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MOSES and SON, _U• CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. STEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER of lIART-STRENT. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROD and EUSTON-ROAD. B RADFORD, YORKSHIRE. E MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of GENTLE MEN'S CLOTHING. Frock Co;lts. CJ 11;i, Oxford Coats. Also at Also at Also at Also at other price , . I other prices. other prices other prices MOSES and SON beg to remind the public • that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its quality, and they venture to affirm that every article sold by them is , 2,onsiderably cheaper than what can be obtained at any other ho ise in England. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of LONDON , TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1870. F. -4 , GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED: MR. GLADSTONE'S philosophic reasoning the other day in regard to the Ballot in the very midst of the Summer Tourist Summer Dress flaming up of an European war, was compared by Suits. Suits. Trousers. Trousers. , the Saturday Review to the fiddling of NERO when 245. 245. los. 6d. 15s. Rome was in conflagration. Admitting the resemb 2Ss. 28s. 12s. 6d. 16s. ed. lance in respect to Mr. GLADSTONE'S speech in th e 365. 365. 14s. 18s. House of Commons, w h a t compar i son can poss i bly —,,— 408. 425. 15s. 6d. 21s. to the speech delivered by Mr, LOWE in the Mansion 455. 48s. 17s. 6d. 248. House on the occasion o f th e b anque t t o h er M a j esty ' s 555. 525. 20s. 265. Ministers ? Everything just now depends upon the Also at Also at Al so at Also at courage of his convicti o n s , man if es t e d a t thi s mos t other prices. other prices. othe r pri ces , other prices critical juncture, by that Finance Minister of England, nEDERS by post are attended to with care and the right hon. gentleman the CHANCELLOR ORDERS by post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. LI MOSES and SON'S PRICE Li T o f F. BOYS' CLOTHING : Knickerbocker Suits. Os. Od. 13s. 6€l 16s. 6cl Also at other prices, Eton Brighton 1 Harrow I Suits. Suits. ! Suits. 15s. 18s. I 18s, 19s. 235. I 235. 325. 30s. 365. 1 365. 48s. I 48s. Also at Also at Also at other prices. other prices. other prices. piMOSES and SON supply every description of ' • clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes : also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any article exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-fre E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON • LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDOATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—MessrA H. J. Montague. D. James, and T. Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 730 CUPBOARD LOVE, by F. Hay. After which, at 8, a new and original Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, by James Albery. To conclude with the new and successful burlesque. DON CARD ; or, The Infante in Arms Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Fawsitt,T Lavis, and A. Newton. Door; opea at Seven. dommerice at 7.30. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human H a i r to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. of the EXCHEQUER. Upon the liberality of the money supplies vouchsafed by the Treasury to the Horse Guards and to the Admiralty, depends the efficiency, of course, of the army and the navy of Great Britain. Everybody who has had only half an eye to the departmental innovations of the last twelvemonth, is perfectly aware of the re , ductions, the economies, the thrift, the cheese-par ing diminutions, here and there and everywhere, effected in the governance of the navy by Mr. CHILDERS and in the governance of the army by Mr. CARDWELL. Everybody was consequently startled and bewildered the other evening when the Under Secretary of State for War in the House of Peers, and the Secretary of State for War in the House of Commons, announced, the one (that is Lord NORTHBROOK) that since 1815 our army has never been in so high a state of efficiency, and the other (that is Mr. CARDWELL) that no hope could be held out of the army, or even a part of it for that matter, being placed on a War Footing. Apropos to this -double-barrelled discharge of all our hopes from the direction of the War Office, an ex- Lieutenant-Colonel, writing from Harrogate to our leading contemporary, suggests that Lord NORTH ' BROOK, and his chief, Mr. CARDWELL, should go to the barrack of some line battalion, and should there ask the Colonel commanding it to parade for them all the men medically fit for service. Allowing the usual deduc tion, he says, for men on furlough, in hospital, on baggage guard, or other detached duties, the SECRETARY and UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR will then see, he argues, what a mere handful of men go, in this year of grace 1870, to the making up of an English battalion. Should they afterwards, he continues, proceed to a cavalry barrack they would there witness a precisely similar spectacle upon the parad ing of the regiment. A spectacle, of course, all the more alarming when it is borne in mind how horses are being bought up by hundreds for France and Prussia, that we are without any train, that nearly all, if not all, our regiments are undermounted, and that in war the wear and tear of horseflesh is proverbial, Having thrown out that sug gestion of a visit, being paid in succession by Mr. CARD WELL and Lord NORTHBROOK to an infantry and a cavalry barrack, the writer cannot resist, adding that he conceives the strength, or rather the weakness of those two regiments on parade would astonish, if not alarm, our War Ministers. "It did me," he laconi cally remarks in conclusion. Nevertheless, while the facts stand thus, the Minister who holds the purse-strings of the nation, the Minister to whom the chiefs at the War Office and at the Admiralty must look for the wherewithal, if need be, to place our forces by sea and land upon a war footing, can find it in his heart to warble in a sort of falsetto at the Mansion House Banquet, the German distich— " Honour the women who weave and entwine In oar earthly existence their roses divine ! " can prattle even the Frenchman's jingling couplet— JNO. GONE LL and CO. have at length, - with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. . . Sold in bottles, Is each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, includ ng brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, D 3, Upper Thames-street, Lon. don, E.C. 