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CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. ► -I- HEATRE ROYAL DR L :;Y-LA.' Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. firLsoke r .N.—This Theatre having been re-decorated under the I , )1 "." thin of Mr. C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., is now Open for the AUTUM N DRAMATIC SEASON, THIS EVENING, Oct. 5. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at half-past Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from 'Sixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four Guineas. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. MISS NEILSON will appear in the character of AMY ROBSART, in the Drama of that name, THIS EVENING, Oct. S.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LA NE. 1%4 R. T. C. KING will appear in the character of VARNEY, in the new Drama, entitle•i AMY ROBSART, THIS EVENING, Oct. S.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. PHOBUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated YOKES FAMILY will appear at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. S.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. AMY ROBSA RT ; a new Historical Romantic Drama, written by Andrew Halliday; founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated novel "Kenilworth," with new and characteristic scenery by William Beverly, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. S.—THEATRE ROYALDRURY LANE. AMY ROBSART; new drama: Characters by Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Vokes, Kemp, J. Mortin, and Rosina Vokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. S.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. AMY ROBSART; New Drama, characters by Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, J. B. Howard, Brittain Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon, Yokes, F. Stanforth, H. Naylor, and Fred. Yokes, THIS EVEN ING, Oct. 6.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROSBART; New Drama. The Overture and Incidental Music selected and composed by W. C. Levey, executed by an increased Orchestra and numerous Chorus. The Ballet and Grouping of Crowds arranged by Mr. John Cor mack. The whole produced under the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling at a Quarter to Eight THIS EVENING, Oct. b. — THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. A MY ROBSART.—The costumes from designs an eminent Artist, the gorgeous Revels at Kenji vr:rth including the Procession of the Ancient Britons Sax ons, Romans, Normans, &c, and ending with the floating ants on the Lake, illustrated by 300 auxiliaries, THIS VENING, Oct. S.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by Martin Becher, at Eleven o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 5. —THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. This Evening, at Seven, WANTED a THOUSAND MILLINERS, Mr. J. Rouse, &c.; at a quarter to Eight, The RAPPAREE, Messrs. Herman Vezin, W. Rignold, J. Clayton, A. Rayner, E. F. Edgar, Shiel Barry ; Mesdames Katharine Rodgers and M. Cooper; to conclude with THE HAPPY MAN, Mr. Shiel Barry, &c. ItOYAL STRAND THEATRE. 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ROBINSON, !lon. Sec. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1870, VERY striking, and aitogether unlooked for, have been the changes and transformations produced by the memorable war of 1870. The Imperial autocrat is a prisoner, and what is worse, a discrowned pri soner, whose moral foes are his own former subjects. The boasted French army, which the traditions of the past led us to believe must be, if sometimes un fortunate, at least always illustrious, has ex cited the pity and surprise of Europe by a surrender unparalleled in extent, and a series of reverses which were alternately due to the reckless incapacity of the generals, and the panic of the soldiers. The fertile provinces, which, to colder northern regions seemed the garners of plenty, have no longer a blade of grass, or an ear of wheat. The prosperous, luxurious, pleasure-loving nation is suddenly deprived of what we may almost call the necessaries of civilized life, the means of communication, the post, the tele graph, the railway, the manufactory, the newspaper, the boutique. All these startling changes have occurred with marvellous rapidity. It was but in the heyday of this very summer that France was going on in her ordinary course, and he who should have pictured the scenes to be enacted before the close of autumn would, indeed, have been scouted as a false and traitorous prophet. As by the wave of an enchanter's wand the national gaiety, and plenty, and merrymaking havl. disappeared. The people have found themselves fto face with the stern realities of war, and the brilliancy and gaiety, and wit and luxury of their lives have suddenly col lapsed. Not the least sudden and startling of these trans formations has been witnessed in what the author of " Coningsby " calls " the airy and bright-minded City of the Seine." Paris cut off from the rest of Europe, surrounded by hostile armies, only able to communicate with the provinces by means of finial posts, seems a marvel too strange to credit. But Paris stern, grave and resolute, full of armed citizens, not seeking to overthrow but to uphold the Government ; Paris under martial law of the people's own choosing, forsaking fashion, and raillery, and scepticism, and intellectual recreations, for real and practical sacrifices to patriotism and public feeling— this is