The Sun. — London, England, 1870-10-17 00:00:00

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MOSES and SON : LONDON. tORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD. YORKSHIRE. r HEATRE ROYAL DBL . 1% -I- Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. uicitg rk N.--This Theatre having been re-decorated under the it • tion of Mr. C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., is now Open for the AUTU3I N DILA .MATIC SEASON, THIS EVENING, Oct. 17. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at halt-past Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from Sixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four Guineas. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. MISS NEILSON will appear in the character of AMY ROBSART, in the Drama of that name, THIS EVENING, Oct. 17.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LA KE. 'M R. T. C. KING will appear in the character of .11'1 VARNEY, in the new Drama, entitled AMY ROBSART, THIS EVENING,'Oct. 17.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. pHOBUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated VOICES FAMILY will appear at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 17.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. AMY ROBSA RT ; a new Historical Romantic Drama, written by Andrew Halliday ; founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated novel " Kenilworth," with new and characteristic scenery by William Beverly, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 17—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. AMY ROBSART ; new drama : Characters by Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Yokes, Kemp, J. Mortin, and Rosina Yokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 17—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. A MY ROBSART; New Drama, characters by ri Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, J. B. Howard, Brittaln Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon, Vokes, F, Stanforth, H. Naylor, and Fred. Yokes, THIS EVEN ING, Oct, 17.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROSBART; New Drama. The Overture and Incidental Music selected and composed by W. C. Levey, executed by an increased Orchestra and numerous Chorus. The Ballet and Grouping of Crowds arranged by Mr. John Cor mack. The whole produced under the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling at a Quarter to Eight THIS EVENING, Oct. 17. — THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. A MY ROBSART.—The costumes from designs an eminent Artist, the gorgeous Revels at Kenil wlrth including the Procession of the Ancient Britons Sax ons, Romans, Normans, &c, and ending with the floating boat on on the Lake, illustrated by 300 auxiliaries, THIS EVENING, Oct. 17.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by Martin Becher, at Eleven o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 17. —THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. This Evening, at Seven, WANTED a TR ) U NAND MILLINERS, Mr. J. Rouse, &c.; at a quarter to Eight , The RAPPAREE, Messrs. Herman Vezin, W. Rignold, T. Clayton, A. Rayner, E. F. Edgar, ahiel Barry; Mesdames Katharine Rodgers and M. Cooper; to conclude with THE HAPPY MAN, Mr. Shiel harry, &C. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. BUCKSTONE respectfully informs the Public and the Patrons of this Theatre that it will OPEN for the Season on MONDAY NEXT, October 24th, with, at 7, A KISS IN THE DARK ;at past 7, Sheridan's comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir Anthony Absolute, Mr. Chippendale ; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Everill ; Captain Absolute, Mr. Kendall ; Bob Acres, Mr. Buckstone ; Faulkland, Mr. Howe ; David, Mr. Rogers ; Fag, Mr. Clark ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Chippendale; Lydia Languish, Miss Robertson; Julia, Miss Caroline Hill ; Lucy, Mrs. E. Fitz william. After the comedy the NATIONAL ANTHEM, by Miss Robertson, Miss Fanny Wright, Miss Fa,nny'Gwynne, Miss Fos broke, and the Company. To be followed by a new and original comedietta, by There Smith, Esq., written expressly for Miss Robertson and Mr. Kendal, entitled MY UNCLE'S WILL, characters by Mr. Kendal, Mr. Rogers, and Miss Robertson, conc l u di n g with NO SONG NO SUPPER. Tuesday, Oc tober 25th, the "Rivals" will be repeated, with "My Uncle's Will ;" and :on Wednesday will be revived the LOVE CHASE— conitancc (A n t time), Miss Robertson. Speedily will be produced Spew original Fairy Comedy, b y W m. G i lbert, and Esq. The Box Office Will be opened on Friday, Oct o b er 21 s t , under the direction a AO, George Turpin. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manage res s , sirs. SWANBOROTJGH This Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIV I NG AT EASE . Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Sw anborough : . E. Bufton, and F, Hughes. The New Hurly-Burly-Esque " THE IDLE TRENTICE," Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sherid an, E. Bufton, Bentley, Lee, Goodall, &c. 'VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- v Lessees—Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James aid 1, Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7, CHISELLING. Mr. David James. After which, at 8, the Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, by ,James Albery. To conclude with tha so4cessful Burlesque, DON CARLOS ; or, The Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. 11. J. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, NV, H. Stephens, C. Oartiorne, and T. Thorne; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Pawaitt, T. X,a,vis, And A. Newton. ST. JAAi E §'S 7jjEA T R E.—LAssee and Manageress, Mrs. 391g4" WOOD.— This Evening at Eig ht, will be presented go/ the second time i, Eneund) Victories Sardon's we.* ie}ay, FERNANDE, revised by ,c.3utherland Edwards, Esq. A Z. p d o Act TI. 'Loved. ~tot 111. Won. Act IV . Triuni • Pla- Farren, Leeson, Li n Rayne,' kw, d ra cters by .tlesiobi, Mrs. germann Vezin, Mi ss L ar ki n, Miss Fanni Fi e L i one l Brough zr , ug h, Miss Turner, a.ll6il . Ajy. John Wood. —D oors open at 6.30. 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AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the Arena. PALMS ROYAL—Dr. Corry's P.Lnorama of Ireland—Pro fessor Faber's Talking Machine- Siege of Paris. Midsummer Night's THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGI I r O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATET N EWS of the WAR, and of all other events. t 1/4", LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1870. IF any one had ventured to predict on July Ist that by the middle of October NAPOLEON 111. would be shut up in a German castle and Paris cut off from all communication with the world, such person would have made his friends uneasy about his sanity. But if he bad gone on to prophesy that by this same date, Rome having in the meanwhile become the capital of Italy, GARIBALDI would be at large, and not in Rome, not in Italy at all, but in detested France, invested with tke command of a General of Division in the French army—the prophet's friends would no longer have felt any doubt. Painful suspi cion would have ripened into more painful certainty, and they would have declared that he was stark staring mad. Yet not only has all this happened, but so interminable is the succession of startling events in this annus nzirabilis that we have ceased to feel astonishment at anything. It is no affectation which has made us assume the nil culnzrari attitude recommended by Horace. We have left off wonder ing, because our phrenological " bump " of wonder has had so many demands made upon it that, like a worn-out spring, it refuses to act. Henceforth there is nothing that can astonish us. MAzzINI installed in the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg, the Grand Master of the Irish Orangemen elected King of lreland by the Fenians, the POPE chosen to the pastorate of Mr. SPURGEON'S Tabernacle, Queen VICTORIA taking up her permanent abode at Buckingham Palace, what ever there is wildly improbable, let it all come to pass, and we should now, sated as we are with catastrophes and surprises, take it all as a matter of course. Nevertheless, it is well to arouse ourselves for a little ; it is well to try and grasp these porten tous events as they sweep past us. This year, 1870, like 1848 and 1789, is an epoch in the world's history. It is the starting point of a new order, and its several incidents are worth noting with a careful and intelligent eye. Let us content ourselves on this occasion with one incident only, the appearance of GARIBALDI in France. As we have said, nothing more wildly im probable than that could have been dreamt of. In the first place the great work to which GAR IBALDI has devoted the larger part of his chivalrous life is just now on tha eve of completion. Ten years ago this very month he met VICTOR EMMANUEL after the defeat of the Neapolitans at Volturno, and said, " Hail, King of Italy!" Ten years ago he vowed that he would never cease from his work until he had crowned that same Sovereign King in the Roman Capitol. Twice has he made gallant attempts to fulfil his vow. At Aspromonte he was shot down by the Italian General' PALLAVICINI j at Mentana he was over thrown by the French General DE FAILLY. For the greater part of those ten years he has been a prisoner. Yet, now that he might safely have been set at large, now that there was no danger of a colli sion either with Italian or French troops, he sud denly makes his escape and turns up, not on the Tiber, but on the Loire ; not on the field at the head of his red-shifts, but in a French Prefecture at the hewl 4f corps of that very nation which yobbo I him of his birthright, and made him, in spite of himself, a Frenchman. It was but in 1860 that NAPOLEON i myendicated " Nice, and now the revendicator is driven &op France,and the Nizzard who so passion ately protested agp,ist *.e apnexatiou hae made use Of his enforced French nationctiq t i 9 ,c9mmand a French army. That army has for its mission two , IHE SU.N, LONDON, MONDAY; objeos, the exclusion from France of the annexer • of Nice, and the expulsion from France of the Prussians who gave Venice to Italy. Was there ever siich ai boulerersement as this ? AVe cannot remember its like. Nor does the bizarrerie end here. A RIB A LDI, the "crippled buccaneer," GARIBALDI whose limbs are cramped by rheumatism, G ARI BA LDI, who still sufferS so sorely • from the bullet shot at Aspromonte that he cannot walk without assistance, has been placed at the head of sharp shooters whose work is to be perpetually on the move, and by their incessant activity and agile fleetness of foot to harrass the enemy. Physically this is like running a broken down cab horse against the favourite for the Derby on the Epsom downs. Will GARIBALDI'S mental activity compensate ? We doubt it. The secret departure for Marsala, the victorious march through Sicily, the sudden invasion of Naples, were bril liant feats; but they were accomplished over a demoralised