The Sun. — London, England, 1870-07-18 00:00:00

ti MOSES and SON, CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. N EW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER of HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. MEN'S OLOTHING. 30s. 21s. 425. Ns, Also at Also at Also at other prices. other prices other prices E. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of I Tourist Suits. Also at other prices, BOYS' CLOTHING Knickerbocker Suits. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. Ores i Oxford Coati. Coats. 355. 265. 50s. 365. II MOSES and SON beg to remind the public .I_l4 • that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its quality, and they venture to affirm that every article sold by them is considerably cheaper than what can be obtained at any other ho Ise in England. GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED: Summer Trousers. 109. 6d. 12s. 6d. 15s. 6d. 17s. 6d. Also at other prices, ORDERS by post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless flt. E MOSES and SON'S PRICE Li T of 11J. Eton Brighton Harrow 1 I Suits. I Suits. Suits. 15s. I 18s. 235. I 235, 265. 1 265, 265. I 325. 325, 365. I 365. 48s. I 48s, Also at I Also at Also at . Also at other prices. other p r ices. other prices. ' other prices. MOSES and SON supply every description of 4• 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, YORKSHIRE. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. QT. JAMES'S.—The COOLEST THEATRE in 1,7 London.—Box-oftlce, 11 to 6. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. John Wood. QT. JAMES'S.—Opening of the Summer Season. Nights of merriment and laughter. No fees of any kind. Stalls, 7s. ; bonnet stales (bonnets allowed), ss. ; dress circle, 55.: family circle, 2s. ed. ; gallery, ls. TO-NIGHT. QT. JAMES'S.—Programme for TO-NIGHT, at 1,3 7.80. IN UNHAPPY PAIR : Farce, in one act, by the late William Brough. At 8.15, PAUL PRY First appearance of MR. J. CLARKE a s PAUL PRY. First appearance of MISS HUGHES as PHEBE. Miss Stafford as Marian. Mr. Vollaire as Witherton. To conclude with THE BONNIE FISHWIFE. Gaiters by Mr. J. Clarke, with an original Scotch Song. Miss Hughes will sing " Love's Summer" and " Caller Herring." New Scenery and Dresses. TO-NIGHT. V.A.UDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.-- Lessees—Messrs H. J. Montagne. D. James, and T. Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7 30, CUPBOARD LOVE, by F. Hay. After which, at 8, a new and original Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, by James Albery. To conclude with the new and successful Burlesque, DON CARLOS ; or, The Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power. Amy Fawsitt, T Levis, and A. Newton. Doors °pea at Seven. Commence at 7.30. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and :tlanageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE SCHOOL FOR SCAM' 'DAL. Mr. Terry, Mr. D. James, Joyce ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Button, Hughes, and E. Fowler. And THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. CHRISTIE'S "PERISCOPIC" SPECTACLES, as recommended by Wollaston, giving more light, a wider geld, and less strain upon the eyes.—GEORGE CHRISTIE, Manufacturer of the latest improvements in spectacles, reading lenses, &c., 25, Hanway-street, Oxford-street, W. ri MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of T' Camb, Coats. 16s. 6d Dress Trousers. Also at other prices GENTLE Frock Coate. Also at other prices. Summer Suits. Also at other prices. 9s. 6(1 13s. 6d. 16s. 6d, NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. — JNO. GONE 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, Is each; also 55., 7s. Ed., and 15s. each, includ ng brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.O. TORN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. dd Red Bull Wharf, 83, upper Thames street, London. THORLEY'S HORSE and CATTLE SPICE, In Penny Pack ets only, of all Corn Chandlers in London, and Of all Grocers, Druggists, and Corn Dealers in the Country. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.—The Proprietor of the CENTRAL PRESS furnishes Telegraphic News to Newspaper Proprietors, to the Managers of Clubs, Exchanges, News Rooms, Reading Rooms, and Hotels. GENERAL NEWS.—Four services are supplied daily. The first service gives all news becoming known between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m., including extracts from the London Morning Journals. The second service includes all news from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The third service all news from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. The fourth all news from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. This last message is intended for districts where a Morning Paper is not obtainable, and is despatched at 6 a.m. One Telegram is always forwarded during each service, and additional Telegrams whenever impor tant news becomes known. COMMERCIAL NEWS.—At 7 a.m. a telegram is for warded, giving all the Commercial News which appears in the London Morning Papers. At 11.30 the opening prices of the Stock Exchange. At 12.30, the London Corn, Cattle, and Produce Markets. At 3.30 closing prices of the Stock Exchange and report. PARLIAMENTARY NEWS at 6 p.m., 8 p.m., and close. COST.—For each daily service, or for each daily Telegram, the charge is Is. per week ,• or for each service or Telegram once a week, ls., including the cost of transmission. MARKETS, Daily or Weekly, 6d. each. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS to non-subscribers, Ss. each. Prepay ment essential. In no case can a subscription for less thar, three months be received. CENTRAL PRESS, 112, Strand, W.O ; and 2, Telegraph-street. E.C. THE - SUN.