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EMOSE and • 0 T ZN P 11 %NO RIES and ALDGATE, W OXFORD-STRIT. t CORNER of HART-6TRFET. ( -1 •NE of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. DFORD, *ORKSHIRE. FS and SON'S PRICE LIST of J.„ ENTI. EMEN'S CLOTHING. Frock Dress Oxford Camb. Coats. Coats. Coats . Coats. 255. 255. 17s. 188. .Os. 30s. 215. 225. 355. 265. 28s. 425. 425. 30s. 325. 50s. 365. 363. COs. 425. 425. Also at Also at Also at Also at .ther prices. other prices, other prices other prices MOSES and SON beg to. remind the public • that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its p• al ity, and they venture to affirm that every article sold by them is _,onsiderably cheaper than what can be obtained at any other hn 13e in England. 1 1 1 HOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of ENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED: Autumn Business Morning Dress Suits. Suits. Trousers. Trousers. 245. 245. 10s. 6d. 16s. 28s. 28s. 12s. 6d. 16s. 6d. 365. 365. 14s. 18s. 40s. 425. 155. 6d. 21s. 455. 48s. 17s. 6d. 245. 555. 525. 205. 265. Also at Also at Also at Also at other prices. other prices. other prices. other prices ORDERS by post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LI , T of Ju.l• BOYS' CLOTHING : Knickerbocker Eton Brighton Harrow Suits. Suits. I Suits. Suits. 9s. 6d. 155. I 18s. 18s. 13s. Cd. 19s. 235. I 235. 16s. 6d. 21s. ' 265. 265. 215. 265. 325. I 325. 26s w 30s. 365. 365. OS. 365. 48s. 48s. Also at Also at Also at Also at other prices. other prices. other prices. other prices. - 14 1 MOSES and SON supply every description of clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes ; also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any article exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-fre E. 310SES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON :- LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. YORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD. YORKSHIRE. HEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.-Sole A. Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.-This Theatre having been re-decorated under the direction of Mr. t C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., is now Open for the AUTUMN DRAMATIC I SEASON, THIS EVENING, Oct. 3. Doors open at half-past Six, t commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at half-past Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from t Sixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four o Guineas. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. a MISS NEILSON will appear in the character a of AMY ROBSART, in the Drama of that name, r THIS EVENING, Oct. 3.-THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. iJ Al R. T. C. KING will appear in the character of i VARNEY, in the new brama, entitled AMY ROBSART, a THIS EVENING, Oct. 3.-THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. t I)HOBUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated a n 11. YOKES FAMILY will appear at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 3.-THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. I AMY ROBSART; a new Historical Romantic r Drama, written by Andrew Halliday ; founded on Sir v Walter Scott's celebrated novel "Kenilworth," with new and t characteristic scenery by William Beverly, at a Quarter to Eight 5 o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 3.-THEATRE ROYALDRURY- f LANE. a AMY ROBSART ; new drama : Characters by t] Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Yokes, Kemp, J. Mortin, and Rosina Yokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 3.-THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. A MY ROBSART; New Drama, characters by .Ll._ Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, J. B. Howard, a , Brittain Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon, tl Vokes, F. Stanforth, H. Naylor, and Fred. Yokes, THIS EVEN ING, Oct. 3.-THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. A MY ROSBART; New Drama. The Overture and 71._ Incidental Music selected and composed by W. C. Levey, L executed by an increased Orchestra and numerous Chorus. The Ballet and Grouping of Crowds arranged by Mr. John Cor snack. The whole produced under the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling at a Quarter to Eight THIS EVENING, Oct. 3.- THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. A MY ROBSART.-The costumes from designs , of an eminent Artist, the gorgeous Revels at Kent]; v worth, including the Procession of the Ancient Britons s Saxons, Romans, Normans, &c, and ending with the floating Pageants on the Lake, illustrated by 300 auxiliaries, THIS EVENING, Oct. 3.-THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. P ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by R Martin Becher, at Eleven o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 3. -THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. 0 PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-Sole Lessee and B Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. This Evening, at Seven, WANTED a THOUSAND MILLINERS, A Mr. J. Rouse, &c.: at a quarter to Eight, The RAPPAREE, Messrs. Herman Vezin, W. Rignold, J. Clayton, A. Rayner, E. p F. Edgar, Shiel Barry; Mesdames Katharine Rodgers and M. Cooper; to conclude with THE HAPPY MAN, Mr. Shiel Barry, &c. A C] ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. M Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGII. This Evening, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING ; The School for Coquettes. Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Pc Swanborough, E. Buf ton, and F. Hughes. The New Hurly- Burly-Esque, "THE IDLE 'PRENTICE." Messrs. Terry, Fannon, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. - Baton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c. ; and, THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. pALAIS ROYAL, Argyle-street, O x f or d Ci rcus w. Dr. CORRY ' S Great National Entertainment, ' IRELAND : its Scenery, Music, and Antiquities. Magnificent Scenery and Splendid Dioramic Effects, with Songs, Duets, Choruses, Characteristic l a ) t an S c es i ve a d n n d es 3 d l a ir y t s h a -P n r d ov s o a k tu i l g day lli s Irish Sketches. Every Evening t 3 and S. Admission, Is. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. ; Numbered Stalls. 3s. MA DAME TUSS AUD ' S EXHIBITION, BAKER STREET. - - On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the 1 . - - Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial ; King William of • Frussia, and Count von Bismarck. Admission, Is.; Children ander 10 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. !,X lIIBITING lIOURLY from eleven a.m., till ten p.m. Ad • ; it r .Is.; reserved seats, 25.; children, 6d. Palais Royal, %rgyle-street, Oxford-street, W. RLE Y'S HORSE h d CATTLE SPICE, In Penny Packets only, of all Corn Chandlers lu London, and Of all Grocers, Druggists. and Corn Dealers in the Country. NATION AL INSTITUTION f or DISEASE S of the SKIN; Gray's-inn-road and Mitre -street. Physi • cian, Dr. BAUR. MEADOWS, 49, Dover-street, Piccadilly. Ave rage numb or of Patien ts under treatmen t , 1,000 weekly.. Free letters are available for necessitoos applicants. THOMAS ROBINSON, Hon. See. WES'f LONDON HOSPITAL., Hamme rsm i t h W.—FUNDS are urgently n ee d ed, and t he Committee earnestly appeal to the benevolent to assist them in carrying on their usefu work. T. ALEXANDER, Sec. and Sup. (Translation.) "Brussels, llotel de Flandres, Sept. 28. "Gentlemen,—l cannot delay one moment to thank you for your most generous gift. The money was indeed most accept able. I not only thank you personally, but also in the name of the committee of the Societe des Secours aux Blesses, who have formed a central committee here. Again, allow me to repeat that the money (£1,250) I have received from you is of great aid. Our wants are numerous, notwithstanding the unbounded devo tion and charity we experience from the Belgians in our favour, and we cannot really express ourselves in sufficient terms for their kindness in every way. Our unfortunate wounded soldiers arrive here in a most pitiable condition, their uniforms covered with mud and blood—in fact, their clothes stick to them ; we are, therefore, obliged to cut them off in pieces in order to undress them. We have consequently to supply them with new clothes before setKijug them on to their destination. We shall now employ the iniNty you have sent for this particular object. "In your letter of the 26th inst. you ask me to state which are the most necessary articles required. I now mention, for the guidance of the generous and kind public, the following, and may particularly mention air cushions (your last consign ment was exceedingly useful, and was immediately distributed), flannel, to make vests and dressing-gowns, clothing of all sizes, trousers, overcoats, shirts, drawers, &c., port wine, Swiss milk, Liebig's extract of meat, tapioca, &c. We doubt not that your funds will so increase as to enable you to supply some of these requirements. Your English friends have been very kind, and we cannot thank them enough. It Is in reply to your inquiries that I lay before you our wants, and I beg of you to make the same known to the generous donors to your fund—how thank ful we are to them for having already contributed both money and kind to the unfortunate defenders of our dear France,' and that God (le bon Dieu) may render them in any hour of need his pity and sympathy.—Receive, gentlemen, my most sincere thanks and renewed assurance of my esteeem (Signed) "Le Mareehale CANROBEnT MACDONALD. "To Messrs. Piesse and Lubin, 2, New Bond-street." FRENCH WOUNDED. DONATIONS are earnestly solicited ; and every article that can be consi dered useful and beneficial to the woundbd will be gratefully accepted and duly forwarded by Piesse and Lubin, acting for the Societe des Skours. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY-LANE—A Domestic Hercules. Amy Robsart. Phobus's Fix. QUEEN'S — Aunt.Charlotte's Maid. Midsummer Night's Dream. GAlkY—Ballet. Beggar's Opear. Bluebeard. SADthift's WELLS—Mistress of the Mill. King Lear. VAtIDVILLE--Chiselling. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STRAND—On and Off. School for Coquettes. Idle 'Prentice. Chops of the Channel. PRINCESSES'—Wanted, 1,000 Milliners. The Happy Man. ROYALTY—Our Nelly and F. M. Julius Cncesar, the Irregular Rum 'Un. OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicaments. Handsome Does. Undine. HOLBORN—Farce, The Odds. AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the Arena. The Rapparee. Handsome Is that PALAIS RoYAL—Dr. Corry's Panorama of Ireland—Pro fessor Faber's Talking Machine, &c. ALHAMBRA—Grand Ballet and Varieties. CREmoßNE—Fireworks, Ballet, &c. MADAME TussAim's (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. ls.; extra rooms, 6d. POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening. - 17,k.! • , ti. t;'N eljg, LONDON, AIIiNDAY, OCTOBER, 3, 1870. A GLARE of light has been abruptly thrown on the military disasters of France by the special corres pondent of the Daily Telegraph. Mr. SALA, like the journalistic detective that he is, has turned his bull's eye all of a sudden on that ugly something which has come to be spoken of latterly in regard to the French army as" demoralization." 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Sold in bottles, is. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, nclud ng brush. lied Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 98, Upper Thames-street, Lon• ion, E.C. SIEGE OF PARlS.—Colossal M a p s , M o d e l s , Living Photographs of the French and Prussian Generals, by Herr Schulze. DAILY, from twelve noon till ten p.m. Ad mission is. Children 6d.