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MOSE • and zOYS IJ. A y INTER OVERCOATS, 19s, to £5. B OY'S OVERCOATS, 7s. 6d. to 455. IAI MOSES and S'ON" bey: to remind the public j• that the cheat ness cf an article depends entirely on its quality. and they venture to siy that their prices will compare favourably with those of any other > Ise in England. MUSES and SON'S i C OXFORD COATS, 17s. to 50s. CAMBRIDGE COATS, ths. to Ns. KERTCH JAOKETS, 1.55. to 425. SUTHERLAND JAIOKETS, 10s. 6d. to Ws. BUSINESS SUITS, 28s. to 60s. MOSES and SON'S easy and accurate system . of self-measure enables them to execute orders by post with the guarantee of a faultless it. - 1 4 1 MOSES and SON'S 124 F ROCK CO kTS, 245. to 635. DRESS COATS, 255. to GOs. M MINING TROUSERS, lls. Gd. to 21s. DRESS 'I ROUSERS, 12s. 6d. to 265. MOURNING SUITS, 28s. to £5. MOSES and SON invit - 1 special attention • to their large stock of GEN fLEMEN'S DRESSING ROBES, at 18s. to 20 Guineas ; the assortment is unequalled for variety of materials and designs, and neatness and elegance of finish. ri MOSES and SON'S BOYS' CLOTHING : KNICKERBOCKER SUDS, 9s. 61 to 40s. ETON SUITS, 15s. to 40s. ... B R. GIITON SUITS, 18s. to 48s. D RESS SUITS, 255. to 638. MOSES-and SON supply every desoription of 1241. 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 tide exchanged if not worn or insured. 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 esa is resumed until Eleven o'clock. Tho following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON LONDON. CORNER of AtINORIES and ALDGATE. `;;W OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. ZX)RNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. RADFORD. YORKSHIRE. • THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.- Solo Lessee and Manager, F. B. Chatterton.—Morning Performances every Wednesday and Saturday, until Saturday, February 25th, inclusive.—THlS EVENING, (Thursday), will be produced the Drury Lane Grand Comic CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, written by E. L. Blanchard, entitled the DRAGON OF WANTLEY and Harlequin Old Mother Shipton ! with New and Characteristic Scenery by William Beverly, whose personal services are now exclusively devoted to illustrating the produo 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, If. Moreland, Charles Steyne, Fawdon Yokes, H. Naylor, Seymour, Firth, Meade, Webber, F. Wright, Master Russsll ; Misses Victoria Yokes, Jessie Yokes, Rosina Yokes, Harriet Coveney, M. A. Basquerville, A. Hamilton, Hall, Florence Harvey, De Grey, Ross, Timbrell, Biphinstone, Har court, Lee, Leslie, Mills, White, Burpitt, Rivers, Russell, Hastings. The Harlequinade will include tl ose popular Pan tomimists, forming a Double Company, F. Evans, and W. H. Harvey, Clowns ; Paul Herring and J. Dior is, Pantaloons ; W. Fawdon Vokes and Stonette, Harlequins ; the Misses Rosina and Jessie Yokes, Columbines ; Miss Lizzie Grosvenor, Har lequins. B. Slowman, Imitator of Birds, &o. 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 Pattie, 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, as. Pit, 2s. Lower Gallery, ls. Upper Gallery, 6d. THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY ; or, Harlequin Old Mother Shipton, will be produced To-night (Thursday) December 29, and positively withdrawn on Saturday, February 35. 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. VA.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. rr HEATRE ROYAL, ITAYMA RKET.—Thirty -1 fifth Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDY. EVENING (Thursday) 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 PALACE 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 Phenol'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 othce open daily from 10 till 5. ADELPHI THEATRE ROYAL.—SoIe . Pro prietor, Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER ; Managers, Mr. B. WEBSTER and Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.—TIIIS EVENING, at 7, a new Drama, in One Act, SMOKE. Mr. Billington, Mr. Ashley, Mr. C. H. Stephenson, Mrs. Billington, 'and Miss Furtado. After which, THE MISTLETOE BOUGH. Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Elise Holt, Madenloiselle Debreaux, Mdlle. Camilla Dubois, Miss I ellew, 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. R '), °II Lessee L and STRAND T H EATRE. Manageress, This Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE. Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Bufton, and F. Hughes. CCEUR-DE-LION, Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Bufton,' Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c. . A UDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- , Lessees— Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7 CHISELLING, Mr. David James; after which TWO ROSES (178th night), by James Albery. Conclude with ELIZABETH. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, David James. and T. Thorne, &c. ; Mesdames AmyFawsitt, A. Newton, and Nelly Power, &c. (VERA COMIQUE, 20P, Strand.—Lessees, k_f Messrs. H. 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, Gran - Title, and Bell ; Mesdames Ernstone, Emily Pitt, Rolston, 'Randers, Tilly Earl, and Miss Rose Lisle. (\PER& COMIQUE.-PLASIIWATER MILL V 1 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. T. JAMES'S TII EA "I' It L.—Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. JOHN WOOD. LAST WEEKS OF FERNANDE. This Evening at 7.45 great play, FERNANDE, Messrs. Farren, Leeson, Lin Rayne, Murray, and L. Brough Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Larkin, bliss Fannie trough, 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, BOMBASTE3 FITRIOSO.—Box office 11 to 6. No fees. NVEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith, W.—FUNDS are urgently needed, and the Committee earnestly appeal to the benevolent to assist them in carrying on qheir useful work. T. ALEXANDER, Sec. and Sup Er.l_g g... 1 .LJ pRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee, Ben jamin Webster. Managers, B. Webster and F. B. Chat terton.—THlS EVENING will be performed A CHRISTMAS CAROL ; or Past, Present and Future, dramatised with the e.zpecial sanction of the late Charles Dickens, by Mr. Edward Stirling. After which will be produced an entirely new grand spectacular extravaganza, entitled LITTLE GIL BLAS ; and How he Played the Spanish DWence. Written by H. B. Farnie. The music selected and arrangeil 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 Dor& To conclude with HE'S A 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 Colonnit 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 followed 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 Success 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, ss. Dress Circle 3s. ; 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. CISTMAS EXHIBITION of WAXWORK now OPEN at 369, Oxford-street, W . (nearly opposite the Princess's Theatre). Historical Tableaux. Moveable Figures, a splendid German Christmas Tree.—Admission, ls., Children half-price. TA PANESE ROYAL TYCOON TROUPE el Daily at Three and Eight. PALAIS ROYAL, Argyle-street, Oxford Circus, W. GORILLA CHIEF, HASSAN.—Astounding performances on the " corde elastique," accompanied by Mulabrix, the Oriental Wizard. Daily, at Three and Eight. Fashionable Levies Daily, from Twelve till Two. Admission, 35., 25., and Is. 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-circus, W. E GYPTIAN 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 subjeet— 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. PO. LE AND YOUNG, THE EGYPTIAN HALL ONLY. THE WAR.—POOLE AND YOUNG'S PANORAMA, EGYPTIAN lIALL Prices to Poole and Young's Panorama of the War, es., Es., ls. ADAME 'IUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker- LVI street.—On view Portrait Models of the eg-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. DARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.O ) EHE PUBLIC DUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s Per ream. 8. d. 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An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Oases. Desks. post free. Established 1841 f OHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY ey TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth po order; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from riewky, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price lb. dd. Bed Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames.street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. ,t GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. J NO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s each; also 55., 7s. ed., and 15s. each, includ ing brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms of the past eleven months the National Lifeboat Institution has contributed to the saving of 918 lives from various ship. wrecks and 24 vessels from destruction. It has also expended £23,287 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishment?, in addition to granting £2,023 for rewards. The Institution has now 223 Lifeboat Stations under its management. Contributions are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by the London and Country bankers, and by the Secre tary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street. Adelphi, London. ANY GENTLEMAN requirhw the comforts of a HOME in a respectable and cheerful family, where there are no other lodgers, to board or not with the family, as required, may hear of the same by applying to A. L., Mr. Hawkins, Post Office, Liverpool-road, Barnsbury, N. h SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1870. mistake de Ctermans al'owed the French to gain possession of t'iis place, and t) ereot a .bat tery upon it, which has proved a thorn in • the srde of the besieging army ever since. Von Moltke now finds it absolutely necessary to drive the French from Mont Avron. When this is accomplished the Germans, so far as active siege operations are concerned, will find themselves precisely where they were before Mont t vron was bccupied. • 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. VAUDEVILLE—Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the Invisible Armada. STRAND—On and Off. Living at Ease. Lion. Cceur•de ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. Fernande. Bombastes Furioso. OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur lesque) Paul and Virginia. ROYALTY Wealth, and. Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat. GAIETY—A Christmas Story. Alladin 11. QUEEN'S—Farce. Midsummer Night's Dream. GLOBE—Board and Residence. Delicate Ground. 