stranger still.. This is not the Paris that we know of old, the centre of the elegancies and refine ments of the nineteenth century. It is a city animated with something of the old Spartan spirit, which recognises a national duty as above every consideration of personal security or political gain. From whatever point of view we may regard the questions of statesmanship between the two contending nations we cannot with hold from the solemnised and elevated city its weed of respect. " Paris," writes an elderly merchant of considerable wealth, whose personal interests are all on the side of immediate concession, " Paris is an army. There are no longer either merchants or workmen." But he makes no complaint. His comment is " C'est magnifique ! Every one is French again." As the eloquent and able Bishop of ORLEANS said in his letter, a few days since, the lesson was not unneeded, and the great French people will not be altogether losers if their defeats have cured them of their fail ings, and taught them a stern but salutary lesson. The nation, like the PRINCE IMPERIAL, has had its " baptism of fire," and the invading hosts of Ger many may prove eventually to have been its truest friends. "THE star of Italy is Rome: that is our polar star. The Eternal City, around which twenty-five centuries have accumulated all the glories of the world, must be the capital of Italy; the peace of Europe depends upon it." The3e words spate Count . 1. Q CINDE, PUNJAUB, and DELHI RAILWAY COMPANY.—Notice is hereby given, that an EXTRAOR DINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi Railway Company will be held on Wednes day, the sth October, 1870, at the London Tavern, Bishopgate street, in the City of London, at one o'clock precisely, and at such meeting a resolution will be submitted for the purpose of authorising the raising of £2,000,000 additional capital by the issue of 100,000 shares of £2O each, upon which capital the Secretary of State for India in Council .has guaranteed interest at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum. W. P. ANDREW, Chairman. The Transfer Books will be closed on the 4th and sth October, 1870. By order of the Board, S. H. R. PARRY, Acting Secretary. 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CREMORNE—Fireworks, Ballet, &c. MADAME TIISSAIJD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. is.; extra rooms, 6d. PourrEcnmo—Professor Pepper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening. THE SUN, LONDON, 'WEDNESDAY, OCPOBER 5, 1870. CAVOUR, at the end of March, 1861. 1,083 than three months later he was buried,' amid the lamen tations of twenty-four millions of people. The words were prophetic, yet not wholly so. The first Minister of Italy had boundless faith in the power of 'moral influence. At that time it seemed hopeless to expect that the protecting Catholic Powers would con sent to the solution of the great problem. But he trusted that in process of years they would learn to see that the temporal power was no longer a guarantee of Papal independence. In the meanwhile he would endeavour to persuade the POPE that " the liberty which you have never obtained from those Powers who - boast of being your protectors, we, your devoted sons, offer you in all its plenitude. We are ready to proclaim throughout Italy the great principle of a free Church in a free State." CAVOUR never dreamt even in. his most sanguine mood that an Italian army would force its way into Rome with out the veto of a single Power in the world. He never imagined that the time would arrive, much less that it would arrive within a single decade, when all Europe would look on without interference, and almost without interest, as the Italian tricolour was borne along the Corso amid the shouts of the spectators. He had looked forward to a siege of Rome indeed, but of the moral kind, a siege in which railways, telegraphs, a free press, liberal institutions, would so surround the city that its walls would be undermined, and fall as flat as the walls of Jericho fell before the blast of JOSHUA'S rain's horns. The end has been not wholly thus. Doubtless the proximity of a constitutional country hemming the Papal provinces in on every side but one, has had its share in producing the effect just attained. But if a certain amount of force was needed to overcome force, if Italian soldiers were requ'red to deal with polyglot Zouaves, the Roman people have been told that it rests with them to say if they approve of the revolution which transfers them from the rule of the POPE to, that of the KING. It is not for the first time that VICTOR EMMANUEL has had to make this appeal. Ten years ago witnessed many such. It was in March 1860, that the Duchies of Parma, Modena, and Papal Romagna, voted annexation to the then Kingdom of Sardinia by overwhelming majorities. It was ten years ago this very month that GARIBALDI, having defeated the troops of the KING of NAPLES, at Volturno, met VICTOR EMMANUEL and hailed him " KING OF ITALY," and it was in that same month that the ancient kingdom of the Two Sicilies voted their incorporation with the new kingdom. Six years later Venetia made the same decision ; and now once more early Autumn sees a people pronouncing by majorities the wish to be joined to the rest of Italy, to be part of that great country which only a little while ago veteran diplomatists were deriding as " a geographical expression." It may be that even yet Italy is not " made," that Nice and Savoy may choose to separate themselves from fallen France, and be relieved from the heavy