The Sun. — London, England, 1870-12-02 00:00:00

BOY'S OVERCOATS, 7s. 6d. to 455. 1-I1 MOSES and SON beg to remind the public • that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its lualitv. and they venture to say that their prices will compare favourably with those of any other no u3e in En,gland. MuSES and SON'S X 2.4 S OXFORD COATS, 17s. to 50s. 0 AMBRIDGE COATS, 19s. to 50s. TiERTOiI JACKETS, 15s. to 425. SUTHERLAND JA.C.METS, 19s. 6d. to 50s. B USINESS SUITS, 28s, to 60s. EMOSES and SON'S easy and accurate system . of self-measure enables them to execute orders by post with the guarantee of a faultless tit. ti MOSES and SON'S F ROCK CO XTS, 245. to 635. "DRESS COATS, 25d. to 60s. A i ORNING TROUSERS, lls. 6d. to 21s. DRESS TROUSERS, 12s. 6d. to 265. MOURNING SUITS, 28s. to £5. MOSES and SON invit3 special attention E. to their large stock of GEN TLEMEN'S DRESSING ROBES, at 18s. to 20 Guineas ; the assortment is unequalled for variety of materials and designs, and neatness and elegance of finish. V MOSES and SON'S E BOYS' CLOTHING : K NICKERBOCKER SUI IS, Os. 6d. to 40s. ETON SUITS, 15s. to 40s. BRiGHTON SUITS, 18s. to 485. 'DRESS SUITS, 255. to 635. V MOSES-and SON supply every description of A • clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and ail classes : also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoec, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any tide exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ess is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON LONDON. CORNER of MINORIF.S and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. IHEATRE ROYAL DltL ..Y-I,A -A- Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATVIRTON.—This Theatre having been re-decorated under the direction of Mr. C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., is now Open for the AUT UM N URA MATIC SEASON, THIS EVENING, Dec. 2. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at halt-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. AMY ROBSART.—Miss VICTORIA YOKES. In consequence of this lady's great success in the above character on the occasion of Wednesday evening, Nov. 9th, and on Wednesday morning, Nov. 23rd, .Mr. Chatterton begs to announce that Miss Yokes will REPEAT the IMPERSONA TION on WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14, on the occasion of the BENEFIT FOR THE SUFFERERS OF H.M.S. " THE APTAIN." Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. MISS NEILSON will appear in the character of AMY ROBSART, in the Drama of that name, THIS EVENING, Dec. 2.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY- LAKE. AIR. T. C. KING will appear in the character of _ VARNEY, in the new Drama, entitlei AMY ROBSART, THIS EVENING, Dec. 2.—TIIEATRE ROYAL DRIJRY-LANE. IaDHOBUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated VOKES FAMILY will appear at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING, Dec. 2.—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, Dec. 2—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. AMY ROBSART; new drama : Characters by Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse 'Yokes, Kemp, J. Mortin, and Rosina Vokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Dec. 2.—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, Vokes, F. Stanforth, H. Naylor, and Fred. Vokes, THIS EVEN ING, Dec. 2.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSART; 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 nack. The whole produced under the direction of Mr. Edward ;tieing at a Quarter to Eight THIS EVENING. Dec. 2. SHEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by Martin Becher, at Eleven o'clock THIS EVENING, Dec. 2. —THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. A DELPHI THEATRE ROYAL.—SoIe Pro prietor, Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER ; Managers, Mr. B. *MISTER and Mr. F. B. CIIATTERTON.—THIS EVENING, at 7, THE GREEN BUSHES, OR ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Miami, Madame Celeste, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Mr. Billington, Mr. Ashley, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. C. H. Stephenson, Mr. C. Bennet, &c. To conclude with THE ISIELLINER'S HOLLIDAY. Mr. John Rouse and Miss Emma Barnett. T. JAMES'S THEA TR E.—Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. JOHN WOOD.—This Evening at 7.45 great p ay, FERNANDE, Messrs. Farren, Leeson, Lin Rayne, Murray, and L. Brough ; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Larkin, Miss Fannie 'trough, Miss Turner, and Mrs. John Wood.—Doors open at 6.30. At 7, TO OBLIGE BENSON, by Toni Taylor, Esq. Messrs. Harry Cox, Grainger, Mervin ; Misses Marian Inch and H. Everard, At 7.45, FERNANDE. At 10.30, CHRISTMAS EVE, by C. S. Cheltnman, Esq. Messrs. Harry Cox. Dan Leeson, mid Lionel Brough.—Box-office 11 to 6. No fees. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROU GIL This Evening, at 7, ON AND. OFF, LIVING AT EASE. Messrs. Crouch, Turner; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E Bufton, and F. Hughes. The New Hurly-Burly-Esque, " THE IDLE 'PRENTICE." Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Buf ton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c. AT.AUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- V Lessees— Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7, TWO ROSES (156th night), by James Albery. After which, at 9.30, ELIZABETH ; or, The Don, the Duck, the Drake, and the Invisible Armada. A grand, new, original, and profoundly historical Burlesque , by F. C. Bur nand, Esq. Conclude with CHISELLING. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, David James. H. Irving George Honey, W. H. Stephens, and Thomas Thorne, &c. ; Mesdames Nelly Power, A. Newton, Hetty Tracy, R. Evelyn, T. Levis, and Amy Fawsitt, &c. Doors open 6.30 ; commence at 7. MA DAME TIJSS AU D'S EXHIBITION, BARER STREET. On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial • King William of Prussia, and Count von Rispiarck. Admission, ls.