The Sun. — London, England, 1870-09-10 00:00:00

NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER of lIART-STREMT. 1 MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of Odor d Ooat s . Also at other prices ZS and SON beg to remind the public Le cheapness of an article depends entirely on its ey venture to affirm that every article sold by them • cheaper than what can be obtained at any other GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED: Summer Tourist Summer Dress Suits. Suits. Trousers. Trousers. 245. 245. 10s. 6d. 15s. 28s. 235. 1!s. 6d. 10s. 6d. 30s. 365. 14s. 18a. 40s. 425. 15s. 6d. 21s. • 455. 483. 17s. Od. 24 5. 655. 525. 20s. 265. Also at Also at Also at Also at other prices. other prices. other prices, other prices MOSES and SON'S PRICE LI ,T of BOYS' CLOTHING : Kniel:erbocker Suits. _ 13s. od 16s. 6d, Eton Brighton Harrow Suits. I Suits. I Suits. 15s. 1 18s. 1 18s, I 325. Also at other prices. 36a. I 363. Also at Also at Also at other prices. other prices. other prices. FMOSES and SON supply every description of • clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes ; also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked In Plain Figures. Any article exchanged if not worn or injured. Litt of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-fro B. 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 sad SON s-- LONDON. CORNER of MINORJTh and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, c`O,II.NER OF HART-STREET, paRKER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and BUBTON-BRAD. CoUNTDY BUXOM BRADFORD. YORKSHIRE. pRINCESS'S THEATRE.—Sate Lessee and Manager, Mr. B. WBESTER. This Evening, at Sew en, WANTED *THOUSAND MI/LINERS, Mr. I. Rouse, &o.; at a quarter to Eight, The RAPPAREB, Messrs. Herman Vezin, W. Rignold, J. Clayton, A. Rayner, E. F. Edgar, Shiel Barry; Mesdames Katharine Rodgers and M. Cooper; to conclude with THE HAPPY MAN, Mr. Shiel Barry, &o. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, CHISELLING. Mr. David James. 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 Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. H. Irving, G. Honey, Lin Rayne, W. H. Stephens, and TX2horne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Fawsitt, T. Levis, and A. Newton. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH. This Evening, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING ; The School for Coquettes. 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. ; and, THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. THE LYCEUM THEATRE (Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER), will open on SATURDAY, 17th September, with a New and Original Irish Drama, by the author of " Peep o' Day," entitled " INN IS FALLEN ;or the Men in the Gap." Box-office now open, Acting Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. MA DA. ME TUSS AUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER STREET. On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial ; King William of Prussia, and Count von Bismarck. Admission, Is.; Children underlo years of age, 6d. Napoleon Rooms 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. WONDERFUL TALKING MACHINE, in vented and constructed by Professor FABER, of Vienna. The greatest mechanical curiosity in the world. EXHIBITING HOURLY from eleven a.m., till ten p.m. Ad mission, ls.; reserved seats, 25.; children, ad. Palais Royal, Argyle-street, Oxford-street, W. 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An ILLU,aIt %TED CATALOGUE. containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Oases. Desks poet free Established 1811 RUPTURES-By ROYAL LETTERS PATENT WHITE'S M OC-AIAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 182), is allowed by upwards of Five hundred Medical men to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of lIERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the i)ody, while the requisite resisting pow er i s supplied by the Moe sin Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so m uc h ease and elese t r that it canno t be detected, and may be worn during sleep. descriptive circular may be had. and the truss, which can fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of the , two inches below the hips, being sent to the mann acturer r..IOITN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. 265. 0., and 31s. 6d. Postage, I s . A Single buss, tits., 2 i 8 ., Double Truss,4,o., andPosage, 15. Bd. An Um bilical Truss, 42R. antls2s. Ed . Postagde, ls. l t od. • Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT 1 -1 4 1,ASTIC STOCK ING•S, .j KNEE-CAP:3, &t., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakners and Swelling of the L- gs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, told inexpcnsiv , , and are drawn on like an ordinary stoaking Price 4s Gil 75. Gd 10s and lEs. each Postage, Cd. Jt )UN WHITE Manufacturer. 29'. Piccadilly 'THR 11.011 OLEY'S SE CA'ITLE SPICE, 1 ft) Penny Par. et, only. of all Corn 'handlers in London, and a!I pri;;:gista. and Corn I_:ea era in the • ountry. T . si Al.l( 'NA!, titiITITITWN for DISEASES 1.11,1 I;r:ty . ? inn rond awl Alitre-street. Physi cian, Dr. _BARR MEADOWS, .19, Dover-street, Piccadilly. Ave rage number of Patients under treatment, 1,00 0 weekly. Free letter.; are available for necessitous applicants_ THOMAS 11011INSON, Hon. Sec. run E ;A.; ENTioN of 1 . 11 SUN" at Mr BEAUMONT'S, " The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from Aecay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. ecl Red Bull Wharf, 13, Upper Thames street, London. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1870. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. , GUA AMARELIA restores the Human Hair to its mistine hue, no matter at what age. J NO. GOSNE I,L and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, Ss each; also 5e., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, nclud ng brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, :111, Upper Thames-street, Lon ion, E.C. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. GAirry—Litschen and Frittehou. The Quaker. Blue- beard. PRINCESSEW—Wanted, 1,000 Milliners. The Re.pparee. The Happy Man.' QUEEN'S-My Wife's Denttst. 'Twixb Axe an Crown. ROYA,LTY-Our Nelly and F. M. JDkis encloser, the Irregular Itum 'Un. OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicaments. Handsome Is that Handsome Does. 'Unable. VAUDEVILLE—Chiliating. Two Roses. Den Carlos. Smarm—Kind to a Fault. Pilgrim of Love. NATIONAL STANDAM--Little Emily. Venus VOllllB Mars. Awaiktma—Grand Ballet and Varieties. Caxmomiß—Firevvorlta, Ballet, eCe. ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. MADAMES TIISSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 11 a.m. till 3 p..m. and 7 till 10 p.m. Is. ; extra rooms, 6d. PoLrrEomuo—Professor Pepper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening. i4 t 4 r" - - --1111%Ck • there is One by whom Kings reign and Princes decree justice, awl that the work to rhich he was called nine years ago was Go .'s work. He believes that die work which he has just consummated is so no legs. The man who in success thus keeps humble, is the man to feel for those whom adversity has overwhelmed. In this same letter he refers to the interview which he had with NAPOLEON, in words which tell of deep emotion. He says, " what my feelings were—l had seen NAPOLEON, only three years before, at the summit of his power—is more than I can describe. We were both much moved at seeing each other under such circumstances." Well might they have been moved. The last. time the two Sovereigns met WILLIAM was the guest of NAPOLEON, in the most noble city of the world at the very zenith of its splendour and magnificence. Thither had come nearly all the kings of Europe. It was a parterre des Rois. All around were the signs of prosperity and rejoicing. And then—three years later—for the thronged streets of Paris fall of joyful life, there was the blood-stained fortress of Sedan ; for the lovely Bois de Boulogne, thc banks of the Meuse, sodden with gore, piled up with ghastly fragments of humanity—" hell let loose." It was on the Champ de Mars that NAPOLEON built his Temple o. Peace. Fatal omen, too soon fulfilled. It was on such a battlefield as the world has scarcely seen before that he, the author of the Empire which he declared to be Peace, but which he had endeavoured to establish by constant war, was overthrown, the captive of his former guest, who would gladly have kept his friend, but was forced to be his foe.—Western Morning News. TOPICS OF THE DAY. ARMS FOR FRANCE. After all it seems that the story about the manu facture of arms in England for the service of the French Is not altogether apocryphal. When it was rumoured that 40,000 rifles were being made at Birmingham for exportatiou to France no little alarm was felt throughout the country, which was apprehensive of additional complications on the continent. Eventually it was stated that theta was no foundation for the statement an d Mr. Muntz, the member for Birmingham, after inquiries as to whether so large a number of arms were to be shipped, wrote to the newspapers in which he stated that all attempts had failed to elicit information which would lead to the discovery of the mysterious 40,000 Sniders. This much he appeared con fident of; that Birmingham was innocent. But if we are to place any faith in the statement of Mr. Pollaky, superintendent of the well-known private inquiry office, there is only too much truth in the story as it was at first told. He declares that 227 cases, representing 4,540 Sniders with bayonets, were shipped on board a steamer at Southampton for Havre on the oth inst. It makes it look unplea sant for Mr. Muntz when we are tcld that these were positively despatched from Birmingham. OUR DEFENCES. A correspondent of the Standard who has been considering the condition of our national defences under various aspects enters into the vexed question of the transport and supply of an army. The per formance of the Control Department has been far from equal to its promise. The uninitiated cannot speak with confidence of its actual condition, but they believe their old friends, Vested Interests and Vacillation, to be still behind the curtain. We are no better off than before, and the great question of transport and supply in the field seems far from solution. The Engineers have a sort of military train of their own, an expensive lnxury with a pontoon train, tool equipage, tell graph corps, and various other things. Divisional organisation, the writer in the Standard argues, may be the best for all concom batant branches of the service, but the proposal of separate organisation for volunteers and militia shOuld not be tolerated, nor any independence in those forces recognised. At sea there is much irri tation produced by the conveyance of troops in men of war transports owing to the clashing of authority. The writer believes this might be avoided by the transport ships being officered and manned by the Naval Reserve. On land the troops must be transported by railways, but our arrangements are very inefficient, for after months of notice the transport of 25,000 volunteers paralyses our lines; while if the concentration of a real army were necessary, there would be no notice at all. The numbers would be 100,000, and cavalry, artillery trains, and storcs must be carried. We seem to think that it is all right, says the sceptic, but when the division at Aldershot can be moved complete to