burden of taxation which that unhappy country will long have to bear. But whether this be so or not, Italy will be henceforth a homogeneous country. None more so throughout all Europe. It is to be hoped that the first result of the uni fication of Italy will be the restoration of Italian finances. Hitherto it has been necessary to maintain a large standing army, and to incur a yearly deficit. So long as the French were in Rome the Republi cans never ceased to conspire against the Govern ment of Italy, and so long as they conspired the Government had to maintain a force suffi ciently strong to repress them, and to mask the French force which lay interposed like a wedge between Northern and Southern Italy. The wedge has been extracted. Italy has come together, and has perfectly united ; the Republicans have no longer any excuse for conspiring; the huge army is no longer needed to keep them down; the terrible drain which that army made upon the resouries of Italy need no longer continue. • THIRTY-ONE years ago CHARLES Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, then a refugee in London, published his "Rees Napoleoniennes." The task to which he set himself in 1839 in order to amuse his exile, he has resumed in 1870, in order to divert his captivity. The London newspaper La Situation, which has been started with the obje3t of restoring the fallen EMPIRE, has scarcely done the dethroned Sovereign good service by becoming the vehicle of these new "ideas." "At our age," said Louis XIV. to his once victorious general, after a crushing defeat, "we are no longer successful," and NAPOLEON 111. has reached that age. How blunted his sword had become we all saw in Mexico and we have seen again at Sedan. It remained for him to spew how blunted his pen has also grown. • A more extraordinary farrago it would be difficult to find, though we should ransack history. It was but ten months ago that the EMPEROR delivered a speech as incisive as even Frenchmen eczustomed to epigrammatic eloquence had ever heard. "France desires liberty, but liberty united with order; for order I will answer : aid me, gentle men, to save liberty." The words were clear and precise enough. But what are we to make of the involved sentences, the frequent interrogatories to which no reply is given, of these hints and vague sur mises? It is almost impossible to attach any definite meaning to this nebulous document. But we infer that NAPOLEON, after having, as his most trusted adviser, M. ROUHER, declared, prepared for war against Prussia for four years, has discovered that he has made a mistake, and that it ould be very much better for France and Germany to live on good terms together than to be always quarrelling. But these "ideas" seem to ordinary minds incontrovertible facts. The pity is that they did not occur to NAPOLEON before. Had they done so he would not be now writing them in almost unintelligible language from a prison. There is one other "idea" vaguely shadowed forth, namely, that France is likely to fall a prey to domestic dissension, and that the only means of preventing that unhappy contingency is for her to restore the captive of Wilhelmshohe to the Tuileries, where he wil! make advantageous terms with his gaoler. That is an " idea " which is hardly likely to be realised. TOPICS OF THE DAY. pieces of artillery were put in position, and disabled within ten minutes by the enemy's fire. All the Prussian field guns are breech-loaders, while those of the French are muzzle-loaders, and this difference has led many observers to contend that all our artil lery should henceforth be constructed on the victor's model. This is the point which is now under consideration at Aldershutt, and which Mr. Cardwell is to pronounce upon. The Service breech-loading gun is being tried against a new muzzle-loading Indian gun, as it is desired to settle the question before . constructing a fresh supply. The new Indian gun is made of bronze, which metal has, contrary to expectation, proved very suitable for rifled guns. One of the Indian guns has been fired 2,000 times, but it is necessary for such hard service to make some parts of zinc, instead of gun metal, and conse que4tly it is more liable to damage. Bronze is cheap and easily worked, and can be remelted and cast over again, but it is not so strong as steel or iron, and therefore a greater weight of gu i is required in pro portion. On all these points Mr. Cardwell has to decide and It is no wonder that he wished to see the points at issue fairly tested. EXPERIMENTS IN ARTILLERY. Mr. Cardwell has been endeavouring to decide a difficult but important question, and has wisely resolved to do so after personal inspection of its details. Experiments are being made at Aldershott, which are likely to exercise a considerable influence on our field artillery, and the experience of the pre sent war has taught us that this is a very important branch of the service. The Prussians have won their victories, especially the crowning victory of Sedan, through the superiority of their artillery. All accounts agree on this point, and the Frenchmen themselves, however mortified by the result of the struggle, are unanimous in declaring their own artillery to be altogether inferior. Yet in 1866 the Austrians had the advantage in this respect, so that the Prussian degree of excellence has been rapidly attained. The Prussian guns are credited with superiority in aim and in calibre, and greater number, while they are gene rally planted in better positions. At Bedan, at one crisis of the battle, three French