The Sun. — London, England, 1870-11-23 00:00:00

I BEATRE ROYAL 1)P L` It;, le -A- Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. D. ODArran'aos.--This Theatre having been re-decorated under the direction of Mr. C. d. Phipps, F.&A., is now Open for the AUTUM N DRAMATIC SEASON, 17IS EVENING, Nov. 23. Doors open at half-past Sli4 comment:* at Seven o'clock, and terminate at halt-past Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from 2 eto Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from On e t o Four Guineas. ene Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. AMY ROBSART.—Misa VICTORIA VOKES. In consequence of this lady's great success in the above character on Wednesday evening, Nov. 9, Mr. Chattertou begs to announce that Miss Yokes will REPEAT the IMPERSONA, TION on WEDNESDAY MORNING, Nov. 23. Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. WS NEILSON will appear in th© character of AMY ROBSART, in the Drama of that name, THIS EVENING, Nov. 33.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LA.NE. R. T. 0. KING will appear in the character of IVA VARNEY, in tho new Drama, entitle , ' AMY ROBSART, Ting EVENING, Nov.2.3.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. 1)110BUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated VOICES FAMILY will appear at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING, Nov. U.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. AMY ROBSART; a new Historical Romantic Drama, written by Andrew Halliday; founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated novel "Kenilworth," with new and charaoteristie scenery by William Beverbr, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Nov. 23—THEATRE ROYAL DRI7RY LANE. AMY ROBSART; new drama: Characters by miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Yokes, Kemp, J. Martin, and Rosisla Yokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Nov, 23—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. • AMY ROBSART; New Drama, characters by Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, J. B. Howard, Britten Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon, Votes, F. Stanforth,ll. Naylor, and Fred. Yokes THIS EVEN ING, Nov. 23.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. • r . -N. -II) 5 2, 3 - r ikr an. A MY ROBSART; Now Drama. The Overture and J -- 1 Incidental Music selected and composed by W. C. Levey, exeonted by an increased Orchestra and numerous Chorus. The Ballet and Grouping of Crowds arranged by Mr. John Cor nea. The whole prodneed under the direction of Mr. Edward Atirling at a Quarter to Bight THUS EVENING, Nov, 23. THEATRE ROYAL, DB.UItY-LANE, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23,1870, ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by Martin Becher, at Eleven o'clock THIS ETENINO,Noy. 23. —THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. GARIBALDI, in a red shirt and sombrero, leading, sword in hand, his free lances on to battle against enormous odds, is a heroic spectacle, a spectacle that has, time and again, before now, captivated the popular imagination. But GARIBALDI, leading into France, in the name of the Universal Re public, through a Sort of aoliclarite of European democracies, a band of lawless tatterdemallions, guilty of all kinds of outrages upon the very people whose independence they have nominally come to vindicate—that is surely a falling off of a moot deplorable charaoter. The well-authenticated accounts of what has just now been taking place at Autun furnish a record of another outrage to Fair France and another poignant humiliation. An outrage and a humiliation for which the people of Autun are indebted, not to the German invaders, but to the nominal defenders and champions of the Republican Government. Thus at Autun the the Garibaldians were offered the accommodation of the inns for themselves and for their horses. No I they would have none of them. They insisted upon stalling their chargers in the cathedral by preference. They summarily turned the Jesuit Fathers out of their College. They arrested the priests and the civil functionaries. They tried one of the priests by drum-head court-martial. They condemned him to death, and were summarily about to carry the sentence into execution when M. GAMBETTA, in the very nick of time, like a Deus ex Machind, saved the poor priest from lynching. More than this, a band of these law less ruffians bursting into the Bishop's palace, breaking even into the prelate's sleeping chamber, searched, sword in band, cupboard and wardrobe, nook and corner, avowedly in quest of Prussian spies or compromising papers, but, appa rently, in point of fact, with an eye to the plate awl the cash box. For, when the A DELPHI THEATRE ROXAL.—SoIe Pro prietor, Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER • Managers, Mr. B. *NESTER and Mr. F. B. Cif arranToN.—TlklS EVENING, at 7, TUE FLOWERS OF TUE FOREST. Madame Celeste, Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Furtado, Miss M. Cooper, Mr. Billington, Mr. Ashley, Mr, C. Bennet, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Wilmot Mr. C. H. Stephenson, and Mr. R. Romer. To conclude with TWICE KILLED. Mr. Crabb (his first appearance here), /fSrs. A Mellon, Miss IC. Barnett, and Miss. M. Cooper. , ' - `4.„ n T. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. JOHN WOOD.—This Evening at 7.45 great play, FERNANDE, Messrs. Farron, Leeson, Lin Rayne Murray, and L. Brough ; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Larkin, Miss Fannie iiroug/4 _Miss Turner, and Mrs. John Wood.—Doors open at 6.30. At 7, To OBLIGE BENSON, by Tom Taylor, Esq, Messrs. many Cox, Grainger, Mervin ; Misses Marian Inch and 11. irerard, At 7.45, FERNANDE, At 10.30, CHRISTMAS EVE, by C. S. Cheltnman, Esq. Messrs. Harry Cox, Dan Leeson, and Lionel Brough.—Boz-oftlee Uto 6. No tees, ItOYAL STAA.ND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH. s Evening, at 7 , ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE. Messrs. Crouch, Turner; Mesdames Ada Swanhorough, E. Bufton, and F. Rughes. The New Iturly-Burly-Esque, "THE IDLE T RENTict " Messrs. Terry, Paulton , Fenton, and Tamer ; Mesdames 'Amy Sheridan, E. Button, Bantiey, Lee, Goodall, &c. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees— Messrs. If. 3. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7, TWO ROSES (144th night), by James Albert' . After which, at 9.30, ELIZABETH ; or, The Don, the Duck, the Drake, and the Invisible Armada. A grand, new, original. and profoundly historical Burlesqne, by F. C. • nand, EMI. Esq. Conclude with CHISELLING. Supported by Messrs. H. 3. Montague, David James. Irving, George Honey, W. H. Stephens, and Thomas Thorne to. ; Mesdamea Nelly Power, A. Iv ewton, Hetty Tracy, R. Evelyn, T, Lavin, and Amy Fawsitt , &e. Doors open 0.00 ; commence at 7. ATADAME TUSSAAJD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER STREET. On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon lIL, the Empress Eugenie , and P r in ce Imperial ; King William of Frussia, and Count von Bismarck. Admission, is.: Children under 10 y ears of age, 6d. Napoleon $OOlll/1 04, extra, Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied 118 soon as published, every Evening, by S WILSON, newsagent, awl special agent for the North-western District, 21, Delancey-stroet, Camden town, IsT W SUN, _LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1876. marauders have vanished there have vanished too with them the Bishops gold watch, his silver and, jewelled crozier, and together with watch and crozier the seal of his bishopric. Acts like these on the part of the Wribaldians rare not simply indefensible, they are detestable and atrocious to the last possible degree. They cover with infamy, a name so often before associated with heroism. They outrage all sense of decency. They degrade the very- cause the perpetrators are there to uphold and to defend. And, as it happens, they cannot possibly disassociate these acts from the leader himself, imputing them solely to his followers. For GARIBAIig has clearly A s to baiiig bound by the treaty, neither we nor any other nation, says Mr. Freeman, are in the habit of carrying out treaties. L011:11 RINSF,LL ON TUE MILITIA. Lord Russell thinks that whatever course 1 Government may adopt to support Lord Granville's Unanswerable reply to Prince Gortechakoff's note, one measure is indispensable. Last year his lordship urged that the Crown ought to be armed with more authority to call out and embody the Militia, but the Ministry cavilled, he says, about the terms of his bill, consenting however to take power to embody the militia in case of emergency. Lord Russell confesses that he does not know the legal meaning attachei to the word emergency, but it seems to him that when the minister of a great power assumes on behalf of his Sovereign to set aside and abrogate a treaty which binds seven of the chief states of Europe, an emer gency exists. It is said, his Lordship observes, at St. Petersburg that Russia has 500,000 men in arms, and at Cologne the number is talked of as 000,000. It is notorious that troops have for some months been moving from the north of Russia towards the frontier of Turkey. His Lord ship is of opinion that whether our voice be for peace or for war, 100,000 men of the militia, in ad dition to the militia reserve, should be embodied, and that we should thus obtain the means of filling with flesh and blood the skeletons of our attenuated regiments. upon him a craze against the priesthood—a craze which has been the main incentive to these villainous proceedings at Autun on the part of the red-shirted rabble of the Garibaldians. On entering Autun, GARIBALDI himself addressed a numerous body of " ladies and women," as he called them— French mothers and daughters—denouncing the priests to them as foes and traitors. Insomuch that one of the fair audience was constrained to stand forth in defence of their pastors from the charges directed against them by their scarcely heroic traducer. As a sequel to this audacious denunciation of the priest hood by GAMBALDI, the ecclesiastics and the sacred edifices of Autun were given over to the power of the Garibaldians to be dealt with summarily by thorn according to their pleasure. Truly all this is a most wanton trailing in the dust of a heroic reputation Surely all this is for France herself one of the last, and not one of the least of her many agonizing humiliations ! TOPICS OF THE DAY. A CHANGE. "The hour is perhaps not far off, the hour is perhaps already come, when the fate of Frances is to be decided in a supreme battle. Terrible anxiety is in the air; for some time tast it has been felt that a decisive event is preparing. Everybody is silent. Parties cease their discords. Social anarchy, revo lutionary enterprises, Btragglo of every kiwi, give way to a grand struggle, the issue of which so nearly affects our safety. Is it not neces sary that the present war should have an end ? Can we pass our lives in buying muskets, in organising armies of freeshooters, in seeing new costumes sprung up every day ? We must give battle, and have done with it." These are the intro ductory words of an eloquent article in which the Constitutionnel gives its readers to understand that the hour of their country is at hand. In two months the Government has succeeded in gathering a great army on the Loire, composed of excellent troops, and well provided with munitions of war. If it succeed, the territory of France will remain intact. And though the tme is past when we buoyed ourselves with foolish hopes, yet, says the Constitutionne/, we hope it will succeed. The number of our battalions nor the abundance of our engines of war does not suffice to give us that hope. The success at Orleans must not be over-estimated. But recent efforts have awakened in our soldiers a spirit of abne gation and patriotism, a certain Christian cou rage which will make French valour what it once was and recall the time when we were invincible. The Conetitutionnel was the first paper