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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 ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD. YORKSHIRE. V.NUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- LCSBOCS—MessrQ. H. J. Montague, D. James, • and T• Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7 30, CUPBOARD LOVE, by F. Hay. After which, at 8, the Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, by James Albery. To conclude with the successful Burlesque, DON CARLOS ; or, The In fante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montagne, H. Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Fawsitt, T Lavis, and A. Newton. Frock Coats. MOSI iILA • that th quality, and th, is , ionsiderably ho ise in Englar mos• Knickerbocker Suits. 13s. 6tl. MEN'S CLOTHING. Camb. Coats. Also at other prices Also at other prices Doors will be open at 6.30. Overture at 7. N.B.—Mr. David James will appear here, in a new farce, enti tled " Chiselling," supported by Mr. Lin Rayne (his first appear ance at this Theatre), Mr. W. H, Stephens, Miss Lavis, and Miss Claire, to-morrow, Saturday, August 27th. MESSRS. MONTAGUE, JAMES, AND THORNE beg to announce that To-morrow, SATURDAY MORNING, August 27th, at Two o'Clock, a PERFORMANCE of the enormously successful Comedy of THE TWO ROSES, by James Albery, will be given in aid of the FUND uow being raised for the SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS of the French and German armies. Pour le Secours des Militaires Malades et Blesses. Fur die Kranton and Beriaundetan. The ladies and gentlemen of the company, the band, and every one engaged on the establishment have offered their gratuitous services. The proceeds will be immediately handed over to the Lord Mayor, and the amount announced from the stage in the course of the morning. 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MADAME TUBSAITD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra tit) / 31111 EVENING EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AU GUST 26, t 8 70. GERMAN INVASIONS OF FRANCE. Champagne, whose fertile plains are now, to the humiliation of France, being trodden by German hosts, has been already three times the scene of similar invasions. In 451 the savage host pf Attila, "the Scourge of God," crossed the Rhine to ravage Gaul, and, after sacking several towns, advanced to that Metz which is now engaging so much of our attention. Metz resisted, but was soon taken by assault, and left a heap of smoking ruins. Chalons, Rheims, and other cities were similarly treated, and finally the invaders besieged Orleans. The place was about to capitulate after a month's resistance, when the Roman Governor Actius appeared with a large force of Gallo-Romans, and succeeded in dislodging the intruder. Several desperate fights took place between Actius and Attila, who were the two foremost leaders of their time, ending in the flight of Attila and his Huns back to what is now Germany. The number of killed and wounded in the last battle is said to have been 170,000, a calculation which outstrips even the horrors of Woerth and Rezonville. Foreign armies often trod the plains of Champagne between the fifth and the eighteenth centuries, but the next great invasion of the French provinces on the east was in comparatively modern times. Dumouriez's repulse of the Austrians and Prussians in 1792 forms one of the most exciting pages in the history of the revolutionary armies. if Count Palikao could put the cool and daring general who declined to alter his plans because the Uhlans had advanced within fifteen leagues of Paris, and who dashed through the passes of the Argonne moun tains before the front of the slow and cautious Aus trian army, at the head of affairs for a few weeks, the Crown Prince might find the road to Paris more diffi cult. The German forces were driven across the frontier by Dumouriez, the Assembly refusing to treat with them on French soil, but nearly a quarter of a century later the plains of Champagne witnessed the closing scenes in the great Napoleon drama. We all know the story of 1814. That of 1870 promises to be scarcely less eventful. FRENCH SIEGES. An American journal reminds its readers that Metz and Nancy have both successfully withstood sieges in their time. In 1552 Metz was besieged by the armies of the Emperor Charles the Filth, but the Duke of Guise, who commanded the garri son, made such a successful defence that the Ger mans were obliged to raise the siege. In .1476 Charles the Bold attacked Nancy, but met with no success. He was, indeed, over thrown in consequence of his attempt. The Duke of Lorraine sallied forth and defeated him in January 1477. In those days there were no needle guns nor mitrailleurs, but the towns which so bravely held their own in ancient days are capable of stout defence, even against modern artillery, and the American critic thinks he would be a bold leader who marched on Paris leaving Metz and Strasbourg uncaptured in his rear. IRELAND AND FRANCE. The sympathy with the French Emperor and army in the war would appear to be thoroughly genuine throughout the whole of Ireland. Not only are all the newspapers of any importance impressing upon their readers the honourable conduct of France to wards Great Britain and Ireland during the past score of years, and claiming for