THE. LOSS OF THE CAPTAIN. Mr. J. Scott-Russell's opinion with respect to the foundering of her Majesty's ship Captain must be esteemed of some especial weight, since this gentle man's own suggestions for the construction and equipment of ironclads have been extensively utilised by the Admiralty. It may therefore be thought of. sufficient importance here to repeat what Mr. Scott-Russell says on the subject in this month's Macmillan. He contends that a modern ship of war is a complex organisation requiring the highest human faculties wisely to contrive all its functional parts rightly, to proportion all its vital elements thoroughly, to forsee all the dangers it will encounter and, truly to foretell all its merits, difficulties, and wants. Arguing from these considerations, Mr. Scott-Russell cannot help concluding that the loss of the Captain and her crew was the result of a mere miscalculation of the naval architect, who, before the design of the Captain was finally settled, had made all the calculations necessary to give the measure of the ship's good properties and to shew how the one should be diminished, and the other enhanced. Mr. Scott-Russell thinks that if it is proved that the facts were as he supposed, the court at Portsmouth cannot but declare that "nobody was to blame." In which case they will probably give their decision in that form which is so agreeable to the ignorance and weakness of human nature, by finding that the vessel was lost alone "by the act of God." FRENCH OFFICERS ON PAROLE. An alleged breach of honour on the part of General Ducrot, who was taken prisoner at Sedan, will probably lead to very unpleasant consequences to French officers who may in future engagements be captured by the Prussians. It appears that General Ducrot on being made prisoner pledged his word of honour to proceed to Pont-it-Mousson, and there report himself to the Prussian military authorities prior to being sent into Germany as a. prisoner of war. The General, however, interpreted his word of honour—so says the communication from the Prus sian-headquarters--:-in a Jesuitical manner. He did, indeed, travel to Pont-A-Mousson in his carriage, but did not surrender according to • his promise, and soon afterwards he appeared in arms against his conque rors. Naturally enough, this violation of the military code of honour has excited great indigna tion amongst the Germans, and a statement from the head-quarters at Ferrieres, which is pub lished by authorisation, although framed in tempe rate language, sufficiently indicates the treatment which French officers may expect to receive in future. Hitherto great consideration has been shewn for them, but as the statement broadly puts it, that consideration will have to be greatly restricted. " When we see other officers there with one who has despicably broken his word, we can only regard it as a bad sign for the value attached in the French army to the notions of honour." GERMAN AMBITION. A great deal has been said about what is characterised as the grasping and am bitious spirit now predominant in the German mini. That a large portion of the German people, whose imagination has been excited by an uninter rupted tide of victory, indulge in views of inordinate ambition, is undeniable, but the more reflecting and sober-minded discountenance any proposition which would result in the successes of the Prussians being the means of humbling the French too much. A German professor of physical science writes in a tone which justifies the disbelief in the universality of an aggressive and ambitious disposition. From the beginning, he says, he has hated and dreaded this war quite as much on account of great victories for Germans under Prussian leadership as on account of possible defeats. "His tory," he remarks,' "teaches too plainly that brilliant victories, under monarchical leadership, are disad vantageous to the triumphant nations, because arro gance and imperiousness result therefrom, particularly on the part of rulers towards their people. The Prussian victories of 1866 brought more political liberty to Austria than to Ger many—to which latter,• in fact, they gave no real unity. The Crialean war, in its lasting results, has benefitted Russia more than France •and Eng land. To Russia it brought railways and emanci pation of the serfs, albeit the latter work may have been too hastily accomplished. The free progress of a people has never obtained through mighty victories; often, on the other hand, has military despotism been the result which I much fear we Germans for some time to come shall have to undergo." The professor is of opinion that the number of calmer minds will increase when the consequences of the present exaltation of the Germany become more ap parent. ~THE CLOSE OF AN OPERATIC SEASON. However deep their interest in the relations be tween Church and State, or Landlord and Tenant, and however keen their sympathies for the luckless French, it is evident that our friends across the St. George's Channel have not lost their national love of fun and frolic and excitement. The closing night of the operatic season in Dublin was something very different from the staid and orderly performance which puts a temporary end to fashionable harmony in the English metropolis. Long before the hour appointed for the opening of the doors the crowds were struggling in the streets for the nearest places, and the gallery entrances in particular presented a scene of wild ex citement. Mdlle. Titiens was the attraction, and the enthusiasm with which she was greeted was