Gloucester, Northampton, or Chelmsford in twenty four hours we shall be able to judge of our powers of placing ten such divisions in position in the same time. This would be the first defensive service demanded of our great railway system. Is it equal to its performance ? THE DEATH OF COLONEL PEMBERTON. Some additional particulars respecting the melan choly death of Lieutenant-Colonel Pembertcn, the retired officer who was acting as Times correspon dent at the seat of war, have reached us. A. f ew minutes before the gallant officer received the ball in his head which killed him, ho was seen in ani mated conversation with some members-of the staff of the Crown Prince of Saxony. It has since transpired that what Colonel Pemberton was saying at this time related to his distance from the enemy. Being every inch a soldier, and forgetting in the hottest part of the fight that he was on this occasion only on the field as a corre spondent, he gave spurs to his horse, although he was advised to be careful, and soon afterwards animal and rider were observed to have fallen. He had only ridden about a quarter of a mile towards what he believed to be a deserted French position when he was suddenly fired upon by the enemy._ As soon as it was seen that Colonel Pem berton was struck down, Captain Furley, an English Man fortunately, who was attached to the society tor succouring the wounded. hastened to the spot where the unfortunate colonel was lying. He found him dead, and he also discovered that the cruelty and heartlessness of certain wretches, who scour even over battle-fields had not been idle qr at rest, for his clothes had been plundered of the money he was known to have been possessed of. The gallant "Kit Pembexton's" remains we have to add were interred between two poplar trees on the road to Sedan. A PREWTy QU4RREI4, No doubt the spectators at the Bow-street Police court on Thursday were much entertained when they saw Mr. M'Arthur, the man► of law, summone.d to justify an assault upon Colonel Bowland Moffatt, the man of the sword. The pugnacious attributes of the learned profession generally assume the form of Verbal violence, but its representative in question, gave his opponent a taste of his power in a different manner than usual, he kicked—so it is alleged—his antagonist. The complainant was a director of the Cornish Granite Company (Limited), and defendant had been a director. On the Ist inst. a meeting of the company was held, and some sore feeling which had subsisted between them culmi nated on the occasion. The complainant wished the secretary, who the defendant alleged, no longer occupie I the office, to enter the board room. De fendant said he should not enter, and he would pre vent his admission by force if necessary. The . gallant colonel is reported to have thereupon stigmatised Mr. M'Arthur as an imper tinent blackguard." This was too much, for the dignity of the solicitor, and he turned round ar.d, it is said, "kicked " the gallant complainant on the leg. The magistrate very properly remarked that the complainant had acted improperly in using of ensive language, but held at the same time that this impropriety did not justify the defendant in using his boots as he did, and he was accordingly fined 20s. THE DECEMBER ECLIPSE. The Government has positively refused in spite of the plainest precedents to allow tha use of a ship for the English scientific authbrities who are going to observe the solar eclipse from Spain and Sicily in December. Another Government more enlightened than our own apparently, namely, that of America,; is making extensive preparations, and Nature says Englishmen must fall back, in a research which is eminently English, upon the re sults of its labours, and those of the continental missions. The American corps of o bservation will represent deputies from the Naval Observatory and eminent professors from Harvard University. These gentlemen will be stationed re spectively at Malaga, Sicily, and some place in Turkey most available for making the best reoords and views. Rear-Admiral Glisson was to have give» his co-operation to the representatives of the United States: who were bound for Sicily, but owing to his having to move his squadron to the protection of the Baltic, the astronomical party will have to be content with a less dignified commander in the ex pedition—one perhaps, however, whose aid may ulti mately be extremely valuable. It is generally regretted by international scientific institutions that the United Kingdom, which has heretofore always been foremost in initiating and helping the development of science, should on this remarkable occasion refuse to sanction and assist any enterprise which would assuredly serve to extend our knowledge of the puzzling solar system ant of the celestial bodies generally. MILITARY INSTUUCTION IN SCHOOLS. A correspondent of the Standard ) who was for merly a scholar at the Military Academy at Wool wich, makes some remarks on the military training of boys, and advocates the necessity of more stringent military discipline being taught at the military schools. He says that powder and shot are not necessary requi sites during the time of training, and that if bayonet practice is required they might be supplied with wooden bayonets. These boys could be under the control of men selected from the regu lar army, and the teachers could watch the movements of the juvenile soldiers, and put a check on any irregular conduct. The writer feels convinced that if such a movement had been started when he was a lad some twenty years ago then would be much less cause for present complaints. If boys leaving schools so instructed were not inclined to join the regular army they would at least be iu a position to join our volunteer forces, and thus be ready, at