—PALAIS ROYAL, Argyll-street, Oxford-circus, W. IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HELP TO THE SICK AND WOUNDED IN THE FRANCO PRUSSIAN WAR. UNDER DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE. A. GRAND AMATEUR DRAMATIC ENTER TAaVAIENT will be given by the Members of the PER SEVERANCE DRAMATIC CLUB, at the Cavendish Rooms, on MONDAY, October 10th. Admission :—Unreserved seats, 2s. 6d. ; Reserved, ss. FRENCH ' WOUNDED FUND.—The follo w ing Letters recently appeared in the "Times," " Standard " and Morning Papers of September 30 : " Sir,—We are asked by Madame la Marechale Canrobert to send you the enclosed letter for publication. Although addressed to us personally, itis intended to be read by all friends of France, and the donors to the French Wounded Fund in particular. " A small fund like the one we have collected, and which has now reached to £3,100, is soon expended when such unceasing demands are made upon it. We are, however, confident that when the public are informed of the actual wants of the wounded, they are sure to render us further aid. The little money now remaining in the bank to the credit of the French Wounded Fund will not supply one-fiftieth of the demands made upon it. " The Baron de Bussiere has just arrived in England from Versailles, where the Societe des Secours aux Blesses has a depot. lie comes to ask aid in money and kind. The distres sing state and starving condition of the wounded he describes to us to be terrible, and must call sympathy from English hearts. Again, we have appeals coming to us from Boulogne, from the Societe Anglais pour Secours aux Blesses, under the guidance of General Sir Vincent and Lady Eyre. A portion of their com mittee are making a tour of inspection. They have visited Amiens and found 630 wounded ; Arras, 802 ; Douai, 315 ; Lille, 800 ; Cambrai, 323 ; Avesue, 230. More will be reported in their next advices from other towns. "We, therefore, crave of you to insert this letter, as we are assured the funds needed will be forthcoming. "We remain, Sir, your obedient servants, " PIESSE and LUBIN, 2, New Bond-street. "Sept. 29." 1111, SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1870. mutiny having occurred under the correspondent's own immediate observation. The facts certainly speak for themselves : Comfortably housed in one of the hotels at Tours, a cluster of officers of the Francs-Tireurs, deter mined, like FALSTAFF, to enjoy their ease at their inn, seat themselves at table, and begin dining, on Monday evening. They had brought a large body of their men into the city during the course of that afternoon, hungry, thirsty, jaded, smothered in dust and foot-sore. For weeks these Francs-tireurs, the Free Lances of France, called to her aid in her hour of extremity had been without pay. For days they had scarcely had any food at all. For the last twenty-four hours, though march ing a good part of that time, they had been without bite or sup. Arrived at Tours they were left to shift for themselves. They were instructed to billet themselves as they best could upon the inhabitants. Other troops, hussars, Garde Mobile, and the rest had come glittering and fluttering with their colours into Tours during the course of the afternoon. Nobody paid the least heed to the poor worn-out Franc-Tireurs. Doors were closed against them. They could find nowhere a roof to shelter them, or a bed, or even a litter of straw, on which to rest their wearied limbs. A crust or a drink they could nowhere discover. Night closing in upon them, thus, in the streets of the city, they become aware that meanwhile their officers are dining together comfortably, if not luxuriously, in their hotel. Away to the hotel, of course, they go ; and into the hotel, into the dining room, up to the table, they send a deputation in remonstrance. Angry words arise ; the men are infuriated; the officers are haughty and domineering ; the deputation is driven forth, each member of it with a flea in his ear. The news maddens their comrades who are waiting outside. Two offi cers alone come out from the mess-table to the mutineers ; the rest of the officers remain disdainfully at table carousing. There is a tumul tuous scene at the gateway of the hotel, resulting at last in all but a massacre. One of the two officers, after raving at the leaders of the mutiny, presents revolver at the Franc-Tireurs, and actually fires one of the barrels right into the surging mob of the soldiery, wounding one of the men, it is said, in the shoulder. Thereupon an impetuous private raises hislChassepot to retaliate„ but the other officer, by rushing on him, and forcing dOwn the barrel of the weapon, prevents his firing a shot which must otherwise, in all human probability, have ended, as we have said, in a complete massacre. Only by a hair's breadth, it appeared, was that imminent peril escaped. The gates of the hotel, after a fierce struggle, are with difficulty closed, and the maddened men and the domineering officers kept apart. It is a type of the whole. It is indicative of the antagonism between the two classes. This is the secret of what we have so often read of late, as this mysterious " demoralization." The selfishness of the officers, their neglect of their men, and all the estrangement consequently engendered between the privates and those nominally in command. Where the French army has failed is in its being committed to the care of mere drawing-room soldiers, men accus tomed to live during years of peace as Sybarites, and who never dreamt of roughing it with their fellow soldiers in the ranks during a campaign that meant the deadliest fighting, but that they all thought of it as a mere military promenade. So France has been ruined. Thus the Grand Army has collapsed. Thus the Great Nation has been prostrated in the dust, her fairest provinces overrun and ravaged by the invader, her beautiful and