her success all the prayers of a people who can be grateful, but the wealthy landowners, the priests, and the working classes, enter into the justice of the fair nation's need of kind feeling from these islands at this crisis. And although many thousands think that in this particular struggle the Emperor has been precipitate and perhaps incautious, all seem to believe that his conduct in the single instance affords no justification for a withdrawal of the friendship, esteem, an d gratitude which ought to be given to France in pre ference to Prussia by the United Kingdom generally, and when the past is remembered, by Ireland especially. M. Lesage, a French gentle man in Dublin has received many letters from Irish priests, in which expressions lik e the two following are found :—" Ireland does not forget that long ago, during ages of 'Jolliness and persecution, her sons received honour and glory i n France. They would soon again, if allowed, recruit the staff of the gallant representative of the Lords of Farney with brave Irish hearts and strong arms to win for France another glorious Fontenoy." A n d "we still cherish a grateful recollection of the many kindnesses received from that enlightened, generous, and chivalrous nation, who, in the days of Ireland's persecution, admitted our students into her colleges, our soldiers into her armies, our kings into her palaces, and our exiles into her homes." The last extract is from the letter of the Rev. Father Blake, parish priest of Moy yore, Mullingar. The workmen of Brus hna Mills, Kilbegganovrite, "We herewith enclose our mite for the relief of the wounded soldiers. The memory of France shall never be eradicated from the hearts of Irishmen." Messrs. Dorney and Rooney, of Monosterean, have sent M. Lesage, for the same purpose, a cheque for £2O, regretting the amount is not " one hundred times more." Government, not to speak of civilian uses. All horses fit for service, nags yet thoroughly sound and active, have become exceedingly valuable, but " weedy screws," or animals " touched in the wind" can be had on the other hand for a song. As proof of this, we are told by a trustworthy correspondent that, owing to the dearth of provender, " screws" with a good deal of work still left in them, which a month ago would have fetched £2O, may now be picked up by enter prising equestrians for about 10s. each. THE FUTURE WAR SHIP. The experiments made with guns and ships of war have been perfect in their continuity, but, so far as the taxpayer is concerned, very unsatisfactory and imperfect in their results. The drain upon the national purse has been very heavy, but it is not un likely to become more oppressive. In order to remove the apprehension and probability of wasteful expenditure naturally arising from these indecisive experiments, it is proposed to make the ram a direct, instead of an auxiliary means of attack. This pro jected war-ship of the future is to I e of a singularly formidable character, and capable of inflicting immense damage upon an enemy's fleet. It is true that the admission is made that £lOO,OOO would just build one such vessel, but then 'we are assured that it would, when moving at a velocity of 25ft. per second,. trike any ironclad afloat with a force equal to 20,000 tons. This monster rain would sink, in fifteen minutes, an iron-clad which has cost the nation half a million sterling ! Will the artillerists allow the naval architects to stop after the construc tion of the new ram ? " WEEDY SCREWS." It is perhaps in some measure owing to the high price of hay and oats in France just at present that the large shipment of racehorses from the shores of that coun try has taken place, as well as to the fear of their seizure in case the animals:should be needed for cavalry pur poses. It is said that the long drought lessened the amount of forage in the provinces, so consider ably, that scarcely sufficient quantity has been left for the present large demands of the • • , 14 , ( tan Var• HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, AUG. 23, The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, walked out this morning. Prince Arthur went out shooting. In the afternoon the Queen drove to the Glassalt Shiel, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and attended by Miss Cavendish and Miss Lascelles. Princess Louise rode out, attended by Lady Churchill. Prince Leopold drove out in the morning and after noon. CRYSTAL PALACE.-ONE SHILLING DAY, THURS- T;AUGUST 25.—Admissions by season tickets, 2,343 ; ditto on payment, 5,692 ; total visitors, 8,035. The Globe regrets to learn from very good antho rity that in the present state of affairs but a compara tively insignificant proportion of ' the gentlemen who recently passed for direct commissions in the army can possibly be provided for. The Bishop of Manchester or. Wednesday conseo crated a new church near Bolton. His lordship expressed hi great joy at the fact that the church was to be free, and open to all, and said that system was more in accord office with the spirit of Christianity than any other. KICNT HOP -PICKERS.