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CAMBRIDGE COATS, 193. to 503. Tr ERTCH JACKETS, 15s. to 425. SUTHERLAND JICKETS, 19s. 6d. to 50s. BUSINESS SUITS, 28s. to 60s. EMOSES and SON'S easy and accurate system . of self-measure enables them to execute orders by post with the guarantee of a faultless U. V MOSES and SON'S F ROCK 0 (A.TS, 245. to 635. DRESS COATS, 258. to 60s. M ORNING TROUSERS, lls. 6d. to 21s. DRESS TROUSERS, 12s. 6d. to 265. MOURNING SUITS, 28s. to £5. EMOSES and SON invit ) special attention • to their large stock of GEN TLEMEN'S DRESSING ROBES, at ISs. to 20 Guineas ; the assortment is unequalled for variety of materials and designs, and neatness and elegance of finish. E . MOSES and SON'S BOYS' CLOTHING : KNICKERBOCKER SUITS, Os. 6d. to 40s. ETON SUITS, 15s. to 40s. BR. GHTON SUITS, 18s. to 48s. DRESS SUITS, 255. to 03s. MOSES-and SON supply every description of L.A• 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 ticle exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ess is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The fallowing are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON : LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. N Mir OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. '.;ORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. RADFORD. YORKSHIRE. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LINE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, F. B. Chatterton.—Morning Performances every Wednesday and Saturday, until Saturday, February 25th, inclusive. THIS EVENING, (Saturday), will be produced the Drury Lane Grand Comic CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, written by E. L. Blanchard, entitled the DRAGON OF WAN'rLEY ! and Harlequin Old Mother Shipton ! with New and Characteristic Scenery by William Beverly, whose personal services are now exclusively devoted to illustrating the produc tions of this Theatre. The general action of the Pantomime arranged by, and the whole produced under, the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling. Characters in the opening by Messrs. Fred. Yokes, H. Moreland, Charles Steyne, Fawdon Vokes, H. Naylor, Seymour, Firth, Meade, Webber, F. Wright, Master Russsll ; Misses Victoria Yokes, Jessie Yokes, Rosina Vokes, Harriet Coveney, M. A. Basquerville, A. Hamilton, Hall, Florence Harvey, De Grey, Ross, Timbrell, Elphinstone, Har court, Lee, Leslie, Mills, White, Burpitt, Rivers, Russell, Hastings. The Harlequinade will include tlo3e popular Pan tomimists, forming a Double Company, F. Evans, and W. H. Harvey, Clowns ; Paul Herring and J. Mor is, Pantaloons ; W. Fawdon Yokes and Stonette, Harlequins ; the Misses Rosina and Jessie Yokes, Columbines ; Miss Lizzie Grosvenor, Har lequins. B. Slowman, Imitator of Birds, &c. Mr. H. Collard, the Pocket Sims Reeves. Master Dassie, the Chickaleary Boy. E. D. Lyon, the Short Footman. Lawson and Garton, the French Pierrots. Master H. Rawlings, Clog Dancer. La Patrie, the Baby Velocipedist. The Masks and Costumes from Designs by Vandyke Brown. The Music Composed and Selected by Mr. W. C. Levey. The Dances and Action of the Ballet, and the general business of the Children's Scenes, Invented and Arranged by Mr. John Cormack. The Comic Scenes and Tricks, &c., arranged by Mr. John Cormack and Messrs. Evans and Harvey. Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. Private Boxes, 1,2, 3,4, and 5 Guineas. Stalls, 7s. Dress Circle, ss. First Circle, 4s. Balcony, 3s. Pit, 2s. Lower Gallery, is. Upper Gallery, 6d. THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY ; or, Harlequin Old Mother Shipton, will be produced To-night (Saturday) December 29, and positively withdrawn on Saturday, February 26. Places can be secured from the first until the last date. MORNING PERFORMANCES every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY ; therefore, to prevent disappointment, an early application for seats is respectfully requested. Box-office open from Ten till Five daiIy.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. j[ORNING PERFORMANCES of the Grand Pantomime, entitled the DRAGON OF WANTLEY, every Wednesday and Saturday. Children and Schools at re duced prices to the following parts of the Theatre ;—First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily.-- THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. /THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.-Thirty- A_ seventh Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDY. IRIS EVENING (Saturday) at Seven, O'Keefe's Musical Piece, THE POOR SOLDIER, with selections from the original music. Patrick, Miss Fanny Wright ? Norah, Miss Fanny Gwynne. After which, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new Fairy Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled THE PALA€E OF TRUTH. Characters by Mr. Buckstone, Messrs. Kendal, Everill, Clark, Braid, Rogers, Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. Hill; Fanny Wright, and Fanny Gwynne. Act I. Garden of King Phanor's Country House. Act 11. Interior of the Palace of Truth. Act 111. The Avenue of Palms. Followed by UNCLE'S WILL. Mr. Kendal and Miss Robertson. Concluding with the Farce of THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. Box office open daily from 10 till 5. ADELPHI THEATRE ROYAL—SoIe Pro prietor, Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER ; Managers, Mr. B. WEBSTER and Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.—THIS EVENING, at 7, a new Drama, in One Act, SMOKE. Mr. Billington, Mr. Ashley, Mr. C. H. Stephenson, Mrs. Billington, 'and Miss Fmtado. After which, THE MISTLETOE BOUGH. Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Elise Holt, Mademoiselle Debreaux, Mdlle. Camilla Dubois, Miss Bellew, Miss M. Cooper, and Miss Bella Moore, Mi. Brittain Wright, Mr. John Rouse. and Mr. Odell ; And THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY, Mr. John Rouse and Miss Emma Barnett. OYAL STItAND THEATRE. a, Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH. This Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE. Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Buf ton, and F. Hughes. CCEUR-DE-LION, Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Bufton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c. VA.UDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees— Messrs. 11. 3. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7 CHISELLING, Mr. David James • after which TWO ROSES (180th night), by James Albery. Conclude with ELIZABETH. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, David James. and T. Th orne, &c. ; Mesdames Am yFawsitt, A. Newton, and Nelly Power, &c. ( - IPERA COMIQUE, 29P, Strand.—Lessees, N...f Messrs. 11. Leslie, C. Steele,W. Nc.ton.—This most elegant Theatre in London. Great success of FOUND DROWNED ; or, Our Mutual Friend. Every Evening, at 7.45, preceded by BLUE DEVILS, at 7. Conclude with NOTHING TO NURSE. FOUND DROWNED.—Messrs. G. F. Rowe, S. Emery, John Nelson, W. M'lntyre, Charles Warner, Edwin Stanley, Granville, and Bell ; Mesdames Ernstone, Emily Pitt, Holston, Minders, Tilly Earl, and Miss Rose Lisle. OOPERACOMIQUE.-PLASHWATER MILL LOCK. The Great Sensation Scene in FOUND DROWNED received nightly with tremendous demonstrations of applause. Prices, from 6d. to 7s. 6d. Open at 6.30 ; commence at 7. - 1 T. JAMES'S THEA T R E.—Lessee anti Manageress, Mrs. JOHN WOOD. —LAST NIGHTS FERNANDE. This Evening at 7.45 great play, FERNANDE, Messrs. Farren, Leeson Lin Rayne, Murray, and L. Brough ; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Larkin, Miss Fannie Krough, Miss Turner, and Mrs. John Wood.—Doors open at 6.30. At 7, TO OBLIGE BENSON. At 7.45, FERNANDE. To con clude with the Great Burlesque, BOMBASTES FURIOSO.—Box office 11 to 0. No fees. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee, Ben jamin Webster. Managers, B. Webster and F. B. Che t( rton.—THIS EVENING will be performed A CIERISTMAf . : CAROL ; or Past, Present and Future, dramatised with the e pedal sanction of the late CharleThickens, by Mr. Edward irling. After which will be produced an entirely new grand s;:.2ctacular extravaganza, entitled LITTLE GIL BLAB ; and Ii )w he Played the Spanish D(Deuce. Written by 11. B. Farnie. Tie music selected and arranged by Frank Musgrave ; the ballet, groupings, &c., by J. Milano ; the new and magnificent scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds and assistants; the costumes designed after drawings by Gustave Dore. To conclude with IIE'S LUNATIC. Mr. J. Clayton.—Box Office open from Ten till Five. GLOBE THEATRE.—Manageress, Miss klleyne. Great Attraction for Christmas.—New Burlesque by F. C. Burnand. New Company. Grand Ballet, in which the re nowned Madame Colonna and Troupe will appear. This and EVERY EVENING until further notice, at 7, BOARD AND RESIDENCE. At 7.30, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs. Walter Lacy, W. H. Vernon (his first appearance under the present management), and Miss Ada Cavendish. To be foollowed by a Grand New Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled THE WHITE CAT ; or Prince Lardi-Dardi and the Radiant Rosetta. Gorgeous scenery by Messrs. Fenton, Johnson, and assistants. Superb costumes and appointments. Mr. E. Danvers, Mes dames Emily Fowler, Nelly Nisbett, Rose Roberts, and Miss Montgomery (their first appearance at this theatre), in addi tion to the regular Company. To conclude with a popular farce. ROYALTY THEATRE, DEAN-STREET, SOHO. Crowded Houses. Brilliant Succass of R. Reece's Genuine Burlesque " Whittington, Junior, and his Sensation Cat," pro duced with New and Gorgeous Scenery, Superb Costumes, Choice Music, Characteristic Dances, and Splendid Appoint ments. Every Evening, at 7.30, WEALTH. At 9.20, the New Grand Burlesque WHITTINGTON, JUNIOR, AND HIS SENSATION VAT. Concluding with THE RENDEZVOUS. Box Office open from Eleven till Five. No Fees for Booking. ASTLEY'S.—Lessee and Manager, Mr. JOHN BAum.—EVERY EVENING, Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TITTLEMOUSE, and the Eleven Dancing Princesses ; or, Deedle Deedle Dumplin and the Silver Frog. Messrs. Atkins, Beckett, Russell, Smithe, and Simpson ; Misses Osborne, Armstrong, Hobson, and Madlle. Maury.—Private Boxes, 31s. 6d. to 525. 6d. Stalls, 55. Dress Circle 38. ; Boxes, 25.; Upper Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. Box Office open from 11 to 4. No charge for booking. MORNING PERFORMANCES every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 2. Children half-price to Stalls, Dress Circle, and Boxes. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC.—To please both young and old, the novel and bona Me character of the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENTS will be main tained this year with greatly increased exertions. PROFESSOR PEPPER on THE WAR and the Destructive Implements used thereat ! with elaborate and truthful Illustrations, at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC. Mr. GEORGE CROSSMITH Jun., has been engaged to give one of the prettiest Fairy Tales, entitled THE YELLOW DWARF, every Evening; and Mr. SUCHET CHAMPION will give another version of the Story in the Mornings, with Vocal Illustrations, at the ROYAL POLY TECHNIC. ENGAGEMENT of the Celebrated and Original Warlock, Weird, Wizard, or Necromancer, Mr. J. BEAU MONT, for his Marvellous Entertainment, entitled THE WORLD OF MAGIC, and for his Curious Slack Rope Auto maton.—Entertainment by Mr. E. D. DAV lES, Premier Ven triloquist, entitled THE FUNNIEST ,OF FUNNY FOLKS ! at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC. The Entertainment as exhibited before their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Princess Louise, Princess Helena, and Prince Leopold. Arrangements have been made with MADAME BOUSFIELD for the production of her New and Original Classical Illustrations of GRECIAN STATUARY. In White Marble. RE-ENGAGEMENT of the accomplished PRAEGER FAMILY. New Ghost Entertainment. Lectures on the Machine-made Watch, and Christmas and Christmas Customs, by J. L. KING, Esq., at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC. Admis sion to the whole One Shilling. CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION of WAXWORK now OPEN at 369, Oxford-street, W. (nearly opposite the Princess's Theatre). llistorical Tableaux. Moveable Figures, a splendid German Christmas Tre.—Admission, is., Children half-price. - I" A PANESE ROYAL TYCOON TROUPE e/ Daily at Three and Eight. PALAIS ROYAL, Argyle-street, Oxford Circus, W. GORILLA CHIEF, HASSAN.—Astounding performances on the " corde elastique," ac?ompanied by Mulabrix, the Oriental Wizard. Daily, at Three and Eight. Fashionable Levies Daily, from Twelve till Two. Admission, 35., 25., and ls. Children half-price.