a "day or two's notice," to compose at least a small army ; but well trained, and be ready to face any enemy without the slightest fear. This would be a credit to England, as well as a decided improvement in a military point of view. A PROTEST. We venture to assume that those who read a paragraph which appeared a few days ago, respecting three well-known members of the British Parliament, must have felt amazed and humiliated. It is a relief, therefore, to find that the gentlemen in question have hastened to give an unqualified contradiction to a statement which more than implied that they were guilty of the most contemptible conduct. It was alleged against them that they lived at " free quarters" with the Ambulance Department of the South German Army in France. Sir Charles Dilke and Mr. Auberon Herbert vindicate themselves in a letter to the Times, which also contains an assu rance that when hotel accommodation could not be procured, they offered liberal payment for all they received. Although a protest had been sent to the Standard, which journal, we understand, first gave publicity to the paragraph, no notice appears to have been taken of it. THE SICK AND WOUNDED. Whilst the mind turns with horror from the con templation of the immeasurable misery which two great civilised nations on the Continent have wrought for each other, that feeling is considerably modified when we remember the nobly organised efforts which are being made to alleviate the sufferings incidental to war. Nothing is more striking in connection with the associations and committees formed to assist the sick and wounded both of France and Germany that, the spontaneity and universality of the move ment. No irregular and purely localised energy has been exhibited, but organised and national. In speaking of the horrors of the war the Times with justice says :—" The appalling iteration of the same scenes and the ghastly de tails, must in some degree force home on our apprehension the fearful reality. It is incred ible, and, in the absence of this accumulated evi dence, it would not be believed. War is a delirium of nations; it passes like a dream, and its sudden agonies are as soon forgotten. But we are now reminded every morning that within a few hours' roach of us thousands of men are lying in mortal agonies, and many thousands more in cruel suffer ings." It is for us to assist in asking the English public to allow the full flood of their benevolence and pity to show itself in continual sympathy with all the needs of the sick and the dying. SERIOUS CHARGE OF FRAUD. Yesterday, at the Justice-room of the Mansion House, Mr. James Stephen Tripp, sixty years of age, described as an agent at 12, Clement's-lane, City, was charged before the Lord Mayor on a warrant with fraudulently obtaining, with one Richard Taylor, not in custody, divers valuable securities, worth £3,200, the property of William Parry, with intent to defraud. This was a most remarkable case, and the present charge will not be the only one preferred against the prisoner. Mr. George Lewis, jun., solicitor, conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Poland, barrister, appeared for the defence. Mr. Lewis, addressing the court, said he had to insti: tute a charge against the defendant of having committed a most gross and flagrant commercial crime, by which not only the prosecutor, Mr. Parry, an engineer, at Horn church, in Essex, but others of the public had been grievously defrauded. The prisoner and the man Taylor had carried on a business at 12, Clement's-lane, which they described as a loan and banking agency, and of which Tripp was stated to be the manager, although it would be conclusively shewn that he was the real principal, and that Taylor was a very willing partici pator in the commission of this fraud. The firm, " Richard Taylor and C 0.," pretended to take deposits, allowing good percentages, and to advance money on securities, and these statements they largely advertised in the newspapers. It would be shown from a letter in the prisoner's own handwriting that in July last the firm was hopelessly and irretrievably insol vent, and that when threatened with an adjudication in bankruptcy they professed that they would not be able to pay ls. in the pound. Notwithstanding this they still made the same extravagant and false statements, and issued in a circular the details of a new system by which, for instance, an investor of £3,600 might have an annual profit of £240 a year. By this the prosecutor had been deceived, and it did not enter into his mind for one moment that such statements could possibly be false. He had previously sustained a loss of £7OO on various stock transactions, and to retrieve this loss he expressed a desire to buy under the new system Turkish stock fcr £lO,OOO, the purchase money of which was to be advanced by the prisoner and his partner. To this Tripp consented, and the same day he handed what purported to be a con tract note to the prosecutor, by which he gave him to understand that he had advanced 25,400 in payment of the stock. Mr. Parry, in pursuance of the agreement, sent him as a margin to cover the advance Stock of the value of £3,200 ; and these were the securities of which he had been defrauded. The advance in question was to be repaid on the 15th of January next, together with interest. Mr. Parry could never obtain the numbers of the alleged bonds, and he even tually found that the whole transaction from beginning to end had been a swindle, and that the prisoner and his partner had converted to their own use the £3,200 worth of securities which he had advanced. By this he had been virtually ruined ; and he now applied to the Court to stop such nefarious transactions from being' carried on in the very heart of the City of