truly Hibernian. It was some time before she could begin to sing, so prolonged was the cheering which greeted her, and all through the evening the same excite ment continued. Unluckily the enthusiasts were a little carried away by their feelings and forgot their manners occasionally. The refusal of an encore pro duced an uproar which refused to be pacified by concession. Some Dublin students thought they would assist in the evening's entertainment, and after singing comic songs between the acts, emptied a bag of flour on the people in the pit, thus gratui tously powdering their heads. While Mdlle. Titiens has been thus receiving an ovation in the sister country, Mdlle. Nilsson has been similarly feted in New York, where the theatre-going populace are nearly as demonstrative. A pyramid of flowers placed upon the stage in honour of the singer, was somewhat embarrassing even to her practised com posure, but New York does not know how to do her sufficient honour. The horses were taken from her HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, OCT. 2. The Queen, Prince Arthur, Princess Louise, and Prin cess Beatrice attended Divine service In the parish church, Crathie. The Marchioness of Ely and Colonel Ponsonby were in attendance on her Majesty, The service was performed by the Rev. Dr. N. Mac- Leod, one of her Majesty's chaplains. The Rev. Dr. Norman MacLeod had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. The Prince of Wales is expected to visit London about thelsth inst. Prince and Princess Christian arrived' on Saturday at Alnwick Castle, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland. CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE. A council meeting of this Chamber was held yesterday at the Salisbury Hotel, G. Tomline, Esq., in the chair. Amongthose present were—Messrs. T. Willson (Leicester), Mr. H. Morrison (Yorkshire), Henry Wills (Cambridge), Henry Webb (Worcester), G. R. Greenhow ; Relph (Monmouth), E. Hilks (Canterbury), H. G. Andrews (Somerset), C. F. Gardner (secretary to the Local Taxa tion Committee), Edmond Riley, Henry Neild, Jas. Webb, Daniel Long, and Colonel Craigie, members of the council. —The Chairman said the first subject of importance on the agenda paper was the report of the Local Taxation Committee. He had seen by the speech of a member of Parliament at Whitehaven that the matter was receiving increased attention. This shewed that the Chamber was not acting on ex parte statements, and that, therefore, there was a better chance of a fair conclusion being arrived at in the matter. — Captain Craigie presented the report in question, which contained an account of the . proceedings of the committee, and expressed their opinion in favour of a movement for the reform of the existing irregularities which were fast spreading, not only among those connected with land, but among the heavily rated inhabitants of large cities and towns.— Mr. Willson moved, and Mr. Neild seconded the reception and adoption of the report, the latter gentleman complaining that the newspapers had not given that attention to the sub ject which it deserved. He believed that the local taxa tion and the malt tax would be the cry next election, and if voters did their duty no member would be returned that did not pledge himself upon the question.—Mr. H. George Andrews moved, and Mr. James Webb seconded, a reso lution, " That the thanks of this Council be given to Sir Massey Lopes, Bart., M.P., and the 89 members of the House of Commons who voted for limiting the charge on the Poor-rate Assessment for Elementary Education to one penny in the pound, and that the Secretary be instructed to transmit a copy of this resolution to each of those members." Carried unanimously.—The following sub jects for the consideration of the November Council were agreed to :—" The new regulations of the Fire Insurance Offices for the Insurance of Farming Stock." " What further regulations for the Home and Foreign Cattle Trade are required in the interests of pro ducers and consumers." It was also resolved that the report of the joint committee on the uniformity of weights and measures which was in favour of the metric system, should be remitted to the Provincial Chambers and discussed prior to the Council meeting in February.—A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. carriage, and the applause is * described "as rapturously indiscriminate," a questionable compliment. FREE TRADE AT THE ANTIPODES. It seems as if the old battle between Free Trade and Protection, so often waged on this side of the Equator, has to be fought out in Australasia as well as in Europe and America. It might have been sup posed that our somewhat Democratic colonists of the southern seas would have unhesitatingly adopted the policy of unrestricted commerce, more especially as the prosperity of their country so greatly depends upon its extensive trade with the mother country. However they have made fetters and hampers for theaiselves over in their free Southern ocean, and have faithfully reproduced the difficulties and prejudices of an older world. An Intercolonial Con ference sat some time since in Melbourne, with the view of establishing a Customs Union, under which commodities would pass free from one Australian colony to another. This design was frustrated, however, because the treasurer of the colony of Vic toria was an extreme Protectionist. The Melbourne Chamber of Commerce and several other bodies have expressed themselves strongly in favour of the pro posed measure, and they have been supported by