The Sun. — London, England, 1870-09-13 00:00:00

GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED: Summer Tourist Summer Dress Suits. Suits. Trousers. Trousers. 245. 245. 10s. 6d. 15s. 28s. 28s. 12s. 6d. 16s. 6d. 365. 365. 148. 18s. 40s. 425. 15s. 6d. 21s. 455. 48s. 17s. 6d. 245. 555. 525. 20s. 265. Also at Also at Also at Also at other prices. other prices. other prices, other prices Os. ad 13s. 6d 15s. 18s. i 188. 19 s. 235. 1 235. 16s. 6d, AIFII fit iqr 07.ces 265. 1 265. 325. 1 325. 1 365. Also at Also at Also at ti 1 prices. other prices. other prices. "L 1 MOSES and SON supply every description of 4 . clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all Biasses also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete °Wilts for all climate& All ds 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 aro 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 ALDOATE. AEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-BRAD. C01723T8.T BRANCH. BILA_DFOItD. YORKSHIRE. E MOSES and SON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. N EW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER of HART-STRENT. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. B RADFORD, YORKSHIRE. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of I_l4. G ENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING. Frock Dress Oifor d Camb. Coats. Coats. 1 Coats . Coats. -- - 255. 255. I 17s. 18$. -4 . 4 Ws. 30s. 21s. 225. 355. 365. f 265. 28s. 423. 425. / 30s. 325. 50s. Os. 365. 365. 633. 60s. 425. 425. Also at Also at Also at Also at ither prices, other prices, other prices other prices EAIOST . that tin quality, and th( is considerably ho ise in Engin] [.:S and SON beg to remind the public Le cheapness of an article depends entirely on its ey venture to affirm that every article sold by them cheaper than what can be obtained at any other M . : MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of 1 1 • ORDERS punctual measure introd guarantee a far by post are attended to with care and lity, and the easy and accurate system of self 'need by E. MOSES and SON enables them to unless flt. "Ll MOSES and SON'S PRICE Li IT of T 1 BOYS' CLOTHING : Knickerbocker Suits. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. This Evening, at Seven, WANTED a THOUSAND MILLINERS, Mr. J. Rouse, dite.; at a quarter to Eight, The RAPPAREE, Messrs. Herman Vezin, W. Rignold, J. Clayton, A. Rayner, R F. Edgar, Shiel Barry ; Mesdames Katharine Rodgers and M. 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TOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY el TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from ilecay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price lb. ea Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. has to be taken. Certainly neithe t r Ur. GLAD STONE nor Lord GRANVILLE, the two chid members of the Ministry, have been idle. They have taken no holiday. Z hey have not been dancing hile Paris is in agony. They have spent their vacation in London or at Walmer, close to the port at which all their foreign advices are landed, and they have been in constant and close communi cation with each other. Moreover, remembering how energetically they worked two months ago to prevent war, remembering the admi rable dispatches which were penned by Lord GRANVILLE, and which called forth the warm admiration of Conservative no less than of Liberal statesmen and journalists, it required no very great stretch of faith to believe that our chief Ministers were fully alive to the present crisis and its needs. If there seemed to be any delay we might feel cer tain that it was apparent only, or if in any degree real, that it was due to no fault of theirs, but to the unfortunate removal of the sovereign 600 miles away from the seat of Government. After all, the best answer to the complaints whereof we have spoken is given in to-day's telegram. England has demanded an armis tice in the name of the Neutral Powers. That demand, it is to be hoped, will be granted. Should it be so Lord GRANVILLE will only have begun his arduous work. The next step, an indis pensable step, will be to convince the Pro visional Government of the impossibility of making peace on any such terms as M. JULES FAVRE laid down in his circular. To insist upon the non surrender of an inch of French territory, the non removal of a single stone of French fortresses, is utterly absurd, and it may well be that Lord GRANVILLE would not interpose so long as the demand was made a sine quci non by France. The fact that he has inter posed is an indication that the French Government has come to a more reasonable state of mind. IT is greatly to be regretted that polemics should be allowed to intrude into such a matter as shipbuilding. The controversy respecting the rival broadside and turret systems has at times assumed the bitterness of a theological dispute. It has been aggravated by the fact that both sides have the aid of ready writers. Mr. REED adds to his other qualities that of skilful penmanship. On the other side is Captain SHERARD OSBORN who is allowed free play in a very influential paper, and would seem to have used it already to the purpose of pointing out that the loss of the Captain is due to an accident, and in no way to her peculiarity of construction. It would be lamentable, indeed, if mere cleverness of writing were allowed to override sound practical judgment. The facts are plain and clear enough to lead to a sound conclusion. It is a fact that the Captain was unusually low in the water, two feet lower than her ill-fated designer intended, though he had proposed