London. Two young ladies had been defrauded by the firm of several thousands, and large amounts had also been obtained from other persons. The importance of such an investigation could not be overrated, and he (Mr. Lewis) hoped that it would serve to put an end to systems fraught with considerable danger to the commercial public. That, in substance, was the statement of the solicitor for the prosecution, and Mr. Parry gave evidence con firming it in the main particular. The case was eventually adjourned. MILITARY EDUCATION COMMITTEE. The following is a summary of the main recommenda tions contained in the second report of the Commiision on Military Education :- 1. In regard to the superintendence of army schools, that the duties of inspection in Ireland should be assimi lated to those in Great Britain, the office of acting inspector in the former country being abolished, and the superintending schoolmasters in both countries becoming sub-inspectors, under a single inspector; that the number of annual examinations of schools should be diminished; and that the Indian should be amalgamated with the Imperial school system. 2. In regard to children's schools, that the payment of fees for the children of officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers serving in the army should be abolished; and that an organised system of industrial instruction for chil dren of both sexes should be introduced. 3. In regard to adult schools, that attendance at school should be compulsory on recruits until they acquire a certain amount of rudimentary education; that school certificates should, except in very special cases, be made, in time of peace, an indispensable condition of promo tion ; and that the utmost eneouragement possible should be given to the formation of special classes. 4. In regard to the status of schoolmasters and school mistresses, that the rates of pay and pension granted to them should be augmented ; that the advantages of their position should be generally increased ; and that certain regulations should be repealed, which appear to press unfairly upon schoolmasters, or to lower the dignity of their office. 5. In regard to recreation rooms, libraries, lectures, and soldiers' institutes, that the system of regimental recrea tion rooms should be decidedly maintained in preference to that of institutes beyond the precincts of the barracks ; that fuller development should be given to the present system of recreation rooms, by the general provision of adequate accommodation for them, and by the applica tion of a portion of the canteen funds to purposes of recreation ; and that suitable accommodation for lecture halls should be provided in large garrisons. 6. In regard to the Normal School at Chelsea, that the establishment should be abolished ; and that, in place of the present system for training army schoolmasters, civilian candidates for the appointment should be ob tained from civil training institutions, while military candidates should, as a general rule, be trained in regi mental schools, with the opportunity afforded to them of a short course at a civil training school. 7. In regard to the Model School at Chelsea, that the establishment should be placed, both in regard to disci pline end instruction, under the immediate control of the director-general of military education ; that alterations should be made in its internal organisation, with the object of placing the supervision over both discipline and instruction in the same hands, and of extending the authority of the instructors ; that an improved and ex tended system of industrial training should be adopted ; that the school should be removed into the country ;, and that, in the meantime, improvements should be effected in its sanitary state, and in the accommodation and means of recreation provided for the pupils. 8. In regard to the Hibernian School, that a diminution should be made in the numbe, and alterations in the con stitution, of the governing body ; and that improvements should be effected in the organieation, sanitary state, and accommodation of the establishment, simifar in principle to those recommended in the case of the model school. 9. In regard to the School of Musketry at Hythe and the system of musketry instruction, that the establish ment should be divested of all functions of inspection, and should be considered as a normal school for the train ing only of officers and non-commissioned officers as instructors ; that the inspection of musketry should be made a portion of the duties of the Adjutant-General's staff; that various improvements should be adopted in the method of instruction and the general management of the school at Hythe, and that the establishment should be subject to periodical inspection ; that certain alterations should be introduced in the general system of musketry throughout the service (including a thorough revision and abbreviation of the present regulation on the subject) ; and, finally, should a system of regimental instruction be adopted, that with the present duties of regimental musketry instructors should be combined those of giving instruction in other practical military duties. Irish Whisky is r omm en d e d D UNV I LLE and Co. , Belfast , are the largest holders Old to French br an d, . Sup pliedin in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Royal I r i s h Di s h c' y f w th h e is m ky ed in ica th l t ill e ries. Belfast ; or at thei London Offices, 4, Beaufort Buildings Strani, W.C. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1870. STERNE . S familiar phrase is for once inapplicable. They don't "manage these things better in France " --referring here as we do—let it be understood at once—to the course pursued by the Parisians during these last few days at a j tncture of extreme emer gency. With a hostile army, flushed with victory, an army numbering altogether between 30p,000 and 400,000 of the most formidable troops in the world, guided by the genius of the most consummate master of the art of war now living ; with a host like this advancing rapidly upon them, the people of Paris are chipping N's and E's, and Eagles and Diadems off every " coign of 'vantage " on which, when these same Parisians were the ready flatterers of they were so lavishly squandered ; they are destroy ing shop signs of a similar character ; they are obliterating photographs of the EMPEROR and the EMPRESs, and of the Child of France ; they are smashing busts, and fracturing sculpture, and hacking into shreds historic master pieces from the hands of HORACE VERNET and WINTERHALTER. With the Prussians swiftly ap proaching the gates of Paris, they, the defenders of Paris, are busying themselves with these frivolous displays of sheer spite and of brutal Vandalism, varied with assaults yet more brutal upon inoffensive lookers - on, such as the one ii Rioted upon the well-known Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, who has now told us all about it. " When empires fall and Prussians marsh on Paris," quoth he, " the fact of a newspaper correspondent being extensively echymosed by anti- Prussian sabots, and having his left hand half bitten through by an enthusiastic but seemingly anthro pophagic patriot, is of very little importance indeed." "But," he goes on to say, " the fact having led to my passing the last three days mainly in the com panionship of sundry bottles of Goulard water and camphorated oil, forwarded by one of the English chemists in the Rue de la Paix for external applica tion, has likewise afforded me the opportunity of watching the curious operation "---of what ? Well, of how it has come to pass that while he himself was endeavouring, with the aid of the aforesaid Goulard water and camphorated oil to rub out the " extensively echymosed " portions of his epidermis (we thank Mr. SALA for teaching us that phrase), the Parisians themselves have been busying themselves all the while with—" Rubbing out the Empire." Chisels and mallets. pocket knives and crowbars, have been industriously called into re quisition, to ohip off here, there, and everywhere, the obnoxious initials and insignia of the abolished dynasty of the NAPOLEONS. The frivolity, the utter childishness of all this under the actual circumstances is indescribably pitiable. One can fancy the Ironsides of CnomwELL—in fact one knows only too well that they actually were—prepared at any moment of leisure to mutilate works of art and of antiquity in the Abbeys, and Minsters, and glorious old Cathedrals of the United Kingdom. But, supposing for the sake of argument, a foreign army to have landed in those days, to have beaten the troops confronting them, and to be thereupon in full march upon Lon don—only imagine the inhabitants of the capital, finding nothing better or wiser to do than to go about busily chipping off every C.R. they could find limned or carved, here, there, and everywhere. Why, the notion is simply preposterous. No, for once we repeat, STERNE'S phrase is inapplicable. " They don't manage these things better in France," or, at least, among the Parisians. A. WORD FOR WILLIAM. IT is impossible to read the full text of the King of rnussiA's letter to Queen AUGUSTA, written on Saturday, and to doubt the writer's sincerity. There is sincerity in every line. The King sees history un rolling itself hour by hour before him, and he sees the hand of GOD in that great drama which has been acting for the last two months. He sees himself the foremost figure save one, and he is lost iu wonder at the rapidity and the stupendous character of the events. He is amazed that he has been chosen as the instrument for working out the Divine purpose. As he says, he has fought one great successful war, and he could not at his age expect to fight another. Yet this war, which has been none of his seeking, this which will be famous through all time has been waged and won under his leadership. In truth a man must be very callous or very vain who was not moved, to such thoughts as these. He must either have failed to recognise their importance, or he must have had an overweening sense of his own importance, if he had not been awed by the greatness of the results and the comparative insignificance of the instrument. King Wiwam was neither callous nor vain. On the contrary, he has always shewn himself a modest and Godfearing man. Even the famous words which he uttered at Konigsberg, when, on assuming the crown during his coronation, he declared that he wore it by the grace of Con—words which at that time terrified Liberal Germany, and m a d e th e world believe that they saw in the new Sovereign a restorer or the antiquated doctrine of' the divine right of kings—hear another interpretation now. King WILLIAM believes-alivays did believe=-that HER ..11A,TELT Y. BALMGRAL, Si.PT 7. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, weir out this morning. In the afternoon the Queen drove out. Lady Churchill and the Hon. Mrs. H. Ponsonby were in attendance. Prince Arthur has left Balmoral for Dunrobin Castle. The Marquis of Stafford and the Earl of Rosebery have left Balmoral. BANKRUPTS. In London. Gunn, John, Austinfriars, City, merchant, to surrender Sept. 26, at 11. Mathew, Henry Richard, Rood-lane, City, wine and spirit agent, Sept. 26, at 12. Thomas, Daniel, King-street West, Hammersmith, butcher, Sept. 26, at 1. THE DISESTABLISHED CHURCH IN IRELAND.