the principal part of the Victoria press. The Melbourne Argus expresses great irritation that the central Australian colony, which has the best harbours, the greatest wealth, and the most enterprising merchants, should have rejected a proposal that would have given her the command of the whole import and ex port trade of the Southern Ocean. The explanation suggested for this perversity is not favourable to the Democratic system of Government. So much political power is in the hands of the least informed class that the rulers are anxious to conciliate its greed and its prejudices. Such is the solution offered by a Melbourne critic, and the Democrats of the Antipodes must shew themselves sensible of the benefits of free and unrestricted commerce if they wish to remove the reproach from their favourite political system. Z - 1 - 4-Thf 1 1 01111 eirtulat THE IRISH CHURCH. The Representative Body of the Irish Church have published a fresh list of subscriptions, in which there are some very remarkable donations. The Marquess of Downshire, for instance, subscribes £5,000 ; and Lord O'Neill, the Bishop of Tuam, the Dean of Ripon, Lords Bloomfield, Darnley, Dunsany, Fortescue, Powerscourt, and Rathdonnell, £l,OOO each. Sir Thomas Bateson, Bart., and Mr. H. Bruen, M.P. , subscribe 21,000. There are a large number of £5OO, £2OO, and £lOO subscriptions. The Representative Body have again commenced their onerous duties, and a large increase of their resources is immediately expected. Comment is made on the absence of contributions of importance from England. Congregational collections are about to be very actively commenced throughout Ireland. The donations exceed £30,000. The officers of the 4th Dragoon Guards, stationed at Liverpool, are about to give a broadsword exhibition in aid of the funds for the sufferers by the loss of the Captain. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling day, Tuesday, October 4th, 1870. Admission by season tickets, 1,383 ; do. on payment, 2,015; total visitors, 3,398. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGRI CULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—The number of visitors exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors, and others on the 4th instant was 6,626. Mr. J. M. Smith, a Leeds banker, was thrown off his horse at Leeds on Monday, and sustained a serious concussion of the brain. CATHEDRAL PREFERMENT.—The prebend in Salis bury Cathedral, held by the Rev. Dr. Henry Parry Liddon, Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's Cathedral, has been conferred by the Bishop of Salisbury on the Rev. James Erasmus Phillipps, clerk, M.A., vicar of War minster, Wilts. A painful incident (says a correspondent of the Scotsman) has lately occurred at Brighton. Mr. Mignot, an American painter, left Paris at the last moment, and with his wife and children sought a refuge in Brighton. Shortly after his arrival he was attacked with smallpox, and was carried from one lodging-house to another till he died, leaving his family entirely unprovided for, for he was compelled to leave his pictures and other effects behind him in the French capital. Mr. Ruskin has sent £2O to the poor widow, and it is hoped that a subscription for her benefit will be opened in artistic circles. H.M.S. DEFENCE.—Letters from the Defence, armour-clad steam frigate, report her still at anchor at Civita Vecchia on the 14th September, on which day an Italian squadron of four large and two smaller iron-clads stood in towards that town from the northward, and after performing some naval manoeuvres, steamed slowly out, making for the direction whence they came. Many of the officers and several large parties of special men of the ship's company of the Defence, went up by train to Rome, and during two or three days' stay were, through the kindness of Monsignor Stonor, an Englishman, and Chamberlain to Pius IX., conducted over the principal edifices, and shewn all public and private places worthy of notice. SHIPPING DlSASTERS.—lnformation has been re ceived at Lloyd's of the following shipping disasters : The screw steamer Tynemouth Castle, bound from Odessa to the United Kingdom, was ashore off Cape Sestos • the Kate Winifred, belonging to Li verpoo l , was wrecked while on a voyage to the Thames from Zebu ; the ship Marion was wrecked in Galle harbour ; and the brig Dolphin, belonging to St. Michaels, Cornwall, was stranded while on a voyage to Lisbon from Cardiff. - - CACAOINE. — Cacoa nibs on the removal of the oil fall nto powder, and this powder is cacaoine. Cacaoine contains neither sugar nor any other admixture whatever. Cacioine makes one of the lightest, thinnest of warm drinks, and is the most do sirable of all for use in the later hours of the day. Cacacine, by reason of the ingenious method by which the oil is removed, pre serves all the fine natural flavour of cacao nibs.—Prepared only by James Epps and Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, 112, Great Rus sell-street ; 170, Piccadilly ; and 48, Threadneedle-street ; at their Works for Dietetic Preparations, Euston-road.—ADvT. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ON EDUCATION. [CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided yesterday for a time over a large meeting, held at Canterbury, attended in force by the clergy, for the purpose of extending ele mentary education. The proceedings having been opened with prayer, his Grace addressed the meeting. Alluding to this, almost his first, return to public life since his illness, Dr. Tait expressed his thankfulness to Almighty God for enabling him to attend the meeting. They were met, he went on to observe, to devise means for giving a religious education to the children of the diocese. The largely increased parliamentary powers conceded to the people by recent legislation had laid bare the fact that increased means 'whereby they should be educated were needed. The Government had provided what was wanted ; a measure had been passed •in the session not long since concluded, directing that every child should be educated. He felt that it was essential that all education should have a religious basis ; therefore he had called the present meeting. Its object was, first, to increase the number of schools connected with the Church of England ; secondly, to see that they all came within the requirements of modern legislation ; and, thirdly, to insist upon a distinct religious education being given in their schools, such an education as they, members of the Church of 'England, could assist in giving. Thus they could help the working of the new measure of education, and at the same time maintain the continuance of secular training, combined with religious instruction. The primate concluded by announcing that many promises of pecuniary aid to carry out their object had been received. Earl ROMNEY next addressed the meeting, and explained that its aim was not to teach religion merely on Sundays, but to instil continually into the young minds principles of action which would render them firm and stable against temptation, and not easily led away by outside influences. It was to be hoped (his lordship went on to say) that the Government would continue the annual grant in some cases, as in several dis tricts where there were no resident gentry the withdrawal would be severely felt. His lordship moved that the passing of the Elementary Education Act forms a crisis which calls for the hearty co-operation of all Churchmen to secure an efficient religious education, based on the principles of the Church of England. Archdeacon PARRY, Bishop Suffragan of Dover, seconded the motion.—lt was carried unanimously. Mr. GATHORNE HARDY, M.P., was among the subse quent speakers. The right hon. gentleman urged upon all workers in this matter to seize upon the very short period which yet remained to obtain Government grants where necessary. Lord FITZWALTER, Archdeacon HARRISON, the Dean of CANTERBURY and others also spoke ; and resolutions were unanimonsly passed having for their object the maintenance of religious edu cation in every parish throughout the diocese ; the appointment of inspectors for this purpose by the Arch bishop, to hold an annual inspection ; and the collection of funds to carry out the measure. PHYSICAL DETERIORATION OF THE UNIVERSE. The winter session of Owen's College, Manchester, was opened on Monday, when Dr. Balfour Stewart, the newly-appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy, deli vered the inaugural address, the subject be'rg "The Recent developments of Physical Science." Ma:ly ladies assembled with the distinguished company present. Dr Stewart, in the course of his observations, contended that the world was undergoing a physical deterioration of a re markable character. A process of degradation was at work which apparently had no limit, and which would only end when the universe, or at least our part of it, had be come entirely unfit as a residence for organised beings. The sun, as many familiar illustrations showed, was the great source of our material well being. It prepared the food which supplied our frames with energy, as well as with that delicately-constructed tissue which was essential to animated existence. But the sun was only a great fire 2 and it was apparently a fire th a t h a d l ong s i nce cease d to be fed. Indeed the solar orb, with all his wealth of energy, yet resembled a man whose expenditure exceeded his income. There was only one issue, unless we could see an end to the process of waste ; but we failed with our present knowledge to see any prospect of such a change. We were thus led to contemplate the degrada tion of the universe, or, at least, of our own part of it ending in a total absence of all useful energy and of all life. These were issues up )u which the man of science might speculate with advantage ; but it should always be borne in mind that our present intellectual stand-point was very low, and our knowledge of nature's laws very incomplete. Scarcely less important than our increased knowledge of late concerning the laws of nature, was the advance we had made in our knowledge of the great bodies of nature—in which branch investigations had been greatly aided during the last ten years by the use of the spectroscrope. Descending to our own earth, there was some reason to suppose that we were knit to our luminary, and possibly through him to the other members of our system, by some other bond besides that usually reco g nised. General Si r E. S a bi ne appeared to have - proved that disturbances of the earth's magnetism took place most frequently in those years in which there were most snn spote. This was confirmed by the experience of the present year, during which we had a great number of sun spots, and frequent and large disturbances of the earth's magnetism accompanied ten days ago, as usual, by bright appearances of aurora borealis. In connection with the meteorology of our globe, it had not yet been traced whether the earth's climate and atmosphere were influenced in any way by the changes taking place in the atmosphere of the sun ; but this