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PHOBUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated YOKES FAMILY will appear 'at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 14.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. AMY ROBSART ; a new Historical Romantic Drama, written by Andrew Halliday ; founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated novel "Kenilworth," with new and characteristic scenery by William Beverly, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 14—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. AMY ROBSART; new drama: Characters by Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Vokes, Kemp, J. Mortin, and Rosina Vokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 14—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. Yokes, THIS EVEN ING, Oct. 14.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROSBART; New Drama. The Overture and Incidental Music selected and composed by W. C. 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To conclude with the successful Burlesque, DON CARLOS ; or, The Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, W. Stephens, C. Garthorne, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Fawsitt, T. Lavis, and A. Newton. ST. JAM E S's S. T HEA T R E.—Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. JOHN WOOD—will RE-OPEN to-morrow, SATURDAY, October 15, when will be presented (for the first time in England) Victorien Sardou's great play, FERNANDE, revised by Sutherland Edwards, Esq. Act I. Rescued, Act 11. , Loved. Act 111. Won. Act IV. Triumphant. Cha racters by Messrs. Farren, Leeson, Lin Rayne, Murray, and Lionel Brough ; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Larkin, Miss Fannie Brough, Miss Turner, and Mrs. John Wood.—Doors open at 6.30. At 7, TO OBLIGE BENSON, by Tom Taylor, Esq. Messrs. Harry Cox, Grainger, Mervin ; Misses Marian Inch and H. Everard, At 8, FERNANDE. At 10.30, ONLY D, by John Oxenford Esq. Messrs. 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The epidemics of cholera which had been mapped out from the registrar's returns has, he says, given a great impetus to the study of the geography of diseases which, as a special branch of scientific investigation, only dated about thirty years back. Medical men now-a-days are deficient in a knowledge of the physical nature of the country in comparison with their predecessors, who used to travel by coach and who had consequently more and better opportunities of making themselves acquainted with the localities traversed.. Mr. Haviland rightly considers that medical men should know the unhealthy as well as the healthy localities, so that if they could not dis lodge disease they could at any rate remove the weakly to more favourable sites, which might perchance be not far from the unhealthy ones. Mr. Haviland points out that there are 14,000 parishes with Saxon names, and the urban population has continued .to live on the same sites, polluting the rivers and soil. llad the Roman care of selection of sites been followed, the health history of this country would, in his opinion, have been very different from what it is. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1870. SEVERAL movements are happily long since afoot here in England, and flourishing, for the relief of the sick anwd ounded among the belligerents. There is the German Association ; there is the French Association ; and overshadowing both of those put together, there is the great National Association for the relief of both French and Germans indiscrimi nately. The latter, when the war at length shall be over, and shall have become a thing of the past, will deserve, and will doubtless have a history of its own. It will serve to shew by imperishable data, to demonstrate with the inexorable logic of facts, that if England was neutral, she was at the same time overflowingly, practically, sympathetic ! Collecting funds with magic rapidity, drawing into the coffers of this national association in doles vary ing in extent from a widow's mite to a cool thousand, gold, silver, bronze, bank notes, and cheques, moneys that very soon—within an interval of a very few w eeks—told up to an aggregate lump-sum of a quarter of a million sterling. It is not, however, by any means the most remarkable thing about this noble fund that it has sprung up, and flourished, and mounted, as one may say, heaven ward in a nig time, the stormy night time of this terrible war, like the fairy beanstalk. It is far more deserving of remembrance, and entitled to admiration for inasmuch as it has no sooner begun pouring in than it has been generously and continuously dispensed. The administration of the fund throughout from the very origin of the movement, and uninterruptedly since then, has reflected the highest honour upon its promoters and organisers. There has never been stinting, delaying, or hoarding. In proportion as the subscriptions have poured in, the benefactions in kind, beds and bedding, lint and ointments, medicines and nourishment, anodynes and anaesthetics, all the humane appliances of modern surgery, all the healing drugs of the perpetually expanding circle of the