magnificent capital ringed round by a victorious host of German warriors, and threatened, unless it yields, with all the horrors of bombardment. IT is impossible not to sympathise with the spirit which animates Sir HENRY BULWER'S long letter in the Times of Saturday. There are few Englishmen who do not earnestly wish that the Germans could be magnanimous enough to forego some of the fruits of their great victory. There are many Englishmen who believe that it would not only be generous, but prudent, to abandon all claim to a cession of territory. Nevertheless, it is impossible not to admit that the Germans are the best judges of their own affairs, and if they think that in order to protect themselves from future attack they ought to acquire Alsace and Lorraine, it is not for us to say nay. Advice, indeed, we may give them, and though it is scarcely likely that the advice will be greatly heeded, no tear of what is called a humiliating rebuff should make us refrain from offering it. As Sir HENRY BULWER well says, it is not humi liating to speak what you think, it may be humiliat- ig not to do so. Even if to speak be humiliatin, Englishmen will bear the humiliation, because they will feel their conscience satisfied that their Govern- lent, whether successfully or unsuccessfully, has done its duty at this crisis —"a duty which requires England to speak honestly and independently, though it does not require her to act in the present position of affairs." There is un doubtedly with many persons an excessive sensitive ness. Too many Englishmen will not incur the risk of a small evil to themselves for the chance of preventing a great evil to another nation. The diplomacy of Lord RUSSELL has sickened many of us against diplomacy altogether. But there is a wide distinction between his acrid despatches and undisguised threats on the one hand, and the courteous advice which appeals solely to the moral qualities of those to whom we offer it on the other. it was the extremity of national humiliation when our Ministers, having threatened to send the Channel Fleet into the North Sea if Ger many did not desist from her attack upon Denmark, ate their own words when it was found that they produced no effect. But there is no need of repeat ing such a miserable blunder as that. Wholly friendly counsel should be offered, in . proper time and place, even though it should be not only rejected, which is likely enough, but rejected with insult, which is exceedingly unlikely. Neither English, nor any other statesmen, are in the habit of announcing at public meetings, or confiding to the editors of newspapers, the dis patches which they have written, or the negotiations which they are still conducting. Perhaps it is un fortunate that Parliament is not sitting now, and that for this reason we are shut off from the usual legitimate source of information. Nevertheless, we think it likely enough that nothing like de finite mediation has been offered. When the Empire was still in existence, and before the war actually broke out, Lord GRANVILLE distinctly warned the Duke of GRAMONT that if he persisted in the war, after Prince LEOPOLD of HOIIENZOLLERN had been withdrawn, France would have the opinion of Europe against her. No attention was paid to that warning ; in fact, the Duke distinctly declared that he had England on his side. Then the difficulty of our diplomatists was to get the French Govern ment to listen to us. Now the difficulty is to find a Government which we can address. M. JULES FANTRE is merely acting Foreign Secretary, . and neither he nor any of his colleagues can say—to use tui .A.uglo-Indoism — that their appointments are pucka. They may be swept away by a new revolution as rapidly as they themselves swept away the Empire. There is not the smallest guaran tee of stability, not the slightest certainty that the Government, in whose name we, undertake to plead, will not have ceased to exist before the con ditions which we suggest can be carried into effect. M. FAVRE would not, or could not, consent to make the sacrifices de manded in order to obtain the necessary ratification And. consolidation of his Government, though he must have known that the condition of two of the fortresses demanded by Prussia was desperate. While such is the obstinacy of the French on the one hand, while such is the overwhelming strength of the Prussians on the other, we are not surprised if the English Government, in common, apparently, with the Governments - of all the other neutral Powers, deem it hopeless to offer advice. Not the less may we have clear views of what we believe would be the best solution of the present painful problem. There are some who think that the only chance, or, at all events, the best chance of peace in the future, is the separation of the two com batants, rather than their closer contiguity, which is what Count BISMARCK proposes. Instead of shifting the German frontier up to the 'Vosges nountains, let there, it is said, be a thick partition wall built between France and Germany ; in the shape of one or more neutral states. Let Nice and Savoy be annexed to Switzerland, thus gratifying inci dentally the Republican tendencies of the district which gave birth to GARIBALDI. To the same republic add the Vosges Mountains, and either let Luxemburg join this extended Switzerland, or let it be annexed to Bel gium. There would thus be a continuous wall shutting out France from Prussian invasion, and Prussia from French attack, and extending from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, from Italian Nice to Dutch Groningen. This is the proposal of a well known man of letters, who, under the signature of "S.D." wrote in the Pall Mall Gazette a few days ago. It is a proposition which has much to recommend it. No doubt small States lying in the path of two great States impose a certain, amount of obligation and anxiety upon the other Powers. On the other hand, they