—LATEST EDITION to be seen every Evening, at Eight o'clock:. Mr. GitmWs, "The Wheatsheaf," High-street Camden-town. " THE SUN" at THE LATE EDITION of Mr. BEAUMONT'S, " The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W. ALEXANDER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, iNo. 4, Old Cavendish street, Oxford-street LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at W.EMITH'S .' Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Caulden- town. T",, SUN" forwarded by Morning and Evening Ma with undeviating regularity, and nelivered in Town as , soon as Published. Advertisements inserted. Apply to W. ILLEXAIimm, 24, Old Cavendish-street, W. Established 1760. OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden.—Lucrezia Borgia, 840 Pm. ITALIAN OPERA, Drury Lane.—Otello. 8.3). A DELPHI—At Seven, The Robust Invalid. Free Labour. PRINCE OF WALES'S—A 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. QUEEN:S—At Seven, Hy Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Axe and Crown. VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos. ST.JAMES'S —At Seven, Paul Pry. La Belle Sauvage WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCII 13'a K. Egyptian Hall, Pic cadilly, every Plvening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn togs at 3. Admission is, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every. S fight, at 8 ; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZO LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily (except Sun days). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. MADAME TIISSAUD'B EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra 6d. trq. 1, 4 *,' ,, 5 4 tt , o opt , A t eiN MORNING EDITION. TEIE bUIN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 18, th a meeting of the Geographical Society, that the Go vernment had made a grant of money for the purpose of assisting in the search for the celebrated traveller. The news of Dr. Livingstone's safety reached Table Bay on the 22nd of May. That it is trustworthy is shewn by the fact that the Astronoaaer Royal of the Cape of Good Hope, Sir Thomas Maclean, who is also Mr. Moffat's son-in-law, is thoroughly impressed with its truthfulness. Sir Thomas Maclean said. it was physically impossible for Livingstone to have gone from where we heard from him in May, and to have been where he was said to be, according t the West Coast rumour, at the time when he was reported to ,be murdered. It was to his mind quite evident that Dr. Livingstone was alive and well. A CHANGE OF MINISTERS. By a vote of forty against three the American Senate has ratified the appointment of Mr. Theodore Frelingliuysen as the New United States Minister in England. This gentleman will come to Great Britain far less known to us on this side of the Atlantic than the skilled diplomatist and man of letters whom he succeeds. Mr. Motley has already obtained an honoured name; and has become a welcome visitor in English society, by reason of his literary acquire ments, his extreme candour, and his superior tastes. He has not, perhaps, laid the - foundation for so fervent and lasting a friendship among all classes of Englishmen, as the veteran Minister Mr. Reverdy Johnson did during his period of office as ambas sador, but among that section of the people by whom Mr. Motley is best kilo:ft—the section best able to judge of his thorough capabilities for and his earnestness in the diplomatic service, —he has made a deep impression, and has acquired a respect which will long serve to per petuate his fame. Mr. Frelinghuysen is not, it may be stated, altogether unknown in American politics. He has been associated with the Democratic party, but it is said that he adhered to that section of it which joined heartily in the prosecution of the Union war. The appointment of a new minister, it is to be hoped,indicates a renewal of efforts to settle the one ground of difference between his country . and ours. As a diplotnatist he h%s his reputation t o male, and in the Alabama difficulty he will finp materials by which he can make it with great honour to himself. DR. LIVINGSTONE The news brought by the steamship Roman of the safety of the distinguished African traveller, Dr; Livingstone, will be received with joy by th• country. The interest felt by the public has made Itself known in various ways, and it is but :a few weeks ago that Sir Roderick Murchison intimated, at ENGLISH EITLWAVS. The traffic receipts on some of the railways for the week ending July 15th are noticeable, as shelv ing an increasing improvement in trade. The increase on the Lancashire and Yorkshire amounted to £1,326, on the Glasgow and South-Western £2,146, on the Caledonian £2,567, and on the North British £457; on the North Eastern the increase is remarkable, being :no less than £12,718. On the lines having termini in London the following increase has taken place :,The Metropolitan, £405; Great Eastern, £3,416 ; Midland, £5,907; Great Northern, £5BB ; London and Brighton, £912 ; London and South Western, £1,056; London, Chatham,:and Dover, £2,194 ; Great Western, £3,312 ; London and North Western, £8,407; and South Eastern, £154. The receipts:on - the North London fell £lB7. IMPROVEMENT IN RAILWAY ENGINES. The experiments made on the Festiniog Railway to test its capabilities, and also the power and com parative steadiness of double-bogie engines, the in vention of Mr. Fairlie, are made the subject of a report by Captain Tyler, R.E. The report states that " the amount of traffic which can be economically carried upon this little railway, and the speed at which it can be conveyed round curves which would be absolutely impracticable under the ordinary system of railway working, render it a most instructive example, showing how, by a reduction of guage, adaptation of rolling stock, and judicious arrangements, cheap railways on narrower guages may be advantageously con structed in our colonies, in foreign countries and even in parts of the United Kingdom." That an immense saving would be effected by .the introduction of the system will at once be