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A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can not fail to fit, fmwarded by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manu facturer, Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccitdilly, London. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. Bd. An Um bilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d._ _ _ " Whoe'er thou art thy mistress see Who was, or is, or is to be !''— like the veriest doggerel motto of some cracker bonbon ! Talk of Mr. GLADSTONE'S speech on the ballot resembling, now, the fiddling of NERO when Rome was burning ! What, compared with that speech of the PRIME MINISTER, are these fribbling absurdities uttered at this most critical moment by the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER ? Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the L'gs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an.ordinary stocking Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and Ns. each Postage, 6d. TOPICS OF THE DAY. " SECURITY AND NEUTRALITY." The policy of England was happily defined by Mr. Gladstone at the Mansion House, as " Security and Neutrality," but the Prime Minister was careful to explain that our interest in the great Europeah war now waging is something more than that of spec-. tators. However other countries may choose to forget their treaty obligations England has not yet adopted such a course, and she is bound alike by national honour and by considerations of policy to support the independence of Brussels and Antwerp. Unfortunately the geographical position of Belgium and the Low Countries expose their powerful belligerent neighbours to very strong temptations, and a decisive victory or a crushing defeat might drive either France or Prussia to an infraction of treaties. However, if it be clearly under stood by all parties that England is prepared to up hold the faith of treaties and to guarantee the inde pendent existence of these lesser States, the danger will be greatly diminished. If there is no uncertainty in the language of the English Government on this subject, they may promise us with greater certainty " neutrality as well as " security," inasmuch as neither France nor Prussia would assuredly willingly provoke so formidable an opponent to throw her weight into the opposite scale. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ....33 after 4 J Afternoon 54. after 4 \ N'"-* 1111 wljt EVENING EDITION. 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SITIMI'S Camden, Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden- TRE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EV ENING, AUGUST 2, 1870. neutrality towards all other States. The 25-th Article adds, "The courts of Great Britain, Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia, guarantee to his Majesty the King of the Belgians the execution of all the preceding articles." There can be no mistake as to the meaning of the language employed, and the infraction of the treaty by any of the Powers men tioned, would be a moral crime. Since Belgium was erected into an independent kingdom, a new dynasty has been raised in France, and although it has been stated in some quarters that the Emperor is not bound by the agreement entered into by Louis Philippe, on several occasions his word has been passed that he would respect the settlement. It may not be remembered that before the acceptance of the Belgian crown by Prince Leopold of Saxe- Coburg,i it was offered to, and ref used by, the Duke of Nemours, the second son of the King of the French. Lord Palmerston, for England, 'Prince Esterhazy and Baron Wissenberg, for Austria, the Duc de Talleyrand, for France, Baron von Biilow, for Prussia, Prince Lieven and Count Matuszeurlc, for Rnssia, and Baron Van de Weyer, for Belgium, were the plenipotentiaries who signed the treaty. ledge of American institutions and modes of thought. .THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The substance of the more recent negociations be ween England and the United States on the subject of the Alabama clalips, has been submitted to the Ameri can Senate by the President. In December last Mr. Motley had a long interview with Lord Clarendon, for the purpose of reading a despatch from Mr. Fish, but the English Minister declined to make any com ments upon it on the ground that "it was difficult to look for hopeful negociations when so strong an indictment was presented against the British Go` ern ment." At this interview Mr. Motley stated that t he demands made by Mr. Fish commanded the cor dial approbation of a large majority of the American people. On another occasion the United States Min ister expressed the opinion that the first step towards the re-establishment of friendly and honourable re lations between the two nations was for the English Government to look at the case from the same point of view as the Americans. After a good deal of negotiations Lord Clarendon, finding it impossible to meet the demands of