The Sun. — London, England, 1870-08-17 00:00:00

THE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN" supplied as soon as published, containing all the LATEST NEWS cud SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H W. HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Biackfriars-road London. TWEEDIE'S TEMPER) FACT AND It CONT] Gen eral .. Iteview of the Tempe- 1 rance Movement. Chronicle of the Temperance Movement. Teetotalism an Agent in Civi- ligation. Researches Respecting Alcohol. The Result of the Personal and Professional Experience of the Benefits of Total Abstinence. Physiology of Drinking. analysis of Bitter Ale and Beer. Judicial Testimonies. Statistics in Reference to Intoxl- rresumemaiptolaratiens. Jaoudwa—W. T A.NCE YEAR BOOK OF .ISTORY FOR 1870. ENTS. Ecclesiastical Sayings and Doings. Temperance and Longevity. Hindrances to the Gospel. Temperance Literature. Temperance Societies, Londoa and Provincial. Temperance Associations. Temperance Provident Associa tions. Facts, Legislative and Social. Calendar—Eclipses—Postal Infor mation. Royal Family and other 'Useful Information usually found iu Almanacs. rani% W. Strand. 12J1L1 MOSES and SON, . CORNER of MINORIES and ALD GATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER 01 HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EIISTON-ROAD. B RADFORD, YORKSHIRE. .12J"Ll MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of . GENTLE: EN'S CLOTHING. Dres3 Oxford Coats. 30s. 21s, 355. 265 , 425. 30s, 50s. 365. Also at other prices, Also at Also at other prices. other prices - LI 'MOSES and SON beg to remind t 12A • that the cheapness of an article depends enl quality, and they venture to affirm that every article is considerably cheaper than what can be obtained ho ise in England. Camb. Coats. Also at other prices he public tirely on its sold by them at any other E MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED: Summer Tourist Summer Dress Suits. Suits. Trousers. Trousers. 245. 248. 10s. 6d. 15s. 28s. 28s. 12s. 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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. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. 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 EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD. YORKSHIRE. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7 30, CUPBOARD LOVE, by F. Hay. Atter which, at 8, a new and original Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, by James Albery. To conclude with the successful Burlesque, DON CARD'S ; or, The Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montagne, H. Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Welly Power, Amy Fawsitt, T. Lavis, and A. Newton. Doors will be open at 7. Overture at 7.30. N.B.—Mr. David James will shortly appear in a new farce, entitled " Chiselling." THE WAR.—TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. All im. portant events telegraphed DAILY, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., to Newspapers, Clubs, Exchanges, and Reading Rooms, for THIRTY-NINE SHILLINGS per QUARTER prepaid. Two or more telegrams sent every day. Commercial News and Markets on moderate terms. _ _ CENTRAL PREss, 112, Strand, W.C., and 2, Telegraph-street, E.C. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.O ). THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s Per ream. s. d. 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THORLEY'S HORSE and CATTLE SPICE, In Penny Pack eta only, of all Corn Chandlers in London, and Of all Grocers, Druggists, and Corn Dealers in the Country. NATIONAL INSTITUTION for DISEASES of the SKIN, Gray's-inn-road and Mitre-street. Physi cian, Dr. BARR MEADOWS, 49, Dover-street, Piccadilly. Ave rage number of Patients under treatment, 1,000 weekly. Free letters are available for necessitous applicants. THOMAS ROBINSON, Hon. Sec. H OSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT, Golden-square, W. President—the Right Hon. the Earl of STRAFFORD , F . R . S . This Hospital has relieved upwards of 24,000 patients since its foundation, and is in great NEED of FUNDS to meet the heavy current expenses. EDMUND WYLD, Secretary. WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith W.—FUNDS are urgently needed , and the Committee ' earnestly appeal to the.benevolent to assist them in carrying on heir useful work. T. ALEXANDER, Sec. and Sup. SSAVIOUR'S HOSPITAL an d REFUGE, . 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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily (except Sun days). Admission, Is. on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. MADAME TIISSAIJD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra 6d. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning . 39 after 5 I Afternoon ........56 after 5 i t -,0%,,,, EVENING EDITION. with an open frontier, has not at this moment a quarter of a millions soldiers in line to defend Paris. For foreign service, too, 100,000 regular troops would prove a most formidable array. It is true that the continental Powers hold such a number very lightly. But what proportion of their millions can they muster at any one point ? The German army now invading France is the largest that ever entered foreign territory in modern times. The Grand Army of 1812 was considerably less when it crossed the Rus sian frontier. Not more than 200,000 men fought on each side at Sadowa. In all other battles of modern times (exceptLeipsic) the total of combatants has been below this last number. In fact when States are not protected by the sea, these colossal national forces soon melt away in the shape of garrisons, re serves, and armies of observation, until only a certain fraction, never