pharmacopcea have poured out, here and there all over the Seat of War from the stores of the association, forwarded hither and thither to the peripatetic ambulances. Lavishly but wisely the resources placed at the command of the National Association have been put within reach of the Franco-German sufferers. The sleepless vigilance and untiring assiduity of those upon whom have more especially devolved the responsibility of keeping in incessant movement the incomings and the outgoings of the suddenly improvised association, are worthy of all praise. Of themselves that vigilance and that assiduity are magnificent works of mercy on the part of all concerned in them. The recipients of the good offices of the association, it should be particularly borne in mind, have been numbering up during this frightful conflict with such appalling swiftness—tens of thou sands being placed hors de combat again and again between sunrise and sundown. More than that, they hive had to be followed up V as the campaign advanced ; they have had to be sought out on the different battlefields; they have had to be carried to the rear, there to be tended; or sometimes have had even to be cared for, there and then, upon the very spot upon which they have fallen. The surgeon wearing the white baud with the glorious badge of the red cross on his arm, the priest administering consolatipn to the dying, the sister of charity comforting those more or less seriously wounded, each in turn has come within range of the needle-gun and the chassepot, some amongst them even have paid the penalty of their humane rashness with their lives —lives thus nobly spent in behalf of their fellow creatures. Never has there been more wholesale destruction in battle than during this war of 1870—never has there been such hideous muti lation than that caused by the gatling-gun and the mitrailleuse. But mercifully also when we have said thus much, we can add quite as con fidently —never has been larger charity more wisely, promptly, persistently dispensed among the patriotic, and therefore guiltless, sufferers. And mainly this is owing—it is impossible not to recognise the fact, and recognising it, not to insist upon it—mainly this is owing to the beneficent agency of the Na tional Association for the Relief of the Sick and Wounded, TOPICS OF THE DAY. A. ROYAL MARRIAGE. The Morning Post confidently announces a piece of intelligence which will excite great and general interest throughout the country. The Queen, it is said, has given her consent to the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Louise to the Marquis of Lorne, the eldest son of the Duke of Argyll. Royal marriages are too often mere matters of political or dynastic arrangement, conducive neither to private happiness nor public good, but, in this instance, happily, it seems that the rigid fetters of Court etiquette are to be broken, and the national congratulations on the occasion may therefore be cordial ,as well as loyal. The scruples which formerly existed as to the possible interference with the succession resulting from the marriage of a Royal Princess with a sub ject can find no place in this instance, since there are some five-and-twenty lives between the Princess Louise and the English Crown. The sacrifice of individual happiness to such a remote possibility would undoubtedly be altogether unjustifiable, even were it certain that such influences were more mis chievous than foreign dynastic entangle ments. The Princess is the fourth daughter of her Majesty, and eras born in March, 1848. She is known to possess considerable artistic ability, and has exhibited busts. The Marquis is about three years her senior. His mother, Lady Elizabeth Leveson Gower, was the eldest daughter of the late Duchess of Sutherland, who was for many years one of her Majesty's principal friends and asso ciates. GENERAL Tuirn ON THE WAR. General Turr has sent for publication in England some observations which he has made on the state of affairs in Europe with regard to the war. Ile says that the German papers have called him to account for objecting to the annexation of Alsace and Lor raine, but that he is now advocating the principles he has always professed. The great blunder which Napoleon made was, according to the General's opinion, that he was not true to the principle of nationality. He abandoned the generous policy ho had advocated formerly, and the aspect of things changed at once. Count Bismarck dares not invoke the principle of nationality in his attempt to seize upon Alsace and Lorraine, Prussia retains Posen because she declares it useful to the safety of Germany so to do, and the same argument is ad vanced for the seizure of the French provinces. General Turr thinks that Prussia is right to profit by the disorders of France, but she should not abuse the opportunity. If she insists Gn the violent 03C11- pation of Alsace and Lorraine it will be the inaugura tion of hatred and future war between the people of France and Germany. The sole basis of a durable peace will be to leave France intact, and to be con tent with the grandeur of the position she has acquired in Europe and an indemnity for the war. The time has come for Prussia