a dangerously narrow limit. It is a fact that the vessel was cumbered enormously on her upper deck, and that consequently if she did heel over it would be exceedingly difficult for her to right herself. It is a fact that two vessels built on the turret system—the American Monitor and the Italian Affondatore—went down as the Captain seems to have done, like a shot. It is a fact that at least some of the officers of the ten other vessels in the oombined Channel and Mediterranean Squadrons watched with =oh anxiety the conduct of the Captain at the commencement of the fatal gale, so greatly did that vessel heel over, It is a fact, though one of those "not generally known," that the Admiralty have in their possession at the pre sent moment reports respecting the Scorpion turret ship (one of the two which Messrs. LAIRD built for the American' Confederates, and which our Government bought in order to settle an awkward dispute) so unfavourable that they would not venture to send that vessel to sea. It is a fact that the seamen on board one of these same turrets refused to sail in her, and ran the risk of being hanged for mutiny, rather than incur what they considered to be the certainty of drowning. It is a fact that all the most experienced men at the Admiralty, those most practically acquainted with naval construction, always had the greatest apprehension for the Captain. They did not, indeed, expect her to founder in an ordinary gale ; but, in spite of the favourable reports of the not wholly unprejudiced Admiral SYMONDS, as to the buoyancy of the ship, they doubted her sailing qualties, and they doubted still more her fighting qualities. Indeed, terrible as this calamity has been it is conceivable that one even more terrible might have happened. The part of the Captain between the turrets was so weak that a heavy shot would have, in all probability, pene trated her side, and if so there would have been no possibility of plugging the hole, and the vessel must have gone down in action as the Affondatore did. Such an event might gave utterly demoralised our fleet in the midst of an engagement, and have involved this country in a great national disaster. Therefore, if the Captain was to go down at all, we must rejoice rather that she has gone down thus soon rather - than later, when her loss would have been a calamity affecting not only some hundred families, but the whole king dom. As it is, the disaster is a terrible warning, and one, which in spite of able leaders in the Times, it is to be hoped that we shall take to heart. To Mr. CHILDERS the blow is peculiarly severe. He hoped to have inaugurated a new naval epoch by the adoption of the turret system. He has not only lost his favourite ship, but his eldest son. He will need all the condolence which the QUEEN, with her usual thoughtfulness, has sent to him. TOPICS OF THE DAY. IHE SKIN, LONDON, TUESDAY; SEPTEMBER 13, 1870 He also took part in the Russian. war, and assisted in the dangerous service of firing seventy-three Russian vessels at Genitchi. In several other arduous and perilous undertakings of the kind, Lieut. Burgoyne played a prominent part and was rewarded by promotion to the rank of commander. He was afterwards made post captain, and in July 1805 he was appointed commander of the Wivern, one of the rams about which there was so much com motion, and subsequently, of the screw frigate Con stance. When that vessel was paid off he was ap pointed to one of the harbour vessels for the Cap tain. Captain Burgoyne wore . the Victoria Cross, the Baltic and Crimean medals, and the Azoff clasp; he was also a Knight of the Legion of Honour, and received the order of Medjidie of the sth class. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair Cl to its uristine hue, no matter at what age. J NO. GOSNE LL 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, 3s each ; also 55., 7s. dd., and 15s. each, nclud ng brush. lied Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 11, Upper Thames-street, Lou ion, E.C. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. GAlETT—Ladame aux Camelias. Dolly. Bluebeard. PRINCESSEW—Wanted, 1,000 Milliners. The Rapparee. The Happy Man.! QuKEN's—My Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe an Crown. ROTALTY—Our Nelly . and F. M. Juluis Cm:mar, the Irregular Rum 'ITn. Ovnano—Poppleton's Predicaments. Handsome Is that Handsome Does. Undine. VARDRvium--Chiselling. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STRAND----A Day After the Wedding, School for Coquettes. Idle 'Prentice. Chops of the Channel. NATIONAL STANDARD—LittIe Emily. Venus versus Mars. ALMAMBRA—Grand Ballet and Varieties. CREmonNE—Fireworks, Ballet, &c. ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. MADAME TIIBBAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 11 a.m. till 3 p.m. and 7 till 10 p.m. Is. ; extra rooms, 6d. PorirrEcamo--Professor Pepper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening, TWO NAVAL HEROES. Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, whose name is so well-known in connection with the turret system of building ironclads, has, it is now certain, perished with his own viork, like Win stanley with the former Eddystone lighthouse. He was born in 1819, and was the son of a Hamp shire rector. During his first service on board the Madagascar he saw the bombardment of St. Jean d'Acre, and afterwards landed with the allied armies in 1840 on the coast of Syria. Be served in various ships in different capa cities until in 1853,when he was made flag lieutenant to his first captain, the late Lord Lyons. His gal lantry in the naval operations during the Crimean War obtained him his commandership, and he rendered good service at Taganrog iu the' construc tion of a raft drawing less than two feet of water, which should carry a long 34-pounder. He was afterwards employed to intercept Russian steamers, but he busied himself chiefly in examining the forts and works of the enemy. His designs for the construc tion of shot proof rafts, guns, and mortars, were so favourably received that he was o rdered to England to communicate with the dock yard authorities. The close of the war suspended these proceedings, and since then, as we all know, Captain Coles has devoted himself to the development of the turret ship. The Captain was not entirely according to his design, tut in the main represented his views. Captain Coles was a Knight of the Legion cf Honour, and had received the Syrian, Crimean, and Turkish medals ; the Crimean with the Sebastopol and Azolf clasps. Captain Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, the commander of the unfortunate vessel, who has, according to true naval fashion, gone down with his ship, was the son of General Sir J. Fox Burgoyne, G.C.B. He was born in 1833. THE POPE ON THE DEFENSIVE. A correspondent in Rome writing on the 7th says the Pincian has been closed and fortified during the night, and four pieces of heavy artillery occupy the wall commanding the approaches, as in 1867. The Pope has apparently determined on resistance, though it can only be pro forma, for the Italian army can crush the handful of devoted 'troops the Popo possesses with the greatest ease. Exclusive of the Italian line and the artillery and dragoons, none of whom are reliable, five or six thousand men at the outside are at the disposal of the Minister of War, while the Italian corps d'armde is 150,000 strong, and amply furnished with arms, siege trains, and pon toons. The defence, such as it is, will be confined to Rome, and the provinces left to their fate. Jules Favre has telegraphed to the French Embassy that the Vati can had nothing to fear from the present change of government in France, and that home matters were quite enough to occupy him at present. The Marquis Deßanneville gave inhis resignation as ambassador on hearing that a Republic was proclaimed, and was preparing to leave Rome on the Bth. MEDIATION , Hitherto the English Government has maintained an unaccountable silence and reserve with regard to the continental crisis. The feeling has largely obtained currency that the British Cabinet is wholly indifferent as to the issue of the struggle, her friendly offices in the commencement of the quarrel having been somewhat peremptorily rejected. Be this feeling right or wrong, the fact remains that the inactivity of the Executive affords a prinid facie justification for entertaining the belief. While other neutral powers are manifesting a desire to bring about combined mediation, England apparently regards the crisis with unconcern. The popular opinion, however, runs in the direction of interven tion, with the view of peace, and the Govern ment may find itself in deference to public feeling, obliged to alter their policy of inaction. The two demonstrations held by the work ing classes in London, although composed of men having different political ideas, clearly indi cated that there was a general desire for the discontinuance of hostilities. Doubtless the Prussian Government would under stand the expediency of modifying its demands for compensation, should the neutral powers corn binedly represent the folly and injustice of prose cuting the war any further, and of insisting upon the dismemberment of France. FIELD DAYS. A letter in the Standard draws attention to the manoeuvres incident to a field-day at Aldershot. The writer, who signs himself " Fairplay," asserts that many of the movements which are executed could not be attempted in the presence or neigh bourhood of an enemy, and asks whether the generals in command of divisions or brigades, or of a force representing the enemy, ever made any report as to the efficiency or otherwise of officers com manding regiments on such occasions. "If," observes Fairplay, " a captain or subaltern is manifestly igno rant or careless, he is sent to perpetual drill, or, if in cavalry to riding-school, &c., and probably all leave stopped. But, as this is supposed to be a camp of instruction, surely the old proverb of what is sauce for the goose should also be sauce for the gander should apply equally to alt ranks." The writer goes on to remark that it is notorious that some com manding officers at field-days and sham fights are wholly incompetent, and this fact, he alleges, is known to the Generals under whose command their regimentshappen to be on the occasion. The men, too, are fully sensible of their commander's ignorance, and they feel ashamed of the humiliating position in which they are placed. Under these circumstances it is surely the duty, exclaims " Fairplay," of the senior officers to make such representations of the hortcomings of these officers, that a searching inves tigation should be made, and in the event of any officer being found incapable of properly discharging his duties, he ought to be ordered to give way to a better man. It is no use. to wait, the writer argues, until the regiment is in actual service, and thus allow the country to be sacrificed through incapacity. He urges immediate and prompt action unless this school of education for service in the field is to become a delusion and a snare. ➢IILITARY INSTRUCTION. A suggestion is made by the head master 'of Trinity Church School, Springfield, Essex, whereby the military instruction of