--PALAIS ROYAL, Argyle street, Oxford Circus, W. BLUE and HAIRLESS HORSE, recently exhi bited at Osborne House by command Of Her Majesty, Exhibiting HOURLY, from 12 noon till 10 p.m. Admission is., Children 6d.—PALAIS ROYAL, Argyll-street, Oxford-clrcus, W. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. Every day at 2.30 and 8 p.m. POOLE and YOUNG, the Proprietors and Exhibitors of the Overland Mail, by Telbin and Grieve, Albert Smith's Egyptian Hall Panoramas, beg to announce a new subject— THE PRESENT WAR (Between the French and Prussians. Each Picture on 500 square feet of canvas, and painted by England's greatest scenic artists. THE NATIONAL MUSIC. THE FINEST QUARTETTE IN EUROPE. POLE AND YOUNG, THE EGYPTIAN HALL ONLY. THE WAR.—POOLE AND YOUNG'S PANORAMA, EGYPTIAN HALL. Prices to Poole and Young's Panorama of the War, ss„ 25., ls. MADAME IUSSAUD'S EXHIBITTON, Baker street.—On view Portrait Models of the etc-Emperor and Empress of the French, and Prince Imperial. Also, Marshal Bazaine, Marshal Canrobert, General Trochu, &c., &c. &c.— Admission, ls. ; Children under Ten Years of age, 6d. Extra Rooms, 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. MADAME TUSSA UD'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view Portrait Models of the King and Crown Prince of Prussia, Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern. Also Count von Bismarck and Count von Moltke.—Admission is. ; children under ten years of age, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. extra.— Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET MOANER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (EX ), THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND MOSE-'; and .7 - ( - WS U-46 INTER OVERCOATS, 19s, to 25. IIOY'S OVERCOATS, 7s. Ga. to 455. FMOSES and SON beg to remind the public • that the cheap:es.: of an article depends entirely on its quality; and they venture to sly that their prices will compare favourably with those of any other (.• vie in England. MUSES and SON'S s OXFORD COATS, 17s. to 50s. filL SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1870. courses are open to the Germans. They may either retire to wait the advance of the French, as they are doing in the South, or they may advance with the object of completely disposing of the North army, which is a standing menace. It would appear that they design to take the .latter alternative. It is said that with a view to annihilate Faidherbe the Crown Prince of Saxony has reinforced Manteuffel. He would hardly, however, leave the besieging army so weak, just at the moment when Trochu is displaying signs of activity. .3 ARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20e Per roam. e.d. Fine Cream Laid Note; a cheap paper 0 .. ""' - Superfine Cream Laid Note ; mild: approved Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note ;especially recommended 5 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note . . 7 0 Straw Paper, " Patent:" adapted for rapid writing .. 4 6 Large Commercial Note Papers 35., 4s. be., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream.......... 105. Bd., 12s. 6d., and 14 6 Outsides Foolscap . 6 6 Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 45.; ruled ditto, 4 6 Tinted Lined Note five quires for is. ed., or 5 6 New Vellum Wove "Club House" Zi ote, five quires for 2s. ed. Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, , :s 6d, 5s 6d, & es ed .. Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s 6d! . / per 1,000 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &e., 3s. COLOUR STAMPING (Belief) reduced to is. per .100. Polished steel dies sunk by the beat artists in the trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An ILLUST.EtA TED CATALOGUE. containing fell descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Oases. Desks. post free. Established 1841 JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from . 4 ecay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price lb. Q. Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thamosetreet, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair ,L - L to its oristin e hue , no matter at what age. J NO. GOSNE I.L 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, 2s each ; also 55., 7s. ed., and 15s. each, includ iag brush. ite:l Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, P 3, Upper Thames-street, Lon ion, E.C. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley. COVENT GARDEN—Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty. ADELPHI—Smoke. Mistletoe Bough. HAYMARKET—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Truth. Uncle's Will. The Spectre Bridegroom. VAlrDEvlLLE—Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the Invisible Armada. STRAND—On and Off. Living at Ease. Coeur-de- Lion. ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. Fernande. Bombastes Furioso. OLYmPio—Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur lesque) Paul and Virginia. ROYALTY— Wealth, and Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat. GAIETY—A Christmas Story. Alladin QUEEN'S—Farce. Midsummer Night's Dream. GLOBE—Board and Residence. Delicate Ground. The White Cat. Rely on my Discretion. OPERA COMIQUE—Found Drowned. Nothing to Nurse. HOLBORN—The Married Bachelor. A Breach of Promise. Jezabel. PRINCE OF WALES'S. Queen Stork. Ours. Locked In. PRINCESS'S—A Christmas Carol. Little Gil Blas. He's a Lunatic. NATIONAL STANDARD—Farce. Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross. ASTLEY'S—Farce. Little Tom Tittlemouse. SADLER'S WELLS—Farce. Sinbad the Sailor. SURREY—Farce. My Son Jack. POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After. , noon and Evening. EGYPTIAN HALL—Poole and Young's Panorama of the Franco-Prussian War. AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS (llolborn)—Scenes in the Arena. ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. PAL AIS ROYAL—Professor Faber's 'talking Machine ALHAMBRA—Promenade Concert. MADAME TUSsAUD'S (Baker-street)—From 10 a.m. till JO p.m. ls.; extra rooms, 6d. :Or t o .1 I Zjjg Q , 4*" 1)1r 4 "‘ *li*litkt*. i:‹ 1 ENGLISH OPINION. Public opinion is so powerful in thi4 country, com pared with its influence upon the continent, that German writers not unnaturally attach overwhelming importance to it. It is not surprising to find certain London correspondents of German papers expressing uneasiness at the great change in popular feeling here. The sympathy that was once almost all for Germany, is now almost entirely on the side of France. One writer, who contributes to the Cologne Gazette, notices something more substantial than sympathy. He says the Army and Navy Depart ments are preparing for an eventuality. The utmost activity reigns in Woolwich Arsenal. Such rapid turning out of war munitions has not been seen since the Crimean war. Cannon, rifles, and ammunition for both, are manufactured in great quantities. The production of cartridges averages a million and a half a week ; and in a month there will be 1,000 tons of Palliser shells ready. THE NATIONAL DEFENCES. The incidents of the present war have elicited a very animated discussion on the value of forts and fortifications, and numerous suggestions are made. One writer proposes that strategical fortresses should be raised at Canterbury, Ashford, Tunbridge, Cuckfield, Horsham, and Chichester, which should be provided with 64-pounder rifled guns, so that an inva ding army landing at any point between Chatham on the east and Portsmouth on the West would find the road to London blocked by an obstacle of the most formidable kind. A second or in terior line of forts should be constructed along the Kent and Surrey hills from Chatham to Aldershott, and a similar scheme should be carried out for the defence of the east coast and East of London, including Enfield and Waltham Abbey, with their great factories of arms and ammunition. Lord Airlie, in treating of the national defences, states some striking facts respecting the admi nistration of our militia artillery regiments. One such regiment is 800 strong, with twelve guns attached to it. Not more than ten men can be trained at each gun, and the militia are called out for twenty-eight days, seven of which must be deducted from the time available for training. As 21 days only are left for the gun-drill instruction of eight hundred men, the plan adopted is to give ten days' training to 240 men, and the next year a fresh squad of 240 more is taken in hand, so that it takes three years to give ten days' instruction to the whole corps. Lord Airlie thinks tlle money spent on pay, equipment, and billets of these so-called artillerymen might as well be thrown into the sea. Ho suggests that a central spot should be selected in each military dis trict where there are plenty of guns, and the men might get their full training. THE LATE MR. GEORGE WILSON. The death of Mr. George Wilson, the well-known chairman of the Anti-Corn Law League, which was announced yesterday, has spread a gloom throughout Manchester, where his influence, bath social and political, was very great. He was president of the National Reform Union, regularly attended its fortnightly meetings, and was known as the " Father of the Manchester School." During the time of the Anti-Corn Law agitation, he . attended no less than 1,361 meetings, where resolu tions in favour of the movement were passed, and in his capacity as chairman of the League, he presided over the important meeting in Exeter Hall in 1843, and over the July meeting of 1846, when the League was conditionally dissolved. As might be supposed, Mr. Wilson was one of the most energetic opponents of the reciprocity doctrines which have lately been advocated in the North. • Mr. Wilson was an inti mate friend of Mr. Bright, and an associate of all the Freetra:lers. He was chairman of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, and was on his way from Manchester to Liverpool on Thursday when he died suddenly in the train, it is s upposed from cold and heart disease. THE POOR LAW BOARD AND THE WEATHER. Mr. Corbett, Poor Law Inspector, has sent a letter to the 'Holborn Board of Guardians, which he refers to the severe weather as affecting the list of ap plicants for relief, and increasing the duties of reliev ing officers and out relief committees and guardians. Additional temporary assistance should be given to the aged and infirm out-door paupers. This can best be accomplished by means of soup or fuel, and the loan of blankets and bedding. It will, he adds, be desirable to set able-bodied applicants to work under careful superintendence, unless they are admitted into the workhpuse. Mr. Corbett urges upon the guardians and the relief committees that they should grant relief for a short period to all per Ams applying through want of em ployment arising from inclement weather. PA UPTM NURSES. An inquest has just been held by Dr. Lank - ester, on the body of a woman 09 years of ago, who was found dead in her room. She received 3s. a week from the parish, and earned 2s. more by going out washing; but had been in bad heAlth for some time. She was seen by a doctor the evening before her death, and he believed her to be dying. The coroner asked him why he did not order a nurse from the workhous3, as the woman was quite alone, when he replied, "Medical men, as a rule, do not send to the workhouse for nurses, as in my experience, as well as in that of most other medical men, equivalent to sending to the house for a drunkard and a thief." This verdict on the class deliberately pronounced by a medi cal man as the result of his professional experience is enlightening; but unfortunately it will do nothing to enlighten guardians. A very large proportion of our workhouse inmates are bedridden, a still larger suffer from chronic and incurable dis orders, a great many are infirm from old age, a number more are deprived of the use of one or more of their faculties. These ought to have kind and 81cilful attendants. They get pauper nurses, who aro either " drunkards or thieves." THE BIRMINGHAM EXPLOSION. The resumption of the inquiry into the recent lament able explosion at Birmingham, has been unfortunately d-31ayed by the improper conduct of a juryman. On ThurSday it was found that Mr. John Taylor, one of the nineteen summoned, was not in attendance. A police officer was sent in search of him, but in vain. A note was produced by the foreman of the jury, which had been left at his house, certifying that the missing man was absent in consequence of cold, and signed by Mr. William Hopkins, surgeon. This did not mend matters much, as the Coroner declared the mite was not in the handwriting of Mr. Hopkins, and, therefore, announced his intention of estreating Mr. Taylor's recognisance?, fining