which announced the declaration of war with the words, " Prussia has insulted us; let us cross the Rhine." The spirit of moderation which in this, as in almOst all the French journals, has replaced the folly of July reflects the altered spirit of the people. Misfortunes do not come in vain. SUPREME MOMENT. There is reason for thinking that the antici pation of the Constituttonnel is well founded. All the news from the country between Paris and the Loire tends to the conclusion that the French leaders project a great battle or series of battles, a perfect Armageddon, to the west of Paris. The Germans are perfectly alive to the gravity of the crisis, for, instead of despatching their troops to subjugate the provinces, they have drawn almost all their force round the capital. If the French succeed the triumph will be well earned. if they fail, they may well, as the Tours paper suggests, "have done with it." The nation has earned the respect of the world; the Government has deserved well of the nation. It is difficult to ima gine that any people could put forth greater efforts in such a space of time, or that any Ministry could utilise them more effectually. The capitulation of Sedan took place on September 4 ; since then 500,000 respectable troops have been put in line, besides the National Guards in and out of Paris. If these efforts produce no result, the conclusion is that the conditions of resistance left no hope. machinery will doubtless secure the attention of the Imperial legislature. THE IRISH CLERGY, Great curiosity prevails as to the course which the Irish clergy will pursue in respect to commutation. With the exception of Cork, the general feeling of the clergy seemed to be against commutation at the last meeting of the Convention. Some change of opinion seems to have taken place since then, however, and the clergy of Ardagh have expressed their wil lingness to adopt this course. The expectation of the liberal assistance of England in regard to the Sustentation Fund, has, it is supposed, produced a revival of confidence. Great results are hoped from the movement of the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, and those who a short time ago were unwilling to receive assistance are now anxious that an appeal should be made to English Churchmen. Another list of fresh subscriptions will be shortly published by the Church Body. The plan upon which the subscription is now conducted will enable the middle an'l lower classes to contribute their portion instead of confining the affair to the richer members of the community. The representa tive body have purchased Lord Chief Baron Pigot's mansion in St. Stephen's-green as a Synod House, M()SE and 0:V :S L. 7ft - r INTER OVERCOATS, 19s, to R 6. sti BOY'S OVERCOATS, 7e. Gd. to 455. 1: 1 MOSES and SON beg to remind the public 111 • that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its pilil they venture to sty that their prices will compare fa►vourabl) with those of any other nu is. in klngland. - L1 MUSES and SON'S -12.1 c OXFORD COATS, 17:;.1.. to 50s. CAMI3IIIDGE COAT,, 191 to 60a. ERTOI - 1 JACKETS, Ms. to 425. SUTHERLAND JACKETS, 19s. 6d. to 50s. BUSINESS SUITS, 28s, to 60s. lIFMOSES and SON'S easy and accurate system J • of self-measure enables them to execute orders by post with the, guarantee of a faultless tlt. F. MOSES and SON'S FROCK CO .TS, 245. to 635. 'RESS COATS, 254. to 60s. IVIE ORNING TROUSERS, lls. M. to 21s. 'DRESS TROUSERS, 12s. Oil. to 20s. MOURNING SUITS, 283. to £5. MOSES and SON invit) special attention o to their large stock of GEN fLEMENNI DRESSING ROBES, at 183. to 20 Guineas ; the assortment is unequalled for variety of materials and designs, and neatness and elegance of finish. MOSES and SON'S • B"' : KNICKERBOCKER SUI IS, 9s. O. to 40a, ETON SUITS, lbs. to 40s. BRA GIITON SUITS, 18s. to 485. PRESS SUITS, 265. to 635. MOSES-and SON supply every description of 'l4, clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and ail classes: also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoe:, and complete outfits for till climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any tiele exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns ; and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ess is resumed until Eleven o'clock. Tho following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON : LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and. ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET, CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EBSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. iIB ruIIEATRE ROYAL, lIAYMARKET.—Nisairr of a NEW AND ORIGINAL FAIRY COMEDY.—THIII EVENING, at Seven, LODGINGS FOR SINGLE GENTLEMEN ! after which, at Eight o'clock, a new and original Fairy Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled THE PALACE 1)1e TROTH. Character: by Mr. liuckatone, Messtrs. Kendal, Eyerill, Clark, Rogers, Build, Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. 11111, Fanny Wright, and Fanny Gwynno. After which the now Comedietta, UNCLE'S WILL—Mr. Kendal and Miss Roberteon. Conclud ing with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Box aftce open daily from 10 tills. LAST WEEK OF THE ENGAGEMENT. OPERA COMIQUE, 299, STRAND.—Lessees, Messrs. H. Leslie, C. Steele, and W. Norton.—Unqualified admiration of this new and beautiful Theatre by all patrons. Mdlle. DEJAZET and the French Company. MONDAY, Nov. 21st, 1870, and every evening, commence with TIGRE DU BENGALE. Concluding with the celebrated Drama, b Victorien Sardou, entitled MONSIEUR (CARAT, in wldeh Mdlle. DEJAZET will sustain the title role, created by her in Paris, supOrted by the Company, greatly augmented and strengtheited. Prices, is. to 7s. 6d. Free list suspended, except press. Commence at 8. In active preparation, and will shortly be produced an Operatic Burlesque, adapted expressly for this Theatre by the eminent author, W. S. Gilbert, Esq. OPERA COMIQUE.