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E. MOSES and SON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. B RADFORD, YORKSHIRE. E. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of G ENTLE: ►TEN'S CLOTHING. Frock Coats. Also at other prices, Also at Also at other prices. other prices Also at other prices - 1 MOSE • that the .11iality, and the: is considerably ho ise in Engla and SON beg to remind the public cheapness of an article depends entirely on its 'y venture to affirm that every article sold by them cheaper than what can be obtained at any other nd. E. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONT: Summer Suits. Tourist Su its. Summer Trousers, 10s. 6d, Also at other prices, ORDERS punctual measure introd guarantee a fat by post are attended to wit [Hy, and the easy and accurate sy: [need by E. MOSES and SON enal iltless E. MOSES and SON'S PRICE Li T of IJ. BOYS' CLOTHING : Knickerbocker Suits. Eton Brighton Harrow Suits. I Suits. I Suits. 9s. 6d, 13s. 6d. 16s. 6d. 48s. I 48s, Also at Also at Also at Also at other prices. I other prices. other prices. other prices. I - 1 4 MOSES and SON supply every description of _ • 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. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD, COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKSIEIRE. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messr.. H. J. Montague. D. James, and T• Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7 30, CUPBOARD LOVE, by F Hay. After which, .at 8, the Comedy, in Three A ds, entitled TWO ROSES, by James Albery. To conclude with the successful Burlesque, DON CARLOS ' • or, The In fante in Aims S u pp or t e d by M essrs. H . J. Montague, 11. Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power. Amy Fawsitt, T Lavis, and A. Newton. Doors will be open at 6.30. Overture at 7. N.B.—Mr. David James, having terminated his engagement at the Strand Theatre, will positively have the honour of ap pearing here, in a new farce, entitled " Chiselling," on Saturday next, August 27th. MESSRS. MONTAGUE, JAMES, AND THORNE beg to announce that on SATURDAY MORN ING, August 27th, at Two o'Clock, a PERFORMANCE of the enormously successful Comedy of THE TWO ROSES, by James Albery, will be given in aid of the FUND uow being raised for the SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS of the French and German armies. The ladies and gentlemen of the company, the band, and every one engaged ou the establishment have offered their gratuitous services. The proceeds will be imme diately handed over to the Lord Mayor, and the amount announced from the stage in the course of the morning. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND, ITA DA. ME TUSS AUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER STREET. On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial ; King William of Frussia, and Count von Bismarck. Admission, Is.; Children underlo years of age, 6d. Napoleon Rooms 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (EX) THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND -- - CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20a Per ream, e. d. 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PRINCE OF WALES'S—A 7.30. Quite by Ace'dent. M.P. Deere; Mamma. - g EVENING EDITION LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1870. of nine members would, of course, render the control of the Chamber more complete. This little contest, though it has never assumed the aspect of a serious difference, is nevertheless in teresting and important. It shews that a great change has come over the old Imperialist majority, who have so long guided, and who still guide, the decisions of the Parliament. Formerly they relied solely upon the EMPEROR. They derived • their election from him; without him, as deputies, they would never have had any existence ; they therefore made it their duty to do nothing more than register his decrees. The deputies now begin to feel it needful to answer for themselves, and to anticipate the time, possibly not remote, when they must seek re-election as real and direct national delegates, not as merepillars by which the great figure of CEesar has rested upon universal suffrage. This change is a momen tous one, but it is not all that is signified by the selection of the Defence Committee. At present the .whole duty of the Committee will be to see that the defence of Paris is properly provided for. But should further disasters come, it is quite possible, nay very likely, that the Defence Committee, like the old bo3y of Public Safety, will become the chief administrative body in the State, and the nucleus from which a n e w Govern ment will spring. TOPICS OF THE DAY. extraction, and who kept a saddler's shop near Char ing -Cross. He was successful in business, and married a Miss Sarah Parsons, who, judging from the success of her family, must have been a woman of remarkable energy and character. Her three SODS were first, the late Sir David Pollock, Chief Justice of Bombay, who died many years ago ; the third, Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, , is best known as the hero of the Khyber Pass and of Cabul; and the second was the Chief Baron who died on Tuesday. The future baronet was born on the 23rd of September, 1783, and after receiving the elements of his education was sent to St. Paul's School where he was distinguished in classics and mathematics. In 1802 he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1806 he was senior wrangler and first Smith's