likely to be greatly ex ceeded, can be accumulated at the point where the real trial by battle is to be made. We do not contemplate fighting Prussia for the sake of prestige. One hundred thousand men would defend Belgium or Canada, with the help of the native forces. The required number has been enrolled. Is it prepared for battle F There is reason to think that an affirmative answer may be returned in the case of the regular forces. Their number might be augmented a little. The subsidiary services commissariat, hospital, &c. leave room for improvement; and the whole army is too slow to seize and appropriate improvements in the art of war. The deficiencies, however, are probably not serious. The difficulty is that this regular army cannot be held disposable for every purpose unless the second line, the reserve, be thoroughly up to the mark; and this, unfortunately is far from the case. All the needful accessories to a powerful army are wanting both to the Militia and the Volun teers. If these two services were called out to action at the present time, nothing would be forthcomilig beyond the quota of tolerably well drilled rank and file. There is no staff; no commissariat, nor any of the organisations by means of which a number of regiments are welded into a single army with unity of purpose and harmony of detail. Our reserves no more resemble the elaborate machines of the Conti nent than the confused heap of wheels and springs on a watchmaker's bench resembles the timepiece with which he supplies his customers. Both Militia and Volunteers are very badly officered. They are not even properly armed. And, strange to say, though these defects - have been acknowledged on all hands again and again, nothing, or next to nothing, is done to remove them. The Militia jogs on in blessed obscurity; the Voltmteers meet with more than indifference—something very like studied neglect. These vast bodies of men, 300,000 in all, are thrown away. This great defen sive force is wasted. The present increase of the regular army is in fact an acknowledgement that the two reserves are practically useless : the War Depart ment has no hope of being able to organise them in a reasonable space of time, and hence it flies to the only resource—recruiting for the Line. The Volunteers are likely, with the proper appliances, to make excellent fighting men. They shoot much better than the Line, and the present war shows how much is gained by good firing like that of the Prussians, against such careless chance discharges as those of the Freneh. But this and other good qualities can avail nothing under present circumstances. The Volunteers need proper weapons ; they require a system of officering which will exclude every man from a post of command who is not thoroughly equal to his duties. At present the Volunteers are commanded by gentlemen who very worthily contribute considerable sums to the maintenance of the corps, and who are therefore chosen for the posts of honour, which, indeed, they are doubtless as well qualified to fill as their colleagues. But such soldiering is nothing more than innocent amuse ment. More than this the Reserves ought to 1 e sup ported by those services without which no army can take the field ; and they ought to be practised in large bodies so, that when war comes, they may meet with nothing to which they have not as far as possible be come accustomed in time of peace. Such are the requirements of these fine reserves. The Government does not and apparently will not supply them. The country, then, ought to make its voice heard. The dilemma is simple ; if we keep up these great bodies of men they ought to be fit, for work, and if they are not to be made so fit they should be sent about their business. It is idle to maintain expensive illusions. There cannot be a doubt that if the Volunteers were properly cared for, their num bers would greatly increase ; the British forces would be sufficient for all lawful purposes; and we should be spared those panics which every now and then befal us. TOPICS OF THE DAY. insatiable. As a rule, it may be understood that the " trained newsboy" is an excellent judge of the nature and importance of news ; he has learned from experience, when he may extend his demands for a further supply of his wares. A. single speculator in this line has sometimes consumed, in a day, as many as thirty quires, but this is exceptional, it need scarcely be added. Tne most successful hit is made by the newsvendor whb gets first to the Exchange,. with a batch of second editions containing some im portant news. Under such circumstances a shilling is often obtained by the sale of a penny paper. Nothing can equal the employment of newsboys for quick distribution through the City, and though they sometimes come into collision with the police, the result is not very disastrous to the progress of their business. descent homewards. Scarcely had the two ladies and the guide gone a hundred yards, when Mrs. Marke and the latter, who were in front, slipped into a crevasse which was covered with a thin crust of snow. No cry from them was heard, and ulterior search for the bodies was made in vain. No labour or pains were spared, but owing to the situation and formation of the crevasse all efforts proved unsuccessful. When Mrs. Marke and the guide disappeared, the rope connect ing them with the young lady, happily for her, broke, and she was left alone, close to the edge of the chasm. It was here Mr. Marke found her when he re turned to hear the terrible news of his wife's loss. ezr eft Dirt thEN e n bur OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning. THE FURTHER DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH. The Times comes to the concluftion