• Children undone years of age, 6d. Wapoleon Rooms 6d. extra. Open from 11 a.m. tlll 10 p.m. 'THE LATE .E,JITION of "THE SUN" a t W. SMITH'S C.. olden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden town, THEATRE ROYAL,HA.Y AI A RKET.—EIe v enth Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDY. THIS E VENING (Friday), to commence at Seven, with the WOLF AND THE LAMB. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, W. Gordon, Madame E. Fitzwilllam ; after which, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new Fairy Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled THE PALACE OF TRUTH. Characters by Mr. Buckstone, Messrs. Kendal, Everill, Clark, Rogers, Braid, Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. Hill, Fanny Wright, and Fanny Gwynne. After which UNCLE'S WILL— Mr. Kendal and Miss Robertson. Concluding with BLUE DEVILS. Box office open daily from 10 till 5. OPERA COMIQUE.—GrancI Entrance, 299, Strand. — Messrs. 11. LESLIE, C. STEELE, and W. NORTON, Lessees. This, the most beautiful Theatre n London, is now ucknow ledged as TRH fashionable house of the day. Mdlle. DEJAZET in French Plays Every Evening, supported by her Great French Company. Entire Change of Performance. Free List Sus pended, except Press. OPERA. COMIQUE, 299, STRAND,—Lessees, Messrs. H. Leslie, C. Steele, and W. Norton.—RE-EN GAGEMENT of bidlle. DEJAZET and the French Com pany. Three new French plays every Evening at Eight. To commence with LB JOIE FAIT PEUR after which the Comedy Vaudeville VOLTAIRE EN VACANUS. Aidlle. Dejazet in her great character " Voltaire." Conclude with LE P'TIT DR , LA BONNE.—In rehearsal, and will shortly be produced, an English Operatic Bur lesque, founded on Donezetti's " L'Elisir d'Amore," by W. S. Gilbert, Esq. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee, Benjamin Webster. Managers, B. Webster and F. B. Chatterton.—THlSl EVENING, at Seven, PEEP 0' DAY, by Edmund Falconer. Terminating with the celebrated quarry scene. Messrs. W. Rignold, H. Crellin,A. Reyner, E. F. Edgar, 8. Barry, Vollaire, Marshall, Morris, H. Westland ; Miss R. Leclercq, Mrs. It. Power, Miss Lennox Grey, and Mrs. Addie. At 8.45, THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STLLBERG. Mr. B. Webster, Messrs. 11. Crellin, Worboys, Murray, and J. Clayton ; Mes dames It. Leclercq and L. Grey. Concluding with HE'S A LUNATIC. Messrs. J. Clayton, lrollaire, Miss L. Grey. Box office open from ten till five. GLOBE THEATRE, NEWCASTLE-STREET, STRAND.—Manageress, Miss ALLEYNE.—BOARD AND RESIDENCE at 7. Grand Ballet, entitled THE THREE ROSES, or the CHOSEN ONE, danced for 230 consecutive Nights by Madame Colonna and Troupe. Positively the last Night, of THE TAMING OF t THE SHREW. Great success of Miss Alleyne as " Katherine." " Petruchio," Mr. Fairclough. To Conclude with MARCO SPADA,and the celebrated character istic DANCE, by Madame Colonna and Troupe, every Evening until further notice. The new Comedy entitled ECARTE will be produced (To-morrow), Saturday, December 3. UIGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. • Commencing MONDAY, November 28. • Every day at 2.30 and 8 p.m. POOLE and YOUNG, the Proprietors and Exhibitors of the Overland Mail, by Telbin and Grieve, Albert Smith's Egyptian Hall Panoramas, beg to announce a new subject— THE PRESENT WAR Between the French and Prussians. Each Picture on 600 square feet of canvas, and painted by England's greatest scenic artists. THE NATIONAL MUSIC. THE FINEST QUARTETTE IN EUROPE. POOLE AND YOUNG, THE EGYPTIAN HALL ONLY. THE WAR.—POOLE AND YOUNG'S PANORAMA, EGYPTIAN HALL. Prices to Poole and Young's Panorama of the War, 35., 25., I s. REFUGEES' BENEVOLENT FUND. BAKER STREET BAZAAR. Publishers of Books or Music, Artists in Pencil, Crayon. Water- Colours, Oil, Parian, or Marble, Importers ur Producers of Fancy Articles of all descriptions, Manufacturers and Dealers of every class, who can spare anything suitable, are SOLICITED to CONTRIBUTE. Whatever is sent will be gratefully acknow ledged, The absolute productions of Refugees, whether French, German, or English, will necessarily demand our first attention, and doubtless prove to be the greatest attraction to the various stalls. Every article, whether deposited by the Refugees or contributed by friends, will have the name of the producer or donor attached, and have the prices marked in plain figures. FRANCIS BENNOCH, Hon. Sec. R EFUGEES' BENEVOLENT FUND.- BAKER-STREET BAZAAR. The Proprietors have kindly volunteered to set aside a portion of their popular Establishment for the RECEPTION and SALE of ARTICLES contributed by Refugees, or by their Friends on their behalf. The room will be OPENED early in December, of which notice will be given ; meanwhile all persons able and willing to contribute are invited to communicate with the Ladies' Committee, 15, Bruton-street, W. ; or with the Central Com mittee, 30, King-street, E.C. Articles in bulk, if packed in boxes, (Pm., may at once be sent to the Bazaar, addressed "Refugees Benevolent Fund." Refugees will receive the net proceeds of the sale of their own contributions. Subscriptions received by FRANCIS BENNOCH, Ron, Sec. lOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY e TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives tho teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from clecv, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price lb. dd. fled Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. MOSE:3 and OIL'S Nv INTER OVERCOATS, 19s, to £5. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the moat 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 ing brush. lied Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon ion, X.C. UJARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFAUTUBING STATIONERS, 192, FLENT-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.O ). I'HE PUBLIC bUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND JARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20e Per ream. e. d. Fine Cream Laid Note; a cheap paper.. . 