army, among a race that hailed him as a deliverer. "Thy people shall be willing in:the day of thy power "; and it was because they were willing that he was powerful. But this time not only is he 63 instead of 53; not only is he an invalid and a cripple, instead of one of the most active of men, but he has to deal with the most successful and the best generalled army in the world. Between the miser able troops of Neapolitan FRANCIS and the army which VON MOLTKE directs, there is no more comparison than there is between the French soldiers who capitulated at Sedan and those who won Marengo and Austerlitz. It may be that, as of old, the weak things of this world will be chosen to confound the things that are mighty. If so, another miracle will have been Ailed to this year of wonders. But there has been nothing in GARIBALDI'S antecedents hitherto to justify this expectation. The one brilliant achievement which culminated when he drove in a carriage through the streets of Naples is almost the only exception to a career which, save fOr that, has been as sorely unsuccessful as it has been nobly unselfish. Thirty four years ago he rashly declared war against Brazil, was made a prisoner, and suffered cruel treatment. He was one of the three triumvirs of Rome during the shortlived Republic of 1848, but on the storming of the city by the French, he fled, and during his flight endured such hardships that his much loved wife sank under them. He took some part, but not a very leading one, in the cam paign of 185 D. His time of triumph was in the year following, when he won the Two Sicilies for the " King of Italy." Since then nothing but adversity has fallen upon him, and his last and most grievous rout was at the hands of a general whom the Prus sians in their turn have routed so shamefully that he lost everything, not even excepting honour. Is it likely that the man—noble, gallant, generous though he be—whom DE FAILLY vanquished, will conquer DE FAILLY'S vanquishers! LAST week two M.P.'s addressed their constituents, one of whom has, until lately, been, and the other of whom still is, a * member of the present Government. It is to be regretted that the second of them had not, before making his speech, studied the speech of the first, Mr. TREVELYAN, who lately re signed office because he could not approve of the Education Bill, made certain grave charges against the administration of the Army which Me. CARDWELL, in his elaborate defence of that depart ment, did not answer, and, apparently, had "not seen. Addressing the electors of Oxford city, the Secre tary of State for War delivered an apology for his official conduct, with a special view to the strictures which had been passed upon it by the Earl of CARNAR VON. The Conservative nobleman had challenged Mr. CARDWELL'S statement in the House of Com mons with respect to the supply of breechloader rifles to the militia. Mr. CARDWELL re-affirms his statement. We are not careful to determine which of the two is correct ; the matter at issue is a mere Point of detail. But the speech made by Mr. TILE VELYAN to his constituents at Selkirk dealt with a far more serious question. A. year or two ago he made the same charge, and being then in office he was considered indiscreet, awl Mr. G LADSTONE had hard work to get his young colleague out of the scrape. But, being now freed from the trammels of office, the ex-Junior Lord of the Admiralty repeats his charge and, in the most unmistakeable manner, accuses the Duke of CAMBRIDGE of exercising an influence obstinately adverse to a reform of the army, which would, if we were engaged in war, involve us in the most serious peril.: This is a very grave matter. Only four years ago we saw what came of royal tampering with an army. The over throw at Sadowa was the result of Austrian refusal to follow the Prussian example of military Organiza tion. We had thought that this most serious danger had been surmounted in our own case on the day the QUEEN renounced the supreme control of the army in favour of the Secretary of State, in other words, sanctioned the transfer of the government of the army from the officer commanding-in-chief to the responsible Secretary of State. But if Mr. TEE VELYAN'S statement he well founded, the Duke of CAMBRIDGE still exercises his obstructive influence personally, though officially it has been nullified. If this be so it is time that Mr. TREVELYAN called attention to the subject elsewhere than in the Border Burghs. Let him, as soon as Parliament meets, repeat his charge. If Mr. C ARDWELL is unable to give a satisfactory answer to it the nation will demand a sweeping change. Even when the Duke of WEL LINGTON was at the Horse Guards England would not have suffered him to exercise his predilection for old fashioned weapons when Europe was at war with the deadliest inventions that the world had ever seen. Much less will England suffer that the organisation of her army shall he sacrificed to the aristocratic prejudices of a Royal Duke, whose laurels won before Sebastopol will scarcely compare with those worn by the departed "her) of a hun dred fights." England already spends enough money on her army, but she has very little to shew for it. She would spend more if it were needed ; but she believes that it is not needed; that if royal and other obstructiveness were swept away, * it would be possible to have a really efficient force for the present expenditure or even less, TOPICS OF THE DAY. NEUTRALS AND BELLIGERENTS. Count Bernstorff's remonstrance to Earl Granville on the subject of exporting arms has been very