seen when it is mentioned that the Festiniog line has a guage of rather less than two feet. Speaking of Mr. Fairlie's double bogie engines, Captain Tyler says that the principle upon which they are designed is sound. There is a reduction in the: wear and tear and friction. The weight is accumulated upon the wheels, so that all the wheels are effective driving ones, and the engines can run In either direction with equal safety. HEALTH AT WIMBLEDON ENCAMPMENT. The sanitary condition of the camp at Wimbledon is proving in the highest degree satisfactory. According to one of the medical organs, the Tines and Gazette—a couple of cases of febricula, a couple of flesh-wounds caused by fragments re boundmng from the practice-targets, a scald caused by the stumbling of a boy over a tent-rope into a camp-kettle, these constitute the most formidable cases on the sick list at the Field Hospital, with the exception of a couple of patients who barely escaped with their lives from the fatal rail way accident at Carlisle. They were Lanarkshire lieutenants, and, therefore, men having a claim upon the assistance of the Field Hospital authorities. It is gratifying to know that the dry earth system, adopted in the camp, answers very well, but it is in no way surprising to find that it requires constant supervision. THE SICK AND WOUNDED IN BATTLE. Every country in Europe, save the United Kingdom, has its society for the succour and relief of soldiers wounded in battle, and the outbreak of hostilities between France and Prussia is referred to by those interested in the formation of such an institution in this country as furnishing the occasion for its establishment. In _ April, 1869, a conference of gentlemen who were anxious to - extend societies for the help -of sick and wounded soldiers was held at Berlin, and Mr. Burgess, of Trafalgar-square, London, was one of the British representatives there. This gentleman, in a letter to the papers, uowpoints out the necessity for the humane and benevolent to come forward and lend influence to an institution which would reflect so much credit, especially at this crisis, upon England. Mr. Burgess justly observes that in assisting the sick and injured no country or creed is recognised ; the societies - seek only to alleviate the sufferings of those requiring their aid in time of war. In a few hours the mass of individual pain, which is the natural result of warfare, will probably exist ; and although only those who have witnessed scenes of fighting can realise the whole extent of the bloodshed and agony of a battlefield, still everyone can imagine what it is in some degree, and will concede that nourishing food and a full stock of medical ap pliances will be deeply valued in the emergency of providing comfort for the injured. This war, though .'perhaps a brief one, will probably be a most fatal one to human life, as the two deadliest weapons that have ever been manufactured, the Chassepot rifle and the needle gun, will be brought into action-on the respective sides. THE RACING LAWS. In anticipation of. Saturday's meeting of the Jockey Club, "Senex," whose observations with respect to the turf have obtained for him some credit recently, wrote to the morning papers a letter approving of tho decision of the:" Two-year-olds" inquiry com mittee nominated by the Club, who have recom mended that no two-year-old shall be stripped in public before the Ist of May, or entered in any handicap race before the Ist of October. By this decree and by other recent ones some members of the club, in the estimation of "Senex," have proved their ability to provide salutary reforms in the racing laws to a far greater degree than sceptical outsiders expected. This last regula tion in favour of the commencement of two year old racing being fixed for May 1, is, he contends, in har mony with the opinion hold by the majority of the trainers in England. The growth and future pros pects of the animals will no longer, " Senex" hopes' be spoiled by too early or too frequent racing, or by the trying weather of the winter or spring. He considers, however, that the club ought not only d #to sanction the recommendations •of 'the committee, • but . also the amendment of Sir Joseph Hawley, to the effect that "No plate, prize, or public money should be given for any race to which two year olds are admitted, or for any. han dicap." The ruin of the turf has been almost ac complished by the running of horses when too young, and Senex stoutly maintains the theory that the thoroughbreds of England continue to deteriorate daily while the practice is allowed to exist, in spite of Admiral lious's declaration that they are in these days, and under the present laws, better than ever. THE WELSH GIRL-A CASE OF STARVATION. The investigation of that moat miserable and most unnatural instance of deception known for months pastas the history:of the life and death of poor Sarah Jacob, the Welsh Fasting girl, has been at length closed. Ever since the death of the unfortunate victim it has been continued intermittently. It terminated on Thursday with the verdict of the jury and the sentence of the judge at . the end of the trial of the wretched parents—the verdict being guilty, and the sentence, that of twelve months' imprisonment on the male and six months' imprisonment on the female pri. soner. The evidence of the surgeon who assisted in making the post-mortem examination we take to be conclusive. Traces of starch globules were sound by Lim in the intestines, and minute traces also of bone, the bane of a small bird or of a fish ; he was disposed to think it was the bone of a fish. When asked point blank " What [meaning, of course, in your opinion] was the cause of death ?" witness answered laconically, " Starvation." Whereat there went all through the court that shudder called by reporters "Sensation." The case in point, is not by any means the first instance of this strange and cruelly fantastic kind