prizernan. Having determined to study the law, he entered chambers, and was called to the Bar, at the Middle Temple. His success was rapid, and in 1827 he was made a King's Counsel. In 1831 Mr. Pollock offered himself as a candidate in the Tory interest for the borough of Huntingdon, and was successful in obtaining the seat. He was again chosen at the election which followed the passing of the Reform Bill, and on the accession of Sir Robert Peel to power in 1834, he was offered and accepted the post of Attorney-Genera], but went out with the Government. In 1841 he was again made Attorney General, and continued to hold the office till 1844, when ho succeeded the late Lord Abinger as Chief Baron of the Exchequer. He was a sound and safe, if not a brilliant, lawyer, and his summings-up were distinguished by clearness and logical arrangement. MR. REED ON THE CAPTAIN. Mr. Reed has written another letter to the limes in reply to Messrs. Laird, being apparently resolved to annihilate his adversary on paper, if he cann i)t so clearly demonstrate the Captain's inferiority when afloat. Mr. Reed lays great stress on the miscalcu lation of the Captain's weight, which Messrs. Laird contend does not impair the capabilities of the ship. Mr. Reed maintains that her speed is re duced by it, her coal consumption increased, her engine boiler batches " fearfully exposed" to depressed fire, her stability compromised and her guns brought too near the water. The mis take, which Messrs. Laird attribute to themselves, proves, in his opinion, that other supervision than that of Captain Coles is necessary. There is no evidence, he thinks, that the turret ships which have been under fire were exposed to such broadsides as we shall have to encounter in the next great naval war. This, however, cannot be accepted as an argument against the Captain. On points of opinion, such as the arrangement for working the guns, &c., it is not to be supposed that Mr. Reed will approve of his rival's designs in preference to his own; but it is a singular thing that he alternately denounces them with unsparing severity, and declares they are copied from his own ! He ends by declaring, that he shall be glad to lay down his pen in a con troversy which he has just discovered to be "not very dignified," as soon as possible. Mr. Reed's ships, like some people's good deeds, are not, however, likely to remain long without a trumpeter. has two merits, the remarkable depression of the Mexican plain at this point, and the basin of the Coatzacoalcos, which drains the northern slope of the Cordilleras,:and discharges itself into the Gulf of Mexico. The idea of forming an interoceanic canal here has long been entertained. A hundred years ago it was discovered that some cannon cast at Manilla had crossed the isthmus by the rivers Chuanalapa and Coatzacoalcos, being found in the port of San Juan de Ulloa. AFFAIRS IN ITALY. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) ROME, AUGUST 20. A hundred arrests of Mazzinian agents were made last Sunday and fifty.three on Tuesday. The persons arrested were conducted to the confines and discharged. They were all natives of the northern provinces of Italy. All lodging-house keepers have received orders to send the names of all tenants to the police within five days, and all sending of private telegrams is strictly forbidden without revision and permission of the Government of France. The report in Rome was current this morning that Menotti Garibaldi is concealed here, in which suppo sition there is nothing improbable. Mazzini's arrest has caused great embarrassment to the Lanza Cabinet, and it is probable the Minister is scarcely grateful to General Medici for his zeal. He was arrested with an English passport in the name of Henry Zannitts, and attempted to keep up the comedy by replying in English to all the investigations of the police. He is treated en personnage, and with the greatest attention and respect, and the Italian Government ap pear much more afraid of Mazzini than Mazzini has any reason to be of the Government. The agitation all over Italy is becoming most alarming, and as soon as the 40,000,000 fr. credit is voted for the army, it is intended (if not too unpopular a measure) to dissolve the Chamber, especially as the Left were resolved to cede a seat to Mazzini, and so cover him with the inviolability of representative of the people. The indictment once drawn up, this can no longer be done, and the dissolution gives the Cabinet time to carry on the legal proceedings against him. The King of Prussia continues to. evince the most friendly sentiments to the Holy See, and has declared to a counsellor of the Prussian Legation at Rome that he should be glad to see any of the German Catholic powers give a garrison to the Pope after the war, and even dur ing the war should in no way oppose Austria as not in volved in the casus fcederis, if she felt inclined to assume the guardianship. This, however, it is scarcely probable that Rome will ask in the present state of relations with Vienna and the recent withdrawal of the concordat which was notified by Count de Beust to M. Palomba, Austrian Secretary of Legation here. The military dispositions of Italy on the Pontifical frontier are a mystery to everyone. Three divisions, well nigh numbering fifty thousand men, with heavy artillery, cavalry, telegraphic service, &c., are now concentrated on the Roman confines from Orvieto to Bieti. The first division, under General Ferrero, is at Orvieto and along the Tuscan frontier. General Yaze de la Roche