to act with moderation, or to proclaim, by continuing the war, that she means to be a standing danger to Europe. General Moltke would recommend peace to his Sovereign if 600,000 'fresh troops appeared to commence a new campaign, and if it be necessary to recall Prussia to the sense and practice of modera tion and humanity in her dealings with France and Europe, these men would not be difficult to find. Austria, Hungary, and Italy could easily furnish them, and there is yet England to reckon in the scale. THE ORGANISATION OF THE VOLUNTEERS. Lord Ranelagh thinks sufficient attention is not yet paid to the organisation of our Volunteers, and with out this all improvements in their condition would be thrown away. Organisation is the great question. We have many lessons to learn from the sad expe rience of our neighbours on the Continent, but none is more manifest than the different results of good and bad organisation in disposing of forces. Lord Ranelagh quotes Mr. Bruce's remc.rk that it may be necessary to reorganise the whole volunteer sys tem, if no arrangement can be made by which we can depend on their efficiency in case of invasion. The answer to this is, he thinks, easily found. A committee should be formed of those who are "versed in the exigencies of warfare," and therefore capable of reorganising the whole question. These should adopt a system which would ensure the whole force being able to be massed at a given spot by a given clay, when any service they might have to render would be sharp and decisive, and the Volunteer might feel he need never be called for an indefinite time from his home and business. With such an organisation they would be a greht power in the country, without it they are useless; for the new regulations are quite ineffectual, and the want of system has rendered a fine national army wholly unavailable. If a com petent committee takes the matter in hand Lord Ranelagh is positive that, without a material change in their constitution, our Volunteers will speedily become an army worthy of Englishmen. THE PRUSSIAN SPY SYSTEM. A great deal of exaggeration and romance has been indulged in as to the disguises and methods adopted by the Prussians to obtain information respecting the military strength of France. Some of the stories told about Prussian spies are so obviously ridiculous and absurd, that they offer an insult to common understanding. The latest contribution to the newspaper correspondence on this subject is by an English officer, who affects to believe in the tale he recounts. He starts with the proposition that even Count Bernstorff will not deny that Prussia has been preparing for war during the last four years, and then says that he thinks it right that the atten tion of the English public ought to be called to one of the moans confidently asserted by many persons of different countries to have been employed in the preparation. The writer goes on to accuse the Prussian Government in times of peace, of sending officers iu various and unbeseeming disguises to make notes and acquire information. Prussian officers, he has been told in the most posi tive manner, travelled in France, some as colporteurs and bagmen; and in the Austrian war some of them actually attached themselves to a bear or monkey in order to veil their proceedings. The officer calls upon the Prussian Government to contradict these stories if they be without foundation, otherwise all sensible people will give the travelling Prussian the cold shoulder, as not fit to be admitted on terms of equality with those who possess a sense of what is right or wrong. DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE. Mr. Alfred Haviland has traced the history of the geography of diseases from the time' of Hippocrates, to whom the credit is due of being the first to establish the connection between RAILWAY ACCOMMODATION. The Mechanics' Magazine, whilst it admits that there are certain disadvantages attending the adop tion of the American system of railway travelling, considers that they are not insurmountable. It dis poses of the objection that improved accommodation on the American principle would involve increased expenditure, by pointing out that the companies could recoup themselves by doing that which they have done many times under less justifiable circumstances, and indeed without any pretence whatever, namely, increasing the tariff. They need not therefore, in conferring such a boon upon travellers, scruple to resort to a slight increment of charges. In the opinion of the Mechanics' Maga zine the travelling public would really be ready and willing to submit to increased fares provided they attained commensurate advantages. Many persons who now had a strong disinclination for travelling by night would undertake a journey in the dark if only sleeping apartments were provided. Separate carriages might be fitted up with conveniences for sleeping, and those who had a long through journey might avail themselves of the advantages offered; whilst, by some convertible arrangement, the same carriages might be available for the ordinary traffic during the day. P . ; 1 1 Ar''.lk.C4(D HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, OCT. 