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. In. The Locked PRINCEi3B'S—A Christmas Carol. Little Gil Blas. He's a Lunatic. NATIONAL STANDARD — Farce. Banbury Cross. Ride a Cock Horse ASTLEY'S— Farce. Little Tom Tittlemouie. SADLER'S WELLS—Farce. Sinbad the Sailor. SURREY—Farce. My Son Jack. POLYTECIINIC—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After. noon and Evening. EGYPTIAN HALL— Poole and Young's Panorama of the Franco-Prussian War. AMPHITUEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the Arena. ST. JAMES'S HALL. —Christy Minstrelg. Every evening PALMS lloYaL—Professor Faber's _Calking Machine ALnamßria—Promenade Concert. MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. 1.5.; extra rooms, 6d. t r k . ; nit 4.4,C * ' °91 0X *Vat. ,ONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29 1870. THE bombardment has commenced. At seven o'clock yesterday morning the siege artillery opened fire—that is, the infernal work began upon the very l!ay after the morrow of Christmas. There is a cool precision about the whole of the proceedings of the Government whose policy is directed by Count BISMARCK, that outrages public opinion and strikes at the very conscience of Christendom. To open the bombardment at all,. is of itself monstrous under the circumstances; but it is peculiarly monstrous doing so upon the morrow of .the Feast of the Nativity., The war, as Count BIsMARCK's King, or Emperor, or however else he may please to call him, distinctly and most emphati cally intimated when the campaign began, was a war undertaken by Prussia, not against France, but against the French army and the French EMPEROR, The Imperial army, to the number of upwards of 300,000 men, is distributed in durance, here and there, in various parts of Germany. The Emperor NAPOLEON is long since establishel as a prisoner of war in his place of captivity, the Palace of Willelmshohe. With France, avowedly, King WILLIAM had no cause of quarrel when the war commenced. At the time of the capitulation at Sedan he might have closed the war had he so pleased, by a stroke of his pen, and entered at once into negu ciations for the conclusion of an honour able pacification. That opportunity he wan tonly cast to the winds. The greed of conquest bad been engendered. The lust of slaughter, hunger and thirst for more and more blood and iron impelled him onwards. Having his heel upon the sword NAPOLEON ',had placed at his feet, the old. KING set his heart upon having that heel of his next upon the throat ofFrance. He wanted to send tw o or threeUblans on before him to ride into Paris, if possible, and insolently summon its inhabitants to make ready for his reception. Along the Parisian boulevards, he must ride in triumph, before his final ovation, when he should return to his Berlin palace, Unter den Linden, as Emperor of Germany. Hence all the calamities that have since befallen unfortunate France, hence all the increasing destruction of life that has occurred to the German host, no less than to the armies of De fence that have been called into existence upon the scat tering of the Imperial Army of the Rhine. Hence, a ll this hideous prolongation of the war is clearly and solely traceable to the pride and ambition and im placable resentment of the Prussian King or German Emperor, whom nothing could satisfy after Sedan, but the seizure of Paris itself, and the absolute humiliation not of the French army, for that was scattered, not of the French Emperor, for NaisoLtoN was in captivity, but of the French nationality. From the moment when King WILLIAM ventured upon this heart less course, ho put himself and his Go- vernment in the wrong in the presence of all Christendom. Every day that has since elapsed, every additional life that has since been sac rificed, has only helped to make bad worse, has put him in the wrong simply more and more. M. THIER B has in vain endeavoured to secure to his country some honourable terms of pacification. Lord GRAN viLLE has, by despatch after despatch, striven to prepare the way for some compromise between the belligerents. Alsace and Lorraine, Metz and Strasburg, the pound of flesh and abso lute humiliation—those are the terms inexorably demanded from forty million Frenchmen. No won der the cruel conditions are disdainel. The wonder is only that the war can be allowed thus wantonly to run on towards its bitter end without the raising of a hand or of a voice against it from among the surrounding nations of Christendom. TOPICS OF THE DAY. BOURBAKI. The report that General Bourbaki is making a march to the eastward to attack Werder is not con firmed, but the project is a very probable one. The army of Bourbaki is much nearer to Dijon, round which Werder's force is situated, any than German force ; and if the late Commander of the Imperial Guard, makes haste, he ought to fall upon the German Eastern Army before any assistance could be sent it. Werder, who is not in great force, finds plenty of occupation already; and if Bourbaki were to come up, he would be hopelessly outnumbered. Well executed, such a project as that attributed to General Bourbaki should have the most important results, for not only ought Werder to be beaten, but the communications of the German army would be almost untenable. THE SINKING SHIP. Amongst the various proofs that the surrei.der of Paris is at band the most convincing is the demeanour of the rats. They are evacuating the city in thousands, and making the best'terms they can with the enemy. A correspondent says the