Mr. Fish, informed Mr. Motley that it was neither useful nor expedient to continue a controversial correspondence, in which there was so little hope of one Government being able to con vince the other. The matter, therefore, remains in exactly the same position as at the beginning of the dispute, and it only rests with the good sense of the two countries to keep in abeyance the bickerings that might lead to further complications. OVERLADEN SHIPS. So many maritime disasters have occurred from the overloading of merchant ships that great interest attaches to the investigation of any misfortune sup posed to arise from that cause. The Court of Inquiry held at Newcastle-on-Tyne into the loss of the steamer Sea Queen, by direction of the Board of Trade, arrived at the conclusion that the vessel, though deep, was not overladen to such an extent as ;o be dangerous. The great length of the Sea Queen, which was not less than nine times her beam, and the absence of bulwarks, would account in the opinion of the court for her overladen appearance when afloat. The evidence was, however, extremely conflicting, and consequently unsatisfactory. There is no means of verifying it, for, so far as is known, every soul on board the Sea Queen perished on the Scroby Sand off the Norfolk coast. Her cargo con sisted of 1,117 tons of coals, about one-third more than her gross tonnage, but her depth in the water was very variously estimated. The court take advan- tage of the opportunity to point out to the Government the strong feeling which has been ex pressed on the subject of overloading, and the neces sity for instituting some inspection to prevent a sys tem which has become notorious in vessels leaving the Tyne. The TVreek, Register has often contained warnings on this point, and we may therefore hope that this emphatic recommendation will draw atten tion to a much-needed reform. The ingniry into this Sea Queen affair was concluded some time ago, hut the whole report of the case is now issued as a Parliamentary paper. THE INDEPENDENCE OF BELGIUM. The treaty which guarantees the independence of Belgium, was signed in 1831, by the plenipotentiaries of England, Austria, France, Prussia, Russia, and Belgium. After specifying the boundaries of the Belgian kingdom, the treaty states that Belgium shall form an' independent and perpetually neutral- State, and that it shall be bound to observe such THE END OF THE SEASON IN TOWN. It is an old saying of Mr. Disraeli's that when a thing is seen passing away from us we must feel a pang of melancholy and regret, even though we have hitherto disliked it. A thing is now passing away from Londoners which, however, caused no general complainings at any time, but whose loss seriously upsets the equilibrium of the ordinary residents of the metropolis. The season is at an end, or almost so. Lights hitherto so plentiful of an evening in Belgravian windows are reduced to a minimum. The visitors who ride staggish horses and drive old fashioned and discoloured vehicles are again becom ing the chief ones in Hyde-park. The Academy is closed, New Bond-street and Piccadilly are no longer thronged, and policemen are no longer seen making frantic dashes at horses' heads to bring them in another direction, but are found standing idle and looking dissatisfied at the crossings and corners. It is said that a London season is looked upon by many families as a failure if none of the members of it get married, or at least engaged, and if this be the case, this season just ending must have proved an unsuccessful and disappoint- ing one. It has been remarked that although many weddings have been announced, few have come to the culminating point of Hymen's altar. The detraction, however, must after all, for general visitors and for Londoners themselves, not he viewed as a fatal one, for the period in London since, May Ist, has been very brilliant in point of gaiety and splendour. AT GOODWOOD. A certain writer has been enthusiastic about the ladies' dresses worn at Goodwood races this year. They were magnificent, he says, only one fault being perceptible, namely, there was too much white about them. " White after all," he adds, "is only white, and leaves no impression but its purity and simplicity on the mind of the beholder, however richly trimmed or embroidered." A very noticeable feature was the silks and satins of those peculiar hues that linger for days on the memory, and bear describing—as for in stance, " a mauve satin petticoat made with a deep ficunce, the upper skirt and body cut in one of thick white silk figured with large mauve pansies, mauve satin sash, white and mauve bonnet, with white and mauve feather." Another very distingue costume was of stone-coloured poult de soie with a green tint in it, " trimmed with narrow flounces half-way up the skirt alternate colours, the stone-coloured silk and a very deep olive green silk, a . large panier standing out from the dress made of the alternate colours as the skirt, a tight-fitting body trimmed to correspond with the dress." The bonnets were scarcely less pretty and bewitching than the silks and satins, laces and ruffs. Perhaps the hands muest style of bonnet worn was one, the front of which was "composed entirely of a high wreath of dark green leaves, black and green cock feathers, with long bow and ends of black ribbon falling over the chignon." The men looked odious, as a rule, white coats and white hats, with the proverbial glasses slung over the back, being the general costume. MORE BUTTER. MYSTERIES. We have heard a great deal about the horrible things which are given to us in the shape of butter ; but the most pleasing detail of all has, it would seem, yet to be published. We are credibly informed that the following facts are correct. The meat which the London inspectors seize, as unfit for food, is paid for at the rate of a halfpenny a pound. It is not, unless the case is very bad indeed, absolutely destroyed; but melted into fat and sold to whomsoever may choose to buy it. Plenty of people are very willing to acquire this treasure, for it is used in making butter! Yes, it is an interesting fact that a staff of inspectors is kept up by the London civic authorities; these men are usually competent to perform their duties; but, when they have seized meat which is not fit for consumption, their arrangements are such that outside speculators manage to return the rubbish to the public in the shape of butter. . If . Vi.