that this defeat before Metz is a finishing stroke for the army of the Rhine. The adverse fortune by which, in spite of the most undaunted heroism, its various corps have been so rapidly and so constantly overwhelme4 seems to leave absolutely no hope of a favourablq turn. The soldiers of France have done all that could be expected of men ; but, if the soldier pro poses, the General disposes : it is not always that the valour of the troops can make up for the short comings of incompetent leaders. Since the Austrians of the first Italian campaign against Bonaparte, there hardly ever was so u n i n t erru pt e d a succession of disasters, uncheered by a single gleam of success, as has befallen the soldiers of the Second Empire since their first sham triumph at Saarbruck. Of 250,000 of the bravest troops in Europe only scattered and shat tered fragments are left. The battering in of the whole defensive armour of France has been the work of one short week. Far more than at Verdun or Chalons, the future prospects of the war must now b e s t u di e d at Paris, for before the French can think of revenge on the Germans, they are likely to look for those on whom they may wreak their wrath at the German victories. The disasters of Wissembourg, Forbach, and. `Werth deter mined the fall of. the 011ivier Ministry ; who is to pay for the defeat before Metz, and for the disastrous retreat to Verdun THE CROWN PRINCE OF PRUSSIA. Englishmen take a personal interest in the Crown Prince of Prussia as being the husband of our popular Princess Royal, and it is therefore gratifying to them to learn that he has been shewing a truly princely spirit to the prisoners who have fallen into his hands. All accounts agree that the Germans have behaved with humanity and even with courtesy to their French captives. The Queen of Prussia, we are told, has personally superintended the distribu tion of comforts to the French officers, while German ladies have been acting as secretaries to the prisoners at the railway stations. The Crown Prince himself has been actively collecting messages and addresses from his prisoners, and arranging that all who wished should have the means of writing home to their friends. Some allowance is generally made for the embellishment which courtly imaginations lend to the actions of royalty ; but it is noticeable that the most favourable account we have of Prince Fritz comes from a French source. One. of the French journalists who fell into the hands of the Prussians at Worth, and narrowly escaped with his life, had an interview with the Prussian Commander-in-Chief, who addressed the Frenchmen before him in courteous and moderate language. He regretted, he said, that they did not understand German or they would have heard the Germans say how much they were impressed by the bravery of the French. Far from being elated by his victories, the conqueror of Woerth and Weissen burg declared he disliked war, and if he should reign he would never make it. He had been over the battle field the day before and the sight was frightful. If it depended upon him the war would end there. Yet despite his love of peace this was the third campaign he had been compelled to fight. For a defeated general or a baffled schemer to talk like this may be natural, but when a young prince in the first flush of a great and hard-won triumph, so plainly and forcibly paints war in its true colours, we may hope that the lesson will not be without its effect on those who are too easily dazzled by the glory gained at the cost of such needless sufferings. SALE OF PAPERS. 'The sale of papers, which has been extraordinary during the present war, reached on Monday the highest point which it has gained since the famous declaration of the Duc de Gramont which broke the peace of Eur Ope. By noon on that day it was more generally known in London than at Berlin that the King of Prussia had telegraphed the news of a vic torious battle before Metz. The differing versions of the story which were given by the rival combatants enhanced the excitement and interest of the intelligence, and the demand for newspapers by those who wished to satisfy their curiosity seemed A REMINISCENCE OF 1791. The Courrier des Etats Urns relates a touching story of the old French wars with the Prussians. Verdun was so closely besieged by the latter that the citizens resolved upon surrender. Beaurepaire, who commanded the garrison; was one of the best officers of France, and he blew his brains out in presence of the council of war rather than submit to the disgrace of surrender. It was resolved that the garrison should march out with all the honours of war, and, in accordance with the usual custom, the youngest officer was selected to be the bearer of the capi tulation to the King of Prussia. Ile objected to being the bearer of the message, but he was assured that it was necessary to obey the laws of war. Marceau, the name of the delegate, was 22, years of age. He drew his sword from his sheath, and broke it, saying that he could not carry a capi tulation like that while he wore a sword. When introduced to the King of Prussia he tried to speak, but his voice was choked by tears. The King tried to console him, but Marceau raised his head, and said, " Sire, there is but one thing which can con sole a Frenchman for a defeat, and that is a victory." The Cowrie). des Etats (nis adds that the war-cry which urges on France to-day is the echo of the speech of Marceau. 