German outposts are troubled with constant encounters with troops of these animals, who unquestionably come from Paris. This exodus may have arisen from various causes. Food must be running short, for the Parisians now eat many an item which they formerly threw away, and this frugali y must greatly impair the quality of the supplies down in the sewers. It may be that the rat-hunters are getting so eager for prey that the unfortunate little beasts are becom ing alarmed. Or it may Le that the inhabitants of the sewers have seen some well picked bones of their relatives washed down into their abodes, and hor rified at the unwonte.l sight, have forthwith de- c tmped. THE VACANCY IN THE MINISTRY. The probable transfer of Mr. Fortescue to the Presidency of the Board of Trade, or to some other position than that he now holds in the Minis try, is thoroughly believed in by the Irish papers. Mr. Monsell, however, and not Mr. Cardwell, is selected as the gentleman likely to succeed to the Irish Secretaryship. The appointment of Mr. Monsell to the post would, it is thought, be gratefully received. The Irish Chief Secretaryship has now come to be regarded as a Cabinet office, and Irishmen think it would be of the highest importance if there were at least one repre sentative of the national faith in the imperial Cabinet. Mr. Monsell was once before in office with a Liberal Government, and he is remembered to have discharged his duties at the time with an energy and ability that was gratifying to most Irishmen. THE RELEASE OF THE FENIANS. The gratitude of the political prisoners for their release may perhaps be estimated from one of Mr. Thomas Clarke Luby's letters from Portland Prison to his wife. The letter is dated December 24th, and is addressed to Dublin. The following is an extract : —" I suppose that ere this you have learned that I am to be ba.iished from my country for fif teen years. You will hardly deem that act of clemency' which may possibly sever me for the rest of my life from you end my darling children, and all the other objects of my love, a boon, and most assuredly you will expend upon it little of your gratitude. After what I have suffered and gone through for years, it is little or nothing to me to have to endure a somewhat longer incarceration. lam in no tremendous haste to take advantage of the gracious gift of exile. I shall not wish you the compliments of the season. It would be a most devilish mockery to do so." Mr. Luby was assuredly in good spirits on Christmas Eve. THE NATIONAL DEFENCES. " A Civilian " considers that nearly all the writers and speakers in recent discussions, ignore the fact of the navy being our first and most important line of defence. We shall never gain safety for ourselves nor influence with other nations by military force alone; whereas an overwhelming navy, backed by a comparatively small army, would render us safe from invasion, and give us great . power and influ ence all over the world. It is generally assumed that steam has made it easier than formerly fur an army to land on our shores; but many naval officers believe that steam has increased the means of defence in a greater degree than the means of attack. The "Civilian" advises that we should have a large number of vessels for home defence, such as small ironplated gunboats with one or two very heavy guns in a turret. They might be manned by a sort of coast militia, composed of fishermen, watermen, crews of harbour steamers, bargemen, &C., who should be trained to the use of the guts, and available at any moment to man the gunboats on the system of the lifeboat crews. They would form an economical, and yet important supplement to the navy. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Mr. Vincent, of the Royal Institution, calls atoll- Von to the unsatisfactory condition of most of the weights and measures in common use. One fact has come especially under his notice, and it must necessarily have been ob served by many other persons, though probably few would exert themselves to set the matter right. Tzadesmen using counter scales, such as butchers, cheesemongers, grocers, &c., invariably keep a weight on their scales. When it is necessary ,to change it, the fresh weight is put on before the other is removed. Mr. Vincent's observations have been chiefly made among the tradesmen of the east end of London, where the people, he emphatically aids, can least afford to be cheated. The practice, however, is by no means restricted to those localities, and •;t is satisfactory to the general purchaser to know that on removing the weight the draft has invariably been against the customer. In one case it required tour penny pieces to bring the scales to a balance. As the weights are of course kept on the opposite side from that on which the goods are always placed, the constant pressure naturally produces a depression on that side, making the scales unequal, to the advantage of the tradesman. Mr. Vincent urges the public to protest against what he calls " the most common mode of cheating in the weight." FOOT WARMERS. Mr. Plimsoll, M.P., again urges the advisability of railway companies providing footwarmers during wintry weather for all classes of passengers. His argument needs no proof. Such a means of protec tion against great suffering involves only the pre liminary outlay, and very little trouble. To even demand a small payment for • foot warmers