—During the present week numbers of men, women, and children—the chief portion Irish—have arrived in the hop districts in Kent in search of employment. The plantations are heavily laden, but at present hop-picking is only partially begun. Owing to the demands of the war, the steamer of the French Messageries, which sh o uld have left Mar seilles on Sunday with the China mails, was detained, and the effect will be that the letters sent by that route will be delayed perhaps for a week. The export of specie being stopped from France, that which may be intended for the East must necessarily be sent by the Peninsular and Oriental steamers. [ADVERTISEMENT. ]—Holloway's Pills.—Wrongs made Right.—Every day that any bodily suffering is permitted to continue renders it more certain to become chronic or dangerous. Holloways's purifying, cooling, and strengthen ing Pills are well adapted for any irregularity of the human body, and should be taken when the stomach is disordered, the liver deranged, the kidneys inactive, the bowels torpid, or the brains muddled. With this medi cine every invalid can cure himself, and those who are weak and infirm through imperfect digestion may make themselves stout and strong by Hollyway's celebrated Pills. When the system is out of order, and an unusual depression weighs down the spirits, a few timely doses of this medicine will dispel the threatening illness and spare suffering. METROPOLITAN GOSSlP.—Tuunsp AY. The old saying, " uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," is no longer true, at least in England. While Ministers are toiling hard in town or the neighbourhood, and exciting the pity even of political opponents like Sir Stafford Northcote, while journalists are denying them selves their well-earned holiday and following the for tunes of war in their arm chairs (greatly to the benefit of their readers who thus escape the usual silly seaEQn), Queen Victoria is 600 miles away from her Ministers and her capital, is deep in the heart of the Highlands, remote even from all railways. There is no other sovereign in Europe who can thus afford to disregard the momentous events which are taking place on the Continent. We never knew before how much we owed to Father Neptune for placing that twenty miles of water between us and Europe. Royal heads may rest calmly upon royal pillows in this sea-girt isle, even though the nations do furiously rage together. Perhaps heads that are not royal, and which are not able to sleep quite so readily, will puzzle themselves with questions as to the advantage of State arrangements that involve con siderable expenditure and even more inconvenience. In fact, journals so widely different as the Times, the Daily News, the Lancet, and the Economist have been putting the matter very forcibly before the British public, and if no immediate result ensues from the general cogitation it is not to be supposed that there will be none hereafter. I find that the conviction among military men is that the volunteers are the nucleus of a force that might be most valuable in the event of a war in this country, but that they are at the present moment utterly incapable of serious military operations, and would certainly be ex posed to great disaster if brought into the field. One radical fault is that the volunteers have not learnt to act in brigades, and thus would be unable to effect any movement requiring combination. Their unacquaintance with the Snider rifle is notorious. This indeed is not their fault, and there is hope that it will be remedied before long. For the other deficiency the only cure seems to be the. camping out of local companies on convenient spots where they may co-operate in large numbers. It is not unlikely that Devonshire, which set the example of volunteering to the rest of the kingdom, will adopt this expedient ; if so, other counties will do well to follow suit. Captain Sherard Osborn, in the able letter which he published in Tuesday's Times, refers to the new port which will before long be the nursery of the North German navy. This port, lam told by an English naval officer who has visited it, is really a magnificent harbour. It used to be called Jande, but when the idea of making it into a great dockyard and arsenal was carried out, the name was changed to Wilhelmshafen, in honour of King William of Prussia, who opened it. I have lately had an opportunity of making a short cruise in one of the new class of ironclads, which includes the Invincible, the Vanguard, the Iron Duke, and the Audacious. They are magnificent vessels. A landsman is naturally struck in the first place by the marvellous roominess of the officers' accommodation. Instead of the dark confined holes which constitute the cabins and the wardroom in the bulk of her Majesty's ships, especially in some of the earlier ironclads, we see in these new vessels light, airiness, and height sufficient to allow a tall man to stretch out his arm without touching the top of his cabin. The reason of this improved accommo dation is the increase in the size of our naval artillery. A vessel that would formerly have taken one hundred and twenty guns and required eleven hundred men, will now take fourteen or sixteen guns, and need only from four hundred and fifty to five hundred men. At the same time the actual tonnage of the ship is increased. The advan tages of this arrangement are manifold. Every gun becomes an infinitely more formidable weapon, it it served by fewer men, and there is thus vastly greater comfort and convenience for the crew in time of peace, and far less slaughter in action. These advan