1870 must be the consolation for 1815. THE PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN. The Act to amend the law relating to the property of married women passed in the recent session, al though much altered in the House of Lords, con tains some clauses of an important character, and will materially affect the status of those women who come under its provisions. Earnings acquired after the passing of the Act are to be declared their own, and deposits in savings banks are to be deemed their separate property. Property in the funds or in a joint stock company or society is pro vided for, and it is laid down that deposits of money in favour of creditors are to be invalid. Not only is property coming to a married woman her own, but this right is also extended to freeholds. One of the most important clauses provides that in any question between husband and wife as to pro perty declared by this Act to be the separate pro perty of the wife, either party may apply by sum mons or motion in a summary way either in the Court of Chancery, or, in England, to the judge of a County Court. There may be an appeal, and the judge may, it either party so require, hear the appli cation in his private room. A married woman can insure her own life or the life of her husband for her own separate use, and a policy of insurance effected by the husband on his own life and expressed upon the face of it to be for the benefit of his wife, or his wife and children, shall be deemed a trust for the benefit of the wife for her separate use. Further, a married woman may maintain an action. But if the new Act has defined the rights of wives, it also re leases the husband of certain liabilities which have frequently been held up as unjust. For the future husbands are not to be liable for the debts of their wives contracted before marriage, a provision that may have some effect on the matrimonial market. It is also provided that a married woman having separate pro perty is to be liable to a parish on her husband be coming chargeable. WIFE BEATING. Not many days ago a man named Mahoney was tried at Guildford for feloniously killing his wife, and the evidence being as clear as day, he was found guilty. It was proved that on the 6th of June Mahoney dragged his wife by the hair of her head, beating and kicking her violently. She was on her hands and knees moaning fearfully, bleeding from the mouth and eyes, and frightfully swollen and bruised, with two wounds on the left temple, which were both bleeding. She was helped by a neigh bour into her house and there vomited blood. As she was in that condition the prisoner seized her by the hair and shook her violently. She lay there for days very ill, her lett eye, especially, being in a shocking state. She became worse, began to complain of her throat, was taken to the workhouse, and there died of lockjaw. As already" stated, the scoundrel was found guilty, and the judge had it in his power not only to send him to penal servitude, but to order him to be flogged at intervals. Instead of this, how ever, this fellow was sentenced to eight months' im prisonment with hard labour, a punishment almost absurd in its leniency, when the offence is taken into consideration. A correspondent of the Times draws attention to a case tried at the same place, in which a wretched drunken woman was sentenced to fifteen months imprisonment for causing the death of her infant by neglect. The contrast is glaring, and worthy of consideration. BABY-FARMING. Is baby-farming an institution peculiar to England, or is it in consequence of the persistent publicity given to cases of this inhuman description, that no sooner has one trader in helpless innocence been run to earth than another makes her appearance to shame the morality of English motherhood P It is a re markable fact that Ireland and Scotland are almost free from this disgraceful crime, and this, too, in the face of the returns of the registrar, who periodically informs the public that the latter country is more prolific than the southern part of the island in the causes that are popularly believed to lead to this crime. At the same time that the crimes of the two miser able creatures from Brixton were being commented upon at the Central Criminal Court, the deputy-coroner for Central Middlesex was making inquiries into a case which had all the well-known characteristics. The unfortunate subject of the inquest had been placed in the care of a Mrs. Parks, of Whitfield-street, Tottenham Court Road, and the mother agreed to pay 4s. a week for the support of the child. After a time the payments ceased, and when the infant was taken to the workhouse it was, as may be expected, in a sad condition. But death was kinder to the child than either mother or " farmer." The frequent oc currence of these barbarities—for they de serve no other name—is enough -to detract from womanhood all that is holiest And purest. ME LAST MONT BLANC ACCIDENT. It seems that a second life, that of the guide who was leading Mrs. Marke, was lost in the late accident on Mont Blanc. From a full narrative of the dis aster, we learn that Mr. Marke's party, on leaving Chamonix on August Ist, consisted of his wife (the lady who was killed), another young lady, and three guides, one of whom, a Savoyard, named Guy Crozier Ozyme, was directed to take the arm of Mrs. Marke. When the explorers had successfully traversed the great and the little plateau so familiar to all. Alpine climbers, and had arrived at Le Corridor, they noticed that a strong breeze was blowing, and Mr. Marko with two guides advanced before the ladies to see if the weather was likely seriously to interfere with an onward course. While they were away the ladies complained of cold, and the guide Ozyme, on his own responsibility, appears to hive counselled and undertaken a PASSENGER CONVEYANCE TO AMERICA. Some papers on the subject of the conveyance of passengers to America from the United Kingdom have been published with the sanction of the Board of Trade, from which