of deception. Years ago Bernard Kavanagh affected, just as this poor Welsh girl did, to live without nourishment. Sarah Jacob's case, however, is the first in which there has been evidence adduceable of the parents of the victim being accomplices, even to the extreme result of death by starvation. WHERE ARE THE POLICE? This question is asked by " A Muscular Peace maker," who, speaking of the Franco-Prussian diffe rence, advises England to don the helmet and step in and persuade or compel the contending parties to keep the peace. This peacemaker thinks that Eng land ought to declare at once that "she will sweep the seas of every stick afloat belonging to the power who first takes the field." This is the kind of thing that would give a tone to the Eatanswill Gazette ; but that the Times should give it the honour of large type and prominent position is astounding. The attempts made by England to prevent the war between Prussia and Denmark did not bring so much credit to this country as to warrant her in undertaking so vast a responsibility as the one to which this philanthropist points. The history of the country is full of records of intermeddling, induced by the belief that it was the vocation of England to be mixed up in every war that occurred. Experience has told us that all our endeavours have been signal failures, and that the only consequence has been misery and suffering. ➢iODEST REQUESTS. Shakespeare has said somewhere, "He that wants money, means, and content is • without three good friends," and no one will venture to contradict this assertion, or another one which suggests itself from it, namely, that he who possesses not the first will have neither the second nor the third. In .this en lightened and humane age there are few who would willingly desire to see persons afflicted with lonely want, retire and die without having onca uttered to other ears a cry of anguish, or an appeal for help and sympathy. Tthere are, however, some people who believe they have felt the sting of adversity, who are so audacious in their mode of asking help, that kindly feelings are smothered, and men begin to think that persons who can give. their sanction to such appeals, are not worthy of any one's care or solicitude. Two requests in London papers of Saturday • morn ing are exemplifications of the sturdy method of trying to - extract solicitude to which we refer. They are as follow :—To the Wealthy.— Will any benevolent lady or gentleman lend a lady, the daughter of an old officer, five pounds before the 21st, to save her from great trouble and disgrace. Address, &c. :—Twenty pounds wanted to borrow, without sureties, by a highly respectable young man. A liberal bonus or interest would be given. Apply, &c. How many will believe that in either case there has been genuine adversity, or that there is any touch of humility exhibited in the petitions, which would of itself entitle the suppliants to pity and respect. THE FENIAN RAID ON CANADA. That General Starr and Colonel Thompson should be sentenced to two years' and Captain Manins to one year's imprisonment is some proof that the American Government have no sympathy with the Fenian movement. Complaints were made on previous occasions, that the United States autho rities, by remitting some of the sentences passed for a similar offence, were holding out hopes to the Fenians, but the mercy shewn them has not been imitated in the present instance. The ridiculous failure that attended General O'Neill's invasion of Canada will have the effect of teaching the poor ignorant Irish emigrant that it will be better to invest his savings in American land than to hand them over to impecunious countrymen, who have more regard for liquor-shops than for the welfare of Ireland. ( (Tra n i --64 C' - omr xi, laniar • HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, JULY 16. The Queen drove out yesterday, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, and her Ma jesty walked in the grounds this morning with Princess Louise. OSBORNE, JULY 17. The Queen and Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Waterpark. Her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service at Whippingham Church this morning. The Rev. George Prothero, assisted by the. Rev. John Dutton, officiated. The Rev. G. Prothero preached the sermon. Viscount Halifax arrived at Osborne yesterday, and• had the honour of dining with the Queen and•the Royal family. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Alfred Her vey, Major Grey, and Mr. Fisher, went to the Agricul tural Hall, Islington, on Saturday, and opened the Workmen's International Exhibition on behalf of her Majesty the Queen. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-DAY. The annual regimental dinner of the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, colonel-in-chief, will preside. Miss Coape's garden party at The Pryor's Bank, Fulham. The Irish Times announces that before the close of the present session Mr. Maguire will give notice of a motion to the House of Commons early next year, recognising the justice and expediency of allowing Irish affairs being managed by a Federal Parliament, the constitution and jurisdiction of the Imperial Parliament for imperial purposes remaining unaltered. THE LATE MR. MURDO YOUNG.