- etrakat .1 - tts DIEN . coltrit ..,,,, I = 11 ER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, AUG. 1. he Queen walked out this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Arthur and Princess Beatrice also went out. Earl and Countess Granville left Osborne this morning for London. Mddlle. Nillson is about to leave England for America immediately. DELGITIM AND THE WAR, In the event of the non-occupation of Belgium by either of the combatants, the country may still play an important part in regard to her commerce. One of the most important national productions of Belgium is coal, there being about 300 mines in the three provinces of Hainanit, Liege, and Namur, producing more than 13,000,000 tons annually.- It is believed that a fourth part of this quantity is exported, and France, owing to the easy railway communication between the two countries, is the principal customer. Belgium has also a large foreign trade, which will no doubt be greatly increased by her neutrality. Her general trade during the three years ending in 1867 averaged £1,000,000,000 in value, rather more than one-half of which sum was represented by imports. But beyond this she has also what ig called a " special trade," which during the same period averaged £56,000,000 in value, the imports in this class being also represented by about one-half. The commercial transactions between Belgium and the United King dom are large, England having imported in 1867 goods to the value of £7,555,207, while she took from us the worth of £2,819,753. The commercial relations between France and Belgium are much in excess of this, and it is believed that twice the amount in value would be a fair estimate. THE AMERICAN CARRYING TRADE. The war cn the Continent has created scarcely less excitement in the United States tha n among our selves, and the Americans, always a quick-witted and far-seeing people, have not been slow to perceive the possible advantages they may derive from it. The depressed state of the American ship ping trade has long been a matter of general regret, and various suggestions have been made for its relief, though the Protec tionist interest has alviays been too strong for free trade in ship-building to be tried. Now, how ever, the Americans see a grand opportunity for the revival of their commerce. Great Britain, their most formidable rival, who has taken from them the greater part of the carrying trade of the civilised world, will not, they believe, be long able to preserve her neutrality. Partly perhaps from interest, partly from conviction, the American press are unanimous in declaring that England must fight for Belgium, 'and that consequently the United States will be the only strong neutral Power afloat. in any case, the American exports of grain were this year expecte d to be unusually large, owing to the deficiency of grain in Europe and the plentiful supply in the Republic ; but now that so rapid an increase of trade is looked for, the Americans fear they will not have enough ships. Congress, however, discourages every proposal, whether to buy ships abroad, to register American ships transferred to foreigners afresh, or to give free scope to American shipbuilding. The President, fully appreciating the importance of the situation, has sent a message to Congress recommending special legislation permitting the purchase of foreign-built vessels for the foreign trade, but neither Senate nor House would support him. The New York press is highly indignant, and declares the increase of national trade will only benefit foreign shipowners. MR. SPI7RGEON. ON THE WAR. Under the sobriquet of " John Ploughman" Mr. Spurgeon in his magazine, the Sword and Trowel, addresses a letter to Louis Napoleon and the King of Prussia. It is understood that the rev. gentle man writes in his assumed character and not in his capacity as minister. He thinks it is the safest course to adopt to blame both sides, for "kings a r e as deep as foxes." In seeking to discover the cause of the conflict, he says—" I don't think you know yourselves what it is you want. One of you has the gout, and that does not sugar the temper much, and the other is proud about having beaten his neighbour and so you must needs let off your steam by beginning a murderous war." After summing up the evils and miseries of war, he entreats the crowned combatants to think, for their poor people will have to think whether they do or not. "Is there so little want in the world that you must go trampling on the harvest with your horses and your men? Is there so little sorrow that you must make widows by the thousand ? 