widely commented on. - The Solicitors' Journal says the rule of international law, as well established as any international rule can be, is that the neutral power is not required or expected to interfere with the trade of her subjects, but if they engage in a contraband trade they do so at their own risk. This principle has also been affirmed in the United States Supreme Court, and has been em phatically approved by Lord Westbu-y when Lord Chancellor. There is not the shadow of a case for rep irmg England to restrain her subjects' trade in arms witb. ?repel' subjects. The only exception which intornatiogal lay Fecstgnises to non interference is that of tfade in armed vessels, and that exception has probably been madp because an armed and equipped vessel is not distinguishable practically from an "armament." When Count Bernstorfr says our Government might prohibit; the trailk: he complains of under the Customs Consolida . t , OCTOBER 17, 187 C. tion Act, the statenlent is irrelevant, because our neutrality does not require us to take such action, and, as it would operate against Franc-, it might justly be complained of by her. The Journal points out another distinction. The'nentral may be b lto intertere when she has a:municipal law abso lutely turbot liugthe trade. Prussia, for instance, during the (rhneau war had a municipal law which she all - ,wed her subjects systematically to disregard. England complained without success. Now Prussia is the belligerent and England the neutral, but we hive no municipal law, and our neutrality forbids us to make one. On one point some explanation is needed. Count Bernstorff says that on his complain ing to Earl Granville of particular shipments, he, was assured that inquiries should be made. • Tint any temporising in such a matter would be a grave mis take, an - the. answer should only be that our inter national law requires no interference. With the winter coining on, and Paris and Metz nutaken, and a loy,tilo people arming themselves to harrass the Prussian armies it is easy to see why the Count de sires to stop the export of arms: but this is con troverting the plain rule laid down. THE LOSS OF THE CAPTAIN. The United Service. Gazette, in an article on the loss of the ILM.S. Captain, says the judgment of the court-martial was all that could be expected, and went quite as far as its powers extended. A con temporary had, it says, complained that 310 informa tion had been furnished to her captain, the ship's in- venter, or her constructor, concerning the position of her centre of gravityandconseent stability, as might have afforded the commander guidance as to what amount ot sail she might safely bear. An error of nodess than two feet in her draught of water had made the results of all previous calculations nugatory, and had rendered the precaution of testing her stability a paramount necessity. The Messrs. Laird applied, as far back as Pebruary last, that the stability of the Captain might ho tested in Portsmouth dockyard alter all her weights were in their places. It was not, however, until the ship had undergone two more trials that anything was done. The experimental data were only obtained by Mr. Barnes on the 29th July, but the calculations necessary to arrive at a conclusion as to the stability ot the ship were not completed until the 23rd August, the excuse being that they were too abstruse to be supplied before. A naval architect has informed the Gazette that had he had the calculations on the day they were taken he would have given the result the next day— a week before the fatal voyage. The result of the calculatiOns do not appear to have been made known to anyone. The Gazette declares that the " high priest 'of the altar of science " had prophe sied. every danger but the right one. AID TO THE SICK AND WOUNDED. The movement in aid of the sick and wounded of the belligerent armies, irrespective of all political or military considerations, has met with unanimous and unhesitating approval from men of all creeds, parties, and classes in this country. .['he English people, who have felt the deepest interest in the war, have rejoiced in the opportunity of • miti gating the terrible sufferings it imposed, and have responded to the appeals made on behalf of the sick and wounded with characteristic libera lity. It is now suggested, however, that the pres sure should be diminished, and -that public attention should not be altogether diverted from domestic claims by foreign disaster. The subscriptions received by the "National Society fur Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War " now amount, says one correspondent, to over £200,000 in specie, to say nothing of contributions in kind, while there are other movements on foot to relieve other suderings created by the war. As it is to be feared the winter will be a severe one, and there can be little doubt the demands on public charity will be increased rather than diminished by the de pression( of trade caused by the war, the writer in question suggests that the benevolent should not empty their purses for one object to the neglect of all others. Another correspondent, while applauding unreservedly the efforts made to alleviate the suffer ings of the womided unavoidably left oa hardly fouAt and hastily abandoned battle-fields, thinks the belligerents have now no reason for not taking care of their •own wounded, and suggests that to relieve them from this necessity is practically to asist in continuing the war. THE ART-TREASURES OF PARIS. . The fate of the Art-treasures of Paris has given rise to great apprehension, and