—The funeral of this veteran politician and . journalist took place on Friday, at Kensal-green Cemetery. The hearse was followed by mourning coaches containing Mr. Charles Kent, of the Sun newspaper, his sons, and other relatives of the de ceased gentleman; as also by the Rev. Mr. Druce, who performed the service, and Mr. J. C. Macphee. And thus, on a fine summer's day, with the sun shining bril liantly, was laid in the tomb all that was mortal of this once active and energetic metropolitan journalist. —Stan de rd . His Royal Highness Prince Christian of Schles wig-Holstein presided on Saturday at the Council-room of the Royal Horticultural Society over a meeting of the General Purposes Committee, appointed by her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, to carry out the series of annual international exhibitions, the first of which is to be held in 1871. There were also present Sir Staf ford Northcote, Sir Francis Sandford, Mr. Edgar Bow ring, Mr. Cole, Dr. Playf air Mr. Thring, and Colonel Scott, R.E., secretary. A deputation from the Institu tion of Mechanical Engineers, consisting of Mr. Rams botham, (president), Mr. Siemens (vice-president), and Mr. Marshall (secretary), attended the meeting for the purpose of concerting measures to secure an adequate re presentation of scientific inventions connected with ma:- chinery in the exhibition of next year. [ADVERTISEMENT.]. —Holloway's Ointment and Pills are peculiarly adapted for that large class of mankind which can neither afford the time to be ill nor the money to pay the doctor. Armed with these twin medicaments, and aided by the directions for using them, the ailing can infallibly stave off the threatening illness, and the afflicted can with certainty remove his diseased condition. Exter nal or internal maladies, acute or chronic disorder, slight or dangerous ailments, yield to the specific virtues which one or both of the matchless preparations will greatly exercise. The Ointment is as innocent and benign as it is cooling and healing. The Pills are as harmless and com forting as they are purifying and corrective, aperitive, and strengthening. . LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1870. WAR having been actually declared and virtually commenced, it behoves us all to look now less to the past and more to the present and the future. To each of the two great belligerents the familiar words of the American commentator on the psalmist might seem to address themselves as with the ringing sound of the war-trumpet— "Let the dead past bury its dead : Act, act in the living present, Heart within and God o'erhead." It is unhappily but little to the purpose at this moment to define accurately the relative amount of the responsibility attaching to France or to Prussia, to King WILLIAM or the Emperor NAPOLEON, in having either allowed or caused the late angry negotiations to terminate at last in this appalling rupture of peace, and this most startling and most lamentable signal for the imme diate commencement of hostilities. Comments of that kind to-day are nothing lees:than anachronisms. They are utterly useless, because they are nothing whatever to the purpose. The tocsin has sounded. The " ugly rush" has even now commenced. What is chiefly felt by lookers-on, in regard to more or less recent occurrences, is this—that upon both sides there has been a readiness to accept the challenge the one of the other. It is not merely that the war budgets in an epoch of profound European tran quillity, pressing so heavily, at times it has seemed so all but overwhelmingly on the:whole of North Ger many, and on the whole of the imperial quadri lateral of France, are in terrible truth, now fully accounted for. The faot is equally apparent that throughout these recent diplomatic communications between Paris and Berlin, between Ems and St. Cloud, the principals have evidenced at every step, at every movement, a readiness—it might rather be said an eagerness—to accept at any instant the full weight of the awful consequences involved in a rup ture between them. When the candidature of Prince LEOPOLD of Hohenzollern-Zigmaringen is covertly submitted to the King of PRUSSIA as head of the whole royal race of the HOHENZOLLERNS,. his MAJESTY, without deeming it essential to consult With any of his European allies upon the matter, at once, unhesitatingly, upon his own individual re sponsibility, not only approves of it, but goes so far as distinctly to authorise it. When this " transaction comes at last, suddenly, as a surprise, to the knowledge of France and all the rest of the Powers of Christendom, the two foremost ministers of France, M. OLLIVIER and the Due de GRAMMONT, denounce it, one after the other, in the strongest terms, from the,Tribune of the Corps Ldgislatif. So afterwards, in like manner, when M. BENEDETTI applies to the KING Of PRUSSIA him self in person to accord his royal guarantee to the non-revival of the candidature, just previously and in a left-handed manner withdrawn, the resolute old KING, without an instant's hesitation, on the spur of the moment, resents what he regards as an in trusion by an unmistakeable rebuff, on one of the public walks of the Kursaal, to that too-zealous in truder upon his dignity—the French Ambas sador. Finally, the Emperor NAPOLEON, on hear ing of this and of that—to him—galling incident in the negotiations, assumes to himself a far larger responsibility, a responsibility of awful and appalling magnitude, throwing down the gage of battle and formally declaring war against his antagonist. A retrospective glance like this indicates at every turn in the negotiations that the two Sovereigns have been all along perfectly prepared for the emergency. They have neither of them evidenced any eagerness to evade or avoid the peril of the impending respon= sibility. The result is, as the world knows, that war is an nounced. And, as the world equally well knows, the war thus announced will be a war a outrance. Sharp, short, and decisive, will be the conflict, when France and Prussia confront each other with their deadly arms of precision. The KING is backed by a nation of foxty millions. The EMPEROR is backed by a nation of forty millions. They are equally well matched. Prussia has to sustain the prestige she won four years ago on the field of Sadowa. France, though she had nothing whatever to do with the war of 1866 has, as she conceives, to reclaim the prestige she regards herself as having lost in the presence and estimation of Europe on that same astounding battle field. Supposing NAPOLEON 111. victorious, he beholds before him as