11. The Queen went out in the morning, accompanied by Princess Louise. In the afternoon her Majesty drove out, attended by the Marchioness of Ely and the Hon. Emily Cathcart. Princess Maud of Wales remains on a visit to the Queen. The Right Hon. W. E. Forster arrived at the Castle. Major-General Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph and the Right Hon. W. E. Forster had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS LOUISE. Referring to the announcement that the Queen has given her consent to the marriage of the Princess Louise with the Marquis of Lorne, the Post says :—" The Princess was born on the 18th of March, 1848, and Lord Lorne on the Gth of August, 1845. There is no precedent for the marriage of a member of the reigning family with a subject since the marriage of the Duke of York, afterwards James 11., with Lady Anue Hyde, daughter of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, but before the Stuarts such marriages were not unfrequent. Maud and Gundred, daughters of William the" Conqueror, were married to the Earl of Chester and the Earl of Surrey respectively. Eleanor, daughter of John, married the Earl of Pembroke. Edward, surnamed the Black Prince, son of Edward 111., married his cousin Joan, commonly called the " Fair Maid of Kent," daughter of the Earl of Kent; and Philippa, daughter of Edward 111., married the Earl of March. Edward, eldest son of Henry VI., married Lady Anne Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick. Henry VIII. married Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Katharine Howard, and Katharine Parr." The Pall Mall Gazette is able to confirm the rumour that the Princess Louise is to be married to the Marquis of Lorne. We understand that the marriage of Lord Lorne with the Princess Louise is not expected to be solemnised before February next.—Echo. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE FREEMASONS. At the installation of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales as patron of the Freemasons of Scotland, after he had been invested with the insignia of office, the Earl of Dalhousie said : Most Illustrious Sir and Brother,—The Grand Lodge of Scotland, through the unworthy hands of me the Grand Master, have now installed you as the Patron of Masonry, not only in Scotland, but of Scottish Masonry throughout the world. In the name of that ancient and distinguished body, I have to thank your Royal High ness for the honour you have . done us. It is the highest honour we have it in our power to offer to a Brother, and, as your Royal Highness is aware, it has been already held by your Royal Highness's illustrious predecessors, George IV. and William IV., as it has now, Royal Sir, descended upon you. It is not only my own earnest wish, but it is the prayer of every good Mason here and throughout the bounds of Scotland, that you may be long spared to fill the office in which you have now been installed, and that when in the course of events you shall come to occupy the same high station in this country which your predecessors in this office have occupied before you, we may hail in the Grand Lodge of Scotland another Sovereign of the country as the patron of our craft. Permit me, most Royal patron, to tender on behalf of the Grand Lodge of Scotland and the Masons of Scotland the right hand of fellowship. —The Prince of Wales, in reply, said : Most Wor shipful Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, Senior and Junior Grand Wardens and Brethren—l cannot tell you how deeply the ceremony of to-day has touched me, and how thankful I am to you all for the great honour you have conferred upon me in making me patron of the craft in Scotland. I have also to express to you how deeply touched I have been by the exceedingly kind manner in which, Most Worshipful Grand Master, you have addressed me. Brethren, I have not been long a member of the craft ; still I hope that I may be considered a worthy member of it. You may be all convinced that I shall always and on every occasion and at every time, endeavour to do my utmost to fulfil such duties as may be imposed upon me as a Brother Mason. Allow me once more to thank you for the honour you have conferred upon me—an honour I shall never forget. I can assure you that I felt it was a high honour when I was made last year a Past Grand Master of the Free masons of England. Now, an additional and further honour, I consider, has been conferred upon me—an honour which was only wanted to make me fully happy as a member of your craft, and that is the honour of being made the patron of this illus trious craft in Scotland (loud cheers). The Grand Master then presented to his Royal Highness a copy of the laws and constitution of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. The Lodge saluted the Grand Patron of Free masonry in Scotland, the Prince of Wales bowing re peatedly in acknowledgment. The Grand Lodge was then closed, and his Royal Highness and the chief officers of the Grand Lodge, as they retired in procession from the ball, were loudly cheered. The death is announced of Lady Lawrence, the wife of Major-General Sir Arthur J. Lawrence, K. C.B. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A POLICE-SERJEANT. —A portion of the W division of Metropolitan Police were practising mounted drill at Wimbledon. During a Rause for the purpose of resting men and horses, Serjeant obins, a veteran and highly-respected member of the force, was standing behind his horse when the animal suddenly lashed out, and struck the serjeant with terrific violence on the chest, inflicting such injuries that the man died - within half an hour. EIGHTY-ONE SHEEP SMOTHERED.—An extraor dinary occurrence took place in a field on the farm of Mr. David Love, Burghfield-hill, situated about six miles from Reading. A flock of 194 sheep were grazing in the field, when two dogs set upon the flock and worried them, causing nearly the whole of them to rush into a corner of the field, where they all huddled together one upon the other, and while in this condition no less thou 81 of them were smotherel to death. Only one sheep was bitten by the dogs, and that one had its breast frightfully mutilated. METROPOLITAN GOSgiP.—THuBsD AY. The statement in to-day's Morning Post that the Queen has given her consent to the marriage of the Princess Louise to the Marquis of Lorne will excite no little sur prise and sonic incredulity. But the marriage of a mem ber of the Royal Family , with a subject is not without precedent. The last which received the sanction of the Sovereign was that of James 11. when Duke of York, to the daughter of Lord Clarendon. Several of the sons of George 111. married subjects, but the King forgetting in his old age the love which he had borne in his youth for a certain fair Quaker would never sanction or recognise these marriages.. His grand daughter has shewn herself less precise. The Queen has always exhibited the utmost courtesy and kindness to the Cecilia Letitia Underwood, whom the late Duke of Sussex married. Though it was not thought prudent to repeal the Royal Marriages Act, the Queen bestowed upon her aunt the title of Duchess of Inverness, and assigned her a residence in the royal palace of Kensington. It is, therefore, not incredible that the Queen has consented to the marriage of her fourth daughter with tho young Marquis of Lorne. The Princess is the most pleasing member of the royal family, so far as personal beauty is concerned. The young Marquis is decidedly good looking, and strikingly like his father. He is also fairly clever, and though still only twenty-five, wrote a book some four or five years ago, which shewed considerable powers of observation. It will be remembered that last year one of the Duke of Argyll's daughters was married to Earl Percy ; thus the ducal house of Northumberland will once more be brought into relationship with the royal family as it was in Tudor times. There is one other cir cumstance worth mentioning in connection with this interesting topic. A few years ago the Duke of Argyll, who is the happy father of a dozen children, put one of his sons in business, contending that the old barrier between the peerage and mercantile life ought to be broken down. Probably he did not then foresee the honour which awaited him, nor imagined that by taking that step he would be giving a Royal Princess a wine merchant for her brother-in-law. Both events teach the same lesson. The one that the peerage is seeking to strengthen itself by alliance with the middle-class; the other that Royalty is seeking to strengthen itself by alliance with the peerage. The event just announced is, therefore, full of political import. And surely this pro jected marriage is better than one with a beggarly German princeling. By a singular coincidence Lord St. Leonards has twice had an opportunity of reading his own biography. His _Leath was announced at Christmas 1866, and se-al-al papers published an obituary before they disco vered that it was his lordship's son who had died. No explanation has yet been offered of the present announcement. But it is not diffi cult to account for it. Lord St. Leonards has for some months been the victim of a series of hoaxes. Several weeks ago a telegram was sent to his daughter at Torquay, summoning her instantly to her father who was said to be dying, whereas he was hale and hearty. The present false report has probably a similar origin. It was first published by the Guardian, which received a letter purporting to come from Boyle Farm, his lordship's country residence, and which letter announced his death. • No one who is in the habit of watching the direction of public opinion in London can doubt that it has greatly changed with regard to the war during the last fortnight. There is still the same unshaken conviction that the series of defeats sustained by France, and which culmi nated at Sedan, were a well-merited chastisement for the flagitious crime of declaring hostilities against Germany. But the dominant feeling now is that France has suffered enough for her offence, and that it is time for the victor to stay his hand. You will discern this alteration in train, and 'bus, and steamboat. Above all it is traceable in the newspapers. The Spectator was the first of the influential journals to cry " Hold, enough." Even the Bismarckian Times and the Teutonic Daily News have