—Grand Entrance, 299, strand. Messrs. H. LEsma, C. STEELE, and W. Nowort. ',meet This, the most beautiful Theatre in London is now tysknow ledged as THE fashionable house of the day. Mille. DEJAZET in li'rench Plays Every Evening, supported by her Great French Company, Entire Change of Performance. Free List Sus pended, except Press. ROYAL PR IN CESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee, BENJAMIN WEBSTER. Managers, B. WEBSTER and F. B. CHATTERPON.—LAST FIVE NIGHTS.—THIS EVENING, at 7.0, HANDY ANDY, supported by Messrs. Shiel Barry, H. Crellin, Voltaire, Murray, Marshall, H. Westland, Lilly, Miss Seymour, Mrs. Addle, and Miss Jane Lovell. At 8.15, PEEP 0' DAY, by Edmund Falconer; supported by Messrs. W. Rignold, H. Crellin, A. Rayner, E. F. Edgar, S. Barry, J. Murray, Voltaire, Marshall, Morris, H. Westland, I/11y, and Miss R. Leelercq, Mrs. H. Power, Miss Lennox Grey, and Mrs. Addie.—Box-office open from 10.0 till 5.S NOTICE. - Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER will appear in his great impersonation of 1\ APOLEON THE FIRST in the Military Vaudeville of TlLisi PRE t`TY GIRLS OF STUDER°, on SATURDAY NEXT, Nov. 20.—PRINCESS'S THEATRE. DRINCESS'S THEATRE.—Lessee, B. WEB STEP,. Managers, B. WEBSTER and F. B. CHATTERTON. THIS EVENING at Seven, HANDY ANDY ; Messrs. Barry, Crellin, Murray, Mesdames Seymour, Lovell. Anti PEEP CV DAY ; Messrs. Rignold, Rayner, Edgar, Crellin, Barry, Marshall, Voltaire, Mesdames P. Leclercq, L. Grey, R. Power. GLOBE THEATRE, NEWCASTLE-STREET, STRAND.—Manageress, Miss ALLEYNE.—BOARD AND RESIDENCE at 7. Last Six Nights of MARCO SPADA, at 7.40. Grand Ballet Divertissement at 8.50, entitled THE THREE ROSES, or the CHOSEN ONE, as danced for 250 consecutive Nights by Madame Colonna and Troupe. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW at 9.30. Groat success of Miss Alleyne as "Katherine." " Petruchio," Mr. Fairclough. Concluding with the celebrated characteristic DANCE, by Madame Colonna and Troupe. The dresses designed and made under the direction of Miss Alleyne. The new Comedy entitled /WASTE will be pro duced on Saturday, November 26. DIAMOND FIELDS of SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY (Limited.—ASSISTED EMIGRATION.— Capital £25,000, in shares of £1 each. ss. on application, and 6s. on allotment. Balance, if required, in calls of Os. per share, at intervals of three months. The Directors are now prepared to receive applications for shares. Forms, dm., on application to the Secretary, at the offices of the company, No. 08, Gresham House, E.G. rOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY ot TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth aa: 1 whiteness, protects the enamel from cieefty • and imparts a ph, e, t- fragrance to the breath. Price la, a— iled Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thamea•stroet, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair tx_ to its pristine hue, no matter et what age. J NO. GOMEL', 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, 3s each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, includ ing brush. Ited Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, Sit, Upper Thames-street, Lon; ion, E.O. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY-LANG—A Domestic Hercules. Amy Robsart. Phobus's Fix. HAYMARKET Lodgings for Single Gentlemen. The Palace of Truth. Uncle's Will. My Husband's Ghost. ADELPHI THEATRE.—Twice Killed. Forest. VAurixviLtz—Chiselling. the Invisible Armada. SruAND—On and O. Living at Ease. The Idle 'Prentice. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—Handy Andy and Peep o' Day. GLOBE—Board and Residence. Taming of the Shrew. Marco Spada. The Secret. OPERA COMIQUE Tigre de Bengal°. Monsieur Garat. JA's---To Oblige Benson. Fornande. Only a Halfpenny. Orormwo—Nell and (Burlesque) Panl and Virginia. GAIETY Happy Village. Betley. The Waterman. Trombalcalzar. &DUMB WELLS.--Virginias. Faroe. STANDARD —l l- loar of Wakefield. Ballet. Chapter of Accidents. NEW SuRREY—FIag on the Battle Field. Link by Link. QuEEN's—Aunt Charlotte's Maid. Midsummer Night's Dream. ROYALTY Wealth, and Whittington Junior awl his Sensation Cat. HoLnonx—Farce. The Odds, PourrEcumo—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After noon and Evening. AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the Arena. Flowers of the Two Rose& Elizabeth, or Sr. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. PALSIS RoYefr—Professor Faber's Talking Machine. Siege of Paris. ALHAmßne—Promenade Concert, MADAME TIISSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. Is.; oxtra rooms, 6d. THE EUROPEAN WAR The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGIT r O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS o 1 the WAR, and of all other events. LORD SHAFTESBURY ON THE CRISIS. The Earl of Shaftesbury expresses himself some what fearful of the influence which may be exerted by Mr. Mill's and Mr. Froude's denunciation of a war policy against Russia. Undoubtedly the wish of the nation is for peace. But Lord Shaftesbury points out that all which Russia seeks to abrogate rests on the basis of solemn Treaty, and he trembles to see that so high an authority as Mr. Mill, though widely different in spirit and in style, is, in respect of the binding nature of cove nants, at one in principle with the Russian Chan cellor. Russia, his lordship says, is determined to violate by force the terms of a treaty because they are burdensome to her. Mr. Mill is not disposed to observe them, when called into question, unless they be so convenient that the country would be ready to enter on them afresh. Such prin ciples as these are absolutely fatal. Every future treaty may be signed with mental reser vation. It will be well, remarks his Lordship, that England, having got rid of the present Treaty, should take good care never to contract another for any purpose or with any people. PROFESSOR CAIRNES. If the English nation go to war it will not be for lack of warning from the leading. English writers and thinkers. Mr. Mill and .Mr. Fronde have pro tested against a war with Russia on