this country may be greatly extended. In every school, public or private, there should be, he considers, military training, the boys being taught the use of firearms. This prepa ration would, in case of an emergency, enable them to servo the country should their aid be required. For thirteen years past the doctor had carried out this idea in the school which is under his care. He employed a sergeant-major, and every boy from 10 to 19 years of age was instructed in the manual and platoon exercise, using blank cartridge, and in vari ous movements. The result was that every boy on leaving school had undergone a good military training. The new Gun License Act will put every boy to the expense of a license without relieving him from the charge of providing his own rifle and ammunition. The doctor thinks some consideration should be shewn to schools where boys are being trained to be of service to the country without cost to the nation. A communication was sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the sub ject, but no provision was made in the Gun License Bill to meet the case in point. The additional gun license would compel the abandonment of what recent events had shewn to be a most important mode of instruction. Dr. Manning wishes that even now such schools could be exempted from the operation of the new Act, or that the master should hold the magis trates license by which alone drilling and training to the use of arms is rendered lawful, under a duly competent military instructor. TREATMENT OF FRENCH PRISONERS. "An Eye-Witness" draws a fearful picture in the elegraph of the sufferings endured by the French prisoners who formed part of the army of the un fortunate MacMahon at the capitulation of Sedan. Hitherto we have been led to believe that the Ger mans treated their prisoners of war with a kindness which could not have reasonably been expected by their captives. Indeed, to such an extent have they carried their generosity that when the wounded of both nations arrived in various German towns a marked and almost .uJ patriotic preference was shewn towards the French, especially by the ladies. Not a few patriots de nounced this preference, b at the attentions of the ladies were unremittingly showered upon the cap tives nevertheless. It is therefore with astonishment, if not with incredulity, that we receive the statement from "An Eye-Witness," that "on Thursday, or rather Friday last, MacMahon's army, numbering 80,000, surrendered as prisoners of war. Can you believe that since then—a period of five full days— all the men of that army, and such of the officers as would not sign the agreement not to bear arms against Prussia during the present war, have been left out in an open field, without tents or covering of any kind, and with barely enough food to keep life in them. The writer then goes on to say that since Mac- Mahon's surrender not one ounce of meat had been served out to the prisoners, and all the food they received was a hard biscuit per man for every two days, and this whilst the Germans had plenty to eat, having two meat meals per day. The poor captives were terribly afflicted with bowel complaint, whilst many " were flushed with raging fever." If what "an Eye-Witness ". says be true, the Germans will lose much of that credit which their humanity in other instances of the campaign had earned for them. THE ART OF SWIMMING. Not one of the boys of Her Majesty's ship Chiches ter who lost their lives through the collision on the Thames a few days since, it is stated, knew how to swim. This circumstance fully accounts for the lamentable loss of life that followed on a smooth and narrow river. Well may it be asked what sort of training is it that is given to boys intended . for the navy, of which swimming forms no part ? In their destined career, one would have imagined that the peril they would most probably have to incur, would be the chief one to be guarded against. It is essen ial that every lad should be taught to overcome the simplest risks of the water; it is only right that swimming should form part of the hardy education afforded at least to every strong boy. Yet in England it is not so. Daily almost in the summer months some fatal case of drowning has to be recorded, and often, too, under circumstances which denote that the victims have never even been told how to make a rational effort of any kind to save themselves, even under circumstances of their being close to , the shore. If it is shameful that landsmen do not learn themselves, or teach their Eons, to swim, what shall be said if the art is not thought worthy of a sea-boy's education ? That five sailor lads of the average age of 16—an age when natural alertness and dexterity, one would have thought, might have been most readily exerted, perished in broad daylight, and on a calm surface, without having any knowledge whatever as to how they might strike out for the shore, or how they might float till assistance came, seems to reflect most seriously on the instructors who had the boys under their charge. FAREWELL SOIREE TO BABOO KES HUB CHUNDER SEN. A farewell soiree was given last evening, at the Han over-square Rooms to the Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen, on his approaching return to India. After tea addresses were delivered in the tare hall, which was crowded. The meeting was addressed by a number of ministers and others of various denominations, who thanked the Baboo for his efforts at Indian civilisation. Miss Emily Faith ful, in a brief but effective speech, thanked him on behalf of the women of England for his efforts to elevate the social position of their