commands at Terni and along the Sabine, while General Cosenz has his head-quarters at Rieti, an d General Cadarno, who commands the entire corps d'armee of 150,000 men, has just arrived at Spoleto. It is utterly absurd to suppose that these enormc us forces are there for the occupation of Rome. The Pontifical forces are 12,000 an paper, and probably 8,000 in effective ; and if Italy chose to use violence, it is quite certain that one-fifth of this force would suffice. It is therefore probable that she is desirous to avail herself of a plausible pretext for keep on foot a large army, which may be needed at any moment for the suppression of the Republican movement. The opinion in the higher official circles gains ground to the effect that no movement in Rome will take place till the struggle between France and Prussia has taken• a more decided form. As the Nazione, and many of the more moderate organs, say, it would be insane to go to Rome without the certainty of being able to remain there, and to be the occupants of the Eternal City for a few months only to be ousted by the next Congress. Visconti Venosta and Lanza are both of this opinion, and do all they can to moderate the ardour of the party of action which, deaf to all counsels of states manship or prudence, and to the financial administrative difficulties of Italy, seeks at all costs to force the Cabinet to depart from its policy of reserve and seize Rome by force. The debate in the Italian Chamber on the Roman question last night is a clear proof of the desire of the Ministry to avoid immediate action. Mancini opened the discussion by a question as to the motives which have induced a return to the Convention of September, saying that its violation by France was open and continual, that the Italian people were deceived, and that its present application was a heavy burden to the finance and a per petual danger to the national independence. He then read the Franco-Italian despatch on the evacuations and censured the Government in strong terms for having limited itself to notifying the departure of the French troops without seizing the occasion of a protest as to the many circumstances where the Convention was violated. He said that it was necessary to remove the juridicial obstacle of the Conventim, and to substitute for it the rational rights of Italians, by means of new and indepen dent men, and ended by a motion for the production of foreign correspondence, and by demanding the intentions of Governinent. Guezzoni and Ferrari (both deputies of the Extreme Left) put questions as to the truth of the declarations attributed to Prussia on the Roman question, and as to the attempted Anglo-Italian mediation in the present war.. Visconti Venosta made a joint reply to the three ques tions, and said :—" It is untrue that the Convention of September is abrogated by events. After Mentana, the Frencl Ministers assured the Corps Legislatif and the Senate, by the production of diplomatic docu ments, of the temporary character of the Con vention. The Convention is still in force. The Italian Government on its side returned to the exe cution of the Convention, requiring the same from France, and the Chamber never objected to the policy resulting from the declarations of Menabrea and the documents produced. The present Ministry found this situation on taking office, and because it was resolved not to compromise the question of the convention it avoided raising discussions on the Roman question. To denounce the Convention' would have been fatal, and would have taken away the.title to act on the abstract principle of non-intervention, and on the eve of war especially would have been a most short-sighted measure, which would probably have perpetuated a foreign occupa tion in Rome. The " Jamais "of Rouher was not directed against the inheritors of the policy of Cavour, the defenders of the principles of non-intervention and the rights of the Romans. It was directed against those who desired to try the unhappy experiment of another policy. Mentana was the negation of the Convention of September, and no way chargeable on its provisions. Aspromonte was anterior to the Convention. The Government assumes one only pledge for the future—the guardianship of the 'national rights in Rome. In it's eyes the rights of the Romans and the spiritual independence of the Church constitute the essence of the question. The Minister, replyitg to Guezzoni, denied the pretended declarations made by Prussia, in a sense hostile to the interests and desires of Italy. Prussia will not depart from a policy of observation as to the Roman question. The rest of the debate referred to matters outside Rome, but it is evident from this that the Government of Florence is in no hurry to act, and will allow no initiative to be taken by the bands of Garibaldi, and that it is more than ever a European question. The line of Prussia isa very uncertain one ; prodigal of assurances of good will to the Pope, and yet maintaining her relations with Italy, and it is certain she is very strongly averse to any annexa tion of the actual Papal territory. The King himself especially abounds in courtesies and assurances of support, and the message sent from the camp of Coblenz through a committee of the Prussian legation in Rome was, I have every reason to know, perfectly authentic. The recent measures taken by the Pontifical police render an internal insurrection very difficult of execution, and this again is an additional obstacle to a forcible occu pation by Italy. No disturbance took place last night