such a pretext as that now offered. Professor Cairnes and Mr. Freeman support their literary contemporaries. The former puts the case neatly :—" What com pletes the Quixotism of the situation is, that it is admitted that the substance of the Russian demand, or something tantamount to it, must be conceded. We should, therefore, go to war, not to accomplish any definite practical result, but to compel Russia, to ask our permission to do something —a permission which, we announce beforehand, we are prepared to grant if only the request be respectfully preferred." Professor Cairnes suggests that the real origin of the war cry is the desire to correct the continental impression that England is afraid of war, and that she may with impunity be treated as if she were of no account in Europe. F.REEMAN. Mr. F. A. Freeman, the historian of the Norman Conquest, holds that the real object of the Crimean War was to serve the crafty policy of Louis Napoleon. We were inveigled into supporting him on his usurped throne, whilst we imagined that we wore pursuing some tangible Eastern policy. Why repeat the error now that the tyrant has passed away ? Let us keep clear of any quarrels that Russia and 'turkey may engage in. ague should never er.- (lure those restrictions on the common rights of inde pendent nations which Russia is now trying to throw ofr. Russia may have chosen an improper way of trying to throw them off; but we are not to plunge into the horrors of a needless war because of diplomatic »iceties. The plain fact that .the treaty is one which no nation ought to have imposed on another." A DIPLOMATIC RUMOUR. The Morning Post gave currency to a story that the Russian Ambassador had Prince Gortschalioff's note in his pocket on the Lord Mayor's Day, but withheld it lest he should disturb the harmony of the feast. This story is contradicted. Baron Brun- now delivered the dispatch on the very day on which the great civic feast was held, as may be seen on reference to Lord Granville's reply to the Russian Chancellor's circular. It appears, therefore, that it was Earl Granville, and not Baron Brunnow, who was so thoughtful for the digestion of the alder men. AMERICAN EXPORTS OF ARMS. A memorandum from a trustworthy source shews that the United States have sent to France since last September nearly 400,000 rifles, with up wards of 50 million cartridges, about 60 cannon, five Glatlina mitrailleusss, ar.d 2,000 revolvers. In this memoranduth the names of the vessels and the extent of their cargoes are given ; but it is matter of no question that many shipments have not been reported. Llas the North German Minister at Wash ington made any . representations similar to those ad dressed to the British Government ? We believe not. The inconsistency of reproaching England with exporting a few hundred arms, whilst remaining on good terms with a nation that exports them whole sale, is so absurd that for the present the German papers are silent Oil the subject. THE GAIUBALDIANS. One has only to take up a batch of French papers to be convinced that Garibaldi must be having a very uncomfortable time of it. He is obnoxious to that large section of the French people who are under clerical influence, and thus lie impairs that unity of action which is, before all things, needful at the present crisis. He gets no efficient assistance from the French Generals 5 he is involved in constant squabbles with local authorities; and his men are accused rightly or wrongly of bad conduct, At Autun lfty of them broke into the palace of the Bishop and ransacked the bedroom in which the prelate was reposing. A private letter . says : " Garibaldi . seems to have made more enemies than friends in this part of France. His expulsion of the Jesuit Fathers from Dole appears to have been most arbitrary and unjustifiable in every' way. The • Jesuits had bean lodging and reeding, at their own expense, no fewer than 800 Mobiles for npwards of a mouth ; and there were in their college at the time nearly a hundred lads, sons of the most respectable people in the Department. Some of the boys were ill with severe cclds, and a few with fever." In general, the charge against the Garibaldians is that they behave like brigands, and against Garibaldi himself, that he Meddles with administrative and judicial business, whilst his func tions are purely military. THE SDANISH PRESS AND THE NEW KING. The general tone of the Spanish press is anything but favourable to the new monarch. The military precautions taken on the day of the vote gave great offence to the independent papers, and they revenge themselves by commenting satirically on the total absence of popular enthusiasm. The Eco de Espana says that since the 2nd of May, 1808, no spectacle equal to that of the day of election has been offered to the people, who looked on with pro found silence and supreme disdain. Madrid, it adds, was influenced by sentiment of disgust impossible, to conceal. The Discussion thinks it was a poor result after so much exertion only to obtain 191 votes in favour of the new king, when so many of these belonged to public functionaries, A king should not be elected without acclamation by the people, and their sanction of his sovereignty. The Pueblo cousiders it a gloomy augury for the new dynasty to restore the old Conserva tive elements and interests. Two years of anarchy have passed in seeking a man to accept the Crown, and the first reception made him is the threat of civil war. The Pais thinks the result of the sitting scarcely satisfactory to the partisans of Aosta, and makes especial allusion to the coldness with which the proclamation of the votes was received. Not a word, not a phrase, not a gesture indicated the satisfaction of the Chamber, and the President might rather have been pronouncing an epitaph than an epitlialamium. The Politica ob serves all the diplomacy in the world could not con vince the great majority of the Spanish people that the Europe of 1870, which could not even imagine an English king in France, a French king in England, a German