many suggestions have heel, made with a view of providing for their safety during the siege. A correspondent of the Standard hopes it is not too late for his plan to be tried and proposes that an application from the lovers of art and science be made to the King of Prussia and General Trochq to allow the inestimable art treasures of Paris, so far as possible, to be trans ferred to England for storage until the close of the war. Ile declareS that these treasures belOn4 to the world at large, to the next generation as well as this, and to injure or suffer them to be destroyed is to spoil for French, Prussian, English, or American, their own prophly and the inheritance of their children. A convention could be male to restore them to Paris at the close of the war. Another corres pondent sal s it is reported that the French are pro tecting the art treasures of the Louvre by laying sandbags along the roofs, but asks what use this can be against a Prussian projectile of 1,000 pounds in weight sent with such forge as would smash a church in pieces.. The best way to preserve these treasures would he-considers be to take the .pictures out of their frames and the statues from their pedestals, and store them away in some iron-roofed cellar or bomb-proof room. Other damages may be repaired, but Who can restore a picture of Rqbens or a statue by Praxiteles I" The same plan might be adopted for the preservation of the library in the Rue Richelieu, and the other collections of Paris. All who are interested in the progress of civilisation must laMent the fate of the library of Strasburg, which, for want of some simple precautions, has been utterly destroyed, STARVATION IN THE FRENCH CAPITA?, The declaration of Count Bismarck that he could not feed Paris for a day has greatly exercised the nand; of the kindly disposed people of this country, and it seems very likely that attempts will be made .to meet the wants of the famishing city, it is a ssu med that Paris\will eventually yield either to th e force of the Prussian arms or to the still more potent enemy hunger, and a few months is the limit assigned to the endurance of its defenders. Whether the Prussians be compelled to raise the siege or they enter the city in triumph, it isequally certain that in either event the Parisians will be reduced to a most deplorable state of circum stances. It is therefore suggested that a committee be appointed in this country for the purpose of re ceiving subscriptions in order to make extensive purchases of flour, rice, bacon, cheese, Australian meat, &c. These provisions could be stored on neu tral ground, say in Belgium ; so that they could in a short time be transferred to France. The co-opera tion of the working-classes, who have shown much sympathy with the French in the hour of their greatest need, is particularly invited. FRENCH REFUGEES. Refugees from France continue to arrive in Eng land, although in very perceptibly ditninisYng num hers. Still the aggregation of French people who have sought a temporary asylum from the troubles and dangers at home is very large, and much suffering is experienced by many of them, some in fact being eestitute. The appeal made for the formation of a Refugees Fund has met with a hearty response in the metropolis. A union of the committees which were appointed for the accomplishment of the object in view has taken place awl the central committee, which is a very large and influential one, is presided over by the Lord Mayor. Its principal functiOns will be to grant pecuniary lip and to final employment for persons willing to work or ahlo to tench. The ladies' com mittee will look after friendless women, and arrange with private families to receive persons of good cLaracter who have SUffered through the war. The otection afforded to the French. women Nvill be highly appreciate.l when the abominable attempts mAde to entrap some of them into an evil course of life are recalled to mind. MUSIC AND DANCING. The Middlesex magistrates seem determined to put a stop to immorality whether exhibited at music ball or public garden. The Alhambra dancing license is refused, and now Highbury Barn, notorious for its 5 h of November riot, must manage to maintain itself without dancing. In these refusals it is to be ob served: that the juftices must have founded their decisioms on the reports of the police. At present they cbuld probably not have obtained better or more conclusive evidence as to the character of the establishments visited by the constables; but is it not, as the Telegraph asks, a dangerous practice to make police inspectors an .I sergeants the censors of public morals. In the instances named doubtless they were right; but supposing a case arose where the line of demarcation bet Ween indecency and pro priety was very slight, would the public like to accept the dictum of the police as to whether the perfbrmance was objectionable or the reverse ? INSUR ANC 14:. We have already insurances on nearly every description of property, and even the damage likely to accrue from hail and storm is ascertained by the inexorable rule of averages. A new office has just started, and, if we remember the many accidents which occur of the kind we are invited to insure against, the promoters appear likely to realise a good dividend. This new insurance is on carriages, and the company, for an annual pre mium, undertakes to relieve the insurer of any liability as to repairs of damage cccasioned by acci dent. It is only to be hoped that consciousness of immunity from pecuniary damage with regard to their own vehicle will not tempt some cf our "furious drivers " to forget that their neighbour's carriage may not be insured. t i 6 • ' - - - HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, OCT. 13. The Queen went out in the morning, accompanied by Princess Louise. In the afternoon her Majesty drove out with Princess Beatrice, attended by the Marchioness of Ely. Prince Leopold went out walking. The Duke of Argyll arrived at the Castle. _ OCT. 14. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked out, and drove out in the afternoon with Prince Leopold. The Marquis of Lorne arrived at Balmoral. The Duke of Argyll and the Marquis of Lorne had the honour of dining with the Queen. The Princess of Wales attended Divine service yester. day at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. OUT-DOOR RELIEF. It may be hoped that we' are at length waking up to a perception of some of the evils of the out-door relief ad ministered by English boards of guardians. In various ways and from various quarters complaints of the system and its results meet us. Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., a tenant farmer, practically familiar with poor law matters, stated in reference to out-door relief, before the recent Com mittee of the House of Commons on Local Taxation, " that it has an immense influence upon the habits of the poor, and that if they could not so frequently run to the board of guardians on the most trivial occasions, and know that they would get out-door relief, they would be more provident than they are." Be'ore the same com mittee .Captain Dashwood, a tenant farmer in Oxford shire, a poor-law guardian, and a magistrate of the county, replied, in answer to the question, " With regard to out door relief as administered now by the occupiers chiefly, do you think there is a tendency to administer the poor-law in the direction of relief in aid of wages, and is that tendency growing ?" " Not directly, but indirectly; a great deal of out-door relief must lower wages." The witne,s added--and they are words not to be forgotten— "A year ago only I heard the vice-chairman of a board of guardians say that he would rather have high rates than high wages." That means, when farm work is plentiful give the labourer pay just sufficient to keep body and soul together ; when farm work is slack or stopped, leave that function to the doles of the re lieving officer. The English farmer, represented by this estimable vice chairman, wants no bold peasantry to till his land. The low-waged helot of the parish pay-table better suits his purpose. At Hackney recent disclosures of pauper frands have stirred the hoard of guardians to in vestigate the issue of their proceedings. Among other things they have dispovered in that district a " numerous class of able-bodied paupers of both sexes, who attempt to make the poor fund a permanent source of income. There are large families, who in all their generations and degrees of consanguinity, old and young, married and single, all claim all hereditary and prescrip tive right to a share of their neighbours' earnings." These cases, the guardians repeat, "are very numerous, and well deserve strict inquiry, with the view to the offer of indoor relief." The fear of the workhouse test having " been wholly removed for a long time past, has beyond any doubt had the most direct tendency to swell the numbers of applicants for relief." Taking all England, we are now spending about £3,700,000 a year in outdoor relief, mostly 14 money. This is 28 per cent. higher than it wag eight or nine years ago. How far is the picture drawn by the Hackney guardians of " a numerous class of able-bodied paupers of both sexes who attempt to make the poor fund a permanent source of income " true of the country gene rally ?—Pall Mall Gazette. Ciruncn Music.—A correspondent of the Musical Standard thinks thgt " the suggestions thrown out in its pages a few weeks since, on the important subject of a general raising of the musical services of cathedrals and other places of Divine worship, should not be allowed to remain unfructified. Cannot (he asks) some practical commencement be made to remedy shortcomings, by the formation of a committee of, say, Mr. Macfarren, Dr. Wesley, and Dr. Sterndale Bennett, who might repo r t their views to the puhlic in due fnrm ?" We cordially second his suggestion.—Musical Standard. GALLANT RESOUR.—During a recent passage of H.M.S. Rapid from Tarragona to Gibraltar, a man fell overboard in the evening, when it was quite dark and a fresh breeze was blowing. The poor fellow, who was on the main yard arm, struck his head in falling, and was senseless on reaphing the water. The officer of watch —Sub-Lieutenant Forbes—without a moment's hesitation plunged from 'the bridge, and both disappeared in th e gloom as the ship forged rapidly ahead. The engines were speedily stopped, a life-buoy was cut away, and a boat lowered. After a delay, which was nearly proving fatal—for Lieutenant Forbes was already sinking with his burden—the boat rescued the drowning men. The sailor was found to have received a fearful . gash in the head, but has since gone on well. LABOUR REPRESENTATION LEAGUE. —At the annual meeting of the Labour Representation League, the report which was presented stated that the council had exerted themselves to promote the object of the Bir minghaM gagg4tiP-4 Lleague, and WaS /low engaged in securing the return of efficient working class representa tives on the London School Board. They had also taken an active part in the efforts to bring about a cessation of hostilities on the Continent, and had taken the initiative in getting up the late deputation of working men to Mr. Gladstone. It was now engaged in getting together a con ference for the purpose of agreeing upon a sc h eme o f united action between the London and provincial workmen in relation to the next general election. The chairman, without remark, moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by Mr. Allan, secretary of the Amalgamated Engineers ' and adopted after some opposition from -Mr. Cremer. The executive council of thirty-five members for the ensuing year was then elected, including . Messrs. G. Potter, Allan, Apple garth, Howell, Dunning, Guile, Holyoake, Druitt, Hair* mat, and other leaders of the working-classe s . M r . R. Latham was re-elected as president, Mr. Allan as treasurer, and Mr. Lloyd Jones as secretary. CACAOINE.