have proved signally successful on many an occasion, and never more so than during the pre sent war. It is due entirely to the creation of the little Kingdom of Belgium in 1830 that the war of 1870 has not extended over a still wider area, and caused still greater misery than has resulted. A. MOST extraordinary statement is made in one of our London contemporaries. It will be remembered that a few weeks ago Sir . JOHN THWAITES, chair man of the Metropolitan Board of Works died, and that when the choice of a successor first became discussed, Mr. BRUCE informed the Board chat in all probability their functions would cease under the Act for the local government of the metropolis, which the HOME SECRETARY has pro mised to introduce next session. Subsequently there was a rumour that Mr. AYRTON was to be elected, but the rumour died away, and we believe that this most popular of ministers is not even a candidate. It is now stated that Mr. BRUCE some time ago wrote a private letter to the Board informing the members that if Mr. AYRTON were elected the proposal to abolish the Board would be allowed to drop. This statement seems to us well nigh incredible. We can readily understand that the Government would go very far in order to be relieved of such a colleague as Mr. AYRTON; but independently of the fact that it is by no means certain if Mr. AYRTON'S election to the Board of Works would be inconsistent with his retaining office as a Minister, we cannot bring ourselves to believe that Mr. BRUCE, or any other Minister, would impose a permanent burden upon the metropolis, and obstruct the great work of municipal reform which be is pledged to carry out, in order to be relieved from a troublesome member of the Government. If Mr. GLADSTONE thought that on the whole it was better to have Mr. AYRTON'S assumption in the Ministry than his threatened loquacity outside, that is Mr. GLADSTONE'S afthir. But to maintain a use less office, and to place in it a wholly unsuitable nian, would be too flagitious a proceeding. If we were inclined to doubt the statement at all our doubt would be confirmed by the fact that Mr. AYRTON is still busy at his post of First Commis sioner of Works, and is destroying that portion of Kensington Gardens which a large majority of the House of Commons last Session forbade him to de stroy. Even Mr. AYRTON would scarcely venture to do this at the time when he is a candidate for another office. Anyhow, it may be taken as certain that Mr.. AYRTON is not to be the new chairman, and that he is now venting his disappointment and wrath on the unfortunate railings of the Gardens. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE BRITISH ARMY. Sir Charles Russell made some remarks at the Berkshire Agricultural Society's meeting last week which are worthy of consideration at the present moment, when so much is being said as to Emziand's want of strength. Sir Charles Russell thought it was sad indeed that the War Minister should view with perfect complacency the fact that our breech-loaders, which ought to be in the hands of the Militia and Volunteers, were in certain stores in Canada. There was, he said, only one similar instance of self-satisfaction which occurred to him, rid that was when the Irishman looked on with perfect equanimity as. his silver teapot sank in the sea, because he said he knew where it was. Sir Charles Russell firmly expressed his opinion that England was not in a fit state of defence. If she were there would be entrenched camps between the seaboard and London, and thousands of our smooth-bore guns would now stand ready for use, converted into supe rior cannon on the Pall iser, or some other system, instead of lying in their old state as they were known to be in the arsenals. There was, moreover—and this was one of the most serious of drawbacks—some great reticence on the part of the authorities to act rightly and in time upon certain experiences placed before them. What he meant was illustrated after the Abyssinian campaign, when, instead of a com mittee being appointed to see what lessons we:had, from a military point of view, learnt from it, a single committee was selected to inquire why the bill was so large. In the streets of London, a few days before, he saw a soldier in tattered garments ;trolling on the pavement. He was soliciting alms, and no one seemed to wonder that there should be a ,:eetitute soldier. Round his neck there hung a board, upon which these lines were written : 'Mongst Englishmen, when danger's nigh, " God and our soldiers! " is the cry. When danger's o'er, and all is righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted. sir Charles thought the man might have been an mpostor, but the words on his board, bore, in a eneral sense, the stamp of truth. MR. BERNAL OSBORNE, M.P., ON THE WAR, Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P., was a guest at the Araterford Rifle Club dinner, and in the course of a peech he delivered on the occasion, he alluded to the war between France and Prussia. He declared that however the politician might seek to palliate it, the Christian must condemn it. It was impossible, he said, whilst deprecating the rashness ,of France, not to sympathise with that proud and great nation ; and whatever might have been the faults of the Emperor ia this hour of his fallen greatness, nothing but his irtues should be remembered. He was the victim of t -xho had urgel him to ruin and defeat. The Jiestion was, observed the speaker, what-was time duty of a civilised Christian and neutral nation at such a juncture. Neutrality, in his opinion, did not mean a selfish indifference to our neighbours, nor did mediation imply offensive intervention. A "large neutral charity," he continued, ought to induce us to make a strong effort to stop any further effusion of blood, and to endea vour to ameliorate the condition of the French. He expressed the utmost confidence in the ability, dis cretion, and humane disposition of our Foreign Minister, but *he • thought Lord Granville would be much strengthened in . his endeavours to bring about peace were he supported by au expression of opinion on the part of the Legislature. ,- t , e. , 1 i ~.,, ..:.;.,-':,,,,!,., i t;:: : , '7• - ..: • ~, 2 . , ,-.