tages have been obtained by a method of training and working guns invented by Captain Scott, and when I saw the arrangement, so simple and so effectual, which he has devised, and witnessed with my own eyes the enormous benefits which have been obtained by it, I could not but feel ashamed to think of the shabby way in which this great nation has treated its benefactor, and is still treating him by continuing to enjoy the fruits of his many years' labour and heavy personal expenditure, without paying him a farthing reward. Other advantages possessed by these ships are remarkable steadiness and easiness of handling. The vessel I was in was almost as steady as a church, although there was sea enough to render the closing of the ports necessary. The other quality I have mentioned is secured by the twin screw, which will enable the vessels that possess it to turn round and round with the greatest speed and with the shortest possible diameter. Thus one of thesevessels would be able to pour a storm of shot and shell into the enemy, while she herself would be constantly dodging round her comparatively free. It is expected that some of these vessels will be commissioned during the next two months, that is if the stores and material are forthcoming. That point is rather doubtful, for, in spite of Mr. Childers's positive statement in reply to Sir John Hay, there is abundant evidence—l have it from persons peculiarly qualified to speak—that the resources of the dockyards have been reduced to a degree that would have been disastrous if we had been forced into war. London, even when nominally emptied—that is, by deducting 10,000 and a little army of Philistines from 3,000,000 inhabitants—tells the tale of the times as plainly as ever in the very shop windows and at the street corners. Alsace and Lorraine may be placarded with proclamations from the Roi de Prusse and S.A. le Prince Royal, but the peasantry have skedaddled, and there is nobody to read those startling documents. Bloomsbury and Southwark and the surrounding districts, however, are filled with placards quite as startling—the contents bills of the morning and evening papers, that those who run stop to read, and who, havingread, without spending threepence on the Times, a penny on the Sun, or a halfpenny on the Echo, may be pronounced well " posted up " at any hour of the day in the latest telegrams. War maps, again, are in creasing and multiplying. Just now I have emerged from the Dudley Gallery, in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, where the Messrs. Thornton, like men of en terprise as they are, have constructed a gigantic plan of the seat of war, which you look down upon from a sort of platform gallery surrounding it as it lies there spread out before you on the floor of the apart ment. Yonder is the tricolour flying over beleaguered Toul, over invested Metz, over bombarded Strasburg. Clusters of toy soldiers represent here the army of the Crown Prince advanced beyond St. Dizier—here the armies of Prince Frederick Charles and of King William, or rather of General Steinmetz, massed toge ther beyond Vionville and Rezonville. MacMahon east of Rheims—Bazaine north of Metz, though not so far to the north-west as Montmedy. The whole is very cleverly done, and gives one a rapid, comprehensive view of the actual situation. New names are filled in—the flags of the black eagle and of the tricolour are moved hither and thither—the toy soldiers advance or retreat as the case may be, as the telegrams arrive. So that the Bond-street lounger—if there be such a creature in town, just new, on the sly, or even in existence at all nowadays— has but to turn into the Dudley Gallery from the pavements of Piccadilly at any time he pleases, and, without the trouble of reading those dreadful bores the Correspondents, or those very confusing and contradictory telegrams via Paris and via Berlin, can see at a glance how those fellows in the red trousers, and those other fellows in the spiked helmets, are getting on among the foughten fields of Champagne. Clubland, however, is a wild waste, where the waiters have nothing whatever to do except wait, the very hall porters having, ad libitum, a monopoly of the pick of the newspapers. Several of the chief clubs are undergoing their autumnal repairs. The Athenaeum is enclosed in a cage of scaffolding. The Junior United is delivered up inside to the painters and whitewashers. Rotten Row is an exercise-ground for an occasional groom. Parallel with the Row, the navvies who are completing the alterations of the Serpentine are just now masking what looks very much like a railway cutting. In point of fact, it is simply an excavation which is being filled up with the black mud from the bottom of the dry bed of the Serpentine, into which the gravel taken from the cutting is emptied instead. The stream will thus be rendered shallow and pure, while the otherwise abominable black mud will nurture the roots of the flowering shrubs which are to be planted over it in abundance. Cross the Row and you come upon that gorgeous folly the slowly-completing Albert Memorial. It stands, as we all of us rather painfully remember now, on the site of that Fairy Palace of Crystal which, nineteen years ago, was to have inaugurated an epoch when war should be no more. As I look at it, crusted and lumped and bossed with