him £lO, the full penalty, and adjourning the inquiry. Mr. Mot teram, the barrister who attended on behalf of the firm of Messrs. Ludlow, suggested that, to obviate the inc,4lvenimice of postponement, the inquiry should proce?d with the eighteen jurymen remaining, but the Coroner argued that this course woul.l not be advisable. It was finally arranged that the iii quirY shou'd bs adjourned until the lOth of January, the jurors being informel it would probably extend over two days. FRENCH LADIES ON 'ENGLISH HOMES. A French lady, probaqy the same who has excited so much interest, offers in the Times a word of warning to Englishwomen. She says that the luxury and expenses of French society in recent years have had much to do with the present condi ti )n of ruin, misery, and humiliation. If the French menageres may be held up as an example to the house vus of England, other classes of society can be ei!ed as a warning. The evil influence spread far and wide in France, and the tone of society gradually lowered in consequence. The sad results of this GIs() style of living may be seen in the downfall of all that seemed best in the country. She re grets to see in England signs of the besetting sins which have brought such woe to her own country. What theSe besetting sins are may be fathered from this discription of what happened in France :—" Every year did dress become more extra vagant, entertainments more costly, expenses of every kind more considerable. Lower and lower became the tone of society, its good breeding its deli cacy. More and more were monde and demi-monde associated, in newspaper accounts of fashionable doings, in scandalous gossip, on racecourses, in pre mieres representations, in imitation of each other's cr)s ume s, Mobiliers, and slang." This lady quotes some touching examples to shew how high is she opinion of Englishwomen entertained oq the continent. Let them be careful to uphold it. THE WEST OF IRELAND. We regret to hear that the distress which a few years since visited Siigo, Galway, and the West of Ireland generally has again returned this winter, and is now making large numberS of families groan under existence. An epidemic of fever, state 1 to be of a most malignant type, also prevails and many lives have been already sacrificed. In a letter to the Lord Lieutenant several ratepayers of Tuam say, "In the name of the merciful Jesus send us a doctor in whom we will have conti,l ence. It becomes our painful duty toy tell your Lordship that we have eighteen persons lying sick in a desperate fever, some without food or drink." The Rev. P. Conway, parish priest of Headford, has also informed the Chief Secretary that he has administered the last rites of the Church tl twelve persons suffering from starvation and fever. He thinks that their lives will be sacri fi,led at the shrine of State economy, inasmuch as very inadequate medical assistance is afforded in the West of Ireland by the Poor Law Board. The worst aspect of the case, the want of money and food, is generally felt in Galway m. st severely. It is not a flourishing town, and the communication by rail between it and other Irish, cities is but small in consequence of the want of commercial enterprise too perceptible all over Connaught. THE LATE PHILIP HARDWICK, ILA. There are not many among those who have often visited London who will fail to be ac quainted with the name of Philip Hardwick, architect, whose death we record to-day. The man was recognised as, essentially one of the chief architects of the City of London. Under his direction, the warehouses and large buildings of the St. Katharine's Dock Company (his first famous work), the new hall of the Goldsmith's Company, the handsome entrance of the Euston-square railway station, the City Club, the Great Hall at Lincoln's Inn, the Globe Insur ance Office, and many other undertakings which we might enumerate in the metropolis, were designed and finished. The lamented gentleman, who was born in London in the year 1792, was for many years architect to the Duke of 'Wellington and to the Greenwich Hospital Commissioners, and had received the gold medal of the Institute of British architects and a gold medal from the Paris Exhibition Com misiioners of 1855. He was, moreover, for some time vice-president of the Royal Society, of which he was a Fellow. FEMININE PRIVILEGE. It is remarkable how quiet the women of Paris have kept hitherto during this siege. They have hungered and shivered in patience ; not a single murmur has arisen against the hardships to which the doings of men consign them. But at length their spirit of interference has shewn Sonic dealers in singing birds thought that a population which ate cats and rats might not object to their wares, and accordingly offered edible songsters for sale. But the ladies would not permit it. The outcry was irresistible. The dealers might offer for sale, but woe to the inhabitant who incurred proscription by eating. Fillet of aw, hashed rat, leg of lion, rib of kan garoo, boiled withers, might be tolerated.; ragout of singing bird never. And so—though the faithful dog shuns the companionship of man, the cat is jealous of her mistress, and the rat finds the sewers no longer tenable—the singing bird chirrups in peace. AN AMERICAN MISFORTUNE. A contemporary has discovered that among all the genial-hearteil peoples of the world, our American cousins are the only ones who can not boast of their cheers. In fact, they cannot cheer at all. In England our spirit-stirring "Hip, Hip, Hurrah" has encouraged many a crowd to become cou rageous and enthusiastic. In Germany the vociferation " Hoch!" at many a festival is bawled from German lungs. In Russia the cry " Hourra" invigorates the Don Cossacks whenever anything to be proud of has been accomplished at their hands. The French similarly have their wiry " Vivat," the Hibernians their wild whoop, and the Highlanders have their slogan, but nought have the Americans. We may, it is said, grant the Yankees all the sonorousness of their "Bully for You," and all the galvanic encouragement of "That's so," and all the potency for breaking the drum of the ear by the ap palling hullabaloo known as the "tiger" which generally follows a popular oration, but for anything as jovial as a cheer, a simultaneous, sympathising, instructive, merry shout, we can give them no credit whatever. THE N ORTH-WEST PASSAGE. Recent