king in Belgium, or a Latin king in Austria, can expect to force an Italian king on Spain, as if Madrid were Athens, or 'Bucharest, or the capital of one of those improvised nations which exist on the charity of the great Continental Powers. EDUCATION IN ►SCOTLAND. Before we have by any means satisfactorily dis posed of the education difficulty in England, we are threatened with a re-opening of the whole question next year in the shape of a Scottish Education Bill. Mr, Grant Duff; the Rector of Aberdeen University, has recently censured severely the system, almost exclusively . classical, on which the course of 'instruction in that institution is based. Many leading Scotchmen share this view. In Scotland, at leaskreformera have not to complain of the apathy. and . obstructiveness of parents or of the public indifference. From the days of John Knox ignorance has been regarded as a common enemy. The sturdy reformer himself and his associates designed a complete system of national education. Part of the revenues of the Church lands was to maintain the clergy, the rest was to be devoted to paying for secular instiuction. Every large town was to have its university, every parish a group of schools, and, as the value of the lands would natur ally have increased along with the population, the educational machinery would have been sufficient to supply all wants. The greed of the Scottish nobles, who wished to keep the ecclesiastical lands for themselves, defeated the purpose of the early Re formers, but national education in Scotland has always been far in advance of neighbouring nations. Every pariah has a good school, and even the peasantry, with industry and talent, can make their way to the Universities. llowever, the people have now outgrown their system, and the national demand for au improved and extended educational TRADE IN IRELAND. If Ireland has been good in collecting sums of money for distressed France, the trials of the latter country have materially benefited the Green Isle. Now that the British supply of silks from France is virtually suspended, ladies are taking to Irish poplins with a kindliness which could scarcely have been conceived, and not only is the demand for these fabrics a home one, but requests for them come even from America. To make the impetus to • trade complete we are told that "Royal Patronage" has not hem withhold, and that only last week Messrs. Atkinson received from the Queen an order for poplins, "ono of which, a very costly white and gold tissue was to •be specially manufactured for the trousseau of the Princess Louise." One of the effects of the strong reaction, even in this one branch of Irish manufacture has been to find full employment for every one connected with the particular business of poplin weaving, and also to compel the introduc tion of new hands to the extent of causing a violation of sundry trade restrictions. Hitherto weavers have only been allowed to take their eldest sons as appren tices, but the rule is about to be relaxed in favour of second sons. At present about 1,509 persons aro employed in the poplin manufacture, but it is said that work for many more might be found did the trade regulations sanction their employment. A CAUTION TO POSTMEN. Tho Post Office letter carriers are admittedly a deserving and well-conducted class of men, and a drunken postman during official hours is a phenome non. At Manchester a letter carrier has been fined in the heavy, but not too heavy, sum of £5, for being helplessly drunk. The man was discovered in a warehouse during the forenoon, and ho had with him fifty undelivered letters. For an offence of this character a magistrate can inflict a penalty of £2O, such is the importance which the Legislature attaches to a sober corps of letter deliverers, THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY. Americans of the fashionable class have of late hit upon the plan of regularly rehearsing in their city churches tho marriage ceremony. We are told that in order to be well drilla,' in " the entre, the bow, the posture, and the promenade," bridal parties meet at the churches where the rites are subse quently to take place in earnest, and practise the pantomime. So exact are the arrange ments for securing éclat at the ceremony, that the steps separating each of the attendants at the wedding are counted, and the huge trains of the ladies are put into position, lest there should be any undue rapidity when the officiants are required to advance, or indecorous entangle ment of costume. The New York and Boston papers are indignant that displays like these should take place, and contend that they are in a false and bad style. If any ceremony, they say, by every consideration which can appeal to an unsophisticated heart, demands simplicity, it is that of marriage. DIVORCE FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW. A female suffrage congress, held in New York, at which the question of more liberal marriage and divorce laws was discussed, has.resulted in a rupture between the chief Woman's-Right factions, and a newspaper contest, revealing sad heart burnin2;s, has been entered upon, Mrs. H. B. Stanton, one of the speakers at the New York meeting, argued that divorce should be made contin gent on whim, passion, or convenience. S declared it was just as impossible for men to under stand the slavery of the women in their own house holds as it was for slaveholders to understand that of the A.irican race on their plantations. The- first step to education, elevation, and enfranchisement was personal freedom. Holding these views, Mrs. Stanton proposed a uniform national law regulating lenient conditions of divorce, and she was assisted in the circulation of her design by a newspaper called the Woman's Advocate. This journal suggested a platform for the woman suffrage party, with the fol lowing among other declarations Let the mar riage contract be limited from one to three years, at the option of the contracting parties." These theories were strongly opposed by several ladies of the