—Cacoa nibs on the removal of the oil fall nto powder, and this powder is cacioine. Cacdolue contains neither sugar nor any other. ad mixtnre whatever. Cacdoine makes one of the lthtest, thinnest of warm drinks, and is the most de sirable of all for use in the later hours of the day. Cacdoine, by reason of the ingenious method IT which the oil is removed, pre serves all the fine natural flavour of cacao nibs.—Prepared only by James Epps and Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, 112. Great Rus sell-street ; 170, Piccadilly ; and 48, Threadneedle -street ; at their works for Dietetic Preparations, Euston-mad.—AnvT. EXTRA-PARLUMENTARY UTTERANCES. At a banquet given by the Mayo: of Newcastle-under- Lytle, Sir E. M. Buller, M. 1 5., was one of the guests, and, in responding to the toast of the House of Commons, said he believed all present at that festal board, and eVery sensible - man in the country, would endor se and approve the policy of the English G overinnent in maintaining a strict neutrality. France had struck the first blow in this war, and that was so much against her. lre glanced :it the origin of the war—the candidature for the Spanish throne, the jealousy it evoked in France, and the decla ration by France that they would not permit German unity. France did wrong to put herself into that position, a policy which was likely to prove fatal to the interests of the surrounding Governments. He did not wonder that Prussia should resist France in such a matter. There were those who held that only in the unity of Germany would security be found. The intervention by England in the first instance failed, • and our country could not take sides with France, neither could they worthily and properly take the side of Prussia. England had been Mauled for nut taking one side or the other, and they had been accused of being influenced by the old shopkeeping principle—of thinking about nothing but money. He trusted the nation would not be driven from its neutrality by such talk as that. For himself he was all for the shop; and he thought it would be a blessed day for France if she would throw off her ambition and take upon herself the cultivation of those gentler avocations by which men lived and pros pered. It was all very well to talk of glory and military honour, but what had military honour done for France ? She had had some halos of glory, and had gained a little territory, it was true ; but there had been a great sacri fice of blood for it all. In England, he thought, they might be thankful for being a nation of. shopkeepers, What had shopkeeping done for England ? Why, it had raised a large colony in America, and a new world in Australia, and at home had promoted peace, happiness, and prosperity. It was sad now to look upon France, and see her churches, hospitals, libraries, and colleges in dan ger of ruin. A whisper might be made to Prussia that it it would not be well to press this war too close in the ruin and humiliation of France, but that they would shew jus tice and mercy. Germany was strong enough, he thought, and need not insist upon unreasonable or hard terms of peace. He trusted that the result of this war would be that France would give up her dreams of universal domi nion, and be sensible of the good iafluences of moderation and justice. Mr. Somerset Beaumont, M.P., in. addressing his con stituents at Wakefield said he considered the Elementary Education Act as a fair attempt towards bringineelemen tary education to the door of every child between five and thirteen. From what he was told of the school accommo dation of Wakefield, it was doubtful whether they would have to elect a school board; but if such election had to take place, he loped that they would put aside all politi cal considerations, and only think of choosing the best men, is-respective of party, as members of the school board. He wished the Privy Council had devised some other method of appointing the members of the school-boards, because the public were growing tired of elections, and in some cases those elections were con ducted in such a disgraceful way as to keep the best men away from candidature. Another important measure which had been passed during the last session was the Irish Land Act, his only criticism on which would be that the Government seemed rather to shrink from fully recognising the principles of their measure, and to be 'unwilling to apply it to England. He (Mr. Beaumont), however, held that the measure was in accordance with the soundest principles of political economy, and he said, as he had said before, that he should not be satisfied till a good Land Act was passed for England. He very much re gretted that the Ballot Bill had not been carried, but he had little doubt but