sisters in India. The Baboo, in an address of considerable length, responded to the invitation to say what he thought of England. In the first portion he elicited loud laughter by his humorous criticism of the pecu liar habits of the Bull family in the way of shopkeeping, puffing, and the dressing of the ladies; and in the latter drew forth much applause at the eloquent manner in which he expressed his admiration for the charitable and useful institutions of the country, praying for the influence of every English man and woman to bring about a similar state of things in India. THE CHARGE OF LIBEL,AGAINST A BARRISTER. Yesterday morning,at the MansionHouse,before the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Hale, Mr. Cornelius Walford came up on remand, charged with uttering a libel, which he knew to be false, on Mr. Arthur Forward, managing director of the West India Pacific Steam Packet Com pany of Liverpool. The defendant is editor of the insu rance Times, and the alleged libel complained of consisted of charges of fraud, which appeared m a leading article inserted in that publication. Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. Horne Payne prosecuted, and Mr. Metcalfe defended. The prosecutor was recalled, and stated that on eight vessels insured by his company during six years they lost £19,000. He utterly denied ever having got rid of any ship with which he had had to do, as charged in the alleged libel. Mr. Williams, clerk to Mr. Forward, and Mr. Ross, an underwriter at Lloyds, gave evidence in favour of the prosecution. The Lord Mayor having intimated that he did not desire that Sergeant Parry should address the court, and Mr. Metcalfe having ad dressed the court for defendant, his lordship committed the defendant for trial. FATAL EXPLOSION OF NITRO-GLYCERINE. On Sunday night a dreadful explosion of nitro glycerine took place in the neighbourhood of Greenock. During a shower of rain twelve youths, ranging in age from fifteen to twenty, entered a deserted smithy, in which one of them found a tin box about a foot square. He lifted it up and examined it, and saw what he thought to be a little oil. He then laid it down, but he had hardly done so when a companion, taking a hammer t aimed a blow at the box, and in an instant the whole building —a wooden one —was blown to atoms. Of the twelve youths only one was able to walk home. One was killed on the spot, another died on his way to the hospital, and three have since died. In all, there are at present six under treat ment, and the recovery of all but one of these is con sidered hopeless. SPAIN AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. How will the rapid march of events in France affect Spain ? is a question which all Spaniards are at present anxiously asking each other, but which they find it diffi cult to answer satisfactorily. It is now nearly a year since the Federal Republicans in Spain rose in arms against the Government. That the movement was then popular was shown by its strength as regarded numbers, but it was smothered in the cradle by the superior force of military discipline ; and since then the fire has been smouldering, and waiting only for a waft of outside sympathy to fan it again into a flame. Republicanism is, undoubtedly, an important political element in Spain, but it has hitherto been weak from internal divisions and disagreements-on minor points between the heads of the party. The Republicans were divided into two classes, or parties, namely, the Unitarian and the Federal Republicans. Tho Unitarians com comprised the Progressistas ; for, although the Progres sistas called themselves monarchical, it was evident to all that, in default of a monarch, they would choose a pre sident. It was even alleged that they, with their leader Prim, were Republicans at heart, but restrained from putting their ideas into practice by the threats of Napo leon and the menacing attitude of the small but well disciplined Carlist party. The Federals, it was asserted, were ready to link their fortunes with those of the Unitarians, if these would only declare the Republic at once, regardless of Napoleonic consequences ; but the Unitarians could no be prevailed upon to plunge into this course, and thus Spain jogged on, trusting to chance for a windfall. The question now is, Will the Spanish Republicans consider this an opportune moment for action ; and, if so, will the Federals adhere to their former ideas, or modify them so as to meet Unitarian views and obtain their support ? Should the Federal Re publicans rise again, as they did in October last, they must succumb, for their organisation is not military, and they have already had ex perience of what this force • can do in quieting - rest less spirits. The Carlists, however, by their ill-advised agitation, are cluing all they can to rouse the spirit of the Republicans. The army is being increased, and extra ordinary precautions are taken all over the country, specially in the northern provinces ; but what does it portend? It is difficult to tell. Rumour says that Prim contemplates a coup d'etat, but the only importance to be attached to this is that it is quite certain that Prim is prepared to take advantage of any good thing that may turn up, but as regards any par ticular course you may feel sure that he has none. The prevailing opinion is that if the Republicans become the party of the present it will be because Prim so chooses, and, although people speak of him contemptuously, all know that he has the army with him, and that, as long as he is thus supported, he will be the man of the day. Whether Spain is to be a Republic or