it seems that English steam shipowners have for a long period suffered, under unjust disadvantages as compared with foreign 'steamships employed in the passenger trade between Great Britain and the United States. It would appear that all English vessels have to be built in strict accordance with the provisions of the Passengers Acts, a regulation which entails much expenditure, over that incurred in the construction of ships made by foreign firms. Foreign vessels are also at liberty to convey a greater freight and a larger number of passengers than British steamboats making the same voyage, and latterly they have even been successful in securing the mail services at serious loss to English shipowners. It is represented that the British steam trade between Southampton (from which port only foreign steam packets sail to the United States) and America, has been seriously affected, and the circumstance that Hamburg made ships are allowed to evade all Passengers Acts, by merely having their passengers conveyed to land by tenders instead of landing them directly on the piers, leads to no little indignation and disappointment in those who have the commercial interests of the country at heart. It is with satisfaction that these persons will now hear that it is proposed to allow these unfair exemptions in British waters to exist no longer, and that all steamships employed between England and America will probably in a short time have to conform to uniform laws. ADMIRAL FARRAGUT. The United States Navy has just lost another of its most prominent figures. Admiral Farragut is dead, having survived Admiral Dahlgren only by a few weeks. Though his professional career reaches back to 1812, when, as a boy of thirteen, he was fighting against us, it is in connection with the great Civil War of the States that he is best known and that he will be remembered. He had served in the West Indies and in South America prior to the outbreak of the war, and was ,at , the Norfolk Arsenal when the troubles began. In Janu ary, 1862, he was appointed commander of the naval expedition against New Orleans, and he entered the Mississippi destroying the Confederate gunboats, and reaching the city which was evacuated by the enemy. He received the thanks of Congress for this service, and was appointed commander of the blockading squadron on the west of the Gulf of Mexico. He succeeded in capturing several places, minding Galveston, and then assisted Gen. Bankes, who was beseiging Port Hudson. In this he was not successful, but he retrieved his fortunes later on when he broke the boom which defended the Bay of Mobile. Admiral Buchanan was the Con federate commander, and was well supplied with hidden means of defence, for one of Farragut's ships was blown up by a torpedo, a weapon which the Confederates knew well how to turn to account. Buchanan did not surrender until all his vessels were sunk or taken, when he was forced to' yield. The rank of admiral did not exist in the United States navy, but it was created on purpose to recompense the services of Farragut. Since the war he has com manded the Atlantic and Mediterranean squadrons, and has always retained the high place he gained in the estimation of his countryman by his brilliant achievements. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, AIJG. 16. The Queen and Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Harriet Phipps ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with the Princess Louise. PrinCe Arthur and Princess Beatrice also went out. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Clifton, visited her Majesty yesterday. WINDSOR CASTLE, AUG. 16. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Princess Beatrice, left Osborne this afternoon at half-past three o'clock and arrived at Windsor Castle at seven o'clock. Her Majesty crossed over to Gosport in the royal yacht Alberta, Captain his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, G. 0.8. The suite in attendance consisted of Lady Churchill, the Hon. Harriet Phipps, Colonel H. Ponsonby, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel the Hon. A Hardinge, Lieutenant Pickard and the Master of the Household. The Hon. Mary Lascelles has succeeded the Hon. Harriet Phipps as Maid of Honour in Waiting. Lord Suffield and Colonel H. Lynedcch Gardiner have arrived at the Castle as Lord and Groom in Waiting. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Johnson, William, Noi Walsham, Norfolk, linen draper. BANKRUPTS. Notice of Adjudications and First Meetings of Creditors. To Surrender under the Bankruptcy Act, 1869. In London. Abraham, Solomon, Petticoat-lane, City, grocer, Aug. 31, at 1. Bennett, J. 8., Lower-terrace, Holland Park, Notting hill, draper, Aug. 31 at 14 Lourie Julius, late of 'enchurch-street, City, merchant, Sept. 5, at 1. Williams, James, St. Giles, Camberwell, clerk in h )1y orders, Sept. 8, at 11. FORESTERS' DAY AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Yesterday there was an unusually large gathering at the above favourite place of resort, the occasion being the fifteenth annual fete of the London United District of the Ancient Order of Foresters—a district which, though the novelty of forestry has to some .ex tent passed away, has recently shewn signs of extraordinarily ral id development, and is at the pre sent time one of the strongest districts in connection with the order throughout the kingdom. The weather being fine, crowds of visitors arrived in the early part of the day, and it is estimated that the entire number present far exceeded that of any former occasion, although last year between fifty and sixty thousand persons were admitted. Green was the prevailing colour, almost every visitor wearing an