although we were threatened with one, and the Romans announce the crisis for this evening, why, or on what grounds it would be dif ficult to say, and I own to being among the incredulous, as there is not an appearance of it among the population. All strangers within five miles of Rome have received notice to send in their "carta di soggiorno " for renewal. Mr. Jarvoise, attache of her Majesty's Legation in Florence, has arrived in Rome. It is thought probable he will remain as successor to Mr. Odo Russell. An affray took place a day or two since at Pavia be tween an ex-Garibaldian officer, named Manelli, and an artillery officer of the Italian army. The latter, seeing a proclamation of Mazzini on the walls, - tore it down with his sword, on which Manelli came up and grossly in sulted him. The officer knocked him down, and then stabbed him twice with his drawn sabre, severely wound ing him. The partisans of either came up and separated the combatants, but the incident has greatly increased the ill feeling between the military and the party of action. Corporal Barsanti's appeal has been rejected, and he is left for execution ; but it is thought the, royal pardon will be extended to him, as his execution would be dangerous to the present Cabinet, already totteringto its fall. Should the vote of credit be unfavourable Lanza must resign, and tbis would greatly precipitate events, as he is one of the few Italian statesmen who take a moderate view of the Roman question—realizing the danger of a precipi tate solution. Tusco, the celebrated Neapolitan reactionary chief (he was never a brigand in the ordinary sense) was shot a day or two since by the troops in an encounter with his band. The fermentation in the Southern pro vinces is very great and the military authorities are continually on the qui Dive. Five Mazzinian agents (natives of Milan) were arrested last night in the act of attempting to blow up the bar racks of the Legion at the Cuisarra, near Saint Maria Maggiore. The Pere De Beur Mors, a Jesuit father, well known here, was killed at Woerth while attending the wounded on the field of battle. ITALY AND ROME. The report of a conflict at Rome between French and German soldiers of the Papal army is fully confirmed, and it is expected that if order is not soon restored, the whole of the Papal territory will be occupied by Italian troops.— Eastern Budget. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE NEAR SHREWSBURY. Early on Tuesday morning a fire was discovered at the rectory house Wistantow, Shropshire, the residence of the Rev. Charles Swinson. The inmates escaped with diffi culty. Before the flames could be extinguished the house was completely gutted, and the whole of the valuable contents destroyed. A number of French race horses have arrived at Newmarket in consequence of the war. One result of the Bishop of Winchester's visit to Jersey has been the almost total abolition of the Geneva robe in the parish churches. The Bishop of Capetown is again in England— we regret to learn, on account of the health of Mrs. Gray. —Guardian. Some of the London hospitals are using finely picked oakum for lint, and the fact has been brought to the notice of the committee for aiding the wounded in the war. In India a boat with a marriage party, while crossing the Sutlej from Laodiana to Phillous, struck on one of the piers of the Sutlej bridge, and went to pieces. About fifty people were drowned, but two escaped by holding, the one to a pony, the other to a bullock. Mary Harriet Lady Gardiner, widow of the late Sir John B. W. S. Gardiner, Bart., had a second attack of paralysis on Sunday evening, and died suddenly on Monday morning at her residence in South -street. She leaves five daughters and one son. An ex-Wesleyan missionary named Powell died recently at Keighley, and left the whole of his property, £20,000, to missionary societies. The relatives disputed the will. The case was tried at the Leeds assises on Tues day and the will was confirmed. We (Church Herald) rejoice to heir that Arch deacon Denison is much better. He has been out for some time in his Bath-chair, and on Wednesday went to an hotel at Burnham for the sea-air. He is able to write letters. THE NEW IRISH CHURCH.—We understand, says the Dublin Evening Mail, that the Draft Charter of incorporation of the representative body of the Church has been returned to that body with the amendments pro posed by the law officers of the Crown, which, so far as we can learn, do not affect its principle. The Wesleyans at Doncaster on Monday laid the memorial stones of a new chapel and schools. The mayor of the town took part in the proceedings, which were of a very interesting character. It is proposed to expend £7,000 upon the new buildings, and there is every probability of their being opened next year free of debt. It is not true as asserted in some of our con temporaries, that Madame Canrobert has arrived in England from France. She is still in Paris (which she has never left), assiduously attending to the wounded in the hospitals. It was Madame Canrobert's mother who arrived in England the other day, accompanied by the Marshal's children. A NOBLE DOG.