connection, important though the question was, had hardly yet been sought for in a proper manner. Recent observations discussed by Mr. Baxendale led us to think there might be some connection between the daily changes in the earth's magnetism and the daily motions of the air. Coupling this with the fact that the frequency of terrestial mag netic disturbances would appear to be connected with the appearance of sun spots, we were led to contemplate at least the possibility of some connection between meteor ology and sun spots. If these remarks were of any value, they tended to indicate the probable union of the various branches of observational inquiry into one great cosmical research, and pointed to the wisdom of a very close union between the workers in the cognate fields of meteorology, terrestial magnetism, and celestial physics. Unfortunately, this prospect was delayed somewhat by our extremely limited knowledge of the various com ponent of the earth's atmosphere—by the backward state of physical meteorology. They were all aware that at the present moment a royal commission was inquiring as to the relation between science and the State ; and perhaps, therefore, they would permit him the opportu nity of stating his views as to the manner in which this very necessary assistance might best be given. He thought that those branches of science which demand for their extension experiments not requiring very great time might be furthered with much advanta.gd in institu tions such as Owen's College. He believed it to be advantageous to bring the highest class of physical teach ing into contact with research. If Government were disposed to grant pecuniary aid to such researches, an extension of the allowance made annually to the Govern ment Grant Committee of Royal Society would appear to be a very legitimate way of accomplishing this object. " THE RINGING GROOVE." " To be Sold, the Villa de Prangins—splendid property, situate on the borders of Lake Leman, belonging to S. A. I. Prince Napoleon." So runs an advertisement in the papers. Meudon is occupied by Prussian troops, and its woods form covers under the shelter of which the besiegers' outposts can watch the great city, and give timely notice of its defenders' movements. The sudden fall of the Empire and the vicissitudes of the Bonarpartist family are strikingly illustrated by these announcements. With the collapse of the system its sup porters vanish ; when the tree is prostrate, the parasites share its overthrow. Prince Napoleon was not one of the most popular scions of his house, and it is to be feared that he at least will receive but little of that sympathY which so often attends the closing scenes of fallen greatness. Few perhaps will remember that he was essentially a man of peace, and that, if his advice had been followed, the late Emperor would not have rushed into the last fatal war. The Prince's tastes and inclinations led him to very different scenes from those of the battle-field ; his favourite pur suits were scientific explorations ; his chosen companions were journalists, artists, and savants. Indeed, at the out break of the present war he had to be recalled from the north of Scotland, which he had reached en route to the inhospitable latitudes of Nova Zembla, and he was dis patched to Florence on the desperate mission of linking Italy, if possible, with the waning fortunes of France. That family influence did not save him from failure we all know, and that his Royal father-in-law made a narrow escape from a most unfortunate poli tical ngsalliance is now apparent to all w h o see that France's extremity has proved the opportunity of Italy and of Rome. But Prince Napoleon's fortunes , notwithstanding his marriage with the Princess Clotilde , were bound up with those of the Empire. In France he was a " personage ;" he formed a peculiar link between Imperialism and cultivated democraoy, and he was able to serve his eminent cousin without compromising bire , while at the same time enjoying to a large extent the privileges of irresponsibility. Now, having lost Meudon , and parting with Prangins, what is to be his future course ? Probably he will follow the example of other expatriated dignataries, and devote the remainder of his days to art and the belles lettres. He may transfer his pictures, statuary, and articles de vertu to Florence , and in that pleasant haunt of art-worshippers will forget the storms of political life, and watch with a scholar , interest the culminating glories of young and perfected Italy. On what may yet be in stor e f or hi m and his house it is useless to agtoulate ; but the latest scene of his life adds another to the numerous illustrations which that re markable family has contributed to the romance of adver . sity. —Daily Telegraph. .., _... SP] LAT BT. l), poi A. CO: "r) 11.ilna blistted Not onl; l'Etoile tore of Paris, al own. I around to prevl of Lill( Garde 3 persons purchase The 1' Gisors, E Oa Sun( forces a enter th The v burnt b: The k 5 Dr. Tab fate of raise a Las beer The / trench under t: be recal The a an110U11( AER] M. I Nations Sunday /neasurc The t francs, for the The ] Qn eleu: sieg e gi The ] AME The France arms a' E lengers The )Zeans there balttnc a lei which Worse diti on , few d hble itterit exceed source Reds 8 at Brt fightin Prussii A pz circles the E that ti Rim The Mayor has ar tion C to hal last 'I g9itl( kohl dying not, h it is q char& have ballot Pony Telegi An th e gi killed throu Molt] NV( this direci `llth are i, well. 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