accounts froin the Pacific state that some ships which cruised in the Arctic had got near the supposed situation of the Pole. It was predicted that a whaler would be the first to go through the long sought-for west passage which had cost so many lives and so much money. The San Francisco Bulletin mentions an interesting circumstance in connection with this subject. One of the whale ships in the harbour of Honolulu lately captured a whale in the Arctic Seas which had a harpoon in its carcase. The curious thing was that this harpoon belonged to a ship which was then cruising in the northern seas, on the other side of the Continent, and it was evident therefore that the whale had passed from one open sea to the other by way of the pole. He must have found open water, and it seems therefore that the Polar Sea is navigable for whales. This fact is one of great interest, though it does not follow that the same track could be followed by ships. COUNT ALVENSLEBEN AND HIS MERRY MEN. A brilliant Christmas treat, offered to the soldiers of the 2nd Landwehr Guard, now quar tered at Fontenay-le-Fleury, by their Captain, Count von Alvensleben, has afforded a con temporary an opportunity of censuring the gravities, and wall of distinction customarily reared between English officers and soldiers. The 2nd Landwehr Guard was at the siege of Strasburg, and at that time it was well known that there were among them fathers of seven thousand and three Prussian children. How many of those children are now orphans Heaven knows, but Count Alvensleben per mitted no sad memories to mar the merriment of the r gimental Christmas, and so the banquet was given, and officers and men quaffed from the same bowls, as they never would have done in the British army. Th , sre were speeches from the Major and the Captain and from the non-commissioned officers. There was nnno of that " cold kindness" our officers usually display to their men. "Well, my men, I hope rou are all comfortable," is the most the rank and file at their festivals can expect from them. Our con-. temporary says it is the old story, after all, of the British soldier who performed a deed of heroism before Sebastopol. Had he b:!en a Frenchman, he would have been enrolled in the Legion of Honour. Had he been a German, his Ge:teral would have asked him to dinner, and his King would have decorated him with the Iron Cross. He was an .Englishman; so Lord .Raglan sent for the man to his tent, .and gave him a five pound note. GEORGE ORUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK. The Messrs. Bell and Daldy, of York-street, Covent Garden, are laying us under very considerable obligations. Their republication of the etchings of George Cruikshank are treasures of art for which we are nothing less than grateful. Already we have taken occasion to commend to public notice the reissue of Cruikshank's " Omnibus," edited more than a quarter of a century ago by Laman Blanchard. And now we have to welcome the reprint of the fainous " Table-Book " of George Cruikshank, edited by Gilbert Abbott 3 Beckett. Both Laanan Blanchard and Gilbert li Beckett are long since gone from the world, but the great artist whose master pieces adorn both the " Table Book " and the " Omnibus," is still happily amongst us in vigorous health, and with all the vivacity of his rare genius yet undiminished. There is a foolish notion among some: people who are more familiar with the name of George Cruikshank than with his most remarkable productions, that his powers are mainlyand principally those of a caricaturist. Incom parable in many respects though he is as a caricaturist, that bizarre faculty of caricaturing is very far indeed from being his chief peculiarity or characteristic. He began as a caricaturist. While he was yet the mere stripling his audacious pencil turned into ridicu • the freaks and follies, the whims and odditie: of the salient persons and personages of the then generation. What Gilray and ROwland, son had done at their very best and maturest, he sur passed,- off hand, in his hot youth, with inimitable comi cality, and without an atom of their coarseness. " The Political House that Jack Built " and tha wonderful book called "Life in London," recounting ~he adventures of Tom and Jerry, of Corinthian Tom and Jerry Juniper and Bob Logic, are instances of the sure aim with which the young artist-adventurer shot folly as it flew, whether in the back slums or in the gilded saloons of the metropo lis, among the cracksmen and cadgers of the East-end, or among the princes and peers, the courtiers and statesmen of Whitehall and Westminster. A political satirist lilro- William Hone, a flash scribe like Pierce Egan, penned the letterpress that accompanied the radiant, laughter-moving illustrations of George Cruikshank. Even then, however, in the midst of his pictorial drolleries there was a serious purpose underlying the work of the young draughtsman that more than once made him at variance with the more experienced authors with whom he was for the moment associated. The charge directed against Hone, then an old man, was one imputing to him the guilt of endeavouring to promote sedition and dis seminate blasphemy. Charges of that kind were never for an instant dreamt of as applicable to the almost tyro hand, then squandering grotesque woodcuts on the fly-leaf squibs and acrid pamphlets of the veter :n bookseller. 'Pierce Egan, again degenerated, often and often, in his harum-scarum narrative of what might be called the Tom-and-Jeremiad, into the coarsest vulgarity, and occa sionally into the most flagrant indecorum. But we believe it is literally the fact, though a fact hitherto not in the least known to the public at large, that so grave was the morality of the whole design of that book as projected by young George Cruikshank, that in his' original draught of the frontispiece to the serial story, the title of the work, as sketched in by his hand, ran thus : LIFE IN LONDON DEATH. Caricature, however (reverting here to what we have already been insisting upon) caricature so far from being the sum and substance of the genius of George Cruikshank is, in some respects, the least worthy of notice among all its various and multiform manifestations. Perhaps, for the sake of emphasising our meaning, we somewhat exag;erate in putting the case thus emphatically. But, at any rate, we are ourselves perfectly convinced of