—The Guardian has the following: —As four ladies from Morpeth were bathing at Newbiggin, two of them were swept o ff by th e tid e. O ne was picked up by a boat, and the other was rescued by the Rev. S. Atkinson, vicar of Eighton Banks, who would have probably have failed to do so had he not summoned his Newfoundland dog to his aid, who towed him to shore with his burden. An American paper tells a curious story of the manner in which a murderer was treated by the people of the neighbourhood of Norwalk, Ohio. Ladies visited the prison, and shewed their appreciation of his merits by numerous donations of flowers, sweetmeats, and other offerings. On the morning of his execution, he was pre sented with severa l b ouquets, w hi c h h e took' great plea sure in arranging on the scaffold. A memorial of the late Prince Consort, in the shape of a marble statue, the gift of Mr. D. Sassoon, is about to be placed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Bombay. It is at present to be seen at the South Ken sington Museum ; and it bears the following inscription in our languages :—" Albert, Prince Consort ; dear to Science, dear to Art ; dear to thy land and ours ; a Prince indeed." Mr. Sergeant Simon, the member for Dewsbury, addressed his constituents on Tuesday night in the theatre of that town, which was crowded. He deplored the war between France and Prussia, and thought our Govern. ment had taken a wise and dignified course in reference to Belgium. The learned sergeant spoke of the action he had taken on the Education Bill and other measures. He received an unanimous vote of confidence on the motion of Mr. Samuel Fothergill, seconded by Mr. Wm. Moore. The Mayor occupied the chair. The Brighton magistrates had before them on Tuesday thirteen new applications for spirit licences, only three, however, of which were granted, the proprietor of the Oxford Music Hall being among theunsuccessfulappli cants. The other applications for licenses to sell wine and beer on or off the premises were mostly entertained; and the magistrates, acting on the clerk's advice, granted the application of a large brewer's firm (made under the 26 and 27 Vic., c. 33) for a license to sell beer off the premises. HETERSDOW, LONDON.—The rector of White chapel, a Low Churchman of the very lowest type, has lately introduced a series of services in his (consecrated) churchyard ; and we now hear that he has invited a young Baptist teacher, named Brown, of the Stepney green Tabernacle, to preach there next Friday evening. Thus our churchyards are opened to the schismatical mh istrations of Dissenters. The pulpit erected for the purpose is close to, it not actually in the Church-porch.— Church Herald. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT BRITAIN FROM A us- TRALIA.—The well-known steamer Great Britain arrived at Liverpool on Monday from Australia. She left Mel bourne on the 16th June, and did not round Cape Horn until the 18th July. She subsequently encountered a series of severe easterly gales up to the line, which she crossed on the 4th August. The remainder of her passage, owing to the fineness of the weather, was more satisfactory. The Great Britain brings over 400 passen gers, 735 bales of wool, 2,434 bales of bark, and about 100,000 packages and parcels. SCARLATINA AND STRAW PLAITING.—The vicar of Wing, near Leighton Buzzard, in the heart of the straw-plaiting district, invites public attention to the spread of fatal scarlet fever in his parish. Twenty chil dren from a population of 1,500 people have already died, and several others are mortally stricken. Notwithstanding this terrible lesson, he reports the case of a room full of chil dren engaged in straw-plaiting, while a child suffering from scarlet fever lay in one corner. It would almost seem as if the poor were altogether unbelievers in infection, so habitually do they disregard all reasonable precaution. Perhaps this is lucky for some of the classes above them, for should they ever awake to a true sense of their danger the result might be to compel ratepayers to provide more available hospital accommodation for the infected, and to prevent landowners and other proprietors of the dwel lings of the labouring poor from continuing to make pro fit out of the pigstye hovels miscalled cottages. —Echo. MILITARY PREPARATION.—There is now great activity in recruiting for the 98th Regiment, which is stationed in Newcastle. Ever since the regiment arrived in that town, eighteen months ago, recruiting has been extremely successful, some hundreds having been added to the ranks. The Newcastle Chroniele, in reporting this matter, adds : — Unfortunately, though there is abun dance of men and of good material, there is a great deficiency of stores and of barrack ac commodation. The work of the service is being hindered by an absolute want of the most necessary stores. The authorities at the barracks are not able to supply the recruits even with uniforms. We saw some at drill a day or two ago, and there was not one properly clothed. Some had a soldier's coat, another a soldier's trousers, but none had both ; nor was there a forage cap among the whole squad. This defi ciency of supplies has existed for some time, and it is evident that the Goverement are unable to supply it, as the authorities in Newcastle have written several times without effect. D UNVI LLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ommended by the medical profession in preference to French brand . Sup plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Royal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfast; or at thei London Offices, 4, Beaufort Buildings Strand. W.C. QUEEN'S—At Seven,- bly Wife's Dentist. VAUDEVILLE —Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos, 'Twist Axe and Crown, CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every'fight, at 8; Red• neslays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily r except Sun