0 .. Superfine Cream Laid Note ; much approved . 4 0 Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note ;especially recommended 5 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note . . 7 0 Straw Paper, " Patent:" adapted for rapid writing • 2 6 Large Commercial Note Papers.... ....... Be., 4e. 65., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream.......... 105. 6d., 12s. 6d., and 14 6 Outsides Foolscap Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 45.; ruled ditto, 4 6 Tinted Lined Note ... live quires for le. 6d., or 5 _ 6 New Vellum Wove "Club House" Nola, five quires for 2s. 6d. Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s 6d, Ss 6d, & Om 6d .. Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s 6dl . per 1,000 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., Bs. COLOUR STAMPING (Belief) reduced to ls. perlloo . . Polished steel dies sunk by tile best artiste ill the trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Oases. Desks. post free. Established 1841 ANY GENTLEMAN requiring the comforts of a HOME in a respectable and cheerful family, where there are no other lodgers, to board or not with the family, as required, may hear of the same by applying to A. L., Mr. Hawkins, Poat Office, Liverpool-road, Barnsbury, N. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY-15../TN—A Domestic Hercules. Amy Robsart. Phobus's Fix. HAYMAREET—The Wolf and the Lamb. The Palace of Truth. Uncle's Will. Blue Devils, ADELPHI THEATRE.—Milliner's Holiday. Green Bushes. VAUDEvlLLE—Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the Invisible Armada. STRAND—On and Off. Living at Ease. The Idle 'Prentice. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—Peep o'Day. The Pretty Girls of Stilberg. He's a Lunatic. GLOBE—Board and Residence. Taming of the Shrew. Marco Spada. Ballet Divertisement. OPERA COMIQUE -Le Joie fait peur. Voltaire en Vacan ces. Le P'tit de la Bonne. ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. Fernande. Christ mas Eve. OLYMPIC—NeII and (Burlesque) Paul and Virginia. ROYALTY Wealth, and Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat. GAlETY—Michael and Christine. Fra Diavolo. Trombal calzar. STANDARD —Vicar of Wakefield. Ballet. Chapter of Accidents. HOLBORN—Farce. The Odds. NEW SURREY—FIag on the Battle Field. Rob Roy. QUEEN'S Aunt Charlotte's Maid. A Midsummer Night's Dream. PRINCE OF WALES'S. Queen Stork. Ours. Locked In. POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After noon and Evening. AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the Arena. EGYPTIAN HALL—Poole and Young's Panorama of the Franco-Prussian War. ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. PALMS ROYAL—Professor Faber's Talking Machine. Panorama of the Seat of War. The Wizard of the East. ALHAMBRA—Promenade Concert. MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street)—From 10 a,m. till 10 p.m. ls.; extra rooms, 6d. 7 •••=o - r ,e; RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA. The London correspondent of the lndependance Beige is positive as to the existence of a secret treaty between Russia and Prussia, and gives precise details concerning it. According to this autho rity the treaty bears date the beginning of July, • 1870. Russia engages to prevent the interven tion of Austria in the war between Prussia and France, and in case of reverses experienced by Prussia, to come to her aid. Prussia, for her part, undertakes to support Russia in her new Eastern policy. All such rumours, says the lndependance Beige, are energetically Contradicted at Berlin and Versailles, but while reserving all opinion as to their veracity, it cautions its readers to bear in mind that in 1859 equally positive denials were given on all sides, to the rumour of a treaty between France and Italy. DISSATISFACTION WITH PRUSSIA. A noticeable report on the state of feeling in Ger 7 many is made by the correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, who writes from Dresden. 'This writer energetically maintains that much dissatisfac tion is caused by the prolongation of the war, " The prestige of Prussia is decidedly on the wane here. The working elasees have always been of the opinion that King William should have made peace after Sedan, and they now openly express their discontent at the prolongation of the war. The advance of the German armies on Paris is generally acknowledged to have been a mistake, the blame of which is laid to the charge of King William and his Government, who, it is said, wished by means of more military achievements to tighten their hold over Germany. Even stronger accusations against the Prussian Government are, I hear, made in the south; but this town, as the capital of the principal State next to Prussia in the Northern Build, may be regarded as representing pretty accurately the average state of German feeling on the point." MORE UPROAR IN TIIE GERMAN PARLIAMENT. The debate on the third reading of the new loan bill for a hundred million thalers in the North German Parliament was even more agitated than the first discussion. The ire of the Socialists and their friends was first excited by a supporter of the Government, who declared that the French had alWays wanted . the Attt hank of the Rhine, and the establishment, o? the Republic only increased the necessity far material guarantees, as the excesses of the French SoCialists would infallibly lead to a military dictatorship. This naturally aroused the Socialists, and angry interruptions ensued. A member having asked the president whether he could not devise some means of preventing disturbances, unworthy of civilised assemblies, Herr Liebknecht, the Socialist, asked if civili9ation could be boasted of when