felt the new im pulse. So long as it was a trial of strength between two armies these journals were all agreed in wishing success to the Germans. But now that it is no longer so, now that France lies prostrate at the feet of her conqueror, now that not only her military resources, but her political institutions have utterly collapsed, now that every one of her cities is in danger of being occupied, and the capital is in danger of being wrecked as Strasburg was, now that her chief and almost sole colony is revolting against her, and now that her Government is in a state of chaotic discord, English men are moved to pity, and say that there has been enough of "blood and iron," and that it is time for Bis marck to devise some means of bringing the war to a close. It must not be supposed that this change is due solely to that irrational instinct which sympathises with the weaker side merely because it is weak, and regardless of whether it be right or wrong. Englishmen, at all events English Liberals, who form nine-tenths of the population of London, are in fluenced by much more worthy considerations. They know that in France a corrupt despotism has been over thrown, and that its place has been taken by a govern ment whose very incapacity to organise the military , strength of the country would be one of the best guaran tees against future aggression. They believe that this government, if left free to act, would prove liberal and peaceable, and would develope the resources and establish the political liberties of the country. On the other hand the arrest of Dr. Jacoby merely for venturing to express his disapproval of the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine against the wishes of the inhabitants has produced a most painful effect upon English Liberals. So long as it was the act of a testy old general merely, they did not attach much importance to it ; but now that it has been expressely approved and endorsed by Bismarck, and, it is to be presumed, by the King, they are painfully re minded of the fierce political struggle against the Van der Heydt and Bismarck Cabinets, which lasted from March, 1862, until it was diverted by the Dano- German war two years later. They are reminded, too, of the famous Klinigsberg declaration of October 18th, 1861, when King William declared at his coronation that he would reign "by the grace of God." And then they turn to the history of the years that suc ceeded Waterloo and read the miserable tale of royal per jury and crushing despotism which ruthlessly suppressed all political freedom in Germany until the great uprising of 1848, and they ask if the same shameful drama is to be acted over again—if the German conquerors of France are to become once more the oppressors of their own people. Things are not going on very well at the Admiralty. Between Mr. Childers and his naval colleagues there is by no means the perfect harmony which should prevail. From time to time there appear notices of Sir Spencer Robin son's intended retirement, and whenever they appear your readers may understand that there has been squabbling, and that the Controller of the Navy, as is his wont, has been venting his vexation by the threat of throwing up his post. It was thought a week or two ago that Mr. Childers would retire. Mr. Gladstone, for one, would have said farewell with dry eyes. The truth is, the First Lord of the Admiralty has not proved the success his admirers represent. The sale of Deptford dockyard to an Italian person whom Mr. Childers had formerly known in Australia, was not a very remunerative transaction—for the nation that is. The disclosures respecting the " Captain " which were made at the court-martial, do not affect Mr. Childers individually more than his other colleagues at Whitehall, but at the same time it is notorious that the First Lord was a strong advocate of the system which has proved so disastrous a failure, though the other members of the Board, who were practical men, disbelieved in it. Moreover, Mr. Childers has repeatedly shewn himself grievously unin formed with regard to what has been going on in the dockyards, and has not seldom conveyed to Parliament information the reverse of correct, arising not, it may be believed, from that incurable inaccuracy of mind which characterised a predecessor of his, and which obtained for him the sobriquet of " Ananias," but from inability (itself perhaps the result of ill-health) to master all the details of his department. Recent inquiries into the con dition of our newly built ironclads afford another reason why a practical man should be at the head of the Admiralty. The result of these inquiries has been exceedingly disquieting, and there is every reason to be lieve that in a short time we shall hear of the appoint ment of a Royal Commission to investigate the sailing and fighting capacities of our ships of war. Both points need to be cleared up. The loss of the "Captain" is proof as regards the first, the damage done to the " Hotspur " when an experimental trial was made with her heavy gun— damage far in excess of any description of it yet pub lished—is proof of the need of investigations as to the second point. There is much uneasiness