sculpture, smothered over with gold, and glittering like a gigantic jewel in the sunshine, it seems to me as if Homer and Beethoven, Shakspere and Napoleon, Bacon and Aristotle, Raffaelle and Charlemagne all rolled together into one could hardly have aspiredto a more sumptuous cenotaph. It is an exaggeration of courtly homage to a Prince whose chief merit is that his life was blameless, and that he him self was remarkably accomplished. It is not high treason to say that it is almost a satire in its way, being, as it is, so utterly out of proportion to the fair fame it com memorates. When one thinks of the sufferings requiring alleviation, not merely now exceptionally out at the seat of war, but perpetually here in the midst of us in Lon don, I feel constrained to protest against this as a squan dering of wealth upon a most extravagant testimonial. "Literature and the War" would make a very good subject for a magazine article. Here are a few items which I present to any industrious compiler. The Times is said to have increased its circulation one half, although its war correspondence has been singularly poor. In fact but for Bismark's confidential com munications to the clever German professor who acts as Berlin correspondent, and who writes Eng lish as though it were his native language, the "leading" journal would have been left far behind by its cheap con temporaries. Foremost in the race by a long way has been the Daily News, whose war correspondence has really been most admirable, and should permanently establish that enterprising aper. Not the least interesting of its letters have been those written by the special correspon dent in Paris, Mr. Parkinson, who accompanied Mr. Pender in the Red Sea telegraph expedition, and has recently published a book upon it. Mr. O'Shea's letters in the Standard have also been very good. The penny papers are said to have increased their circulation from 75 to 100 per cent., and judging from my own experience I can readily believe this. The proprietors of the City Press have imported a Parisian fashion, the kiosk, and have erected one in the Poultry. It would be a great blessing to the Londoner hurrying through the crowded streets if these kiosks were erected in every principal thoroughfare, so that he might thereby be saved the annoyance and hindrance of being beset by the army of dirty, ragged, shouting boys who now press round him and get under his legs. But then these little urchins, many of whom are really, so far as their costume is concerned, a disgrace to civilised society, would be deprived of the handsome incomes which they are now making and the fortunes which they are accumulating in preparation for the time when they will be news-vendors and newspaper proprietors, and have a seat in Par liament. A German correspondent writes that two celebrated German litterateurs are now at the Crown Prince's head quarters. They are Ludwig Pietsch and Gustave Freytag. The latter is well-known as the author of the interesting novel "Soil and Haben" (" Debit and Credit ") which was translated about a dozen years ago by the late Mrs. Austin. Pietsch is less known in England, but is highly esteemed as a journalist in Germany. He was travelling to the war in a waggon among bags of oats when an officer in plain undress uniform and foraging cap, and distinguished only by a star which was nearly hid by his waterproof cloak, rode by, and, observing Pietsch, at once recognised him. " What," said he, " have you no better carriage than that ? Then you must have a seat in mine. Come along at once. Harrach, you take Pietsch under your protection, you and he and Freytag should travel toge ther. Lebe wohl." The person addressed was Count Harrach, the famouspainter. The speaker was the Crown Prince. The three fellow-travellers hada comfortable carriage belonging to his Royal Highness assigned to them. They were constant attendants on the Prince in the camp, and Freytag was placed at his right hand. The three men of peace consti tuted themselves a head-quarters of a separate kind, and hoisted a flag on their tent with the inscription " Head quarters of German Literature and Art," to the astonish ment of the French natives, who had thought that France was to take light and sweetness into Germany , and did not expect that Germany would bring them ink France. Of other literary news the chief item is that Mr. Swinburne is engaged, on a poem, which, without regard ing Mr. Aytoun's previous work, he will call " Bothwell." As soon as Professor Jowett has completed his Plato he will bring out a theological work. Professor SeeleY will republish in the autumn a collection of essays which he has contributed to the Magazines, and will also publish his lectures on Roman History which be has delivered at Cambridge. Professor Goodwin, ° Harvard College; is editing an English version of Phi tarch's " Moralia,' in five vols., with an introductory essay by Mr. Emerson. Plutarch seems to be popular in the United States. Readers of the life of Arthur Clough will remember that it was while he was in that country that he brought out his edition of the "Lives." Mr. B. Black has translated Guizot's History of France, and it will be published in 21 monthly parts by Low and Mar ston. Mr. Justin M`Carthy begins his new tale, "Lady Judith," in the forthcoming number of Tinsley's Magazine. London Society