mem bers of the nobility talked of breaking the bones of their fellow members. The uproar was renewed a few minutes later, when Herr Liebknecht declared the loss of „Alsace and Lorraine by Germany was due to the revolts of th© Protestant princes, and especially of the House of Hohenzoliqr,q. Whether the orator really used the word " treason " in reference to ancestors of the present reigning house, or whether his excited auditors mistook the word, is nucertain, but a terrible tumult arose. Herr Liebknecht denied that he had used the expression complained o 4 the President had not heard it, and the matter was only adjusted by the vote being put to the Chamber whether or no the speaker should continue. The majority decided in the negative, and Liebknecht sat down. Another Socialist speaker, Mende, took up the battle, and opposed the vote, as he did not wish to sanction the Government in crushing popular rights in Alsace and Lorraine in waiting till their own turn came. The vote of course was eVentuall3 carried. THE WAR AND AMERICAN TRADE. The New York press are considering the conse quences which a general European war would have upon the commercial and industrial interests of America. The .New York Times thinks the truth lies between the two extremes of those who predict great prosperity or serious difficulty. Large losses as well as large gains may be anticipated, and the balance is more likely to be on the side of profit than of disaster. The evils most to be dreaded are those which would result from the return of large amounts of American securities, and the stoppage of demand for products, but neither of these seems probable. The fears which were entertained respecting the effects of distant war upon United States bonds have been in a great measure dis sipated by the experience of the last few months. With regard to other matters, cotton may suffer, but Europe will probably afford an unlimited market for other exports. The Times thinks that the opportunity for acquiring ascendancy in the carrying trade is the grandest that can be imagined. Had America only possessed ships, she might have secured the greater part of the trade which German shipowners have just been compelled to abandon. It will only remain for Congress to amend the Navigation Laws so as to permit the registration of foreign-built ships, and American merchants and shipowners may turn the opportunity to their advantage. If these are the considerations with which Americans generally regard war in Europe, Englishmen need not fear that our embark ing in a European war will lea 1 to the re-opening of the Alabama claims. The first thing that General Grant was known to say about the present war was that it would have a beneficial effect upon the price of pigs. THE WAR NEWS IN AUSTRALIA. It was on the 10th of Sept Amber that the intelli gence of the war en the Continent reached Sydney. We are told that when the proprietor of the Sydney' Morning Herald put up in front of the office the poster of the leading events, the streets in the neigh bourhood became thronged with an excitable crowd of people of all parties and classes. The telegraph boys, as they arrived one after another with portions of the message, were forwarded to their destination over the heads of the mob. The importance of the situation was increased when German after German systematically got drunk in honour of the cause which was even then stated to be going favourably for their country. These fellows embraced each other, while the Frenchmen looked dubious and reckless. The latter, supported by the English, could scarcely believe that the establishment of a military En pirs could so soon have resulted in the nation receiving a shock which was paralysing it. The agitation in the streets, was not calmed for several hours. A telegram from England now reaches New South Wales in 10 days, so it is propable that the prin cipal events of the war are as well known to Austra lians by thin time as they are to a large number of the Britons at home. ESTABLISHMENT OF MUSE nerd The President of the Royal Society declares that there is a large surplus stock at the British Museum which is rotting, presumably from want of the need ful accommodation. Tie thinks it is very desirable that Museums should be formed in various populous places of the kingdom, and suggests that the sur plusage, being distributed, would materially assist in the establishment of a great means of instruction. The suggestion is not a new one, but coming from such a distinguished quarter it may have the effect of engaging more general attention. The advantages of such institutions are obvious. HOMES FOR WORKHOUSg aHiLDRIgi. It has long been a difficult question how to deal with the juvenile population of the workhouse. District schools" have been substituted in some places for the ordinary workhouse school, which has proved so complete a failure, but these have not been altogether satisfactory in their working. In Scotland the results of the system of boarding out workhouse children are good. Unkind treatment is rarely met with, and the Poor-law Inspectors whu reported on the working of the scheme remarked that the children seemed satisfied with their adopted homes, and dreaded to return to the workhouse. The Poor-law Board have become so convinced of the advantages of this system that they have extended the order which hitherto has permitted the guardians of unions to beard out de serted and orphan children within the limits of the union. Pauper children may, in future, be boarded in country places beyond the limits of the union. Some excellent regulations have been made; more especially the one which prohibits anything resembling a workhouse uniform to be worn by the children. Due provision is to be made for their education. Voluntary associa tions are to be formed to act in conformity with the Board of Guardians, and to exercise supervision. The Poor-law Board have been informed of