-; ' ;„.., -..- 1 '-o: '• .7 --„„. t , HER MAJESTY 13ALMORAL, SEPT. 29. The Queen drove out, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely. Prince Arthur went out deer-stalking. SEPT. 30. The Queen went out, attended by the Marchioness of Ely. The Marquis of Lorne, 'Major-General Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph, and Mr. Henry Fitzroy, had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. THE INQUIRY INTO • THE LOSS OF THE CAPTAIN. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) This inquiry was resumed on Saturday, at Portsmouth, when The evidence of Mr. Barnaby, President of the Board f Construction, was continued. He expressed his opinion that the stability of the Captain would have been very ;great, if the space between the forecastle and poop had been filled up instead of presenting an open side. Mr. Barnes, Assistant Constructor to the Navy, super intended the inclination of the Captain. He was not aware of the position in which the designers intended to place the centre of gravity. If he had finished his cal culations before the Captain went to sea, after the reports of various trials, he should not have considered the re :4ults of sufficient importance to communicate to Captain Burgoyne. He considered the reports of the trials proved the stability of the ship, and that this was quite sufficient. He was not aware that the Captain was less stable than her designers intended. Whilst obtaining data nothing occurred to cause a doubt as to the Captain's stability. He told Captain Burgoyne that the inclination was six degrees. The Admiral presiding inquired if witness attributed the loss of the ship to the sea having burst into her centra hatchway, trunk, or her poops and forecastle, or was it in his opinion caused by want of stability to bear the angle of heel she was thrown over to. Witness replied that he believed the latter was the correct supposition. He was not aware of any difference between naval architects as to. mechanical philosophy and hydrostatics upon which the calculations for stability of ships are made. He thought it probable the loss of the Captain was due to low freeboard, but there were many circumstances which might have contributed to it. He could not say what difference to the draught of water a change of the centre of gravity made. He should have hesitated to propose as much sail as the Captain carried on his own responsibility. The water ballast formed an important consideration in the build of the ship. It was expected to be used only when a portion of the coal had been consumed. Captain Burgoyne and the officers were aware of this feature. Mr. William Laird, of the firm of Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, said the draught of water of the Captain, specified in the general particulars of the ship furnished to Captain Coles for submission to the Admiralty, was 22ft. 6in. forward, and 23ft. 6in. abaft. The firm had never built so large a tonnage ship, or one with special arrangement as to hurricane deck. The excess in weight over the total estimate forwarded to Captain Coles, in July, 1866, was spread over various parts of the structure, and could not all be attributed to any one position. Witness then handed in a statement prepared early in the year explaining the positions of the structures in which the weights estimated had been exceeded by th weights weighed with the ship during her construction, as well as an approximate estimate of the position of the centre of gravity arrived at in 1866. Witness continued to say that 'a more complete calculation was come to at the beginning of the year, and this was made by Messrs. Lairds' chief draughtsman. Witness looked over the results himself and believed there was not much difference in the position of the centre of weights occa sioned by the alteration in the 'design. After giving further details as to the calculations made, witness pro ceeded to say that he was on board, the Captain when she was taken from Holyhead to Portsmouth, and she then behaved in a way to give every confidence. The President : Was this ship designed on the entire responsibility of your firm and Captain Coles ? - - - Witness said he did not consider so, and in support of this read a long correspondence which took place prior to their accepting the tender, and added that it was only in the event of the design being approved that the ship was to be built. He further read a letter in which Messrs Laird declined to accept a pecuniary consideration for the designs, and asking for their return of the vessel was not built. The President referred to an extract from the contract and a letter of July 23rd, which he thought seemed to con vey the idea that Messrs. Laird were not responsible for the design of the ship. Would the witness state what degree of responsibility he considered attached to the firm and to Captain Coles ? Witness : We consider our responsibility was in the first place to prepare a design in conjunction with Captain Coles, to submit that design through Captain Coles to the Lords of the Admiralty for their approval, on the understanding that if they approved of it and accepted the tender of the firm selected they would pro pose to Parliament in the next year's estimates that the vessel should be made. The President : So that in point of fact you consider the acceptance of the contract relieved you from all re sponsibility of design ? Witness : We consider from the words used by the Admiralty to Captain Coles that unless they ap proved the designs we should not have been asked to give a tender for the vessel, and