has passed out of the hands of Mr. Janie Hogg into those of Mr. Rickard Bentley, the publisher of Temple Bar. Mr. Henry Blackburn, the author of MO' trated books on Spain and Normandy, will be the new e ditor of the former magazine. Mr. Hogg starts in opposition a new magazine called English Society, with regard to which be promises great things. The People's Magazine is about to have a new editor. The Christian Times has changed hands• Messrs. Cassell are about to issue with the new edition of their Family Bible an engraving of Mr. Smethan:e 3 picture, " The Hymn of the Lord's Supper. " This pie" ture I remember commending very highly when writing about last year's exhibition of the Royal Academy. n is wonderfully unconventional and powerful. Mr• Smetham is as facile with his pen as with his pencil, and has frequently contributed article; to the London Quarterly _Review : that on Blake , the artist, was by him. Finally, I may mention that Murray is pushing his English hand books well, the sal ° for the Continental ones being, of course, a. most nil this year. Mr. Burgess, editor of the Leamington Courier, L 4 writing a guide-book to Warwickshire for the literarY potentate of Albemarle-street. The papers have mentioned the death of Mr. Brockin" hurst, formerly M.P. for Maclesfield, at the ripe age 82. He was an eminently cautious and prudent man' When the great division upon the conduct of the Palmer' ston Government with regard to the war in Denmark was impending, every available vote was required. 1 Brocklehurst, then 76 years old, was one of those whop Mr. Brand had impressed for service in the lobby. that time the member for Macclesfield was some" what shaky, and was not accustomed to frequen t the House of Commons very often. This was an occasion which would not allow him to remain at home. At the same time he was like most ladies of that rnd the present, and, indeed, all time. He had " nothing, to wear." So, in honour of the approaching Ministeria l triumph, and in order that he might accomplish his poi: tion of it with greater eclat, he went to a tailor, 1 111 ' ordered a new suit of clothes, but with the express t onal' tion that if he died before the eventful division night, the tailor was to take the clothes back. He lived to wear them, not only then, but on the Macclesfield hustings °. the following year. He continued to sit in Parliamen t until the dissolution of 1868. In Sir Frederick Pollock, science and art have lost t b warm friend. He was particularly strong in that dePart ment which may be called the meeting ground of scienc e and art—photography. He had an enormous farnill : I believe twenty-four children, many of whom have die - tinguished themselves in the law, in literature, and in governMent. He lived to see his great grand children. FALL OF A WALL-SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED. An accident by which several persons were injurel and many more very much frightened happened Hathersage, Sheffield, on Wednesday. A sale was g oing on, and either sitting on or leaning against a wall iinni e ‘ diately opposite to the auctioneer were about thil 4 / persons. Without the slightest warning about nil a V feet of the wall gave way, throwing down and h. burying several of those who were seated upon or stand under it. For a time there was great excitement, will ° was increased by the loud screams of women and childr en ' several of whom were rather seriously injured. O ne woman was almost buried under the debris. Fears were entertained that there were children under the fa llen brickwork, but upon its removal they were found to b e groundless. —Sheffield Independent. DuNviLLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holder! of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r onareenclue; by the medical profession in preference to French brand . plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotal.4 on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Royal Irish tillories, Belfast ; or at the'. London Offices, 4, Beaufort Build i " SLrand, W.C. REGULATIONS FOR EMIGRATION. The Victoria Parliament has been occupied with the consideration of the emigration regulations of the Government. With few exceptions the mem bers on both sides of the House agreed to the pro positions of the Government, and the press for the most part has followed suit. The regulations are of a moderate character, and well calculated to meet with general approval. The selection of emigrants during every month of the year will be made in the first instance, from England, Scot land, Ireland, and Wales, and be in proportion to the population of these countries, but if the funds are not exhausted, they are to be distributed without regard to nationality. This last provision will favour the Irish, who have always been more eager to get out their friends and relatives than any other nation has been, and used all the funds provided for the purpose, while the English and Scotch have allowed portions of their provisions to lapse into the Treasury. The regulations are of a utilitarian character, and stipulate that no one shall go out who is likely to become a burden to the colony. The code of Victorian emigration contains the most stringent rules with respect to the health and strength and soundness of mind of the intending immigrants. DETERMINED TRUMPETERS. The