the prise for which he is fighting, the acquisition of the Rhenish Provinces. Sup posingWlLLtam I. victorious, he will emerge from the contest no longer King of PRUSSIA but Emperor of GERMANY. For the gratification of these ambitions the cause of humanity is to be outraged, some of the fairest scenes on the face of the earth are to be ravaged awl laid waste, blood and gold poured out like water, a multitude of our follow creatures ruth lessly slaughtered, and another multitude struck down in agonies, and only saved from death by frightful mutilation. While the ultimate object for which NAPOLEON undertook this war is the re-establishment of his prestige with the French army which the plebiscite shewed to have been largely estranged by the frequent failures of his foreign policy, it is assumed that his .proximate object is the posion of the Rhine frontier. This probable enough, but the contingency which that probability in volves is something terrible to contemplate. People talk vaguely of the Rhine provinces as though they belonged to Prussia, and as though a fight for them meant a fight between France and Prussia only. In reality these provinces_belong to Holland, Belgium, Bavaria, Baden, and Hesse Darmstadt. This then is at the very least a French and German war. There is too much reason to fear.that it will not; be confined to these two nationalities. Theye is too much reason to dread that not only will the Grand Duke of BADEN join his uncle the King of PRUSSIA, and that some of the German States will be found battling on the same side, but Belgium also will be involved. It is bitt a few months ago, and just after King LEOPOLD had lost his only son, that the French Government attempted to pick a quarrel with Belgium, and was prevented only by the good offices of England. Belgium has been called the cockpit of Europe, and lying as it does between the two hostile powers, having a frontier coterminous with that of France for about 250 miles, a f rontier in most parts merely imaginary, it will be difficult for it to keep out of the fray. In fact, NAPOLEON has already sent a menacing message to Brussels, threatening King LEOPOLD that if Belgium is not strong enough to re sist any violation of neutrality by Prussia, French troops will at once occupy the Belgian king dom. The great fortress of Luxemburg, which lies close to France and Prussia, and which but a very little while ago brought the present combatants to within twenty-four hours of war, is a most tempting prize, and, though belonging to the King of HOLLAND, who has just declared his intention to maintain neutrality, it will scarcely be resisted. Either incident the violation of Belgian neutrality or the seizure of Luxem burg would be a most serious matter for ourselves. The neutrality of both has been guaran teed by the British Government, and a violation of that neutrality could not be suffered by us with punity.• There is too great reason to fear that the war will not be confined even to these wide limits. Denmark has been longing to avenge her wrongs of six years ago, and there is little doubt but that France will attempt to paralyse Prussia in the North Sea and the Baltic by an expedition to the old Dano-German duchies. In fact it is impos sible to tell where the conflagration thus lighted will end, impossible to be sure that it will not extend from the Straits of Dover to the Bosphorus. The Power whieh seems most likely to remain aloof is the one whose kingless condition led to the present conflict. Spain, it appears, is to be allowed to remain neutral. Assuming that the first shock of battle will be felt in the district where the two combatants touch each other, it is important that we should understand the geographical position of this district. The tourist wishing to travel from Treves to Strasbourg must have noted with some surprise th at there is no direct rail communication between these two cities. Arrived at Saarbriick he has had to turn his back upon his destination, and instead of journeying due south-east has had to travel north-east as far as Kaiserlautern and thence to Neustadt, entering the French territory at Wissenburg. In this way he has had to take two sides of a nearly equilateral triangle instead of the third side. The extended journey has given him the opportunity of seeing the charming scenery of the Hardt mountains, which the railway first pierces and then flanks. But it was not for the sake of the tourist that this long deviation was made. Strategy rather than scenery was the cause of it. The Germans wished to keep their line on their own territory. That territory or at least that portion of it lying between the river Saar and the French frontier, NAPOLEON tried hard to squeeze out of BISMARCK at the close of the German war, four years ago. But the Prussian Premier was too knowing. This strip, though only about 10 miles by 35 miles, contains some of the richest coal fields in Europe, and great was the lamentation when it was taken from France after the downfall of the First NAPOLEON. Instead of parting with it, BISMARCK fortified it, and it is against this point that the French troops will probably direct their first attack. It is but thirty five miles in a straight line from Saarbriick to the French fortress of Metz, and about thirty from the same Prussian town to the French fortress of Thion ville. The Prussian and French frontiers border each other for only about fifty miles, and it is probable that the irregular quadrangle formed by the rivers Saar and Mosel and the railway from Metz to Saarbriick may be the scene of more than one desperate battle. But it is not to be ex pected that hostilities will be confined there. £he Rhine Palatinate belongs to. Bavaria, but the Bavarian army is under the control of Prussia, and it is no secret that the Grand Duke of BADEN has long sympathised with his father-in-law, King WILLIAM, and will now in all probability openly join him. Thus it is