not everyone here feels confident of one thing, and that is, that the crisis in France must produce a crisis in Spain. —St. Sebastian Correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette. The Himalaya troop ship has brought home th e headquarters division of the I st battalion 9th Regi men t' which has been withdrawn from the Cape without its bpi' .l relieved. At present there are only two regimontAt.' . tilt colon K4f fir 4 iv'no, man - Cape of Good Rope for the protection of th e against any outburst on the part of the fear, are only waiting for their opportuu r tt- th _ --- e f rontier y regiment at Cape Town, half a regiment 0 f one and the other half at Natal, , AZ 1 6C, -- ( -,-, ig .. •-• 1 4, 0 P,... ....) Lit LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1870. LORD GRANVILLE acted with admirable tact and aliened: consummate discretion throughout the whole of the diplomatic negotiations, which imme diately preceded the actual commencement of this appalling war. Of this fact the already published official correspondence affords conclusive attestation. That correspondence, it should be remembered, had been necessitated by an astounding surprise. Never was Minister of State more manifestly startled into an abrupt display of all his sagacity. As we very ,well remember intimating in these columns when the first telegram was flashed to this country announcing that something was on foot threatening a rupture of European tranquillity—the suddenness of the surprise was as the falling of a thunderbolt out of a blue sky. Earl GRANVILLE had only just then exchanged the portfolio of the Colonies for the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, consequent upon the lamented death of the Earl of CLARENDON. Im mediately upon the new Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs crossing from one door in the cul-de sac of Downing-street to the other, he received the emphatic assurance of the permanent Under-Secre tary that never had the European courts been in greater harmony, that all round the political horizon there was fair weather, that everywhere there was :profound tranquillity. Scarcely was . that assurance given, scarcely had Lord GRANVILLE assumed his new position, than out of the blue sky fell the thunderbolt. Abruptly put upon his mettle to show what was in him, the Earl GRANVILLE in that supreme emergency, as we all know, acquitted himself to very general admiration. Is he doing so now—now when after eight weeks of the sharpest agony of the war, there is again visible opportunity for the interposition of our diplomacy ? The opportunity just now is golden. Is Lord GRANVILLE availing himself of it as befits the Minister of England ? Russi a manifestly is. So also is the Government of the United States. Even Austria manifests a disposition to:act in like manner ; but, for the time being, is ham pered. Austria, Russia,:the United States so acting or preparing to act—how is it with England now, as one of the great neutral Powers whose voice might be potentially raised in the interests of peace between the two frightfully maimed and infuriated belligerents ? At once, let us say, we believe it to be well with England in the interests of peace. We have every confidence ino the humane vigilance of Lord GRANVILLE. His timely interposition we are secure of, for two reasons : because he has the keen intelligence of a diplomatist, and because he has also the large heart of a philanthropist. In a nobler sense than that detestable cynic ever thought of who first uttered the phrase—the anguish of France is England's opportunity ! It is her opportunity for justifying, and sealing, and conse secreting the intimate alliance that has for years now subsisted between the two countries, and an oppor tunity also for taking the initiative in organising a peaceful solidaritd among the nations of Chris tendom. IT is difficult to say whether _the Government are to be congratulated or condoled with upon the fact that Parliament is not now sitting. If this were the session instead of the long vacation, Ministers would be perpetually worried with questions respecting foreign affairs. Sir GEORGE JENKINSON WOUld be giving Her Majesty's Ministers no rest, and would every evening be putting to them a series of questions as long as the Assembly's Catechism. On the other hand, in the anseswee of the Legislature Ministers have no opportunity of explaining what they have done, and their reasons for doiug or not doing, and they are thus ex posed to severe criticism. At the present moment the Paris journals and the PariS correspondents of most of the London journals are complaining some what strongly of the apathy of our Government with respect to initiating negotiations of peace. The conduct of Austria and Russia is contrasted with that of England, very unfavourably to the latter Power. It is pointed out that the United States has mediated vigorously in behalf of unhappy France, though European politics are not matters in which the Washington Government has any particular call to interfere, and though so far as it has any sympathies at all it might, in consequence of its large German popula tion, be supposed to sympathise with the successful combatant. All this while, it is complained, England is standing by " cold, very cold," and in the extremity of her selfishness is now afraid to hazard a good word for her ally of twenty years and more lest she herself should get a rebuff. Unquestionably it does read rather strangely when we are told that this Minister is in Belgium, and that Minister is dancing at the house of a millionaire brewer. It may even appear remarkable that no Cabinet Council has been summoned at the present crisis. But it must be remembered that in the Cabine:. there is always an imperiunz in imperio, that a select three or four direct affairs from day to day, and that the. advice of the other Ministers is sought only when some decisive step {,;~ 114'tnlat (1J Jourt HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, SEPT. 10. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, went out this morning. In the afternoon the Queen drove out. The Hon. Mrs. H. Ponsonby and the Hon. Mary Las celies were in attendance. The Rev. Principal Tulloch, of St. Andrew's, has ar rived at the Castle. MAGAZINES FOR SEPTEMBER. Fraser's Magazine does not strike us as coming quite u to the mark this month. " The Colonies Once More, by the Editor, is a clever article, advocating the drawing closer of the bonds which bind the colonies to the mother country. The Letters of Sir George C. Lewis give us an insight into the character of that eminently trust worthy statesman. A contribution entitled " Fa shions in Hair and Head-Dresses," contains a very good account of the wonderful freaks of fashion with regard to ladies headdrsses, and how they have de parted from that " Plain plaiting of the hair," recom mended in Scripture. The following passage from Addi son, quoted by the writer, is very much to the point : "There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch tilt t the female part of our species were much taller than the men. The women were of such an enormous stature that men appeared as grasshoppers before them. At present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed, and shrunk into beauties that seem almost another species. I remember several ladies who were once very near seven feet high, that at present want some inches of five. For my part I do not love to be insulted by women who are taller than myself. I admire the sex more in their present humiliation, which has reduced them to their natural dimensions, than when they had extended their persons and lengthened themselves out into formidable and gigantic figures." " East and West," a paper from the pen of Lady Spencer, is an account of the great work that the ladies of the West end are doing for their poorer sisters in the East " The War " being the Fraser contribution to the warlike literature of the day, partakes very strongly of the almost universal bias of the English press in favour of Prussia. It is one, however, apart from the writer's amiable weakness of continually refreshing our memory with the exact day of the month of every important event for the last five or six years, of considerable value. H. adopts a view of the Danish war which will not be very readily accepted by Englishmen, and this is that the conduct of Austria and Prussia in reference to Denmark in 1864 was highly meritorious. The resem blance which Austria and Prussia presented in 1866 to a couple of burglars fighting over their spoil does not at all seem to strike him. St. Paul's Magazine is this month an exceptionally good number. The story by Mrs. Oliphant, The Three Brothers," concludes in the orthodox way by sundry mar riages. This story is one that will certainly increase Mr& 0 liphant's already well-earned reputation as a novel writer, the concluding paragraph being' a complete vin dication of the ending, " And thus the story ends, being like all stories, no history of life, but only of a bit out of life 7 -the most amiable bit, the section of existence which the world has accepted as its conventional type of life, leav ing all the profoundest glooms, and the higher lights apart. As in heaven there can be no story telling of the present, for happiness has no story, there, perhaps, for the first time, the mouth of the minstrel may be opened to say or sing what is untellable by the frankest voice on earth. But till then we must be content to break off after the fairy chapter of life's beginning, the history 01 youth." " The Approaching Solar Eclipse " in Saint Paul's, and " The Planet Saturn " in Fraser, are essays of deep interest to all. The former shows the vast power which the spectroscope has given man in astronomical investiger tions, the author's speculations on the probability of the prominences in the sun being caused by the reduction to a gaseous or liquid state of those meteors which, in their orbit when at perihelion pass very near to the sun with very great velocity, seem to be very well founded, and by a little extension might be made to account for the " restitution of energy " which must evi dently take place to make up for the " dissipa tion of energy " through radiation of heat from the sun's surface, and which is so great that but for this " restitution of energy," would soon reduce the sup. to a mass of matter of very low temperature, The latter article on the Planet Saturn, contains some rather daring speculations on the causes of Saturn's rings. That Saturn and his satellites compose a system analogous in some respects to the, solar system seems to be prettyplain- Many investigators have thought that Saturn is in not, nearly such a complete state as regards development se the other planets, and that in Saturn we may see the process through which our own earth, for inpf t ance, has passed. Saturn seems to be in the stare w hen he is manufacturing his satellites,. some of which he hag already made, and the others are in the prose ss of forma' tion out of his belt. The division which has bP,en found to be taking place in this belt, which forms a kind of zone round his equator, seems to support this We"... Whether the planets ever formed belts