days). Admission, Is. on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. MADAME TosSIIID'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street,. from 11 a.m. till 30 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra Gd. LAST FRIDAY AT BERLIN. The enthusiasm in Berlin on Friday when the news arrived that a victory under the personal com mand of the King had been wrested fromßazaine after a fight of nine hours is described as having been most spirited and earliest. It had been bruited that im portant intelligence had come to the Queen, and thousands hurried to the Royal Palace, to find the reports well founded and propitious. Her Majesty, addressing the people aloud from a balcony, gave them the purport of the King's telegram, with tears in her eyes. When she came to the word "victory" a shout of joy, loud hurrahs, mingled with the cry "God save the King," rang through the air, and for some minutes the Queen Lad to remain silent. Subsequently the crowds sang the German hymn beneath the palace windows, and re mained there for hours under the falling rain, the cheers for the King and Queen and the soldiers being raised now and then every few minutes. At the Royal Opera-house, in the evening, before the play was begun, the King's telegram was read from the stage, and the audience received the news over again with renewed expressions of joy and gratitude. By Saturday morning the glad appearance of the German faces had extended to their homes, and almost every house in the capital showed its flag or other decoration. In the midst of the popular grati fication the wounded, who were arriving in trains, and those whose relationship with the injured soldiers was but too plainly established, were, be it oaid, to the honour of the Berlinese, objects of especial care and solicitude. Compassion and sympathy were ready at all corners, and offers i f liberal aid were tendered from the most dignified institutions in the town. In proof of the latter assertion it may be mentioned that the hospitals of Berlin are now su plied with gas from the gasworks, and water from the waterworks gratuitously. THE RETURN OF THE FRENCH DRAGOONS. The return of the shattered remnants of the French troops who fought at WeisseL'burg to Paris pre sented a melancholy spectacle. The men, who had fought bravely, were unwounded indeed, but they bore, nevertheless, traces of the terrible struggle through which they had passed. They were dusty, weary, jaded, and depressed. Some of them were so exhausted that they could:hardly sit upright in their saddles, and all were hungry, tired, ' and downhearted at the loss of their companions. A corporal of hussars was the only survivor of his troop. Five lancers were the only remaining men of their squadron, and all looked pale and ghastly as they strayed through the streets of the capital, presenting a very different picture from tine gay, high-spirited regiments who dashed through Paris on their way a Berlin! some three weeks before. The people crowded round them to gather what details they could, and all agreed that, had it not been for " trahison," the Prussians would have been routed. The scene has not been inaptly compared to the old German legendary ballads, in which the ghosts of dead legions arise from the ancient battle fields to holds spectral reviews or ride ghostly marches. GERMAN MEDICAL STUDENTS. A gallant set of fellows, about whose work on the battle fields of the Continent little is being said, are doing noble execution in an effective and extensive way. We allude to the German medical students, who follow the army, and assist in binding up the wounds of the injured, and in tending to the best of their knowledge and power the sick and the dying. As ministering spirits, these young men, to whom many thanks are breathed, and for whom many pious prayers are uttered, knowing full well that the skilled surgeons are small in number compared with the numbers of mutilated men left alter the respective battles, have boldly endeavoured to supply in some way the deficiency, and slight medical knowledge has been found only of too high service in the work they started upon. Confirmation of this is given in the' statement of one student, who writes to the German newspapers to say that he had 28 poor fellows on his hands the day after the battle of I,Voerth. This same young gentleman declares that his life in the field, though painful, is an interesting one. He has, for instance, learned the mysteries of many loving hearts having had to peruse numberless letters belonging to the dying as well as to the dead. Love played an important part in moat of the documents he was obliged to read, and he said he could compromise famously some of the Saargemund ladies, if he was not naturally of a discreet turn of mind. ARREST OF MAZZINI. Mazzini's arrest has taken everyone by surprise at last. After the wonderful escapes he has met with, it seems strange that his fortune should have deserted him. For many years past he has wandered about through France, Switzerland, and Italy, and yet contrived to elude the vigilance of tho authori ties. He was arrested on a steam packet between Naples and Palermo. He was in the character and costume of an English clergyman, and had been staying for some days at Naples without interruption. Mazzini has always been a conspirator. Ile has shunned rest all his life, and contrived to render his schemes so obnoxious that for many years almost every European country was prepared to outlaw him, bad he made his appearance there. The French Government have made a pis oiler of his