the desire of " many persons in several parts of the country to devote time and personal attention gratuitously to this most tifieful work," AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN. Lieutenant Curtis, of the 25th, has been charged with abducting a girl at Portsmouth. According to the evidence for the prosecution the girl was running in the street when she ran into the arms of the lieutenant. He took her up, kissed her, and invited her to his quarters. She accepted the invi tation. They amused themselves with sic, the mu girl playing on the piano and the officer on the violin. The girl, it seems, connived at a correspon dence, and it was arranged that the latter should send her letters addressed to her by an assumed name. On one occasion she stayed at the barracks all night, and her father becoming acquainted with the fact, instituted legal proceedings. The parent failed to sustain the charge. It could not be shown that the lieutenant was aware of the name of the girl, or that she was under the care of a father, or that he was taking her from such protection, or that he knew her age. The d efen den t's solicitor asked the bench to declare that the lieutenant left the court witirut a stain upon his character, as ho could prove that the girl was not locked up in a room, as stated by her, and that she left • early. The magistrate, however, who had stigmatised the conduct of the, officer as scandalous, added that "a- titabi would test on his character." A SCOTCH LAIRD'S CIVILITY. An action brought by Sir Robert Menzies against a widow, tenant of the inn at Kinloch Rannoch, has signally failed. The circumstances which gave rise to it are peculiar. Two English tourists lodging with Mrs. Macdonald determined upon a day's fish ing in the loch in front of the inn. Mrs. Macdonald gave them a boat for the purpose, but warned them not to land upon the property of Sir Robert. A man was put in charge of the beat, and they set sail. Ere long a storm arose, and their position on the loch became dangerous. The tourists insisted upon being landed, despite the warning of the boatman on the estate of the Laird, believing that their lives were in jeopardy. It should be observed that the land nearest them formed part of the property of Sir Robert Menzies. The gentlemen were soon startled by the appearance of a "will-looking indi vidual in a kilt," who told them they were " d—d blackguards," trespassers, and that their offence would cost them £5O. All attempts to mollify the "Laird," who admitted in Court that the tourists were " very polite," failed. Sir Robert took the extraordinary course of suing the widow for £5O, but Lord Mackenzie has decided that the baronet had no case against her, and that the Englishmen did not commit a trespass, because they landed to escape a danger which threatened their lives. All the costs of the suit fall upon Sir Robert. He had told Mrs. Macdonald that unless the strangers left £5O with her he should take proceedings against her. He has made himself very unpopular by prohibiting every body from touching his soil. LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1870. THE accounts received of late as to the provision ing of Paris are so conflicting that according to one authority the beleaguered capital has a supply of meat only for the next five or six days altogether, while according to another there are still left as Many as 40,000 horses fit_ for consumption, and therefore yielding an amount of - animal food capable:of support ing the existence of the inhabitants for the next three months at least. As for breadstuffs, flour, and other farinacious nourishment, the stores ia Paris are described as almost,. so to speak, inex haustible. Chocolate and condiments of that kind, likewise, they sem to have in abundance. Poverty therefore can alone account for the con sumption already of the flesh of such household vermin as rats and mice, and of domesticated ani mals like cats .and dogs. Judging from the pre posterous confidences of escaped Parisians, such as M. DE FONVIELLE, the range of the .French cuisine already ample enough to embrace frogs and other fantastic comestibles, is likely to be very considerably extended and widened during the siege of the so-called capital of modern civilisation, seeing especially that the hungry defenders of that metropolis have already made a raid on the out landish creatures collected together in the Jardin des Plantes. The chef, whose uniform is a raiment of white linen, and whose armoury is a glittering array of pots and pans of burnished copper, has an opportunity now of experimentalising to his heart's content—whether to the content of his stomach also, remains yet Ito be seen—on the adaptibility to the human digestive organs, an l to the human palate, of the flesh of the animal creation throughout the whole range of zoology. Gipseys, before now, in the rage of hunger, have roasted and devoured with a relish the inner meat (crusted over with bristles) of a • hedgehog. Parisians may now try the flavour of a cooked porcupine. It was SYDNEY SMITH who once whimsically suggested, among other bizarre entrées, a dish of "worms removing themselves." Snakes, with poison bag extracted, may be as delicate eating (who knows ?) as eels—even the adder, the cobra capella, and the boa constrictor. Misfortunes are said to bring a man strange bed fellows. A siege often introduces him to, or rather introduces into him viands of the most•unlikely and undreamt of character. In the great siege of Jeru salem there is on record the terrible incident of a famine-stricken mother devouring her own child. Nothing at these times is regarded as waste—nothing is discarded as offal, and as such thrown out upon the dunghill. Every slaughtered animal is dealt with habitually as, under ordinary circum stances, men are accustomed to deal with the carcase of a pig—every morsel of which is turned to account, the very entrails being