Association and by the Woman's Journal, one of the three chief Women's-Right organs of the States. This paper spoke of Mrs. Stanton's movement as one embracing all the elements of the tree love doctrine, and contended that free love, as expounded by Mrs. Stanton and the Advocate, tended to the demoralization and the disintegration of society. These theories it said "are the sort of seed which, coming to blossom and fruitage, produced the awful French Revolution. The prevalence o; such ideas, and their realisation in practice, would speedily eat out the sturdiness of mental and moral nature which we have inherited as an American people, and would plunge us back into the dissoluteness of Franco in her most dissolute days." The war goes on. THE RETURN OF THE CA3IBMA. Everyone will hear with pleasure the news that Mr. Ashbury's yacht has arrived safely at Cowes, after two perilous Atlantic voyages, undertaken chiefly to prove English yacht superiority on the ocean. The Cambria, on the return trip, occupied twenty-five days in making the passage, and the greater part of the distance must have been gone over iu heavy sea weather, Wo believe we. are correct in stating that Mr. Ashbury himself has not now come over with the Cambria, as in the American papers we find that the members of the San Francisco Yacht Club gave him a cordial recep tion on the 2nd of November. After the dinner given on this occasion Mr, Ashbury declared his intention of sending out an English prize to be competed for by vessels of the club. He also informed his audience that a new ship was now being built for him in England with which he expected to win back from America finally and for ever the great prize carried away from Great Britain fourteen years ago by a United States yacht. A correspondent of a contemporary tells an anec dote respecting the circumstances which led to the ter mination of the relations between the Foreign Office and Mr. Henry Labouchere, who is now in Paris :—When at the Court of Florence, Mr. Labouchere rece ived an order to p rese nt himself without delay, at the British Embassy at St. Petersburg. In reply Mr. Labonchere wrote to the Foreign Office, stating that, as no allowance was made to attaches for travelling expenses, and as he could not afford to pay the railway fares, he intended to walk from the Italian to the Russian capital, and might, there fore, be expected at St. Petersburgh in about three months. , ,-,,,,,,,7- ' -,, : 5f , .,77: - .7-7, , ,, t-',::;•...i-:.,;14/:l'..b' . :;,4;, :..:. '.4.k. : • : -. t -- .:2 ,. .. - '''' 4- .- tillltit. (fmr. HER MAJESTY. * BALMORAL, Nov. 20. The Queen was present at Divine service at the parish church of Crathie. Princess Beatrice and Prinee Leopold were also pre- The Duchess of Roxburghe and Viscount Bridport were in attendance. The Rev. Dr. Taylor officiated. THE EDUCATION ACT. Professor Huxley, a candidate for Marylebone on the new London Board, attended a public meeting which was held on Monday evening in Providence Hall, Paddington. Professor Huxley, who was well received, said he desired simply to administer this Act as an honest man, according to the letter and spirit of the law, so that they might make the present epoch one of the greatest in the history of England. The Act could, however, never be fairly carried out if the new Boards of Education were made the battle-fields of party. There were certain branches of instruction to which the poorer classes must submit in order to make their education worth having. In the first place, he thought that much attention should be paid to physical training. He did not say that all the evils to which the poorer classes were subjected could be remedied byeducation, but he did say that during the tender years of life children should have a sound physical education. Without that a strong race of men could never grow up. Then he thought they ought to teach children something of the domestic conditions of life, so that they might assist in earning the means of living and bringing out the best advantages of these means. He thought also that children should be taught something of the history of the country in which they live, the relations of capital to labour, and some of those great problems, the mis understanding of which was agitating the whole fabric of society. A mistaken notion prevailed that when a child had been taught to read and write, it had been sufficiently educated. He would not say a word against reading for instruction, but he thought that children should be taught to read for amusement, for he was a believer in amuse ments, which ought to form a part of the work of daily life. A resolution pledging the meeting to support - Mr. Huxley was carried unanimously. Mr. Hepworth Dixon addressed a crowded meeting of the ratepayers of Marylebone. In the course of his address Mr. Hepworth Dixon, referring to the 200,000 . children in the metropolis who had to be rescued from the army of disorder, said that five-and-twenty years ago he had begun to study the condition of the poor in schools, workhouses, and gaols, and he gave this as the result of much thought and investigation, that every child that was neglected and allowed to go astray cost five times as much as the child that was tenderly taken hold of and made an honest mau. A vote of confidence in Mr. Dixon was passed. No fewer than ten public meetings were held in Bir mingham on Monday night on the School Board question. Of these four were in favour of religious teaching, and in support of the eight candidates nominated by the Educa tion Uniou. A fifth was in support of the candidature of Dr. Melson, who is also an advocate of religious teaching. Four of the meetings pledged themselves by resolution to use. their efforts to secure the return of the fifteen League candidates nominated by the Liberal Association. The tenth was in favour of Mr. Kirkwood, who comes for ward as a working man's candidate. THE BENEFIT OF ATHLETICS. Oxford and Cambridge have just been holding their athletic festivals. No doubt there is much to be raid