name when ever it was advisable to get up a conspiracy, real or imaginary. He may be said to have finished his career as an agitator, and must reconcile himself as he best may to the now conditions of existence which will await him within the walls of 'a State prison. THE LATE SIR F. POLLOCK. It is said that every French soldier carries a Marshal's baton in his pocket, and many examples are pointed out of privates having attained high rank. The career of Sir Frederick Pollock, whose death has just been announced at the ripe age of eighty-seven, is a remarkable illustration of the free passage open to aspirants to honours in the legal pro fession. The father of the deceased baronet was Mr. David Pollock, who was believed to be of Scotch Camb, Coats. ASSISTANCE to the wounded at the least is not 'orbidden to neutrals. Hospital stores, lint and oint ment, splints and drugs are not contraband of war. The very cartoon just now published, as the latest thought of our chief political caricaturist, in regard to the deadly struggle still raging between the banks of the Aube and the Moselle, has its affecting signi ficance, "England's 'lntervention,'—(At least we may help the sick and wounded)." The wounded Frenchman kissing the hand of his coneoler Britannia— the wounded Prussian grasping at the brandy-flask she is proffering. Lint, linen, and hospital stores are scattered around in abundance. The ambulance is there with its attendants. Yet at the very moment when we are all recognising in the graceful pen ceiling of Mr. TENNIEL, the feeling and sentiment just at this moment, as one might have imagined, the nearest to the heart of each, there comes a telegraphic announcement through Paris—not through Berlin, observe ! but through Paris—to the effect that "the Prussians have unavailingly demanded permission to remove their wounded by way of Luxembourg and Belgium." More surprising to ourselves even than this announcement is the deliberation with which our contemporary, the Morning Post, argues coolly that the decision thus arrived at by Belgium and Luxem bourg is in any way justifiable. The reasons advanced by the writer in support of his astounding argument are these two :—First, that by allowing some iorty thousand sufferers to pass to the rear of the invading army, the Germans would be freed from the terrible incumbrance of that mass of human anguish, which, argues our contemporary, "must deduct from their effective force many men detailed to look after the wounded, besides any quantity of Waggons, horses, mules, and their attendants." Secondly, that by leaving the Prussians to send their wounded back to the rear along the direct roads by which the army has advanced to its present position, they would thereby necessitate a delay in the advance of reserves as well as of equally desirable supplies for themselves of food and ammunition. Neither of these arguments, as it appears to us, can be regarded as holding good under the actual circumstances. In regard to the first it ought surely to be borne in mind that it is simply a free passage to the rear that is asked through Luxembourg and Belgium. No further assistance than that ! And that precisely is what has just' now been refused. Then as to the second the argument is in no way valid or tenable. Trains bringing up reserves, and food, and ammunition might surely without impediment con tinue to run southwards, while side by side in the opposite direction northwards could run (if that were the only reason) just as uninterruptedly the trains conveying to the rear the sick and the wounded. There is really no reason whatever that we can at all co.nprehend why this free passage should have been denied to the Prussian wounded, through Belgium and Luxembourg, simply forsooth because of their political neutrality. "At least we can help the sick and wounded," says Mr. TENNIEL on behalf of his own country, that is of England, in her humane intervention. "At least we may not help the sick and wounded," seems to be the cold-blooded decision arrived at by the Belgian and Luxembourg Govern ments. And the cruelest part of it is this, that many lives will be thus wantonly sacrificed through this heartless interpretation of what is meant by neutrality. MORE than one occurrence in connection with the government of France during the war has testified to the determination of the Legislative Body to secure to itself the supreme control of affairs. When the present Ministry succeeded the OLLIVIER Cabinet it was on the express understanding that, though all strong Imperialists, they were t.) regard themselves as strictly responsible to the Chamber. The deputies have just proven that they are not disposed to forego this responsibility. When the victories of Woerth and ii'orbach threw all Paris into an extreme panic, and a siege of the capital was anticipated, M. JULES FAVRE proposed that a committee of Defence should be established. The suggestion remained in abeyance for a little while, but when the arrival of the Prussians on the outskirts of the city appeared more and more imminent, the Ministry decided to adopt M. FAVRE'S idea, and the Committee was nominated without further ado. But its personnel was not of the kind that the majority of the Chamber desired. General Tnocnu, who is President, Marshal VAILLANT, and divers officers, engineers, and other practical men were at first appointed to form the Committee. No exception could be taken to these names, but the . Chamber wanted something more : it desired that nine of its deputies should be added to the list, in order