would be a great improvement upon absolutely tabooing theil• employment, save i❑ first class carriages. The directors' argument—that such comfort fin• second and third class passengers would empty the first class carriages, rests upon the asser tion that people travel first class only for the sake of foot-warmers—a plea which is not worth refuting. Toe truth is that the excessive discomfort of travel ling in winter diminishes the number of passengers without any compensation. Mr. Plimsoll is the member of Parliament who brought in a bill to compel directors to midi() this provision. There may be doubt as to the propriety of doing this by means of an Act, but there can be none as to the justice of the claim in itself, GRBENWICH HOSPITAL SCHOOLS. An address and testimonial have just been pre- sented at Greenwich Hospital to Dr. Hill by fifty of the gentlemen whom he trained. to be teachers of nautical science, in the class lately under his care. The address set forth the services which had been ' rendered by Dr. Hill in organising the class in 1847• In his reply Dr. Hill stated that his' class was the first training-school of nautical science established in this country, and as evidence of its success he pointed out that among his pupils had been eight naval instructors of the Royal Navy, the head masters of the training-ships Conway and Worcester, and of the Greenwich Hospital Schools ; and eight heads of institutions for teaching navigation i►► all parts of the world. He believed that class bud done its work effectively by sending forth teachers to serve as centres in all quarters to diffuse sound nautical science. WASHINGTON AND ST. JAMES'S. Under the title of "At last an Envoy to Eng land," the New York Herald discusses the appoint ment of General Schenck. A devoted person, it says, has been found to take " the queer and unde fine I burden" upon his shoulders, but it declines to congratulate the new diplomatist on a promotion of such doubtful advantage that it is like being Licked up stairs. The relations between the Re public and Great Britain have got into a kind of deadlock, in which everybody's carriage stops the way, and the attitude of the two countries is very like that of the traditional duellists, Lord Chatham and Sir Richard Strahan. That duel ended, says the Herald, with much merriment and copious flowing of champagne, and it hails the omen. It considers that Great Britain has trifled long enough with her relations ith the United States, and the present conjunc t ure is propitious for a settlement. . Some of the British organs talk with horror of the prospect of England having to fight both Russia and America, and the Herald treats them with measureless scorn. " The difficulty with the United States is ono which can be scttled so easily, with a little exercise of justice,, good temper, and good sense, on the part of the British Government, that any Englishman who talks of war must be as obstinate as a rhinoceros and as wise as a badger." The New York journal apple bends no such catastrophe, but says there is more than the mere payment of a bill in question. America does not want money, but she does want to establ:sh a permanent and abiding good understand ing with Great Britain. To attain this end England must surrender all claim over Canada, and the sooner she parts with so dangerous a possession the better, says the Herald, for all parties. COLLEGES FOR GIRLS. There is, it appears, on the banks of the Hudson River, about seventy-five miles from New York, an institution called the Vassar College, intended exclusively for the education of girls during what are called their " usually idle and frivolous years," from 15 to 21. The founder of the bui'ding was a Mr. Mathew Vassar, a wealthy brewer who, though an old bachelor and. an Englishman, was struck with the vast defects in the system of female education in America. It was in 1865 that his college to afford education to 400 girls was opened in the midst of a farm of 200 acres. The college was at once filled, and the terms for everything except "ac complishments " were fixed at £lOO a year. Although it is generally understood that in America clamour is raised for the admission of women into colleges, more as a sign of equality than as a means of culture, the experiment of having in the country the Vassar Institution has been a fi►ir success. The class of studies afforded to the pupils is high, and the moral tong is preserved by the election of lady officers, as far as possible, to positions in the college. There is only one penalty— expulsion—in case any of the girls are wanting in sell respect or good sense, and it is worthy of note that out of 1200 girls educated in the institution, only in six cases since the inauguration of the building have parents been requested to remove their daughters. The Vassar College is only for girls, and does not seek to interfere with other educational systems in Ame rica, which try to secure university privileges for young women through the regular male colleges. ANOTHER HOUSE DOWN. On the 15th of December another was added to the long list of accidents from the falling of build ings which have taken place in New York. As usual, it was the result of carelessness. The build ing was intended for a pianoforte manufactory, but the plan upon which it was constructed was most faulty. It was a structure of 189 feet in length, with a frontage