that that fact of the acceptance of the tender gave sanction to the plans and specifications which they had proposed. Various other questions were put, and in the end the answer was elicited that witness considered the responsi bility was jointly shared by himself, Captain Coles, and the Admiralty. • The court then adjourned to Monday, when Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor, will be examined. THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE ON MECHANICS' INSTITUTES. A new building, erected for the purposes of a Mechanics Institution, Trade Schools, and School of Science and Art, whs opened at Keighley on Friday. The new building is a handsome stone structure, and has been erected at a cost of £13,000. The lecture hall (in which the inaugural meeting was held) will sear 1,000 persons. A number of invited guests, amongst whom were the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Houghton, Lord F. Cavendish, M.P. ; Mr. E. Baines, M.P. ; and Mr. 11. Cole, secretary to the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, were received by the trustees and other officers, and a large body of members. The Duke of Devonshire, in a few congratulatory remarks, declared the building open. A finencial report was afterwards presented ; and Lord Houghton briefly addressed the meeting.—Tbe proceed ings, which were interspersed with music, shortly after wards conlcuded. In the evening,'a meeting was held in the Lecture Hall, presided over by the Duke of Devonshire. The Chairman, after remarking upon the satisfaction with which the new building was viewed in the neigh bourhood, said that if the Institution had been a Mechanics' Institution of- the old type there would have been little ground of exultation. There was a time when such institutions were under a cloud. In the .3stimation of nine out of every ten persons they had failed in their purpose. Their history had un doubtedly not been one-of uninterrupted success. Although mechanics, as a class, had not manifested the thirst for knowledge which some persons had been sanguine enough to hope for, yet mechanics' institutions were far from having failed. Of late new life had been infused into them, and in many cases they formed the most valuable portion of the educational machinery in the district. This, in Yorkshire, was largely attribu table to the influence of the Union of Mechanics' Institutions.—(Hear, hear.) The distinctive features of the Keighley Institution were these : Besides having ample accommodation for all the appliances of a mechanics' institution, provision had been niade for art instruction in connection with the Science and Art Department of the Privy Council. Secondly, there would be established a trade school, of which there were few at present in the kingdom. Their object was to give, in addition to a good secondary education, technical instruction in arts and manufactures. The Keighley Trade School was not founded with any expec tation that it would supersede the practical training of the workshop; but its promoters felt that training would be vastly improved by the giving of preliminary scientific instruction. The school presented one of the first instances of the practical advantage to be derived from the Endowed Schools Act, 1869. The Grammar School of Keighley had been of comparatively little benefit ; but a scheme had been devised by which half the income derived from the old endowment would be devoted to the trade school, while the other half would be applied to a purpose hardly less interesting, namely, the establishment of a school for girls—(Hear, bP-or.)—The trade school . would educate 300 boys, a:: he hoped the promoters would regard it with a watchful interest. (Applause.)—Manchester Guardian. EMPLOYMENT FOR LADIES.—The managers of the Royal Albert Press, established for the employment of educated gentlewomen, have just issued two very fine sets of designs for illumination, which will doubtless meet with the highest approval and patronage. The floral crosses are exceedingly beautiful; and the gracefully entwined flowers, when filled in with the brilliant colours set out at the back of each design will make them the prettiest objects ever issued for illuminative purposes. The other designs are for various ornamental uses such as illustra tions to portrait albums and such like matter, and the CACAOINE. — Oue O a nibs on the removal of the oil fall exquisite taste that has been displayed in their production ido powder, and this powder is cacaoine. Caaoine contains by the lady artists merits the highest approval. The I neither sugar nor all)" otheradmixture what ever; c ac a o i ne makes Messrs. Fuller, through whose energy and instrumentality one of the lightest, thinnest of warm drinks, and is the most de these beautiful works of art have been produced, have on birable of all for use in the later hours of the day. ca e fi o m o , by - reason of the ingenious method by which the oil is removed, pre- former ocean., . .., ns issued man fine illuminative designs, serves all the fine natural flavour Of cacao nibs.—Prepared onlyand it is to but their present series is certainly Y the best, by James Epps and Co., Homwopathic Chemists, 112, Great Rus- be hoped that a very extensive patronage will recompense sell-street ; 170, Piccadilly ; and 48, Threadneedle-s treet ;at their them for the spirit with which they have taken up the Works for Dietetic Preparations, Euston-road.