Trades Bands, who are " associated with the historic incidents of Dublin, and identified with the interests, liberties, and aspirations of the citizens," have held an indignant meeting, to discuss the course they shall pursue with respect to the recent Police prohibition issued against their promenading in the Irish metropolis. The chairman at the assembly was a Mr. Kennedy, a representative of the " Stone cutters' Brass Band," while a pro. tem. hon. secretary was furnished by an institution significantly called the " Wolf Tone Court," probably of Odd Fellows. Quite forgetful of the numerous appeals against the performance of the bands from the citizens "with whose aspirations," &c., they were identified, the speakers declared that the police bye-law which "struck at the prin ciples of freedom" was "instigated from the dic tates of the alien and unscrupulous London 7imes." It was an "arbitrary ukase" in the opinion of the historically interesting trumpeters, and although they were ready to recognise that the police were bound to regulate the order of the thoroughfares and to admit that in some instances juvenile musi cians had acted with impropriety, still the bandsmen proper had not, it was contended, induced distur bance or annoyance, and it was therefore a duty in cumbent upon them to defend their privileges and to preserve " their traditional power and future in fluence." Atter much oratorical contention in this direction the moment was reached when the trumpeters present might, it was thought, be trusted with a resolution, and accordingly une was moved urging that a protective organisation of the bands in each of the city wards should be at once formed. This resolution and another con deinnatory of the " alien and unscrupulous" news paper were subsequently declared carried, and the bandsmen were then dismissed with the assurance that the subject should not be allowed to lose im portance or seriousness between that and the next meeting of the general committee, who would frame rules for the guidance of the wards, and take other steps to guarantee the liberty of Dublin citizens to "walk as they please in their own streets." THE LAST OF THE BUSHRANGERS. The Australian papers give an account of the death of the last of the bushrangers, which was dramatic enough for a romance or a ballad. The offender, whose name was Ward, was known in the north-east districts of New South Wales under the sobriquet of the Thunderbolt. He had long been the terror of the vicinity, but as he did not murder his victims but only plunderedthem, he seems not to have been very actively pursued. Among the scattered in habitants of the bush he had even, itis said, many friends who assisted him. He was finally hunted down by a mounted trooper, named Walker. The chase was's, hot one, for Ward was also on horseback, and pur suer and pursued galloped recklessly over " tussocks" of earth and grass and boggy waterholes. The robber was full of resource, for he knew the chase was oue of life or death, but he was at last driven to dismount, and the trooper shot his horse dead. When summoned to surrender, the bushranger refused, and presented his pistol at Walker, but the officer was too quick for him, and fired, wounding him mortally. Even then he made an effort to grapple with his enemy, but another blow despatched him. The people of New South Wales, who will, no doubt, long tell tales of his prowess. and his daring, may rejoice that their border is at last clear of bushrangers. LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1870. THE bombardment of Paris would be a calamity to Europe. No civilised. man could contemplate without a shudder the destruction of the fair and peerless Lutetia. Under the reign of NAPOLEON 111. it has become the most beautiful and resplendent capital on the Continent. Its improvement has not been superficial. In a sanitary point of view Paris has been transformed subterraneously as well as above ground during the regime of the present EMPEROR. It has been rendered salubrious as well as magnifi cent. There is in one sense no extravagant boasting on the part of a Parisian when he speaks of that French metropolis he is so proud of, and with reason, as the capital of civilisation. London is larger, is wealthier, is more populous. Rome is crowned with a double glory of pagan and pontifical supremacy. Jerusalem is venerable and august from its divine and awful associations. But as a capital representing the present epoch, illustrating the character of the civilisation of the age, typical of the genius of the nineteenth century, no city in either hemisphere can for an in stant be brought into comparison with the grand and symmetrical metropolis of France. Than it is now, it has never been grander or more symmetrical. It is adorned with majestic edifices, it is paved, and lit, and decorated with statuary, and planted with trees from end to end of the geometrical labyrinth of the rus in urbe of its system of boulevards. The antique grandeur of Notre Dame, the classical beauty of the Madelaine, the noble facade of what was, until the inauguration of the Second Empire, the semi-pagan Pantheon, what is now the church of St. Geneviere, the gilded dome of the Invalides, imme diately beneath which is the grandest sepulchre ever prepared for the ashes of a great man, the colossal porphyry tomb