodwin followed with s o me wise and 'weir received counsels on the subject of " Health and the way in which its Provisions are Neglected." 'Dr. LY°a Playfair, speaking on " Education," characteri sed the Government Education Bill as a great step in the right direction. He strongly urged that the education of a district should be specially adopted to the requir e i ; ments of the employments of the district. Mr. Newmar s president of the Statistical Society, the Dean of Durhalla, Mr. Rawlinson, president of the Health Department of the association, Sir J. Bowring, and Mr. Joseph Bowe n, Newcastle, were the other speakers. . WILLS AND BEQUESTS. T, rd The will of the Right Hon. John H enn ik er -Major, --;° Henniker (fourth Baron), of Thornham Hall and 1 7 Porling . worth Hall, Suffolk, and 6, Grafton-street, St. Georges , Hanover-square, was proved at B ur y St. Ed mun ds on the 10th ult., by the Right Hon. Anne, Dowager Countes s Henniker, the relict, and th e Ri g ht H on. J o h n fr M a jor o Henniker-Major, Baron Hen n ik er , th e son, l a t e ALP. East Suffolk, the joint acting executors. The pers maltywas sworn under £so,ooo,—Th e will of Sir Rob ert John Harvey-Harvey Bart., late of Crown Pos t, Trowse, Newton, Norfolk, formerly of the c it y " of Norwich, and of Brund a ll H ouse , Norfolk, bank er ' wor pr n under 270,000.—The he ult will of Miss Hannah Blade!, Hobson, formerly of Montague-squa re , Middlesex, an u late of Shinfield Lodge, Berks, was proved in London, 011 the 14th instant, under £90,000 personalty, by h er nephew, Francis Hobson Appach, Esq., of 13, Palm square, square, Brighton, and her nephew-in-law, Frederiq William Allfrey, Esq., of Stanbury,.Reading, the Ph i acting executors. • _ rurhuu ,:„4• HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, SEPT. 21. Prince Arth u r wen t out deer-stalking. THE MIME WE DRINK.—It is always interesting to know that what we are partaking of is pure and free from adulteration. There are many dealers of milk in London who from the small quantity they sell must neces sarily resort to some means of adulteration in order to earn sufficient for a livelihood, much to the detrimen t of public health. The bad name given to London m ilk arises in a great measure from this cause, though Lon ate doners now have milk suppli e d t o th em i n as pur e a Bt .as when first drawn from the cow, if they choose to s elect the proper persons to furnish it. The Aylesbury Dahl Company, of St. Petersb urg h-pl ace, B ayswa t er, has don e a great deal towards supplying London with pure mi lk ' Purity of milk does not consist in getting it direct from the cow, but in a great measure depends upon tin healthiness of the cow. It i s o b v i ous th a t a c ow kept l '" an underground cellar or shed in London cannot produc° such pure milk as the cow that grFses in the open countrY, fields; it would be to contradict the natural order things to think such could be. We all know that a gr ea f deal of London milk is produced in this and a varietY °f other ways too numerous to mention. The AylesbnrY, Dairy Company get all their milk from the country ill s " as it comes from the cow. It is tested to prove its pur4k and to ascertain whether any water has been mixed vnti ; it. then placed in cans, from the peculiar construction .°' Which the man who delivers the milk cannot adulterate it. This is a great safeguard against the practice which 110 existed among those who deliver milk of selling from their bulk, confiscating the money, and adding wat er a make up the deficiency. The cleanliness obs erve throughout the company's premises, and the modus ed it randi of the whole establishment, reflects great c a a l: upon the management, and deserves general aPP i r re The premises are thrown open for public view, an d a well worth a visit. T,,he Earl of Shrewsbury has accepted the office 0f President of the National Association for Freedom or Worship in lieu of the late Bishop of Chichester. B REAKFAST. —EPPS'S COCOA. - -GRATEFUL AND Ci°3l - TING.—The very agreeable character of this Gazettepreparatiohrase, rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service w _ ._, marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws _ which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, careful application of the fine properties of. well - selected flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy d cl i y, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a del o ic_iltely bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold oily. , Homes opatill tin-lined packets labelled—JAMES EPPS & Co., Mewls* Loudon.—Advt. andcooDoYa, t ~ LA►j, E] c Th e In a P ' 111 . ) tb t he C c orreßpc ittlE Th e pith s e tenly L erect ed cr own c .our 1 killed, The til e rer Aid es-, etlera THE EUROPEAN WAR The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGJT r O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events. The fi 4 . , r '' lll 3r r t ,llat h ' t°4 l t The haa r llettltb TR c` Tou GE] SI, itti kd 1 : 4 gi m Aej ol n aP e d glebe Ti,, calm, aid litif Vre Aut 1 1pc hit]