with respect to the East, ling the term in its largest sense. The purport of the telegrams from China, sufficiently denotes the appre hensions which are felt. Every message is expected to contain some disastrous tidings ; and there is a great sigh of relief each time that news arrives without intelligence of fresh massacres. Yet our government seems to be taking no precautions, on behalf A the English residents in China. On the contrary, there is reason to believe that it is going to choose this critical period of our relations with the Celestial Empire to reduce the embassy at Pekin to a Consulate. The result will be, financially, a saving of about £lO,OOO a year ; politically, an intimation to the Peking Government that England does not greatly care .what happens to her subjects. As regards the " East," in the European meaning of the word, there is a very preva lent belief, which no denials in the semi-official St. Peters burg journals will remove, that Russia intends to take advantage of the present European troubles to insist upon a revision of the Treaty of 1856. A letter from Vienna states that "here nobody doubts that Russia means mischief, that a formal demand for a revi sion of the Treaty of 1856 will be speedily made, and that he Czar will not lose the opportunity of 2 convulsed Europe to carry out his own intentions on the Bosphorus." Other letters give details of the enormous military prepa rations, including the ceaseless manufacture of military materiel which is going on in the Russian arsenals. The "Epicene" case is not likely to annoy the public any more. The more the unsavoury matter was stirred, the more influential were the persons found to be who were befouled by it. When the brother-in-law of one great legal official, anclthe son of another official less distin guished, were discovered to be involved, it was thought better to let the culprits go . free rather than 'inflict upon "society" a shocking scandal. So much for "even handed justice." One of the most conspicuous of the persons incriminated, it is now positively alleged, com mitted suicide. I cannot affirm that this was so, for there was no doubt that he had been dangerously ill. But it is stated that he was recovering, when overcome by shame and disgrace at a time when he was suffering great physical depression, he took poison. In all probability there will be another " Mission " in London next month, as there was last November. It will not be limited to twelve days, and some of the less " advanced" High Church clergy will take part in it, and attempt to repress some of the extravagances with which last year's enterprise was accompanied. The mission will in fact be put under episcopal patronage. It is possible that it may to that extent fail to reach the degraded class for whom it is intended, and who, if they are to be moved at all, need something more sensational than the orderly services of the Church. The Roman Catholic laity, with the Duke of Norfolk at their head, are drawing up a protest against the Italian occupation of Rome. A "League of Prayer," in which all Roman Catholics are invited to join, has been started. Fresh efforts are being made to raise Peter's pence. The Roman Catholic Education Fund amounts to about £43,000. To this the Marquis of Bute has given £lO,OOO, and the Duke of Norfolk £12,000. It is understood that almost immediately after the capture of Rome " Lothair " was openly sold in the streets. I should have thought that the Romans would have had something else to do than to read Mr. Disraeli's novels, were it not that I see the French journals, though reduced to infinitesimal proportions aro still continuing their jeuilletons, which, judging by the titles of some of them—" The man in the silk mantle" for instance—must be more than unusually trashy. That there should be any literature in France just now is surprising. Yet the " Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XlXme. Siecle "is still progressing. The " Atlas de la Defense Nationale," by Joanne, the " Theorie du Garde National," and Count Alfred de la Guerroniere's " L'Homme de Sedan " are more in keeping with the time. I have more than once spoken in high terms of the new magazine Art. The present number is the best yet published. The pictorial and the literary portions are alike most excellent. It is worth mentioning that the much-abused Mr. Henry Cole finds a defender in Mr. Jea,ffreson. He does not mention, what I believe is known to be a fact, that Mr. Cole was the real origina tor of the first international exhibition. The credit of it was given to the Prince Consort, but he prudently and rightly held aloof from it until Mr. Cole could shew him that the design would not prove a failure. Then the Prince assumed the lead and received the praises that at tend success. Mr. Cole has not, however, been witb out his reward. He has not only had the honorary distinction of C.B. conferred upon him, but also the far more substantial recompense of the supervision of the Science and Art Department. That he is the bete noire of the Saturday Review is known to all the world. Less generally known is the fact that between him and Mr. F. T. Palgrave, one of the writers on that paper, there has been a feud of long standing, arose, I believe, out of the refusal of the committee of the 1862 Exhibition to accept Mr. Palgrave's critical volume upon the pictures as the official handbook.