110 you imagine that God made men for you to play soldiers with ? Are' they only meant for toys for you to break ?" He declares that both have made fine speeches laying aside all blame, but their words will not go for much. "Emperor and King," he exclaims in conclusion " You are only men. Stop this war if you can, at once, and turn to some better business than killing men. Before the deep curses of widows and orphans fall on you from the throne of God, pat up your butcher knives and patent menkillers, and repent." THE• NEW YORK PRESS ON PREVOST PARADOI4. The American papers just received contain some reference to the suicide of Al. Pr6vost Paradol. The New York Herald says that all must deeply regret Le abrupt fatal termination of the career of this dis- tinguished academician at the critical juncture of affairs which attended his mission to Washington. Many causes are suggested for the melancholy act. It has been supposed that M. Prevost Paradol was one more victim to the overwork of modern journalism. The mental toil to which he was subjected was great. It is also thought that he was excited by the responsibilities of his position, and irritated by the opposition which he encountered from various quarters. Another suggestion is that ho was shocked on his arrival in New York, to re ceive the news of an impending European war, and, finally, that the excessive heat which prevailed Droved too much for him, harassed as he was in mind and wearied in body• The .New York Tribune de clares that the suicide of M. Prevost Paradol will shock educated and liberal men throughout the word. In political honesty and tact he was one of the foremost men in ate French Empire. The thoughtful and polished journalist was most formidable to the Tuileries, as he generally . contrived .to evade the press laws. The Tribune did not consider that Prevost Paradol forswore himself when he accepted the mission - to America, :but it can give no explana tion of the awful event of his suicide. There can be little doubt that he was insane, and there were causes enough to overthrow his reason, as he was a man of sensitive mental and physical organisation. His loss may be a misfortune to America, as it cannot fail to be to France. It would have been a great advantage .to deal with a liberal minister during the many com plications that the ensuing war will bring about, and M. Prevost Paradol possessed a complete know- LITERATURE. Pilgrimage in the Pyrenees and Landes. By Denys Shyne Lawlor. One vol. pp. 634. Longman, Green, and Co. The true-hearted Irishman who wrote this book penned the dedication of it upon last New Year's Day. He inscribed it to his beloved daughter—the daughter-in-law of the ' Liberator—the wife of the younger Daniel O'Connell, of "wild Darynane." Originally jotted down page by page, and chapter by chapter, in France, the work here under notice was chiefly transcribed, it seems, under the roof beams of the Abbey, henceforth always to be regarded as L historical, from having been the home of the greatest of all Irishmen.. As a literary production the volume is in many ways really remarkable. Its composition through ' out has evidently been at once a labour of love and a labour of piety. It is the elaborate record of a series of veritable pilgrimages. Localities eminently, some among them pre-eminently, picturesque are herein described with the most loving, the most tender, and the most reverential admiration. Legends and traditions, many of them exqui sitely beautiful, have been treasured up by the believing traveller precisely as they have been related him by those tO whom those legends and traditions have come floating down orally from generation to generation. Anything like faith nowadays, anything like an absolute childlike credence in the past and the present and the future, exercises a fascina tion over a thoughtful reader, in this age of cynical un belief, as irresistible of its kind as that wielded by the Ancient Mariner over the marriage guest who beat his breast when he "heard the loud bassoon." And a credence, a faith, precisely of that unoonditional and unquestioning kind inspires the every thought, emotion, and sentiment of Mr. Denys Shyne Lawlor in first of all writing, and afterwards in recording these Pilgrimages of his in the Landes and the Pyrenees. Vado in ter'r'ain visionis is his chosen motto, And, opening the book, we accept it—we go with him into the land of visions. Fol lowing one after another in his footsteps we witness and realize as we track them what De Lugreze has referred to in his Pelerinages des Pyrenees—"le charme des souvenirs religieux, la vieille chroniques des montagnards, la legende d'autrefois, naive mais touchante peinture d'une pidte simple et profonde," Under an overwhelming do mestic affliction, Mr. Shyne Lawlor went in 1867 to Biarritz, accompanied by his daughter. Staying at Biarritz he there had placed in his . hands the Abbd Fourcade's book in relation to " La grotto de Lourdes." To Lourdes, as a not usnatural consequence, he him self proceeds soon afterwards. In this simple manner begun, he afterwards continued step by step his Pyrennean Pilgrimages. Lourdes, Nestes, 316dous, Bourisp, T-14as, Poeylahufi, Pidtat, Sar ranee, Garaison, Bdtharram—those are the pearls strung on the thread of his narrative. Chapters he has after wards on St. Vincent de Paul, on St. Savin, on St. Aventin d'Aquitaine, on St. Bertrand de Comminges. Buglose he visits, and the Refuge, nearly midway, this latter, between Biarritz and Bayonne. As descriptive of a comprehensive series of pilgrimages through the Landes and the Western Pyrennees, the work appears to be as complete as it is certainly profoundly interesting. We have already spoken of it as, briefly, a labour of love. We should now add that it is also assuredly, on the part the author an act of expiation or of reparation. In his hot youth, he tells us how towards the close of the intro duction, it was his misfortune to publish a poem, described by a friendly critic as containing within it " a large and disproportionate admixture of strong passion, languishing sentiment, voluptuous description, and fierce and menac ing politics." In remorseful recollection of this, it is, that he has slung gourd over shoulder and gone forth staff in hand, with scallop shell and broad-leafed palmer hat, on his southern pilgrimages. In a somewhat kindred spirit we may imagine, though not nearly so