article in their attire of that hue ; whilst not a few members of the order appeared in full costume, in imitation of the " bold Robin Hood and his Merrie men of Sherwood Forest." All the great fountains played throughout the day, and a great variety of amusements were provided, including a clowns' cricket match in costume, and the ascent of three balloons ; in addition to which the Tycoon's Japanese troup gave a performance—a most quaint and grotesque exhibition ; and dancing and numerous old English sports were indulged in on the lawns, The splendid band of the Coldstream Guards was also present, and the Foresters themselves formed a grand procession, all of which passed off without the slightest hitch, and on the whole, making every allowance for the crowded state of the grounds, a most enjoyable day was spent. It was reported that one of the balloons which had ascended from the grounds had fallen into the sea, but the arrival of its occupants at Sydenham last night relieved all apprehensions on the subject. The total number of visitors yesterday was 53,939—viz., on payment 50,919, and by season tickets 3,020. At the Leeds Assizes, on Monday, a woman named Margaret Marshall was charged with the murder of her infant at Ripley, on the 12th of June last. She was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1870. THE dimensions of the German army or rather of the three German armies now advancing into France beyond the Saar, beyond the Meurthe, beyond the Moselle, are, in the history of European wars, some thing abnormal, something portentious. Altogether there are at this moment within the French terri tories not far short of 600,000 German soldiers armed nearly every one of them with the deadly needle gun, and trailing with them upwards of 1,500 formidable pieces of artillery. At their back, pressing after them in second line, are coming rapidly up the reserves—all the rest of the male population of Northern and Southern Germany being prepared, if need be, to answer the first summons to come to the aid or to swell the ranks of these gigantic forces, supposing that summons to be given by old King WILLIAM at the beck of the finger or at a mere glance of the eye of "the little man in spectacles." From Brandenburg, from Magdeburg and Thuringia, from Pomerania, from Saxony and from Hanover, from Bavaria and Baden, from Wurteraburg and Westphalia, from Hesse and Nassau, from Posen and Silesia, they have poured in "at the double," to the tuck of drum and the bugle - call round the black and white flag of the royal leader of the North German Confederation. Their aggregate mass has been distributed in three distinct portions, in the first, the second, and the third army—the Army of the Saar, the Army of the Rhine, and the Army of the South. At the centre, as leader of the Second, or Army of the Rhine, there has been placed in command, from the outset, Prince FREDERICK CHARLES. TO the right of him, advancing in to France immediately to the south east of Luxembourg, there is the First, or Army of the Saar, under the command of General von STEINMETZ. Opposite whom to the left of the central invading army of German soldiers, is the Third, or Army of the South, led by the most daring and adventurous of all the princes of the Royal House, the CROWN PRINCE—" FRITZ," a 9 the KING calls him—the Heir Apparent to the Kingdom of Prussia, or shall we say to the Empire of Germany ? Under the standards of the CROWN PRINCE there are 250,000 men ! Under those of Prince FREDERIC CHARLES there are another 250,000 ! Under STEIN METZ there are some 70,000 ! Altogether 570,000 ! Nearly 200 guns (186) accompany STEINMETZ' 70,000. Exactly 660 guns accompanying the CRoWN PRINCE'S 260,000; and another 660 the other PRINCE'S 250,000. In all, as we have said, over 1,500 pieces of artillery. Otherwise to express the same facts, while General STEINMETZ has with him 50 battalions of infantry, and 48 squadrons of cavalry, and 32 battalions of field artillbry— Prince FREDERICK CHARLES is the leader of 197 battalions, of 52 squadrons, and of 110 batteries— the CROWN PRINCE having under his command 192 battalions, 164 squadrons, and 110 batteries. An array all the more formidable because of the patriotic arduor animating every individual in this gigantic host, and because of the high state of discipline into which they have been drilled. MOLTSE'S boast that in a fortnight he would put 250,000 men upon the Rhine has been more than simply just surpassed. Within a very little more than three weeks, he has got more than double that number beyond the Rhine and beyond the Saar, and some of them even beyond the Meurthe and the Moselle. EVER since the first symptoms of war between France and Prussia made themselves manifest, and especially since the publication of the Secret Treaty project brought us face to face with our duty to Belgium, a mournful cry has arisen with much unani mity throughout the land. Our army (in spite of its cost) is wretchedly weak; we have few men; if we inter fered on behalf of the Belgians or anybody else we could do very little to help them—such is the re assuring confession which our military budget of fourteen or fifteen millions a year enables us to make. The complaint is not ill-founded; at the same time it is not less true that the means adopted to remedy the evil are little calculated to secure the desired result. Instead of frantically voting a sum of money in time of danger, and rushing to recruit a few thousand men, it would be much better if we turned our attention to ensuring the thorough efficiency of the forces that we possess. Those forces, in spite of all alarmist statements, are respectable. Since the era of peace closed, in 1851, with the Great Exhibition that