— 'The ,Representative Body of the " Church of Ireland " had a meeting on Thursday in the Molesworth-hall, Dublin, under the presidency of the Bishop of Meath. Several letters were read enclosing subscriptions and promises of contributions. The honorary secretaries reported that the donations promised for the Sus tentation Fund now amounted to £262,259, and the annual subscriptions to £17,569,0f which £155,124 had been lodged in bank. The draught of the charter revised by the Government was submitted for approval, and the legal committee to whom it had been referred having re ported that no substantial alteration bad been made in it, the meeting accepted it unanimously. EREAKFAST.—EppS'S COCOA.--GRATEFUL AND COM FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. • Sold only in tin-lined packets labelled—JAMES EPPS & CO., Homoeopathic Chemists, London.—Advt. FIRE AT THE HOLBORN AMPHITHEATRE. Only four fires occurred during the last 24 hours, namely, up to yesterday morning, and out of that number only the following two were deserving of notice : One was at the Royal Amphitheatre, High Holborn, and was caused by some one throwing a light through the fanlight of the stables at the back of the theatre. Fortunately, owing to the timely aid afforded, the flames were confined to the destruction of a quantity of straw, and damage to the stall boards. It is unknown whether Mr. Charman, the proprietor of the theatre, was insured or not. The tire took place from some unknown cause in the extensive premises of Mr. J. B. Green, a carpenter and builder, No. 18, Catherine-street, City-road. In the course of a few minutes the stores on the ground floor presented a general mass of flames, and although the engines of the Metropolitan Brigade were remarkably early in arriving the flames had taken possession of the upper portions of the building. The firemen and London Salvage Corps managed by great perseverance to confine the flames to Mr. Green's premises,. which were for the most part destroyed. THE BOMBARDMENT OF MONTMEDY; The correspondent of the Standard, writing from Montmedy on the 6th instant, says --" I entered this afternoon Montmedy to judge for myself of the damage made by the storming of yesterday, and to have details from the heroic defenders of the fortress who have so bravely resisted and sworn not to surrender. After the different attacks I mentioned in my letter of yesterday, the Prussians did retire towards evening, and to-day they have entirely disappeared from the neighbourhood, except a few stragglers who can be met now and then towards the village of Frenay. It would seem that the Prussian artillery have determined to give up the besieging of the fortress. For six hours the fire directed on the town was at the rate of ten shots per minute, and the return from the fortress about seven in the same time. The Prussianborah e were all directed against the buildings inside the walls, their object being evidently to set the place on fire, and obtain a prompt capitulation. The Palace of Justice and several houses are entirely burned "; the church, pierced all over by bullets, is standing yet, and the provisions stored in it are safe. Two men were ,killed and five wounded. The besiegers had one battery dismounted, and must hav e lost many men. At twelve o'clock, when ;they momen tarily ceased their fire, they sent an order demanding capi tulation. The commandant peremptorily refused, lac and answered that he was determined to blow up the pe s ooner than give in. Too much praise cannot be given to that brave commandant. His name is Rebaul. He is a retired cavalry captain. His second, a captain of artil- lery of thp Mobile Guard, and ex-commander in the mer chant service, named Loiaree, is equally determined, and , with the sous-prefet, has shewn a wonderful skill in point, ing the batteries. The greatest praise must be giv en also to the Guard Mobile, about 500 in number, who have devotedly executed the orders of their commander. Wha t. ever may happen next. Montmedy has done her duty'. The little tortzess deserves the thanks of the country. The Surgeon-General, Baron Larrez, is attending with devotion to he wounded, who have been transferred to the hospital ; and the great events which have taken place, perfectly known to all previously to the siege, hav e not diminished the undaunted courage of these brave Frenchmen. IN THE TRENCHES BEFORE STRAS BURG. Almost under our feet, divided from us only by a green field of grass—every dent in its outworks and blemish 111 its ramparts plainly visible to the naked eye, lay Saar burg, nestling at the feet of its magnificent Minster, the tower and spire of which were dyed a dark red' purple by the rays of the setting sun. Immediately he" neath us, answering every half T minute with a roar that shook the floor beneath our feet, and made the tiles above our heads rattle again, to the short, sharp command, of the directing officer above mentioned, were ranged six long black tubes, peering over a ridge of fresblY" turned clay towards the city, and dealing n nt , death and ruin every time they strain ° their dark throats in awful utterance. During t he , ten minutes of my sojourn in that dusky eyrie they on' four shells into the work nearest us with such precision and force that about twenty feet of its outer face was Blown outwards, as if by an earthquake. Suddenly the fortress replied with half a dozen big guns, in rapid suc cession; two shells from which struck ground in fron t of the battery, about twenty yards from the ro ad passing the brewery gates,'„whilst. one crashed in to a cottage hard by a - gasometer, a little to our l eft and set its roof in a blaze within a minute . This was war in earnest ; and I would have gladly remained in so advantageous a position for the rest of the evening, but was compelled to witir draw at the request of my conductor, who informed me that the French would probably, according to th eir Custom, throw a few shells