round the sun, and were in th e course of time formed into spheroids b y the same process that seems to be going on now, is a platter of speculation as yet. As we have in Cornhill an essay by a cynic, so in St. Paul's we have one on cynicism itself. Of the article on cynicism we may say that wo have scarcely ever read ant' thing in a magazine containing so much originality and sprightliness of style. What is m o r e t rue and yet original than the following lines which give the causes of so much of the cynicism which is found amongst educated men :—" The course 11 which a man may arrive at the worst forms of cynicism i s very simple. Go and do something you know t o be wrong, and persist in it. In a very short time you will find you are of opinion that " there's nothing• new and nothing true, and that it does'nt matter ;" O r. possibly of a still more deadly opinion than even tha carries upon the face of it— "Thy duty ? What is duty ? Fare thee well." _ • For arriving at the milder forms of the disease, it 'is 'O t t necessary to go and , forcibly outrage yo ur consc i er , Lce . you need do is to devote your days as muc h a s yo 3 possibly can to your own pleasure. Then you happen to have humour, in l c,ellect, 9 ,11 `;', culture, you will probably 'develop into a cynic: Of all the current magazine articles on, the war that 1 0 St. Paul's strikes us as being the best possible view of th e subject as it is best understood byEnglishmen.lt is ap1 0 ° : : priately entitled " The English A s p ec t o f the War. " . satisfactory to observe that whilst war is looked upon with detestation by most of our write rs , th e P eace at any Poe' party does sot seem to be gaining much ground. TO writer of the article before us is particularly severe up° o those who would make us as a nation give ourselves u p to selfish isolation, and live in the ignominious safety of universal contempt. He, however, adopts that view 0 ' the origin of the present war which has caused oar old ally Napoleon 111. suddenly to become so unpopull . amongst us, and that view is that he made an unprovoke d attack upon Prussia in order to preserve his dynasty, May we not, however, l oo k u p on th e E mperor in thl matter as the instrument of public opinion in France , which was undoubtedly for war ? The opinions which 1 16 expressed in his proclamation would seem to point to this. It is difficult to see how the war was necessary to the lin nervation of his dynasty. " The Fishermen of Auge a story which is thoroughly French, and gives a very vim description of lowly life in a French fishing village. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is to be prezenfe a. with the freedom a the city of Elgin. The extension works of the Weymouth and pate land Bailway to the Breakwater will commence on the Ist proximo. Mr. William Barratt, a fish merchant of Bristol , has been fined £l2 10s. and costs for having offered for sale a quantity of herrin gs , w hi c h were unf i t to b e u sed for food. On Saturday, the well-known swimmers, C o ulter , Morris, and Pamplin, Contended in the Thames, belel London Bridge, in a 250 sweepstakes : distance, one rag e ' Morris, who was the favourite at starting, won the race., It is proposed to hold a meeting of mercballn: bankers, and others interested in the British communit' e ,,,, - in China, at the Lo n d on T avern , to•morrow, a t VA' o'clock, in relation to the massacre at Tien-tsin. At Mullingar, on Saturday, a man named Mullig was arrested by the police on the charge of having, °l3 Sunday week, fired at a land steward named Johnst°; who was fortunately no t i n j ure d . It is believe d theh object of the attack was t o intimidate the, steward. - W man has has been committed to gaol. All classes of French residents in London bag established a Committ ee o f N a ti ona l D e f ence f or t3.® purpose of strengthening, the hands of the new Govern" ment in defending the soil of France from the inva armies, One of the most valuable cargoes ever landed 14 Southampton is brought over by the Tanjore, which , 9 1p rived in that port on Sunday night. It was estimate o „ s be worth £1,500,000, upwards of a mill t iop, cg which in specie. . Notice has been given at the Post-Office -11/A half-pennyianngd will ni lli p p rs o eu s s t ps a pe g dli e labels ablfef po er in u d t e n et e r w , paper proprietors The German residents, preparation. .bs w h o re Pancras-road. The r ‘inan i m in o - us a strongly on Saturday eiv en. i g n t t h t e he m G etroto a li si s ura nr o tit and newsw, ForillerOc'wratbqouebireiPriel\r°'etrsioranielli)ecreiic was that Germany money indemalfr The kter,:h ti the northern y and upon the cession of Alsace , ought to insis o t p u in p i o o n nYm F o r f an t c h e e g p a a t Y lnjler iocl nelf eighth o o a n n n o f o u L n o c r r e d a i n o e f . aronet, which occurred on the 7th inst., au,,, hi Sir • Hanson 1 3 °r, re e' v .ice, 2, Castle-street, Beaumaris. The deee' - 'BO • 11 WP° .) succeeded his father, John, in 1825, was born l u f 9 0 r onsequently he had attained the advanced age o te for years. He was a deputy-lieutenant and a magistra Norfolk. The Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette sca t f i j.: Rear- A d that the Admiralty have determined that of 0, Chads shall give up his post as second in command off Channel Squadron next month, and have already.s e t r,_ t or a flag officer to take the duties, who will contin v present staff in his retinue. THE EUROPEAN WAR. A SECOND EDITION of THE SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGJT 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. Ti GE tic