—Still on literary topics I may mention that the Belgravia Annual for 1871 will be very strong in its literary contents. Miss Braddon, Walter Thornburg, Dutton Cook, Hain Friswell, Astley Bald win, George Sala, Tom Hood, Florence Marryat, Morti mer Collins, and George Manville Fenn, are among the contributors. MR. BASS M.P., ON THE WAR. After an oration of Mr. Henry Vincent's in the Derby Corn Exchange, Mr. Bass, M.P., made some remarks on the war. He said, If we enter upon the subject of distri buting the blame to the parties who have been instru mental in forcing on the war, it seems to me that we can not help ascribing the chief blame to the unfortu nate Emperor of the French, and to a considerable bart of the French natio n . Y e t, th oug h I elieve the general feeling of England in the first instance was in favour of Prussia, looking at the unprovoked assault of France upon her, I cannot but think that our sympathies are now changing in some de gree towards unfortunate France, laid as she is in the dust. The first attempt to provoke war was made by Russia, in 1853, when she invaded Turkey, the consequences being extremely humiliating to the former country. Tne next war was the combined attack of France and Italy for the emancipation of Lombardy, and there are very few of us who did not rejoice when Lombardy escaped from the Austrian yoke. Then came that little war on one side with two great Powers on the other —Austria and Prussia uniting to crush poor little Den mark. It always appeared to me that that was an un worthy assault on their part, and Austria at least has been visited by a Nemesis, for she had not to wait long before vindication came, and she was then thrown in the dust. If, however, we are permitted to look for a comparison with France in the shape of a Power always looking for aggrandisement I think Prussia will furnish au example. It is almost the other day, looking at it in - the light of the history of nations, that Prussia was a small duchy—the duchy of Brandenburg. In the beginning of the last century Prussia had only one and a half million of inhabitants ; and in 1740, in the reign of the second Frederick, she had only an addition of popu lation amounting to 900,000, with a corresponding ten dency. From that moment, however, she began to expand, as she was always plundering her neighbours upon both sides, when the first Napoleon threw her back and reduced her to her own dominions. But she had great recuperative power, and steadily and rapidly accumulated her forces and territories until at last she entered almost into the first-class of Powers. I think there are very few of you who were sorry to see Prussia successful in the first instance, but are now sorry for the extraordinary distress of France ; and I am sure we shall none of us be pleased to hear of that noble city of Paris being de stroyed, or of the horror of the inhabitants, exposed as they are to the siege, should it be prolonged. I mention this because I must expressmyregret that Prussia seems to be extravagant in her demands upon France. I think it would redound not only to the honour but to the advantage of Prussia were she to be less exacting ; and I am quite persuaded that we shall never have peace in Europe, or peaceful relations between Prussia and France, so long as Prussia is in possession of French territory. I repeat, I think it would be to the advantage of Prussia to shew magnanimity. I would not complain of her dismant ling the fortresses on the frontier, or annexing Strasburg, but to say that it is necessary for the pro tection of Prussia that she should have possession of Alsace and Lorraine appears to me to be ridiculous. will say a few words upon intervention. At a meeting held at Elgin a short time ago, at which I had the honour to be present, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a grand speech upon the present position of Europe he decried the idea of interfering between the two, Powers. I ventured to dispute his arguments, b u t h e s aid we must not interfere between the parties, as we should have to ask one to give up more and require the other to take less. That does not appear to be a great appeared during the last few days you will see that the British Government have entered upon mediation. Lord Granville and Lord Lyons are negotiating with Austria, Denmark, and Italy to induce them to keep the peace. gr.. Lowe seemed to think that the knell of standing armies had been sounded by the Prussian forces. This seems to me to be untenable proposition, because I hold that the Prussian army is a standing army to all intents and purposes, composed of 300,000 men in arms, the most ac complished soldiers in Europe,officers of permanent forces, and staff officers, who have to serve five years in the army before they attend the schools of military science. In the face of this it appears to me to be unreasonable to say that Prussia has no standing army. 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