—ADvT. interests of these accomplished female artists, THE FRENCH WOUNDED FUND. Large as is the fund which has been raised in this country for the relief of the French sick and wounded, a letter from Madame La Marechale Canrobert shews that the necessity for urging increased subscriptions is undiminished. The Societe des Secours aux Blesses still appeal to the sympathy of the benevolent in this country, and on the authority of Madame La Marechale Canrobert, we have it that the wounded French soldiers arrive in Belgium in a most pitiable condition, their uniforms being covered with mud and blood. In point of fact their clothes stick to them, and those who attend them have to cut the material in order to undress the poor fellows. This necessarily involves the supplying of them, when able to move about with a new suit, and the consequent drain upon the resources of the society is very great. The articles most in request are air -cushions, flannel to make vests, and dressing gowns, clothing of 011 sizes, trousers, overcoats, shirts, drawers, port wine, Swiss milk, Liebig's extract of meat, tapioca, &c. is said that the little money now remaining in the bank to the credit of the French Wounded Fund will not supply one fiftieth of the demands made upon it. The Societe Anglais des Secours aux Blesses, under the guidance of General Sir Vincent and Lady Vincent Eyre, appeal for further assistance, and a portion of their committee having made a tour of inspection, report that at Amiens they found 030 wounded, at Arras 802, Douai 315, Lille 800, Canibrai 323, A.vaine 230. THE SICK AND WOUNDED AT SAARBRUCK. Little more than seven weeks ago upwards or 5,000 wounded soldiers had to be attended to at Saarbruck, whilst 1,000 men lay dead in the fields a mile away. At present not more than 700 wounded are left, the others having gone to various places in the vicinity. Still there are twenty-five hospitals, the riding-school, barracks, casino, large schools, beer-halls, and other buildings, having been converted into establishments for the reception of the sufferers. The rapidity with' which patients with severe wounds become convalescent is a sufficient evidence of the care with which they are treated. The large number of fractures of arms and legs is .a fact which does not fail to attract observation. Gun-shot wounds through the chest are said to be very common, and, in the more severe cases, the sufferers in time die. The Dutch have had a complete medical and surgical staff since the commencement of the war. The Belgians, too, have been very energetic and serviceable, and the English National Society, by grants of money, stores, and miscellaneous articles, suitable for the wounded, has contributed, in great measure, to the satisfactory results which have been obtained by the workers in the good cause. CATHOLIC VIEWS OF THE ROMAN SITUATION. Lord Denbigh writes to the 'limes to contradict, the versions which have been given of the Italian occupation or Rome, representing that the Pope was quite willing to treat with the invaders. English Catholic residqnts in Rome give dismal pictures of the disturbance and riot, and altogether deny that the Italian troops were welcomed as friends and deliverers. " While I write," says one, "my house is threatened by a mob of escaped convicts and others, • because I have not illuminated." "A. Catholic Priest," also takes the same side. Popular enthusiasm is, he maintains, no criterion of the merits of a cause. Venice has sung Te Deums ' with frenzied joy, as it became in turn French, Austrian, and Italian. The experience of a Free Church in a Free State in Italy has taught him and his friends to define it as liberty to all reli gions but the Catholic ; exile or a long imprisonment without trial for their bishops, and the worthiest of the clergy; confiscation of ecclesiastical property, and inter ference with priests at the altar, the confessional, the pulpit, and the school. Formerly, says this corres pondent, lie believed there were few advocates of the temporal power in Italy, but a residence of some years among the people has taught him a different lesson. As for' the charge o€ tyranny in the disarmament of private persons in Rome during the siege, he answers that the disaffected were disarmed during the siege of Dublin. No Italian Liberal can hate the Pope King more than the Irish Fenian hates the English rule, and the " Catholic Priest " is.appre hensive that Ireland will learn the new morality of the clay, and rise without scruple as soon as she can get a few American filibusters and exiles, and state prisoners to give the note. THE AMERICAN CENSUS. The census of the United States is not yet completed; but some facts which are known are of interest. The greatest increase is perceptible in WashingtOn itself, which has risen from 01 ; 122 to 111,195 in the decade—an increase of 82 per cent. New York, it is said on the other hand, has actually decreased in numbers, but of that, as of Philadelphia, nothing definite is yet known. The effects of the war aro painfully evident in New Orleans, where the population has only risen 10,000 in the ten years. Chicago, where emigants are always pooling in, rather disappoints thf. expectations of her people, but the indigna tion of the residents in the empire city at the rumoured decrease of their number is such that they threaten to take a new census, believing the first one to be inaccurate. The manu facturing class, which at the last census was almost entirely in New England, is now to be found in great force south and west. Though the manufacturing establishments, however, are numerous, there is some insufficiency about the returns of the manufactures themselves. It is thought that information is with held for fear of taxation. The increase in the agriculturists is the most remarkable feature. Their number has far outstripped the largest estimate, and this is generally considered as a satisfactory state of things. The collectors mention a ludicrous difficulty which they meet with in their returns among the negroes. Not one in twenty knows his or her own age, and even their children they can only reckon by "Jemmy wp,s two months old when Masta got wounded in the war," or " Jim was born in de. Christmas week when de frost killed de taters." • s THE EUROPEAN WAIL The SUN is Published Every Morning at EMI' 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.