of twenty-five feet, and eight storeys in height, with no support on either side. The walls at the foundation were only sixteen inches thick. It is truly observed by one of the papers commenting on the affair, that had the building stood until it was filled with workmen, • a hun dred might have been killed instead of four. The edifice is described as a mere shell, which was certain, sooner or later, to fall to pieces under the weight it had to support. It appears that the builder became alarmed at the prospect befbre him, and sent his foreman to represent to the owner, with whom he had made a contract, the dangerous aspect of affairs but the latter refused to allow any change to be made in the scheme, saying that the plans had been approved by the Superintendent of buildings. he New York papers consider the authorities are at fault, and declare that according to existing arrangements the machinery which is pro vided by the law, for the protection of life and pro perty fails of its purpose. The Superintendent of Buildings has no power to correct defective plans of building, so long as certain forms are complied with. After these explanations it seems only surprising that accidents do not more frequently occur in New York . where it is said that subgtantial buildings are the ex ception and fragile shells the rule. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Some statistics with reference to the more influ ential ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church are given in the Catholic Directory. No less than forty living cardinals, we are told, have been created by Pius IX. The Sacred College of cardinals at Rome, which is supposed to consist of seventy members, and has at present, moreover, nineteen vacancies, so that as many red hats are at the disposal of his Holiness. At the top of the list of Cardinal Deacons of the College stands the name of Antonelli, Secretary of State to the Pope, born in 1806. The Pope is in constant communication with an immense number of archbishops and bishops in our colonies and dependencies. In Australia there are eleven of these officers, in Africa six, in Asia nineteen, and in North America twenty-two. The total number of archbishops and bishops of the Roman Catholic Ci.urch in the British Empire is 114, including four who are retired, and living in England. The entire number of " Fathers " who took part in tha CEcu.nenical council was 783. There are stated to be 200 English confessors nominated by the Pope to hear confessions and attend to the duties of the ministry as Englis i speaking priests scattered in foreign countries, some of them even being stationed at Hongkong. THE NATIVES IN NEW ZEALAND. The New Zealand parrs arrived by the last mail tell us there is little to rec.Rd in the way of native intelligence. A. collision had been apprehended between Tito Kowaru and some of the friendly nat:ves, owing to Tito's having carriel off a number of sheep as payment for some dogs of his which ha I been poisoned ; but this had passed over, and Tito had gone back to his old place or refuge. His men say that he is peaceably inclined provided he is not moleste I. He has few followers, most of his men having surrendered or left him, and many having died from lever and exhaustion. There are reports too of activity on the part of Te Kooti. Some of the colonists display a very bitter feeling against the natives. The Taranaki Herald publishes a letter from a back settler, denouncing the proposal to make terms with Tito Kowara, and the Wan ganui Chronicle has a very severe article on "the undue amocnt of clemency" shown t) Tauroa and his gang. (fart Cirmlar. HER MAJESTY. OSBQRNE, Dec. 28, The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied I,y Princess Beatrice. Her Majesty walked out this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise. Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold also went out. F'4:471- ~ ' _, g,,, : , , i •_ ~. , ~_-‘;‘-'O.--,," - - , " L ITT . ''' i . TROCIIVS CONCEPTION. Everybody in the German lines seem fully con vinced that Trochu is making a separate citadel of Mont Valerien, to which he will retire when Paris is starved out. The utility of such a scheme is obvious—provided always that it is practicable. If Trochu takes with him 200,000 men, he will be able to subsist for ten weeks upon the quantity of food which would last the two million people in Paris only one. He has therefore only to 'substract a fortnight's food from the supply in the city, and his citadel is provisioned for nearly half a year. As to the strength of Valerien and the vast works aroud it, it would be almost as difficult to reduce it by siege operations as to take all Paris. The only question is, will the Germans be able to frustrate the plan by refusing to accept the surrender of Paris, unless Valerien were given up too ? Could they refuse to relax the blockade, and, starvation or not, keep two millions of people shut up so as to compel by their sufferings the leaders inside Valerien to relax their determination ? Would Trochu give way at the sight of his starving countrymen ? The chances are that these problems would be solved in favour of the Germans. THE FRENCH PRESIDENT. The Cologne Gazette, which is fully satisfied that General Trochu will try this resource, gives some interesting particulars. It is informed that all the French Ministers, including Gambetta, are inclined