that it would be passed next session, and would be applied to municipal as well as to parlia mentary elections. After expressing his gratification that Mr. Gladstone had admitted in the House of Com mons the desirability of assimilating the county and borough franchises, Mr. Beaumont proceeded to say that he very much regretted that another excellent measure, the University Tests Bill, had not become law during the last session. The bill, as they were aware, had been re . jetted by the House of Lords, and the antagonism which that House had of late displayed to the House of Com mons was, he could not help thinking, becoming a serious question. He had once or twice asked himself, seeing that within the past forty years there had been two Reform Acts for the House of Commons, whether it would not be well to have a very little Reform Bill for the House of Lords. The great characteristic of English institutions was that it was not necessary to lay the axe to the root of the tree, and that it was possible to reform without destroying them. As reasonable reforms which might be applied to the constitution of the House of Peers, Mr. Beaumont suggested that there might be a large infusion of life peerage; that the bishops might be excused from attendance in the House of Lords, and that peers might be enabled to enter the House of Commons. He alluded to the proposal that he himself had brought for ward in the House of Commons for relieving the spiritual peers from attendance in Parliament—a motion for which upwards 100 members voted, and which was only beaten by 56. Mr. Gladstone,'s speech in reply to the motion was considered by many to be what the French would call reculer pour mieux sauter—stepping back for a better jump. The hon. gentleman next turned to the sub ject. of the Franco-Prussian war. They were all, he thought, pretty well agreed as to who was responsible for this war. It was not France—it was the Emperor who caused the outbreak of the war. The Empire—by whichhe meant not only the Emperor, but the infamous system that had existed about him—was the unprovoked aggressor. The whole of the French press that was not connected with the Government protested against the war ; the whrle Republican party—a party of honourable and upright men—were against it. This was proved by the reports as to the feeling of the population by the French Prefects, recently published. The Emperor was not, therefore, justified in saying that the French people had forced him into the war. As to the part which England had taken in the unsuccessful negotiations which preceded the war, he regretted that neither our Premier nor our Foreign Minister had in his place in Parliament fixed the responsibility of the failure of those negotiations on the right party. The question of the maintenance of the balance of power in Europe, which France professed to go to war to defend, was one in which England had no real concern. The cause of Germany, in his view, was a righteous one. lie had always wished her success, and he rejoiced that she had had it. If the Government really Understood the policy which would promote the well-being of the country, they would cultivate friendly relations with Germany, for whatever Germany might do in Europe she could do nothing contrary to the interests of Great Britain. The result of the war would certainly be to bring about great changes in Europe, and in all likelihood we should see a German nation of sixty er seventy millions, and a terri tory extending from Hamburg to the Danube ; because Austria, after the events that had happened, would be unable to. prevent the union of her German subjects with the rest of the German people. At the close of the address a vote of confidence in Mr. Beaumont was adopted by acclamation. The Lord Bishop of Down consecrated a new church at Kilmore on Friday. FOUNDERING OF THE UNITED STATES STEAMED GALATEA. —By the arrival at Liverpool of the Inman. Company's steamer City of Washington, we have intelli gence of the foundering of the United States steamer Galatea, and the arrival at New York of a portion of the survivors. On the 13th ult. she sprung a leak, and at four o'clock on the afternoon of the same day the first and second cutters were launched, and provisions placed in them, but there was no freth water, in consequence of the sea having risen in the tanks. At ten minutes past five the steamer sank, stern foremost with all sails set. The two boats then steered for Abaco, in the Bahamas, but the night being dark, they became separated, and nothing was seen of the second cutter's lights after midnight. At nine o'clock the next night the first cutter was picked up by the schooner Tampico, and eventually landed at Key West. It is presumed that the second boat has succeeded in reaching Abaco, but up to the latest advices nothing had been heard of her or her crew. The Galatea was built in 1861, for the United States navy, and participated in the blockade of the Southern ports. She was a screw steamer and was 1200 tons burden. THE POOR-LAW MEDICAL SERVICE.—A meeting of representatives of the British Medical Association and Poor-law Medical Officers' Association, the two largest medical officers in the kingdom, was held in the board room of the Royal Medical College,Soho-square, for the purpose of drawing up representations to Mr. Goschen, as president of the Poor-law Board, regarding required changes in the present system of the poor-law medical sernice, for ensuring a proper registration of disease, and other public advantages. 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