against the excessive development which athletism at the universities has recently attained. The undergraduate who is nothing more than a " pot-hunter"' and whose highest aspiration is to cover his side table with tankards and trophies which his pedestrian or saltatory prowess has procured him, is not a particularly pleasing phenome non. Still, making all due deductions on these and on other grounds, there are still some things to be urged in favour of the system of athletic sports. Their economical and moral influence has been decidedly satisfactory. Be fore they became recognised institutions there was a not inconsiderable class of young men who found themselves without any attractive and available kind of physical re creation. There was the river and the huntingfield, and during the short summer term the cricket-field. Physical reasons or tastes kept as many from the latter as financial reasons did, or ought to have done, from either of the former. The undergraduate who did not care about boating was tempted irresistibly to hunt, and the expenses of hunting at Oxford or Cambridge are in most cases unjustifiable. Athletic sports supply a whole some and inexpensive safety valve for the ebullition of the superfluous animal energy and spirits for which some outlet must be found. The stables of Mr. Charles Symonds and of Mr. Mortlock havo suffered as perceptibly by the popularisation of athletic sports as the pockets of undergraduates and their parents have gained. Athletic sports have given a motive for active exertion to a whole host of young men who under other circumstances would have devoted themselves to the unprofitable occupation of loafing, of hanging about 4 the High-street, now diving into a tobacconist's, now lingering amid the close atmosphere of billiard-rooms. It may well be said that loafing at Oxford or Cambridge is the root of all evil. It is not the man who has a healthy pastime, even if it engrosses too much of his time, who is apt to go wrong, but he who has none. It will be possibly urged that athletic sports have given a stimulus to betting. The answer to this is that a taste for speculation is innate in all Englishmen, and if the object is not given them they will create it. As it is, athletic sports have really tended to improve the moral as well as the economical habits of Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates.—Pat Mall Gazette. SEVERE STORK IN THE NORTH.—The steamer Clydesdale, of Glasgow, from the North, reports that a severe storm from the north-east had visited the various islands on the north-west coast, and considerable damage had been done to shipping and fishing-boats. The storm has been raging at intervals during the past 10 days. At all places of shelter a number of vessels had been forced in from the weather, particularly to Stornoway and Tobemory, where there were several foreign trading vessels lying at anchor. A large steamer bound from Riga had also run into Stornoway. The Clydesdale was unable to call at several of the ferries, either going north or returning. At two or three of the ferry stations there had been no communication for six and even ten days. On Friday a complete change took place in the direction of the wind ; the Islay, which arrived on Saturday, reporting the wind outside as south-west, and still blow ing hard. THE RIFLE OF THE FUTURE.—The Army and Navy Gazette is premature in announcing the definitive adoption of the Martini-Henry rifle. The trials which were ordered to be carried out by the troops are not yet completed—at any rate, we understand that all the reports have not been received. And it is improbable that any decision will be come to until the whole programme has been worked through. The committee which has been appointed to digest the reports on these final trials, and which will be required to pronounce on the evidence of these trials for or against the arm, is still sitting. We trust, however, that a decision will be come to in time te, enable arrangements to be made to discontinue the manu facture of the present large-bore rifles at the close of the financial year, and to commence the rearmament of our regular troops with the more perfect small-bore Martini- Henry. If by that time we are not in a position to pro nounce decisively as to this arm, we shall begin to despair of a decision ever being come to at all. Assuredly no military arm has ever been subjected to such an exhaus tive and thorough trial before its introduction as that which the Martini-Henry has very properly been required to undergo.—Pall Mall Gazette. AN ENVOY FROM ABYSSINIA.---A correspondent writing from Alexandria informs us that Dejar Girgis, President of the Council of Prince K.sa, of Tigrd, whom we mentioned a short time ago as having reached Cairo, in company with several other Abyssinians of rank, charged with presents for her Majesty, was expected to leave shortly by Peninsular and Oriental steamer for Southampton, the Home Government having expressed their readiness to receive the envoy and to shew him every attention. Prince Kasa, _it will be remembered, rendered good service to Lord Napier of Magdala when our invading army entered Tigrd ; since then he assisted Mr. Powell in bringing the murderers of his brother to punishment ; and it was he who seized Aba Eminiatu, who instigated the attack on M. Munzinger, and sent him a prisoner to Massowa. We understand 'that this mission has no political object, and originated in a simple desire on the part of Kitsa to cultivate friendly relations with the English, and to secure, if possible, o ur co operation in developing the trade of Abyssinia. The great drawback to the country in this respect is the want of a seaport on the Red Sea for the egress and ingress of its commerce. The Viceroy of Egypt, we are pleased to learn, has not been backward to entertain the envoy, a 3,„ much out of respect for us as for his master, M13.'1.-1 404 ' Mall Gazette. sent. -- 'ATEST AIR. OD( mach arrival o speculatic fission. 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