containing the remains of the founder of the imperial dynasty, the Trajanesque column cast in bronze from the guns of Austerlitz, and surmounted by the effigy of the first EMPEROR in his Coronation robes, the bridges spanning the Seine, the Tuileries and the Louvre, with their priceless art treasures, the Sainte Chapelle, in itself so exquisitely ornate an ecclesias tical edifice that one thinks of it as of a gem of price, as "one entire and perfect chrysolite"—these and other treasures, constituting in themselves .the chief interest of what we speak of in the aggregate as Paris, these, and the million and a half of people inhabiting that great city are what would now be jeopardized, what would certainly be mutilated, what would possibly be destroyed if the French metropolis wer subjected to the horrors of a bombardment. Before that supreme agony for France, that immense sorrow Efor urope can, by any possibility however, come to pass, the armies of France—defeated already, it is true at Woertb, and Forbach, and Weissenburgh, and Rezonville —would have to be utterly routed and the remnants of them driven for shelter within the line of the fortifications. Rome, as the prover a it, was not built in a day. France we may be certain will not be ruined, Paris will not be destroyed otherwise than after a long and fierce struggle, a struggle of absolute desperation. In every case the war at its commencement was regarded with dismay by surrounding nations. It is regarded now that it is approaching its climax—it may even be its disastrous termination, with the deepest anguish and the profoundest solicitude. With whom soever the victory may rest when all is over, the Frauco-Prussian war of 1870 will have cost the world a quarter of a million of our fellow creatures. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE AMERICAN MINISTRY IN ENGLAND. Mr. Frelinghuysen is said to be hesitating before he risks the chance of meeting with the fate of his immediate predecessors in the American mission in England, and his delay in making up his mind has induced some of the New York journals to urge that the Ministry should be left vacant in order to give an indication of American ill humour about the Alabama controversy. This would lead to very disagree able results to both nations in the future, although with Englishmen who have already become well used to American grumbling, a change in the method of exhibiting it might possibly counteract the unpleasantness of not having Brother Jonathan actually represented amongst us. If Mr. Freling huysen really intends to visit England, he would certainly be more certain of cordiality and of what glory still remains to the American office if he were to put a stop to all unpleasant plans for making John Bull angry, by accepting the post offered to him at once, especially as unfavourable symptoms of dark projects have already begun to be discussed. LORD DERBY ON PUBLIC HOSPITALS. The advantages and disadvantages of the system of public hospitals supported by voluntary contribu tions have been analysed by Lord Derby in his usual sensible, straightforward fashicn. The principle is, he says, inconvenient, in so much as it is apt to overtax the willing, patriotic, and warm hearted, as well as those who occupy p rom i nen t positions;and it may fairly be argued that a general hospital rate would not be less justifiable than a poor rate or an education rate. On the o th er h an d i t i s undes i ra b le that the weight of public burdens should be materially increased, and it is well to leave a wide field for personal energy and private munificence. Coming to the practical question of the state of public health, Lord Derby very forcibly impressed upon his hearers that statistics gave them a ver y inadequate idea of the mischief inflicted by vice, folly, and sanitary neglect. You may be able, he said, to show how many people die of bad drainage in some particular place, or of the effects of drink, or other vices, but no figures cau give you the infinitely larger number of constitutions ruined by such causes which succumb:to slight attacks of illness, which might otherwise have been resisted. It is the same with the overcrowding, the foul air, the excessive labour, the influence of sedentary occupa tion. We must remember, however, that all the worst of these evils are not inevitable, but remedi able. We want, says Lord Derby, broad streets, good drainage, plenty of light, and plenty of air ; and he undertakes that these good things shall be secured on his property. If other landlords and landowners would follow his example we should be some way on the road to practical sanitary reform, but even then a great deal would be left in the people's own hands. All classes would do well to realise the moral of his admirable address. The true wealth of a State is not shewn in the amount of its revenue, nor the increase of its exports and imports, but in a population not squalid with dirt nor decimated by disease, but healthy in body and mind, living in houses which make self respect possible, and attached to a country which has done its duty towards them. THE EUROPEAN WAR. A SECOND EDITION of THE SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGHT O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events. bot tan bes Mc issi Ch COT yet the AI( ra€ hu 1\1( ler dig ab, fa( to en