parcelled out into sacks for sausages, the very blood being made into black puddings, the very viscera into what are termed fry and faggots. So now during this period of privation every morsel of every slaughtered animal is cared for, and treasured up and cooked, and devoured by the provident Parisians. The parings of potatoes, the stalks and outer leaves of cabages, are just now never discarded by them as valueless. Remembering this systematic thrift of theirs, and the ready acceptance of everything that comes to hand as grist to the mill of their jaws, we might be disposed to regard the time as indefi nately postponed, when it may prove a matter of dire necessity for them to succumb to the investing army of Germany' under the irresis tible and overwhelming influence of sheer starva tion! Only that, upon the next instant, we cannot but recall to mind the fact that the mouths that have to be fed there daily are the mouths of 2,000,000 1 Added to which there is this other all-important con sideration, that the continuance of the defence of Paris by no means rests exclusively, or, for that matter, i.rincipally, on the continued supply of food to the inhabitants. It rests chiefly, in point of fact, upon a heartening belief that outside, far to the south and the east and the west, the provinces, the people of France, arel,prepared, sooner or later, to co operate with them in turning the terrible tide of the war against the German invaders, in raising the siege of Paris eventually, and in rolling back the hosts of Prussia, and 13 avaria, andW urtemberg, and Saxony, and the rest of the armed hordes of ;he German Fatherland, back across Alsace and Lorraine, back across the Aube, and the Marne, and the Aisne, and Meuse, and the Moselle, and the Rhine, repaying invasion by invasion, turning defeat into victory, and themselves routing ;the hosts that have been all-con quering heretofore. That is what keeps a brave heart among the Parisians, not the sense of their having such and such a supply of provisions in the hands of the Republican Government. Destroy that hope of provincial co-operation, and there will remain no future triumph to be counted upon by the Parisians. Already, disaster befalling the Army of the Loire, dis comfiture dogging the footsteps of even General AUBELLES DE PALADIN; confusion being more con founded by reason of the military proceedings of the dictatorial GA3IBETTA towards such a captain of men as even General BOURBAKI—the fall of Paris is coming, appreciably, as it were, within the range of calcula tion. Let but those disasters, these -discomfiture's, these confusions, continue for a little while longer, and no matter what the supply of provisions within the walls, the fate of Paris may be sealed even before the arrival of Christmas, TOPICS OF THE DAY. ITIE SUN, LONDON, PRIDA/, DECEMBER 2, 1870. MORE TRAPEZE ACCIDENTS. Two more accidents have occurred to gymnaits at Liverpool. In one case Mdlle. Leoni was attempting to accomplish the highly dangerous and difficult "leap for life." Unfortunately she missed her hold of the trapeze and fell heavily, sustaining a severe shock. The other accident was of a more serious character, and happened at the Star Music Hall. rwo brothers, styled the flying gymnasts, have been giving a series of performances on the high trapeze. When attempting the most difficult of the feats, which is described as consisting of the younger brother swinging himself from a trapeze at one end of the hall, turning a somersault through a paper balloon and alighting in the arms of the elder gymnast, who hangs by his feet at the other end of the room, the former slipped through his brother's outstretched arms, and fell heavily upon the stage. He was taken up insensible. These lamentable events are an unfortunate proof of what has already been said in these columns. The London authorities may make a fitful eflbrt to suppress dangerous exhibitions, but nobody takes any notice of what happens in the provinces. THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. At the second meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, a highly interesting paper on the geography of the sea bed was read by Captain Sherard . Osborne, R.N.. who illustrated his explanations by diagrams shewing transverse sections of the North and South At lantic and Mediterranean. The remarkable equality of the ocean bed was pointed. out, and it was remarked that so level is the bottom of the Indian Ocean that Captain Halpin stated in laying the Indian cable that for hundreds of miles there was no variation in the cable's descent, and it could have been laid at the full speed of the Great Eastern. The general belief in the extreme depth of the ocean is considered to be exaggerated, as no depth has been found greater than 2,000 fathoms. The Pacific, however, has not been investigated. Professor Huxley gave great praise to the British Government for the encouragement they had given to these deep sea surveys, maintaining that they had been unjustly assailed for unwillingness to fur ther science, as they were always ready to aid when a good case was made out. Other speakers thought there were great inequalities in the Atlantic bed, and one of them, Mr. Jeffreys, stated that in soundings he had himself taken, the same dredging gave depths of 1,050 and of 740 fathoms. He mentioned that the animals which he dredged up from great depths were a ugly provided with organs of sight, shewing that light of some kind was existent there. DOMESTIC WATER PURIFIER. An interesting account of the manner in which water is filtered in Hamburg has been furnished by a correspondent of the English Mechanic, The com plaints with respect to the unhealthy water supplied by the Hamburg Waterworks have caused some im portant steps to be taken. A firm has started an un dertaking which aims at purifying the water as it is drawn from the taps of the several houses. An apparatus is connected with