lovingly and tenderly, Thomas Moore, in remorseful remembrance of certain ditties of his, penned by him, as Thomas Little, went forth years ago in the character of "An Irish gentleman in search of a Religion " Altogether Mr. Shyne Lawlor's book is in many respects charming, and in these days, when the war clouds a're OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning. THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND THE WAR. The Times is not satisfied with the declaration of the Government. We are bound, it says, if ever a nation was bound, to repel violations of the neutrality and inde pendence of Belgium, and the real point at issue last night, the gist of the whole matter, was whether it was vise to recognize in the face of Europe the extent of our obligations and to pro claim our intention of fu,filling them. Mr. Glad stone, in his reply to Mr. Disraeli, dexterously ignored the question. No word that could be interpre ted in any way as referring to Belgium . escaped his lips, and in his second speech, later in the evening, he said he could give no more explicit assurance, hoving given none before. It is apparently the opinion of the Cabinet that safety, if not wisdom, if found in concealing their intentions, or, as it is more plausibly expressed, in abstaining from threats. Recent experience ought to have warned them of the futility of a policy which is, in truth, not merely idle, but dangerous. What can result from it except an increased conviction on the Continent that we shall under no circumstances fulfil our pledges ? What could result from a frank statement of our serious resolution but a disyosition to think twice before a danger now counted as imaginary should be provoked ? A distinct recognition of the duties of England by the Prime Minister of England could give umbrage to no one, while it might check at the out set movements that might otherwise go so far that it would be impossible to arrest them. Everything con spires to encourage—nay, to compel—a British Minister to declare his resoution to maintain its neutrality inviolate. Those who took part in the debate last night were not a few, and yet among them all only two were found, one of them the member of the Society of Friends and the other a Secretary or ex- Secretary of the Peace Society, to approve Mr. Gladstone's reticence, while the feeling of a House unusually large for the first day of August was clearly shewn in favour of a declaration that should be frank and precise, without being violent or threatening. The Standard remarks that the strength and the real contribution to the public service of Mr. Disraeli's speech, beyond this insistance upon the obligations of England, lay in the eloquent protest he delivered against the whole sale and mischievous reductions of the army and navy made by the present Government in the last two years, and in the knowledge of the serious dangers menacing the peace of Europe. Mr. Gladstone, says the projet de trait 4, came upon him as a shock. But surely Mr. Gladstone could not have been in ignorance of the very awkward state of affairs upon the Continant. He must have known that an event like this—which has sur prised and startled him—has been imminent any month within the last four years ; and knowing that the reduction in the strength of the army and navy for which he is responsible exhibits either a blind confi dence in the moderation of Powers engaged in what it is the fashion to call a life or death struggle, or a disre gard of the public interest to serve a party purpose, whatever explanation may be accepted, the conduct of the Government in these wholesale reductions of our military and naval strength is indefensible. They were made either in an ignorance which is inexcusable or in a disregard of warnings to which a much stronger word should be applied. The Telegraph considers that Mr. Disraeli's speech last night on the present war, and the position of England, in one respect was disappointing. It was anticipated that the gravity of the crisis would have made him altogether lay aside considerations of party, and speak with the response • bility of a statesman who has already been Prime Minister of England, and who may again fill that position. In the early part of his speech, it is true, the expectation was amply fulfilled. Mr. Disraeli reviewed the causes which have led to the war with a calmness and a dignity worthy at once of himself and of the occasion. The irony of which he is a master was put to a legitimate use when he disdainfully refused to believe that the greatest contest of modern times had been produced by such trivial causes as " a breach of eti quette at a watering-place." Nothing could be more courteous or more cutting than the terms in which Mr. Disraeli rebuked fhe authors of the present deplorable conflict ; and no one has expressed the national feelings in words of greater dignity than those which made up the first part of his speech. But, on passing from the conduct of France and Prussia to the responsibilities of England and the policy of the Government, the right hon. gentleman relapsed into faults which too often characterise his chief oratorical efforts— and his argument became fantastic. With his usual force and point, Mr. Osborne advocated an increase of the Army, and spoke in tones suggestive of battle ; but the remarks of Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Childers on the state of the army and the navy might assure the most bellicose of members that there is no danger of our being taken unawares. All the world knows what we should do if Belgium were attacked; and we need not be continually shouting words of war from the housetop. Meanwhile the duty of the Govern ment is to guard against danger—that of the Opposition to refrain from partisan attacks. The Daily News says that