to make peace, but the President, General Trochu, is resolved to keep on fighting, and as he entered the Ministry only on condition that no peace was to be concluded without his consent, his influence is para mount. He intends to retire to his entrench ments at Val4rien, and there he will probably make terms in the interests of the Orleans family, to whom he is atta ;lied. This pretty mode of uti lising the Valerien Works (like every other) presents _some difficulty. In the first place the Cologne Ga,:effike must prove a little more clearly that M. Gtruibetiare il'y desires peace, for if such be the case thit Miuiz , ter l as a remarkable faculty of deluding the wortl,,ii:citliiig his own countrymen. In the sec .nd place, what benefit would accrue from making peace with Tr c'►u iu Orleauist interests, when all the rest of the Ministry, and the Imperialists too would repudiate the compact ? THE " BO➢LBARDMENT." The announcement that the Berlin •p3ople are re joicing over the attack " upon one of the Paris forts,', skews that the Germans are beginning to be thankful for small mercies. The " fort" in question is a new and very formidably battery on Mont Aron—a position situated a mile outside the outermost eastern fort. By some unaccountable THE ROYAL MARRIAGE. On the subject of the approaching Royal marriage the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian writes : —No alteration is perceptible in the general feeling with which the alliance is regarded. Strange to say, however, there are whisperings of objection made—not in England, but at a certain foreign Court, whose right to mur mur in the matter few among us would be disposed to admit. THE FROST. The temperature in London on Monday and Tuesday ranged from 26 deg. to 30 deg. The wind was from the N.E., and was accompanied during the day by a consider able fall of snow. About seven o'clock the snow began to fall more heavily, and early yesterday morning it had a depth of from six inches to a foot. About 60,000 persons went to the Parks on Tuesday for skating and sliding. • The official reports of the icemen of the Royal Humane Society state that on the Serpentine, the Round Pcnd, and the Long Water there were about 17,000 skaters and sliders. A man, name unknown, fell on the Serpentine about 5 o'clock in the afternoon and broke his leg. He was attended by Dr. Rentzsch, of Leader-street, Chelsea, who happened to be passing at the time. A young lady fell and broke her collar bone while skating. Both were sent to St. George's Hospital. In St. James's Park there were about 11,000 skaters and sliders. The ice is described as being dangerous in many parts, and some persons fell in, but they were rescued without much difficulty. Sixteen persons were also attended at the tent for cut heads and other injuries. In Regent'. Park, there were from 15,000 to 20,000 persons on the ice. The most serious case of injury which occurred during the day *as that of a young man who, in falling, broke his wrist. He went to the Royal Humane Society's tent at once, where his wrist was set by Dr. Norton, and he was then able to go home. Ten persons were also attended for cut heads. The ice is in good condition there, and no one fell in during the day. In Battersea park• about 5,000 persons went on the ice on Tuesday. A serious accident happened to a Mr. Steward, residing at Wandsworth. He came in collision with another person while skating, and falling heavily broke his leg. A boy was severely cut by a skate, and there were about a dozen cases of cut heads. In Victoria Park about 7,000 persons went on the ice, and at the Crystal Palace about 6,000. No accidents were reported. The upper parts of the Thames are now frozen over. The frost in Worcestershire is very severe. The Severn is frozen over. On Christmas Day the thermometer stood at 10 deg. at 8.30 a.m. On Monday the wind changed to southward, and the thermometer rose to 31 deg. There was a very slight thaw in the course of the day, but to wards evening the thermometer again fell, and on Tuesday stood at fourteen degrees below freezing point. Thou sands of skaters and holiday people thronged the large pools in the vicinity of Worcester throughout Monday and Tuesday, but no accident occurred. The upper tributaries of the Severn are blocked with ice, and the Warwickshire Avon is frozen over almost throughout its whole length, down to its confluence with the Severn at Tewkesbury. MORE RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED. On Tuesday morning, a collision between a passenger train and a goods train occurred at the Horsefield Junc tion, on the London and North Western Railway. The traffic of three companies (the Midland, Great Western, and the London and North Western) is carried on near this junction. and narrow escapes from similar accidents have been frequent. At 8.55 a.m. a Great Western pas senger train of seven carriages was run into by a Midland goods train, and four passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick, Dudley; Thomas Morris, Stourbridge • and W. Taylor, of the Lye—were seriously injured. All the passengers were more or less shaken. The line was partially cleared in two hours, but it was not till late in the afternoon that both lines were passable. It is said that the goods driver ran against the signals. The Great Western engine is much damaged. Another account says :—A collision took place on