the pipes of the waterworks, composed of a charcoal filter, encased in a hermetically closed enamel iron vessel. The pressure in the pipes forces the water through the filter, the dirty unhealthy matter is kept back, and the water runs out in a perfectly pure crystal clear stream. This plan has worked so well that during the two years that have elapsed since the unlertaking was started more than six thousand apparatus have been in constant use. The manufac turers charge five shillings quarterly, and by the payment of this trifling sum more than 200 gallons of water are daily purified in houses where the water is drawn from the cistern. It is suggested that great benefits would ensue from the adoption of a similar system in London and other large towns in England. THE WHIRLGIG OF TIME. Some comical things happen even in the course of this terrible war, and the action of the Municipal Council at Grenoble is one of them. This body after a discussion on the equestrian statue of the First Napoleon erected in the town, decided that the horse should remain its property, while its rider should be destroyed or placed at the disposal of the Prefect. A French provincial paper supposes that this deci sion was suggested by the judgment of Solomon, but doubts whether it will give the council a similar reputation for wisdom. A German paper thinks the riderless horse should remain in its place as a type of the France of the present clay, and that the Prefect, as a sagacious man, should put the Emperor's figure in safe keeping, so es to be able at the proper time to restore it to the horse amid the acclamations of the inhabitants. These jocose comments are perhaps rather too severe. After all it would be a very convenient thing if horses and pedestals could be provided to fit any statue, The incon venience of keeping representives of unpopu lar personages would be avoided, and an agreeable variety kept up. In London, for instance, we might give a great many deserving but neglected personages a temporary mount, and the system of change would prevent their effigies from becoming quite so lamentably smoke-dried. The Grenoble people are quite • right in keeping their horse ready for an emergency. There is no knowing who might need it. It is pos sible that a grim figure of anarchy may sometime bestride the charger. It is also possible, considering the remarkable expansiveness of the German Father land idea, that King William may some day be up lifted. THE PERPLEXITIES OF JUSTICE. The task of tracing guilt home to the real culprit often proves very perplexing to the most experienced detectives, and even the shrewd Yankees are occa sionally compelled to confess themselves outwitted. Such an instance has just occurred in connection with a terrible murder committed in New York a month or two since, The victim was Mr. Benjamin Nathan, an elderly Jewish stockbroker of great wealth and considerable reputation, who was assassinated one night in his own house. The murderer has never been forthcoming, despite all the efforts of the New Yori‘ police, stimulated by the very largo reward offere d by the murdered man's family, and by the Neva York Stock Exchange. Several silly persons, desiring notoriety, or else half crazy from brooding over the horrible details of the crime, have come. forward t° accuse themselves, but the penetration of the poli ce has always been too great for them. At last, hl ever they have been taken in by a man who tol d his story so consistently, and circutnstaatially, was so much in earnest in the matter, that he was forwarded from a remote town in Massachussets t° Boston, en route for New York. However, by the O i l he had got over the first stage of his journey he thane his mind, saying he had only made his confession t ° get a free passage to New York. Ile was discharge; and the real murderer, of whom not the small°, trace has been found, remains in undisturb ed security. QUEEN EMMA'S DEATH. An American naval officer has been dismissed the service for an act of indiscretion in reference to th e death of Queen Emma. When the dea th of the Queen was announced at Jamee a Town, on the Honolulu coast, the comman der of the United States sloop of war in harbou r communicated the intelligence of the fact to til! American consul at Honolulu, with a request tho the American flag should be hoisted half-mast WO, over the consulate office. Mr. Adamson the cone' with less gallantry than self-sufficiency, sent bBc word that he had received no official noti ce of the ex-Queen's demise from the resident Americal minister, and that consequently the standard WOW f not belowered. Apparently chagrined at the purport ° , the reply, the naval captain ordered a lieutenant and a guard of Marines ashore, who with a threat or force carried out the wish of their commander, WV marked respect for the late Queen DOwager hoisting the colours at half-mast. The Havrai o press became indignant, and pronounced the inla' sion of their territory by an armed force as e r tremely highhanded, and the United States Govern ment, taking' the same view of * the matter, have. 1 101/ punished their officer by withdrawing him from the navy. 5111r - '7l il7f 7 .akkk"..s ettalln HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE Dec. 1 . The Queen went out yesterday afternoon, attended bl Lady Churchill. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out this morning. Prince Leopold also went out. To-day is the birthday of the Princess of Wales. The Duke of Roxburghe has arrived at the Castle. The Deputy Judge Advocate-General had an audience of the Queen. LITERATURE. AN EXQUISITE GIFT-BOOK. A Book of Memories. By. S. C. Hall, F.S.A. One vol. ; pp. 488. Profusely illustrated. Virtue and Co. A more charmingly attractive volume than this it w ould be really difficult to imagine. It is the gathering together of a mass of the choicest personal recollections. It is th e swathing into one golden sheaf of the gleanings of a whol e lifetime in some of the pleasa n t es t fi e ld s o f ar t an d Mery ture. These memories extend over an i n t erva l o f no less than half a century. Th e y are th e resu lt s o f the keenest observation. They are jotti ngs d own , no t o f hearsay, 01' secondhand, but of the writer's ow n i n di v id ua l experi ence. It cannot but be matte r of ver y genera l sa tisfae tion that while they are yet vividly in his remembrance , Mr. S. 0. Hall should have made this record of all that he can recall to mind of his many famous contemporaries. Among them he took his place early. and has ever since held his ground during a long and busy life as a cultivated man of letters, and as skilled and gifted critic on all matters of art. A volumi nous author himself, and husband of one of the most de lightful authoresses of her time (a worthy contemporary of Mary Mitford and compatriot of Maria Edgeworth), the editor of the Art Journal, to whose hand we are indebted for this singularly beautiful memozial book, descriptive of the cultivated men and women by whom he has been surrounded, possessed advantages peculiarly fitting bile for their delineation, Poets, painters, novelists, preachers , historians, essayists, what not, they were all numbered among his own personal aoquaintance—most of them were his friends, some of them were his intimates. Holding their hands in his, seeing them face to face, con versing with them, corresponding with them, he describe these representative men and women of the age p re cisely as he saw and heard and knew them as his own living and breathing companions. From cover to cover the book 15 made upof such animated remembrances. One by one these renowned people are brought before us by the m ost vivid word-painting ; and byway of completing the at traction of the record, here and there, all through the letter-press, are scattered charm ingly-penoilled and delicately-engraved illustrations, now of the features, now of the favourite haunts one while of the birthplace, another of the deathplaee, occasionally a fan simile of the handwriting of some well-known contemporary. Turning over, however casually, these doubly-pictured pages, pages rendered pie' torial alike by pen and pencil, it is impossible not to linger over the record thus given, it matters little where the book by chance may be opened. Thomas Moore, " the beloved of all circles, the idol of his own," is, first of all delineated. And as we read about hi m we catch glimpses of his homely birthplace, the house in Angier street, Dublin, and of his deathplaee in Wiltshire, his charming little cottage at Slopperton. Coleridge we have next described, and we have peeps at him both in Clevedon and in Highgate, even (at page 39) looking in upon him in his familiar sitting-room at the Gillman's. Charles Lamb too, the prince and paragon of essayists, the quaint and gentle Elia—to him we are introduced by these Memories; we see his residence at Enfield, we pause by his grave in the churchyard at Edmonton. Hannah More at Barley Wood ; James Montgomery, at Sheffield ; Ebenezer Elliott, the corn-law rhymer ; James Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd ; Maria Edgeworth, in her library at Edgewortlastown ; Jane Porter, at Esher; Thomas Hood, the poet humorist ; Theodore Hook, the brandy-bibing practical joker ; Amelia Opie, Robert Southey, Savage Landor, Lady Morgan, Leigh Hunt, L. E. L., 'Leman Blanchard, Wordsworth, Wilson, Campbell, Mrs. Hemans, Samuel Rogers, Lady Blessington—these, and a long, long procession of other celebrities, both in art and in literature ' troup past 11 1 : one by one.,,The author " holds us with his glittering eye,' the very names of those he tells us about from his o wn personal knowledge and recollection of them are so many spells enchaining our attention and helping, what the veil' manner of the writer of the book completes, to fairly captivate our imagination. Time past lives again in these storied and anecdotal sketches. Names long endeared to us by writings that are familiar to our;recolleetions are names no longer, are living and breathing fellow creatures,. thanks to the revivifying influence of this golden Book of Memories. CRYSTAL PALAcE,—One Shilling Day.—Thurs day, December 1, 1870.- -Admissions by season tickets, 1,740; ditto on payment, 881; total visitors, 2,621. THE LEDBUILY SCANDAL.—The Rev. J. Jackson, Rector of Ledbury, has written to some of the p a p er s to return his thanks for the , kind sympathy and liberal aid which he has received from the clergy and laity to enable him to Garry his appeal against the judgment delivered by the Dean of Arches to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council some months sinoe. " GIL BLAB" AS AN EXTRAVAGANZA.—Messrs. Webster and Chatterton have arranged to produce an operatic; extravaganza on the subject of " Gil Blas" at the Princess's Theatre at Christmas, and have specially engaged Mrs. Howard Paul to play the role of the dashing Spanish adventurer. ANONYMOUS BENEVOLENCE.—A second munifi cent donation of £l,OOO has just been contributed to the funds of the Royal Hospital for Incurables by "B. G. ; " and the East London Hospital for Children has also recently received £l,OOO under the initials " G. H." THE BYRON TITLE.—The Times is informed that the Barony of Byron devolves not, as stated, upon the the Hon. and Rev. A. Byron, youngest brother of the late peer, but upon Mr. George Byron, the son of the next brother, the late Hon. Frederick Byron. The new Lora Byron was born in 1855. CAN I AFFORD IT ?—Pay your Stationer 6d. for a rePIP ➢lap of the World gratis in all Letts's Office Diaries. Letts's 6d. and is. Diaries give most value for your money. Letts's Housekeepers' and Ladies' Diaries are much improved, Letts Invisible Ink for Postal Cards, 6d. per bottle, THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGJT r 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.