although Mr. Disraeli's speech is susceptible of consideration under three heads, namely, the historical part, the diplomatic part, and the part relating to the condition of our armaments, the third must be regarded as its body, while the other two are merely appendages or limbs. Upon it, if upon anything, the case against the Government was evidently to be rested ; not, indeed, in the spirit of an implacable censor, but in the less forbidding temper of a candid friend. The circumstances that at an earlier portion of the sitting Mr. Cardwell had brought up his supplementary estimates for £2,000,000 over and above the ordinary supplies and a further provision of 20,000 men to be retained (luring the war in Europe, tended in a great measure to deprive Mr. Disraeli's observations of any pungency which they might have otherwise possessed. Mr. Disraeli was very anxious to hear something of our strong Channel fleet, of our docky ar d s , o f t h e forts raised at an incredible expense to protect our arsenals, of the armaments of these forts, of the state of our stores, and of the manning of our regiments. With respect to all these questions Mr. Gladstone was ready with replies which must have appeared as satisfactory to him as they must certainly seem to the public. "We challenge comparison," Mr. Gladstone affirmed, "comparison either of one service or the other, with the condition in which we found it when we took office. On the whole, we have every reason to be contented with the condition of the national defences, which, with the augmentations already prop ose d, w ill be quite adequate to support the best secured neutrality, and might, if the calamity should fall on us quickly, expand into force quite adequate to sustain us in the struggle. THE HESITATION IN THE WAR. The Times endeavours to account for the delay in the forward movement of the French army after all is ready. As political circumstances are now completely altered ; as the war is between France and all Germany, and the line of operations is extended from the fifty miles of the Saar frontier to the sixty miles border of the Palati nate, and to the course of the Upper Rhine from Lauterbourg to Basle for a length of ahundred miles, some graat change may possibly have been made in the Emperor's strategy. But it must be observed that a change of front in presence of an enemy is never an easy operation. Railways, which are of great use for the condensation of troops at the open ing of a campaign and before war is declared, are not sufficient for the conveyance of troops when the danger of an enemy's attack involves the necessity of moving them in large bodies. The French campaigns seem to have been originally undertaken under the influence of cir- • cumstances which have already passed away. It is per haps too early to see whether the plan will be adhered to in spite of the altered stat e of affairs, or whether a new line of operations may be suggested. Whatever arguments may be put forward to account for the present delay, it is natural to ascribe it to " the obstacles of various description " with which, according to the Em peror Napoleon, th e enemy ' s soil is " bristling ;" those obstacles which threaten to snake the struggle a "long and severe one." again— " rolling dun O'er furious Frank and fiery Hun," along the northern frontiers of la belle France, the more adventurous of our holiday-seekers this autumn might readily do worse than take this touching, and, in the whole tone of it, we might add, this really noble volume, as their guide book through many of the most picturesque and beautiful regions of the Landes and the western slopes of the Pyrenees. A Little Book About Great : Britain By Azamat-Batuk. One vol., pp. 228. Bradbury and Evans. Among the various reprints of articles already published separately in the Pall Mall Gazette and afterwards col lected together in separate volumes, with or without acknowledgment as to the, authorship, about the best, cer tainly one of the most amusing, is our good friend in the fez—he of the bullet head and the waxed moustache— Azamat-Batuk. Trollope has gone before him with the Sporting. Greenwood, earlier still, with his astounding experiences as an Amateur Casual, with a dip into the weak mutton broth 'and all. But—commend us to Azamat-Batuk. Among all the contributors he is certainly the most amusing. Like the paper his argument has been written for, meaning that is the material on which it is printed, it is excellently well toned. Of course the idea of the whole thing is borrowed from Oliver Goldsmith. Here in Azamat Batuk is an other of the Wise Men come from the East He is an other Citizen of the World; only, in place of being a Chinese he is a Turk. Lien Chi Altangi was the name given to him in the eighteenth century by Goldsmith. Azamat Batuk is he hight now in the nineteenth by the Pall Mall Gazette. The notion of the thing is convenient —namely, that of a wondering and innocent-minded foreigner (call him Chinese or Turk at your pleasure) on his travels here in England, observant of all our various ways and means, manners, customs, costumes, institutions, and constitution. The seeming stand-point of the writer, enables him to be cynical without any appearance of ill nature. His affectation of wonderment at all he witnesses has about it such a varnish of sincerity that we find ourselves partially ceasing to wonder at his impertinence. The make-believe is admirably sustained throughout. We forget that it is a fellow countryman poking fun at us under a very thin disguise. His stabs are no more formid able, however, than the dig of a fat finger-point in between the small ribs just precisely at that curious part of our anatomy where the risible muscles and the diaphragm act upon one another the most directly and sympathetically. We thank Azamat-Batuk for many a digestive chuckle over our own social and political absurdities, not forgetting others of an aesthetic character, including among them a kind happily defined by Joe Gargery, the blacksmith, as architectooralooral. Altogether the " Little " red, green, and golden " Book " all " About Great Britain," penned by Azamat-Batuk, is capital. 