not only the Prussian frontier from Sierk to Saarguemines, but also the Bavarian frontier from Saarguemines to Eulingen and the Baden frontier from Eulingen to Basle that will be included in the line of battle. A dozen miles within the Bavarian frontier is the im portant fortress of Landau which in the time of the First NAPOLEON belonged to France, but which for some time past has been fortified against France. Better known to Continental tourists is the frontier between Alsace and Baden. The inhabitants of the old Alsatian capital, Stras bourg, though of German descent, and still speaking the German tongue, are said to be more French than the Gauls. They, at all events, will have an oppor tunity of manifesting their feelings, for between them and Germany lies only the Rhine, crossed by a bridge of boats and by the railway bridge that so many of us have traversed on our way to the Swiss mountains and lakes. In fact no campaign of recent years will have been fought on such familiar ground as that which is now about to open. TOPICS OF THE DAY. LITERATURE, AIR. DISRAELI'S LOTHAIR. SIXTH EDITION, THREE VOLUMES. LONGMAN AND CO. A sufficient interval has by this time elapsed since the original publication of " Lothair " to admit of its merits and demerits (foi it has both, glaringly and in abundarice) being weighed in the balance at last dispassionately. " A clear stage and no favour" can hardly be said to have marked its reception. It was welcomed first of all not simply with favour, but with flattery—flattery in many instances the most egregious and the most nauseating. Nevertheless, the stage upon which the author of so many radiant fictions, from " Vivian Grey" to " Tancred" had once more adventured—ex-Prime Minister of England though he had come to be, since his last appearance there in his capacity as a political novelist—that stage, so • long deserted by him, though once so familiar to his footsteps, the writer of "Lothair" has found to have been left anything but "clear" before him. On the contrary, it has been full of obstructions. It has been set with vampire traps, so to speak, at points the most unexpected. An am buscade as deadly as though prepared by a garotter, has been suddenly sprung upon him from what might until then have been regarded as the faithful, and certainly harmless, prompter's box of Blackwood. This, let it be remembered, immediately after the well graced actor had been nearly smothered under the mingled hail and snow of bonbons and bouquets showered upon him as plentifully as in carnival time by the chief critics in the stalls, as their most obsequious and extravagant welcome on his unex pected reappearance before the footlights. Blackwood, however, and others to the contrary notwithstanding, it. has been, in its way, the 'success of the season, this bepraised and bespattered novel of "Lothair." It has certainly been the talk of the town, the rage at Mudie's, and the utter bewilderment of those who look for guidance to the opinions of the reviewers. According to one of the Dublin newspapers "Lothair " is one of the most immoral books ever published. According to one of the journals of New York it is a masterpiece of divine, philosophy. While the reviewers have thus been at loggerheads about it, however, the publishers, to use an apt and most expres sive Americanism, have only had to let it slide ! And brother Jonathan might say—As if launched down a Mon tagne .Russe in a sledge winged with "greased lightening" to the accompaniment of the "buttered thunder" of Festus, it has slid ! Already, in a couple of months or thereabouts, it is in a sixth edition. From eight to ten thousand copies of it have gone off—it sounds like a gilded cracker to say it, though it is the simple truth—here in the United Kingdom, some fifty thousand going off simultanously in the United States. Under the sanction of the Board of Works, a new street has been called after it, " Lothair street," in one of the London suburbs. A race-horse— Lothair, by Prime Minister—has entered the betting list and had the running, this season, to the advantage of many of the knowing ones at the Ring and at the Corner. A popular song and a galop de concert, each entitled " Lothair," have been sung and danced to in many a drawing-room and ball-room this year in Mayfair and Bel gravia. Although, in the estimation of many of its more supercilious deriders, it is so extra-superfine in its aristo cratic tone that, in another sense than that of King Claudius in "Hamlet," its "offence is rank and smells to heaven" —it is so agreeable' in the nostrils of the Messrs. Piesse and Lubin, the fashionable perfumers, that they have called a new scent the par fum de Lothair. Finally, there has been very recently launched, from the Deptford-green Dockyard, a new clip per, 900 tons register, rated Al at Lloyd's, yclepped—at the usual dashing of a bottle of wine across the bows— " The Lothair." Rage, though the excited Rhada manthus of Blackwood, may, at a result so outrageously in defiance of the mere fitness of things, looking at it from his point of view—the success of " Lothair" is, as things go, a fact quite visible and unmistakeable. One can see it, as the phrase goes, with half an eye. Hope has not told the flattering tale to Mr. Disraeli— the same flattering tale is brought to the recognition of all his senses, as we have seen, by Street, Song, Dance, Perfume, by swift running Race-horse, and by fast sailing Clipper. No wonder the young under-graduates in the Sheldonian Theatre, last Commemoration Day down at Oxford—no wonder, we say, they cheered Disraeli, and hissed (like so many geese ?) at Blackwood— " Success is virtue, and misfortune blame," elsewhere than in the precincts of Alma Mater. Outside the cloistered walls of Oxford so many others join just as heartily in the same cheers and hisses, that those still keeping their serener judgments. in equilibrium ask, not unnaturally, how stands the