Tuesday at Horsfield Junction, about eight miles from Birmingham, and between the Great Bridge and Dudley stations of the South Staffordshire line, between a Great Western passenger train and a midland goods train. Four persons are injured rather seriously, and many passengers were bruised and shaken. Both engines were damaged, and two passenger carriages smashed. The cause of the accident is stated to be carelessness either on the part of the driver of the goods train or of the signal man. One states that the signals were properly set, and the other says that they were down, and that the driver was thus induced to drive forward. On the evening of the same day a very serious collision occurred on the South Altrincham arid Cheshire Midland Railway. Owing to bad time being kept by a train from Boynley, the Knutsford and Northwich train had to be kept waiting on the line outside the Altrincham station, and whilst standinc , there the express train from Man chester to Altrincham came up at a rapid rate, dashed into it, smashing two carriages, and seriously injuring several passengers. Two fatal accidents occurred on the Midland Railway on Tuesday night. Thomas Dakin, a painter, forty-seven years of age, has been on a visit from London to Leicester for the Christmas holiday. He returned on Tuesday evening. He got out of the train at Kebworth. While still out, the train moved on ; he attempted to re gain it, but failed to reach his carriage, missed his footing, and fell between the train and the platform. One foot was crushed and the other taken right off. On his road to the infirmary the man died. On the same evening Joseph Dooley, colliery foreman, was crossing the line at the Swannington Station, Leices ter, when he was knocked down by the engine of the goods train. and instantaneously killed. MILITARY DISPLAY IN ST. PET ERSBURG.—A grand military parade took p lace before the Em p eror of Russia in the principal riding school of St. Petersburg the other day. The building is 180 yards long, and its interior presented a brilliant sight, as there were drawn up in companies and sections the elite of the body guard of the Czar. They were well mounted on magnificent black and dark-bay horses. The bright and variegated uniforms of the different regiments formed a most pic turesque military spectacle. The Emperor chews to great advantage on horseback, and was enthusiastically received by the soldiers. The marching past was got through in a very creditable manner, taking into account the state of the floor of the riding-house ; various movements were afterwards performed, one of which consisted in ten horsemen galloping past the Czar, and blowing some sheets of paper on the ground to pieces with their pistols as they passed. The Czar declared him self satisfied with the general performances, and ordered fifty kopecks to be given to every soldier. The troops reviewed were fine men, but did not come up to the standard of the English Household Cavalry either in height or symmetry. FEMALE LECTURERS IN AMERICA. A New York paper reports a lecture delivered to an audience in that city by Miss Logan, one of the leading Wo men's Rights agitators. As usual, a considerable pro portion of the space is occupied with a description of the lady and the audience. The latter " was the sort that settles itself serenely in its chair and twiddles its thumbs, saying benignantly with Hamlet, ' We'll have a . speech straight ; come, give us a taste of your quality.' It passed its gloves when Miss Logan entered, jaunty, smiling, assured ; it chuckled amiably when 'she joked, and was solemn when she philosophised." Miss Logan is described as " a trim bright-eyed little woman, prettily clad in violet." The lecture was called "The Bright Side," and contained nothing new, " barring a joke or two, which twinkled forth _in the dew of their youth." Though there might be " more sorrow than joy in the world, she believed that there was a way to introduce a preponderance of joy. That way is to persist in looking on the bright side." In her opinion, " the devil is a humbug, and is laughed away a dozen times when oe's scared by a ladsoemn face once." In the latter part f her lecture she vocated with great warmth the placing of women on exactly the same social and political footing as the other sex. Another , lecture in the s ame city, by a Miss Field, on Dickens," is also described. In t his case, " a pleasant savour of journalistic and literary salt was perceptible amid the customary salads and sweets of the typical New York audience."' Miss Field entered .` buoyant of step, self possessed, and a little reserveanner—exactly as if she were entering a drawing-ro d in m pm. Beside her was a little table with a pretty green library cover, and a basket of pink roses." She was dressed " all in a rosy gown, in her browntresses she wore a rose, and in her hand a crim son-coloured book.yr he lecture was so delightful that it acted on the audience Ike Sam Weller's love letter, making it " wish there was more of it." S Al f roil his adji atte outl 11(.1 mill bet' to t COLT con gloi says mei bra, son Boo: rig( wit tho b2c TI lev \lra; kn( Fr( bla by Fr 60, int fig THE EUROPEANIIWAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EICHT r O'CLOCK, wit'i SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This' edition will always contain the LATEST N EWS of the WAR, atha of all other events.