this—that George Cruikshank's pOwers as an artist are far more remarkable in the delineation not only of the grotesque, and the weird, and the eltrich, but at moments, and those are his highest moments, of the wildly tragical and the profoundly impressive. The creations of his pencil, at the same time, are never pathetic. They are never simply beauti ful—that is, the forms and faces never are—the scenes and landscapes being so, nevertheless, repeatedly. In the pour trhyal of the horrible, however, he often attains a certain degree of sublimity. In illustration of our meaning, we will content ourselves with simply directing attention to one of the many remarkable etchings in the work now im mediately under notice—this noble volume of the "Table Book." It fronts page 45, and is entitled "The Folly of Crime." Albrecht Diirer, the master of the burin, never produced such an etching. It is a pictorial sermon bitten into copper by the aquafortis of genius. It has about it a sublimity of horror. Crime, as a sort of Bill Sikes in a fool's-cap-and-bells, having just per petrated a murder on the edge of a precipice, red-handed and with the dripping knife in his grasp, is clutching with his disengaged fingers at a bowl brim ming over with jewels writhing up at him in the form of snakes, the bowl being carried on the head of a grinning imp of blackness, who rises, on flames from the abyss, to tempt the criminal through his crime to destruction. As the ruffian, holding the knife in his right hand grasps with the left at the glittering lure lifted nearly within his reach, a ponderous stone at the top of the precipice gives way beneath his feet, and the wretch, with a yell of horror, is represented as falling into the pit of everlasting fire. Evil spirits hover above his head in the gloom and glare; mopping and mow ing at him with devilish derision. The grandeur of the effect produced by this, is something marvellous when it is borne in mind that it all comes from microscopic touches with the point of a needle on the delicate film of a varnished copper-plate. Surrounding this central group, are ten minor ones, each a study both in art and morals, representing the folly of Crime, hooded throughout by the symbolic cap and bells. Turning, however, to other pictures here given by George Cruikshank, what possibly can be mare exquisitely delineative of human character than his " Heads of the Table," opposite p. 117, or more whimsical than his examples of " Clairvoyance " opposite p. 21, or funnier than his pourtrayal of Mussoo, opposite p. 186, as typical of " A very good man, no doubt, but a bad sailor." The " Hor tible Bore," and the " Lion of the Party," too, opposite page 140, are perfectly delicious in their absurdity. They recall by their almost excruciating ridiculousness somo of the earlier freaks of the same wonderfully humorous pencil, as for example that of the soldier in the days of pigtails complaining to his commanding officer of the drummer who had tied his veil so tight that he couldn't shut his eyes ! Or, again, tlMt other, pictorially realising the ludicrous fancy of Washington Irving about the little dog whose tail curled so tight that it lifted him off his hind legs ! Re membering the dainty illustrations to the " Fairy Library", the fantastic limnings to the " Stories by the Brothers Grimm," the delectable absurdity of the grotesque outlines depicting the " Ballad of Lord Bateman "—remembering the masterly etchings to Charles Dickens's " Oliver Twist," and the many inimi table pictures contributed by the same master-hand to so many of Harrison 'Ainsworth's criminal, or historical, or fanciful romances, from "Rookwood " to the " Miser's Daughter," from " Windsor Castle " to " Jack Shepherd "—remembering the Hogarth-lSke series of " The Bottle," and its equally powerful sequel, called the " Drunkard's Children"—bearing in mind the " Comic Almanack," enlivening by its innocent mirth so many a byegone Christmas time, we cannot, in closing our notice of this most welcome reprint of the admirable " Table Book," refrain from offering, on this New Year's Eve,in the name, and on behalf of two generations of children, big and little, the earnest, grateful, affectionate greeting and good wishes of the season to that dear friend of us all, rare George Cruikshank ! A. MAN FOUND DEAD IN THE SNOW.—At about five o'clock on Thursday morning, three workmen found the dead body of a man, whose name is not known, partly covered with snow, in a lane in Upper Gornal, near Dudley. The body was removed to the Dudley Union, to await the coroner's inquest. The deceased was seen at eleven o'clock on-Thursday, night, in a state of intoxica tion, inquiring his way to 13elston. -- , - BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.. - -GRATEFUL AND COM" FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has. rendered it ageneral favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re marks :—" By, a thorough knowledge of the natural laws whioln govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a. careful application of the fine prtperties of well-selected cocoa- Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately' flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors:" bills." Each packet is labelled--.TAmis EPPS & CO., nomcco Paihic Chemists, London. Also, makers of Epps's Cacaine, a very thin evening beverage.—Advt. LAT ()CCU Mont Corps, a: " The carriage. On th front of vious da banding 4 in disk Bondy. The ( the fort Paris. On tl stein, v of cava with th Eventu but Col of 100 The: August " Ou on the enemy' The The non r " Li 44Yi '3 il took p many and d, field Avron lions • We h mono Mont- this if again attacl place forts, Belle .1\1( hood Hohi natei Re in all their tranE COIIV ter& from 7,00 AN CESE LONDON, SATURDA.Y, DECEMBER 31 1870. THAT fatal Crown of Spain ! The mere offering of it to a Prussian Prince, as we all know, has led to the hurling of the French EMPEROR from his throne, and to the ravaging of France herself by the ruth less hordes of Germany. Its award, more recently to the Duke D'AosTA, now King AMADEUS, has all but led, within the last few hours, to Marshal PRIM'S assassination. A more ferocious or a more deter mined attempt at assassination has never been per petrated. "While proceeding in his carriage from the Hall of the Cortes to his Ministerial residence, Mar shal PRIM, it appears, was