matter in regard to the in trinsic value or worthlessness of " Lothair"—vaunted to the skies as a literary masterpiece, trodden down into the ' dust as simply beneath contempt—in the midst of the wild inconsistency of so many impassioned disputants. Having, quite dispassionately and very carefully, read the book through ourselves, from cover to cover, right through the three volumes, we would speak of it here, frankly and candidly, as an elaborate jeu d'esprit (we mean no pun), appearing under the guise of three vole. octavo, having lords and ladies floating all through it, in the empyrean of the great world—meaning the little one—dandling, and toying with, and prattling the sublimest truths in the midst of the clattering of croquet .balls and mallets, and the cracking of the guns fired off by the pigeon shooters at Hurlingham. Sydney Smith's ne plus ultra of Epicurean enjoyment was —" eating ortolans to the sound of trumpets." Well, here in " Lothair," in the 21st chapter of the first volume, we have it—literally ! A sumptuous ball and supper are given at Crecy House, the Duke's town house, to celebrate the " coming out " of his grace's youngest daughter, .one of the heroines of the tale, the Lady Corisande. And here it is, in this wonderful chapter that we read, at p. 176, how, during the dance, "The silver trumpets sounded a brave flourish ;" and directly afterwards, at page 180, we have Hugo Bohun remarking at the supper-table, as he extracts a couple of fat little birds from their bed of aspic jelly, " What a perfect family [meaning the Duke's, not the birds}—everything they do in such perfect taste. How safe you were here to have ortolans for supper !" It is Sydney's dream realized ! Rose-coloured tapestry, we are told, draped the walls of the saloon in which the guests were served from gold plate illumined by crystal chandeliers. That is the atmosphere surrounding us throughout " Lothair." " Dazzling duchesses escorted by paladins of high degree," royalty even, " followed by the imperial presence of ambassadors," we rub elbows with, as we move on through a very mob of magnificence. The open ing words of the book are, " I ` remember him [i. e. Lothair] a little boy,' said the Duchess." The closing words, let us hope do not imply that Lothair, whenbecoming a Benedict i n the prime of his manhood, is one of those who as Pope sings— "Die of a rose in aromatic pain;" but, at any rate, the closing words are these, " I have been in Corisande's garden,' said Lothair (in answetto her grace) and she has given me a rose.'" Viola tout: for we then read —THE END. Yet, while the ingredients of the work are altogther too rich to leave the palate of the reader uncloyed, as though he had been surfeitting on wedding cake, black with luscious candies and several inches thick in almond paste, it is sown half through with little appe tising atoms that give a relish to it, nevertheless. The merit of the work, the one, almost the only, merit of it is its radiant impertinence, having about it often the sus picion of wit, always the certainty of persiflage. Take the merest taste of it, picked out like a plum here and there— " If we could only so contrive our lives as to go into the country for the first note of the nightingale, and return to town for the first note of the muffin-bell—existence, it is humbly presumed, might be more enjoyable"—" Lord and Lady Clanmorne, both near kin to the Duchess, were themselves so good-looking and agreeable that they were as good at a dinner party as a couple of first-rate entrees" —" It is a wonderful place, this London ; a nation, not a city, with a population greater than some kingdoms, and districts as different as if they were under different Go vernments, and spoke different languages "—" 'Tis the gondola of London,' said Lothair, springing into a Han som"—" Pinto never told an anecdote : indeed he would sometimes remark when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire from the world"—" Instead of being a parasite, everybody flattered him ; and instead of being a hanger-on of society, society hung on Pinto"-- " Sometimes those who had passed a fascinating evening with him would try to remember what he had said, and could recall nothing. He was not an intellectual Croesus, but his pockets were full of sixpences"—" Lord St. Jerome gave at his ball suppers the same champagne that he gave at his dinners, and that was of the highest class. In short a patriot. We talk with wondering execration of the great poisoners of past ages, the Borgias, the inventor of aqua tofana, and the amiable Marchioness de Brin villiers ; but Pinto was of opinion that there were more social poisoners about in the present day than in the darkest and most demoralised periods ; and, then, none of them are punished, which is so strange, lie would add, as they are all found out "—" What you call ignorance is your strength," said Mr. Phoebus, " Books are fatal ; they are the curse of the human race. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing. Printing has destroyed education. I would not have a book in the house, or even a newspaper "—" The religion of •God is now so explained as to allay all fears. It is the religion of science. Instead of Adam, our ancestry is traced to the most grotesque of creatures ; thought is phosphorus, the soul complex nerves, and our moral sense a secretion of sugar "—" The venerable patron of art smiled when he met Madame Phoebus, signed as he glanced at Euphrosyne. The first gave him a beautiful flower, the second fastened it in his buttonhole. What could the Psalmist mean in the immortal passage ? Three score and ten a t the present day is the period of romantic passions "--- 4 ‘ To-morrow the critics will commence. You THE EUROPEAN WAR. THE SUN, which is Published Every Morning at Eight o'clock, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper, will always give the LATEST 'N EWS of the WAR, and of all other events.