that the repre sentatives of the people might thus be able to personally watch over the defence of Paris, The Ministry wavered, then protested, and seemed inclined to oppose the addition. But it would not, do. The Chamber, although the nine member amendment was proposed by a Republican, showed an unmistakeable front in its favour; and the War Minister, Count PALIKAO, has found it needful to give way. lie is now willing to allow that three deputies be added to the committee. Such is the compromise now before the Chamber. Parliament has obviously gained more than half the battle. If only three members of the Legislative Body form part of the Committee, the principle that the national representatives are to be associated with the Imperial nominees in administrative work of this kind, is conceded all the same. The addition HUED Dress Trousers. 16s. 6d, Also at other prices II care and item of self )les them to CULTURE BY STEAM POWER. Mr. William Smith, of Woolston, writes to the Times to oompere his position, as the advocate of steam power culture, with Mr. Sanderson's report on "The Harvest and the Crops." Mr. Sanderson considers the wheat area this year to be under average, and, consequently, the total produce of wheat will fall short of an average. Mr. Smith has now harvested the best crop of wheat that has ever grown upon some fields under steam culture ; and while Mr. Sanderson estimates the average acreage to be thirty bushels, he thinks his produce will.he over forty bushels per acre. The aver age produce on these fields under horse-culture was twenty bushels per acre on an average of years. Mr. Sanderson estimates barley 20 per cent. below average. Mr. Smith has just harvested the fourth white crop in succession, and the last is the best of the lot. He takes it that the land, in character, is very much like the land in Rutlandshire that Mr. Sanderson says will not yield two quarters per acre. Beans are grown on newly-purchased land which has had only one operation of steam power, they will give a produce of thirty bushels per acre. Mr. Sanderson says," Of all farm crops, beans are by far the worst." Mr. Smith arrives at the conclusion that his position, for his fifteenth crop under steam culture, compares well against horse culture, especially so the corn crop; and when it is understood that he leaves no (allows on heavy clay land, the evidence is conclu sive on the side of steam culture. RAILWAY TRAVELLING.. An inquiry into the circumstances touching the death of James Brown, a youth residing at Totten-- ham, who met his death by falling from one of the carriages of the Great Eastern Railway, has once more directed attention to the insecurity of railway travelling, apart from all questions of break-down or collision. The question which the jury had to de termine was whether the door of the carriage in which the lad had travelled had been properly closed by the company's officials. The deceased, it appeared, on arriving at Barham, committed that commonest indiscretion of passengers, namely, leaning against the door of the carriage. He fell out, and was killed. Evidence was forthcoming which went to prove that the unfortunate lad did not open the door, and on the part of the railway company it was urged that in consequence of the peculiar construction of the platform, and the incline at the curve of the platform at Ipswich, whence the train started, the doors would fly open. The jury, by a personal inspection, seem to have convinced them selves that there was truth and force in this ex tenuating plea, and whilst they were satisfied that deceased did not open the door of the carriage, a verdict of accidental death was recorded. The simplest means of preventing similar accidents is to lock the doors of the carriages ; but we can readily imagine the reluctance of railway companies to adopt such an unpopular course. If passengers, however, will not have doors locked, they must be very careful. THE ISTHMUS OF DARIEN CANAL. The advantages of a ship canal which shall con nect the two great oceans, and provide for the tran sit of merchandise without the cost and delay of removal or the tedium of the journey round Cape Horn, are too manifest to be readily abandoned. It is only wonderful that the enterprising dwellers in the United States should have so long been deterred from carrying out the scheme by the natural obstacles of the route. Having so far resolved upon it,however, and once set the expedition on foot, they are naturally unwilling to abandon the idea, notwithstanding. the unfavourable result of the sur vey. Congress at its late session voted thirty thou sand dollars for a new survey of the routes of Nicaragua and Tehuantepec. The expedition, which is to leave next month, will be commanded by Captain Shufeldt, while Commander Selfridge, who has superintended the last exploration, will return to the Isthmus of Darien and examine Tuyra and Atrato routes. During the late expedition Commander Selfridge examined three routes which are now no longer thought of, and there only remain the Atrato and Tuyra, the Aspinwall and Panama, and the Nicaragua and Tehuantepec routes. There are various estimates of the relative merits •of these roads. Mr. Body, President of the Central Ameri can Transit Company, considers the Nicaragua route the best from its inexhaustible supply of water at the summit level, and its requiring no tunnels. Lake Nicaragua is the great reservoir of water in Central America, and this of course greatly facilitates the task. 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