at the look-out about night fall, and he would rather not expose any amateur V isi. tors to such serious casulties, as too frequently occur within the precincts of his command. After thanks is him for his courtesy, I took my leave, and returned, am the deafening clamour of the batteries, to Mats on Rouge, where I found Von B—n awaiting m e ' with the welcome intelligence that supper was readY', and a famous brew of punch in course cn concoction, as a prelude to our night expedition. The nights wax cool, not to say cold, already; and 59 „ inner garment of hot punch is an excellent antidote " the damp evening chills. As such we assumed it; and, rejoicing at the genial warmth it yielded, set off at 10 o'clock in the direction of Strasb urg . We h a " hardly got clear of Eckbolsheim when th e brilliant, spectacle of a night bombardment was fully revealed to our eyes. Diverging to the left from the chauss6e up on the open country, in effecting which movement, the nigh being pitch dark, I got a rether heavy fall—we stood l b while upon the broad green plain environing the city' with nothing between us and Strasburg but the angry batteries, and the silent trenches crowded with infantry supports. From every direction within the range of °°: glasses came and went the bombs and shells, the fu r t e i sailing thsough the air in sweeping, grace curves, and seeming to drop quite gently into the Worn ° trench—the latter hurtling and screeching along in rently straight lines, and betrayin g thei r arr ival at the i " respective goals by a heavy thud and a loud crash of eic t plosion. After spending a quarter of an hour in r a P contemplation of this splendidly terrible sight, we broke up our party, half of our number returning to the village to snatch a few hours' much-needed sleep, and til , e t other half, including myself, to push on to the fore run ; trench, occupied, as it happened, for the night h 333 ' friend, Captain Dumont—a post of extreme (lane:. Challenged by guard after guard, sentinel after sentinel' we walked quickly through a bye-path to the left, got u nder , the shelter of a long wall, skirted by a narrow footp ath ' leading onwards to the glacis of the fortress, from at intervals, a flash of fire and deep-toned 4‘ booni warned us that its garrison was awake and 1 0 1' The first injunction laid upon us was t o extU r guish our cigars, as they offered a capital mark fort i le h sharpshooters in pits under the wall s , f ro m whit we were only four hundred yards distant ; the not to speak above a whisper, our voices being pla inly audible to the marksmen in q ues ti on , w h o are excell ent hands at an approximate shot. These regulations ha v i ng ; been complied with, we knelt down in the straw "sc l " ,. F , which the trench was lined, and bestowed our NO% attention on the firing. This was of a rather corul )l f e a description, as we were between the 111°r [ i . and 241 b. batteries and the fortress—the L° , - 4 ; mer firing over us, and the latter at us. We were " it close, in fact, that when a shell from behind us still; a house in the faubourg of Strasburg immedi ut t e e d in our front, we could hear the shrieks of the affrig h ; t s women and children, as they fled into the streets from one danger to another. The city, upon our 4 rival, was already on fire in two places, whilst the d o th e of Schilligheim were burning on our left. As for tf.., new 24-pounder battery, our near neighbour, its act iv r t and acharnement—l know of no English synonYi n „:l the word—were simply appalling. Every gun i t j ' l , o —and it must have fired sixty or seventy w hilst I Ito near it—shook the earth beneath us, and seemed a drive in the drums of our ears. Fort Blanc tr eg t e l l us to some ordnance of a still heavier descriPti°, —4B-pounders, I should soy, at the least. The P r ussia n e ; too, were unremitting in their attack from their batt ens near Schilligheim ; and every now and then the heu ve o , o were lustrous with flying luminaries, some like con e 0, some like falling stars, others like g l eam ing nie ter a slowly gliding through infinit e sp ace t o so me unkn u ' undream of celestial realm.—Correspondent a cf Tele0(61) IN MEMORIABL—The Very Rev. Dr. 0 13 .... t e g 91 Roman Catholic Dean of Cork, on Tuesday ev e , l 4 ...,, during an address to the Liverpool Catholic 1)- r , 0 Men's Society, spoke of the news of the EnW er° •o captivity and the establishment of a R e publi c France, and said,—" It is not my business to vi il " l , 4 gate Louis Napoleon, and there are many a ll of which every one of us has to complain; but, events in Ireland—l may say in En g la n d—if a l i e wrought for twenty years with so much success , n ss had raised his nation to such a position of grao i d i r ti r je se France, if he had filled its coffers with what men days most regard, and had raised the country to 3 P 5111.1°1e ie 0 of power, I do not think that in these islands, bad 35 „ might be, we would universally despise that man bec3 10) ,,e he had lost one battle, or forsaken him in 3 t j • because he has not satisfied all our expectt',-,.°0% Aye, and something more was expected French chivalry for that woman who sat act. in the cholera hospitals, who laid her fair 11 , 3 11 1 ,1 upon the fevered brow of misery, who led her only c : to from bed to bed, to teach him what sympathy was di1 ,,, - tea humanity and the dignity of the subjects he was "P' i - ber to govern ; that woman-who made rough n atures f ee 'd e r tender compassion, and hardened hearts feel her teodw. ness in all the institutions for which she cared so f ° ,, li a to Surely this woman deserved better than to be comPel'e s o fly by night to a foreign country from the land she loves well ?" 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