1 / 4 Fun. Volume the Eleventh. Edited by Tom Hood. Friend Fun has already entered—is there such a word? —his doxenth volume. For here is the eleventh, like its ten radiant, riant predecessors in full panoply, that is to say, bound as hitherto, gorgeously, in gold and crimson. The eleventh volume, let it be understood, of the new series, for we count the original series as nothing, as cer tainly unworthy of preservation. Not so Fun, as it has ever been since the cap and bells were donned, with such a sprightly grace, by Tom Hood the younger. Under his direction it sustains its reputation for frolic, humour, and exhilirating extravagance. The political cartoons are many of them admirable. The social caricatures are those in which the artist's pencil, (or is it the engraver's boxwood-cutter ? ) seems to us to fail occasionally. One of the most exhausting labours of any, we should imagine, must be the unfailing and unflagging direction, week after week, of a professed comic periodical. That,labour has not only been undertaken, but has been successfully achieved during the last five or six years by Tom Hood the younger. And, in pugilistic phrase, after going through so many rounds with Time in the annual ring of the Zodiac, lo ! and behold, still to the last "he comes up smiling !" A correspondent writes: " I understand that strong hopes of the settlement of the controversy between Lord Spencer and the copyholders of Wimbledon are now entertained. The compromise talked of is the payment to his lordship of such an amount annually of value to him of his rights in the common. The Marquis of Westminster has caused a com munication to be made to the Workman's Club and In stitute for Pimlico, offering a contribution of £l,OOO and' a site for the erection of a Workman's Club and Institute in Pimlico. A further sum of about £1,500 will be re quired for the establishment of an institution which it is intended shall be a model one of its class. • The report of the registrar of friendly societies in England, for the year ending 31st December, 1869, has been issued. It is not nearly the size of similar documents in former years, and contains none of the inte resting facts which Mr. Tidd Pratt used to collect. It is merely a statement of the nmnber of societies dissolved, &c. , during the year. D UNV LLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ommended by the medical profession in preference to French brand• . Sup. plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Royal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfust ; or at thei London Offices, 4, Beaufort Buildings Strand. W.O. THE NEUTRALITY LAWS. The Times observes it is now a serious question, whether, ' while there is yet time, we ought not to introduce some Important alterations into our Neutrality Laws. The unexpected delay in the active operations of the war, the fortunate circumstance that Parliament is still sitting, the memorable lessons that were taught us during the war of the American Secession, combine to commend to us the sound policy of imposing by law more stringent limits upon traders in Contraband of War_ if a state of things should arise in which a neutral State exporting . Contraband of War, s h ou ld b e seen to give aid only t o ' one of the hostile nations, nothing will pi event the other from feeling deeply wronged, and from laying up a store of anger against the offending country. It is not enough to urge that international law does not condemn the practice as a public wrong, and that the municipal law of the exporting country does not empower the Govern ment to stop the trade. When something of this sort was pleaded on behalf of the equipment and despatch of the Alabama, Mr. Seward cuttingly replied, "Then you should have amended your laws." In the United States at least the force of this answer seemed overwhelming; and, if we do not desire in another instance to excite the same feelings and accusations, we must lose no time in giving the Government ample powers to control practices that imperil our future peace. While the French navy enjoys a s u p remacy upon the sea, and the ships o f the Prussian fleet are locked up in the harbours of the Frisian coast and the Baltic, the export of arms and ammunition to the belligerents means that France can obtain an unlimited supply of cartridges and weapons from the workshops of Birmingham while G ermany has to look on at this extraordinary develop ment of our Neutrality. After a time we may be certain that Guinan feeling would be exacerbated to a dangerous degree, and when this war is over we might have to deal with a similar peril to that which has long threatened us from the other side of the Atlantic. If the law as it stands does not enable the Government to pro hibit the exhortation of arms and ammunition, not a day 8110111(1 be lost in obtaining from Parliament the necessary lowers. If the law has already given the Government authority to act in the manner we have indi cated, not an hour should be lost. in putting that authority into force. We believe that the Customs Consolidation Aet of .1853 did actually concede all the legal authority required. If so, a Proclamation of. an Order in Council ought to appear at once. THE REV. ROBERT MOFFAT.—This distinguished clergyman, who for upwards of 50 years has been engaged in Mission work, received a cordial welcome on Monday from the Directors of the London Missionary Society. 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