was to perpetuate it for ever, the British army has steadily increased in num bers. According to some figures published in the Times, which are evidently supplied from an official source, the British army in 1845 mustered not more than 120,000 men, including every species of soldier. There are now fully 350,000 within these islands alone. The regular army in the United King dom attains a strength of nearly 90,000 ; the M ilitia is represented by 100,000 real, and not paper men ; and the Volunteers are at least 170,000 strong. Surely if this great host had attained a really high standard of efficiency, if it were equal to all the modern improvements in war, there could be no need of alarmist recruiting. An army of 400,000 men is quite enough for our purposes. What we want is a sufficient domestic force to preserve the country from all fear of invasion, and a regular army of about 100,000 men always in hand, and always ready to proceed to any one point—to defend a colony or uphold a treaty obligation. Considering that an invading force would have the sea to cross, and a lanling to effect, 400,000 men are surely sufficient to accomplish what the fleet leaves undone. France, TAB BRITISH ARMY. The Standard is not at all satisfied with the glowing accounts which have appeared in the 2 imes respecting the condition of the army. Of the volunteers, it is a daring experiment upon the public credulity to say that they are available even for home defence, so long as they are armed and organised after their present fashion. We had the opinion, only the other day, of General Sir John Garvock, that the volunteers were unfit to act with regular troops. Of course this is no fult of the volunteers, but of the Government, which starves and neglects this most valuable arm of the national ser vice, and which refuses to give them guns. Even as a defensive force it would be absurd to pretend that the 200,000 volunteers which we reckon on paper could with stand in their present state a single corps d'ariae of the Prussian army. What madness, then, it is to talk of the 240,000 volunteers as " available " for home service. As for the militia, which appears on paper at its full strength of 100,000, they are almost in as helpless a condi tion as the volunteers in being unprovided with breech-loading rifles. It would take at least six months' hard drilling and practical camp work, even after they had been entrusted with the Martini-Henry, before we could speak of the Militia as equal to the Prussian Landwehr, even for home defence. As for the regular army, which, by some arithmetical legerdemain, has been brought up to the number of 100,000, no one knows better than Mr. Cardwell that scarcely 50,000 exist except on paper. The condition of even this small force, which is really our only available resource in a foreign war, and of which the greater part cannot be spared in any circumstance, from garrison duty, is very far from being effective. Granting that our artillery, what we have of it, is in a tolerably effective state, our cavalry is in a most imperfect state. We hear of regiments on parade whose full strength did not exceed 180 men, while it is notorious that, not to speak of remounts, there is scarcely a regiment which is fully horsed. THE EMPEROR AND THE WAR. The Daily News observes that as for the Emperor him self, his humiliation is deep enough ; and even the changing fortunes of war would probably not change his fortune unless they changed his policy with it. The France which alone can conquer is not the France of 1851, but the France of 1789. - The Allies who were driven back in 1792 were leagued against a people asserting their liberty. The Allies who occupied France and its capital in 1814 and 1815 were banded against a Sovereign who had substituted himself for the people, and who had endeavoured to div er t men ' s m i n d s by glory and conquest from ca re f or i n t erna l freedom. Emile 011ivier and the Constitution of 1870 has been as little powerful to conjure away fate as Benjamin Constant and the Constitution of 1815, were more than half a century ago. The energy of the revolutionary period might clear. French soil of its German occupants. But Imperialism, unless it make an honest affiance with freedom, cannot do so ; and it is questionable whether twenty years of an opposite system have not drained away the energies that saved France eighty years since. Napoleonism obliged to assume ,the defensive in a quarre l o f it s own ma ki ng, and unable to do even that with effect ; Napoleonism retreating before the enemy on the soil of France, and concentrating its legions about the threatened capital, while it leaves its frontier provinces and strongholds to be defended by unmanned walls, and the civic population must transform its character, if it is not to forfeit its life. In its old shape ft is not a thing to fight kJ, scarcely even to fight with and under. MAZZINI'S ARREST. Left to himself (says the Telegraph) the Pope cannot tong maintain his ground with the great and united people whose territories surround his own on every side except the narrow sea-board. I n all likelihood some rising withia the walls of Rome will ere long Five Italy an excuse for occupying the city in the interests of order without infringing the Septem ber Conventksn. In any event, the present Pontiff life cannot be r.'uoh further prolonged ; and upon his death the Roznar. question may be solved withont any resort to force. The peal is almost r ip e , and its fall cannot 1, delayo for many years. Indeed, the one chance on which the Papacy can still reckon is an assault from Mazzini and his partisans, which might create the occasion for a renewed occupation. On that account the news of Mazzim's