shot at with such deadly determination, and with such all but deadly aim that he was struck in the shoulder by no less than eight bullets—the laconic intimation added by the telegram to the effect that seven of the balls had been extracted, that a finger had been amputated, and that it was feared the Dictator would have to lose another by a similar operation,:evidencing with painful significance the heartless daring and brutality of the intending murderers. But one sentiment, of course, will be expressed or lilt throughout the whole of Europe at an attack so very dastardly and atrocious in its character. Plum, whatever else may be said of him, has long since shewn by deeds rather than by words that he has dedicated his life to his country. He has never shrunk from danger in carrying out the views he conscientiously believes to be essential for the good government of his fellow countrymen. Often and often he has set, not merely his life. but what a soldier prizes far more, his honour and good name, as the phrase is, at a pin's purchase. He has never once shrunk when the opportunity was presented itself from the desperate hazard of leading a forloru hope as a political and military al vet.turer. The imputation of being a traitor and a leader of sedition, of wantonly calling the people to arms, and giving the signal for an insurrection or a revolutionary outbreak—the fear of charges such as these being preferred against him, have never pre vented PRIM from inaugurating at any period of his career what he believed in his heart and conscience to be a desirable, or, ache has rather deemed it to be at these times an essential and inevitable movement. For two years, now, Maishalgnam has bokne the weight of the Government of Spain upon his own shoulders. Nominal', Marshal SERRANO is its head un ler the title of Regent, but in reality Marshal PRIM has all the while been the directing intelligence as well as the strong right arm of the administration. An interregnum so prolonged might, with a less temperate,. or a less resolute man have been a period for Spain of incalculable disaster. Tempering vigour with clemency, Marshal PRIM has contrived with masterly adroitness to bridge over the gap, drawing order out of chaos and ruling the Spanish people with an olive rod in lieu of either a sword or a sceptre. The eagerness he has latterly displaye l to transfer the responsibility from his own hands to those of a Prince—no matter what Prince—who would consent to be the Sovereign, indi 'cates plainly enough how onerous, how all but over whelming to him was his own sense of that supreme req3onsibility. Otherwise, th(i spect Ado was simply inc)mprehensible— this unheard-of spec tacle, until none of a hanghty race like that of the Spaniards going upon a tour more grotePque that of Dr. SYNTAX in search of the Picturesque, more eccentric than that of CELEBS in search of a Spouse, a tour among all the courts of Europe in search of s , me one, anyone, who would consent to wear the robes and undertake the duties of the Spanish sovereignty. All the while above the head of the perfectly cool and self-possessed, Dictator-Marshal Pram, there has been dangling evidently a sword of DAMOCLES. If only the revulsion of feeling caused by so execrable an attempt at the assassination of a statesman—who has disdained to stretch forth his hand to seize for himself what has all the while been clearly within his grasp that glittering baubie of the crown of Spain which PRIM and the Cortes have recently awarded to the new King AMADEUS—if only the natural revulsion of feeling excited by that indignation may smooth the path for the young Italian Prince who is, from this next New Year's Day, to reign over the Spaniards ! If only that be the result of it, Marshal PRIM himself will perhaps be the last to regret this dastardly attempt at his assassination. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE ATTACK ON MARSHAL PRIM. The attempt to assas:inate Marshal Prim is a dastardly crime ; but the state of Spain makes it not wholly surprising. Party fury had risen to such a pitch of savagery on the election of King Amadeus that an attempt at murder had become almost the natural sequence. The Republicans, say the accounts from Madrid, lost all control over them selves in their rage. The monarchical majority took advantage of their numbers io infringe the rules which ordinarily govern parliamentary contests. Fierce disappointment on one sine was aggravated by lack of moieration on . the other. "Coward," " apostate," " traitor," "rene gade," " thief," " cheat," are epithets which, in Southern climes, generally lead to something worse. The truth is this : the Republican party has become so strong since the fall of Isabella, that no new dynasty whatsoever could be built up, save by force. If there had been any hope, the Republicans would have fought. Because there is none they murder. THE STAMPEDE IN THE EAST. The rapid retreat of General Werder from Dijon may be almost confidently accounted for by the ad vance of Bourbaki with a greatly superior force from Bourges. It is true that we hear nothing of Bour baki's movements, but French manoeuvres are now always wrapped in a cloud. The Echo du Nord says positively that this very clever (if well executed) adVance -is really being made. General Werder's retreat has been accounted for also on the theory that he has, sent off so many men to rein force the armies in Central France that he cannot withstand the French who are already in the neighbourhood under Garibaldi and Cromer. This supposition, however, is far more im probable than the other. Bourbaki's advance is preg nant with danger to the Germans. He ought to arrive upon the spot long before any sufficient rein forcements could reach Werder. It must be remem bered that the German communications for a space of 250 miles between Werder and Prince Frederick Charles are unprotected by any save small detached forces. THE ARMY OF THE NORTH. News of importance may not improbably arrive soon fiom the French and German armies in the extreme north. General Faidherbe's force is massed about Cambrai, and the latest accounts represent euffel as following hint up. Two E EUROPEAN WAR The SUN is Published Every Morning t EIGT I P O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other piper. This edition will always contain the LATEST N EWS of the WAR, and of all other events.