arrest and imprisonment will be regarded as a calamity at the Vati can, and as a piece of good fortune by Italian patriots; and the more unreservedly, since they will assume that the Italian Government cannot so far forget sound policy and simple decency as to extend any but the most con.' sidertte treatment to the man whose mistakes, wild as they have been, ca n never st ifl e t h e memory of his earnest pleadings in the cause of Italy when other voices were silent. ALGERIA. The Telegraph perceives some danger in the placing of Algeria in a state of sie ge by the French Government. It is beyond doubt that the great African colony of France has been to a dangerous extent deprived of its usual garrison ; and the turbulent spirits of the natix es—who cannot fail to learn, perhaps with large exaggerations, the reverses of France and the in evitable sufferings of their compatriots in the Imperial ranks—may easily be encouraged into the hope of re covering freedom by the smallness of the repressing army and the knowledge that the empire is not now in a condi tion to send over reinforcements. Yet it may be ques tioned whether there was not 'more risk in such a confes sion of fear as the declaration of the state of siege involves than even in the undoubted perils of the situation. We do not, of course, know to what extent the native populations may have already shewn themselves disposed to take advantage of the trials through u hich the Empire is passing ; but the temptation is unquotiollobly strong, and a slight exercise of such splendid political fanaticism as that which gave Abd-el- Kader his power over his countrymen might in the present conjuncture have a most disastrous effect for the half •suc oessful French colonists who try so hard to strike roots in the sterile African soil. MURDER IN WEST BROMPTON. A shocking murder was brought to light on Tuesday afternoon in West Brompton. A man named Samuel Lee, a potman at the Drayton Arms, Richmond -road, had been missing since Saturday last. Immediately fronting the Drayton Arms is a large plot of building ground, known as the Gunter estate, which is being rapidly covered with middle-class houses, the building operations giving employment to a large number of working men. Lee, the man who was missing, had a good many dealings with these men. Besides the weekly beer score which many of them ran up at the Drayton Arms, a consider. able number of men had their dinners every day provided by Lee, and it was their custom to pay him these accounts weekly. On Saturday afternoon, about half past twelve to one o'clock, the potman left the public-house to collect from the men the amounts due to him. He never returned. His absence at first created no uneasiness, Mr. Harrison, of the Drayton Arms, having perfect confidence in his integrity, merely noticed his absence, but made no special inquiries to ascer tain the cause. After, however, closing on Saturday night, Lee's wife came to make inquiries about her hus band, and then some alarm was excited. During Sunday and Monday the estate was searched, except the empty finished houses, which, being supp ose d to b e locked, were not explored, but no t race was discovered of the missing man. On Tuesday afternoon, about four o'clock, a carpenter named White had occasion to go into one of a row of these houses, No. 3, Cledhow row, and he was horrified by finding the body of Lee in circumstances which showed at a glance that he had been murdered. He was lying on his back on the floor of a back parlour. There was a deep wound in the middle of the forehead, which had evidently been produced by a hammer, or some similar weapon ; and three or four other wounds of a like character on the other parts of the head, and one very large fracture on the top of the skull. The blood was sprinkled about the floor, and the brain matter protruded from the skull. Close beside the body lay the open account- book which the deceased was accus tomed to carry with him when collecting his money. The carpenter at once gave an alarm at the Drayton Arms, and the landlord and another man accompanied him to examine the place. There was nothing to indicate a struggle, or to show that the body had been dragged thither ; on the contrary, the appearances pointed to the supposition that Lee, after collecting his accou n t s , h a d re ti re d i n t o t h e corner of the room, as he usually did to check the items, and had been then felled with one blow. He was a cripple and quite unable to render any resistance. No motive has been suggested for the crime but greed. Lee was known to have money, and £lO to £l2, which it is cer tain he must have had on Saturday afternoon, had been taken from him. He was a quiet, good-natured, and kindly man, and often, it seems, lent sm a ll sums to workmen wh om h e k new when they ran short. He was about 40 years of age, and leaves a widow and three children. GARROTTING IN Plt OICHAN.—On Tuesday morning, d 99.11 after one o'clock, Mr. Green, a tradesman, rg siding in East Surrey-grove, was garrotted in St. George' road, Peckham, and robbed of a large sum o f money. co 'wimp first attacked by one man, who was almost imme - ately joined by three other villains, when the gentleman Wag knocked down and robbed. The marauders are tut ; a. to belong to a gang which . has infested the ritic f. ,,, t . lol9...umietim e past _. . , Al It( THE EUROPEAN WAR. THE SUN, which is Published Every Morning at Eight o'clock, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper, will always give the LATEST N EWS of the WAR, and of all other events. Frock Coats. 9s. 6d Eton Suits. T of the thr Kii wai ova: hay con not Pre atta, by ti Lary In g . arrei tim e Ilaaa for 1 agezi Th e near Ti If F, resi s ing