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

,nd SON, CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE, B RADFORD, YORKSHIRR E MOSES and SO WS PRIOR LIST ot G ENTLEMEN'S OLOTHIiNG. Frock Costs. Dress floats. Oxl)i• d Coats . - 25 5. 2.18. 17s. 1 18s. 30s. 303 21s. 2. 353. 355. 265. as. 425. 425. SOs. 82s. 603. s')s. 368. S6s. 635. 60s. 425. .425. F Also at Also at I Also at other prices . other prices. other prices MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of V !• G ENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED Summer i Tourist Suits. 1 Suits. Summer Dross i I Trousers. I Trousers. 10s. Oil. 235. Also at other prices. Also at other prices, Also at i Also at other prices, other prices ORDERS by post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self measure Introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. 1p MOSES and SON'S PRICE IA ,T of E. BOYS' CLOTHING : Knickerbocker Suits. Eton 1 Brighton Barrow Suits. Suits. I Suits. 9s. Gd. ! Ist. 18s. 13s, a 2.15. I 2&. 16s. 6cl, 21s. I 265. I 265, 325. I 325. 365. 1 365. 48s. I 48s, Also at Also at Also at I Also at other prices. ) other prices. other prices. other prices. MOSES and SON supply every description of I• clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes; also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any article exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-fre E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES sad SOS LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATB. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTItT RRAUOH. BRADE'0111), YOFXSIIIIIII, PRINCRSTS TIIRITRE.-8018 Lessee and Manager .117 p. B. WEBSTER. This Evening, at Seven, WANTED a THOUSAND MILLINItitS, lair. J. Rouse, &c.; at a quarter to Eight, The RAPPAREE, Messrs. Herman Vezin, W. Rignold, I. Clayto A. Itayner, E. P. Edgar, Shiel Barry; Mesdames Katharine Rodgers and M. Cooper; to conclude with THE HAPPY MAN, Mr. ithiel Barry, &a VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.— Lessees—Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7.80, CHISELLING. Ms. David James. After which, at 8, the Comedy, In Three Acts, ent4tled TWO ROSES, by James Albery. To conclude with the successful Burlesque, DON CARLOS ; .or, The Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. H. Irving, G. Honey, Ltn Rayne, W. H. Stephens, and T.lThorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Pawsitt, T. Laois, and A. Newton. MA DAME TUSS AUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER STREET. On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial ; King William of Prussia, and Count von Bismarck. Admission, Is.; Children underlo years of age, 6d. Napoleon Rooms 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10p.m. XTONDERFUL TALKING MACHINE, in vented and constructed by Professor FABER, of Vienna. The greatest mechanical curiosity in the world. EXHIBITING HOURLY from eleven a.m., till ten p.m. Ad mission, Is.; reserved seats, 25.; children, Od. Palais Royal, Argyle•street, Oxford-street, W. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.C). PUBLIO SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND . . - JABRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s Per ream, s.d. Fine Cream Laid Note; a cheap paper..... Superfine Cream Laid Note; much app rove d Superfine Thick Cream Lai Note ; especially recommended 3 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note . 7 0 Straw Paper, " Patent;" adapted for rapid writing ... ..... .... 2 6 Large Commercial Note Papers 38., 4s. 55., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream.......... 105. 6d., 12s. 6d., and 14 6 Outsides Foolscap Letter Paper for scribbling .. plain, 45.; ruled ditto, 4 6 Tinted Lined Note five quires for Is. 6d., or 5 6 New Vellum Wove " Club House" 34 ote, five quires for 2s. 6d. Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s6d, 5s 6d, & 686 d .. Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4 s 6d! . ( per 1,000 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., 3e. . COLOUR STAMPING (Relief) reduced to Is. per 100. Polished steel dies sunk by tho best artists in tbo trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An ILLU:ITB ATED CATALOGUE. containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases. Desks. post free. Established 1841 \TEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER o: HART-STRENT. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT -ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. Also at other prices MOSES and SON beg to remind the p u bli c • that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its :finality, and they venture to affirm that every articht sold by them is ~ ..onsideral,ly cheaper than what can be obtained at any other ho ise in England. RUPTURES-By ROYAL LETTERS PATENT WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 182), is allowed by upwards of Five r Ilundred Medical men to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe ain Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and cicse that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of the , two inches below the hips, being sent to the menu aeturer Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. A. Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. A Double Truss, 315.6d.,4)5., and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd. An Um bilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAP 3, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the L. gs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and i nexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking Price 4 s , 6d ., 7s. 6i1., 10s., and 16s. eac h Postage, 6d: JOHN WHITE Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly J OH N GOSNELL and C O. ' S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the tAeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from ,4ecay', and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Priee le, dd Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. NOTHING I3IPOS S OLE. AGUA AAIATIELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine lane. no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNE LI, 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, ns each ; also 5s , 7s. .'d , and 15e. each, mind ng brush. Iced Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, !..3 Upper Thamos-streot, Lon don, E.C. 1 1 1 11ORLEY'S HORSE 4.1 , 1 CATTLE SPICE, In Penny Ni eta only, of all Corn ("handlers in Loudon, and Of all Grocers, Druggtat. and Corn Centers in the Country. NATIONAL INSTIFUTION for DISEASES of the SKIN, Gray's-inn-rood and Mitre-street. Physi cian, Dr. BARR MEADOWS, 49, Dover-street, Piccadilly. Ave rage number of Patients ender treatment, 1,000 weekly. Free letters are availatle f'‘) r ilocc.sitbas applicants. XIIOMAS ROBINSON; lion. Sec the Tuileries. Returning to 'the consideration of the scared, -but not as yet utterly dispersed Corps lAigis lati4 we find that attar they had received from M. MAnraL the formal decision of the committee in favour of M. Timins' proposition, they separated for a while to assemble again, a little more formally, later on upon Sunday evening. Neither President nor Vice-President being there, M. TRIERS presided. Delegates, in this instance, having been deputed to wait upon the members of the Council than known to be sitting at the hotel de Ville; M. Timms opened this last and extraordinaty sitting of the now deceased Corps Ldgislatif, by announcing that M. JuLns PAYEE and M. JULES SIMON were hi attendance for the purpose of replying to the conciliatory communication the conclave at the Hotel de Ville had received through the medium o the delegates of the committee. Those two im- portant members of the Provisional Governnien. were thereupon introduced. M. JULES FAVRE was, as a matter of course, the spokesman, and what he had to announce everybody knew pretty well by instinct beforehand. The Past was Past. A Dynasty was dead. purely temporary go vernmen t had been self-created, calling itself a Ministry of Defence.' The enemy had to be expelled from France—that was all their progrannue! Propositions were made by several excited Deputies to the effect that the Legis lative Body before separating should enter its protest against the violence to which it had been subjected. To what purpose ? asked M. Tarns as President. All he could do himself was to wish sue tees to the Government of the emergency. "Seals had been placed on the door of thb Chamber," ex claimed Count DAR U. " Is there anything more seri° us than the seals on persons ?" asked M. TRIERS, adding with pathetic dignity, "Dave I not been in prison at Mazas ? You do not hear me complain of it." The enemy was there almost at the gates of Paris. That was all they had to take into consideration. Until the Germans have been driven across the frontiers, even the consideration of the political suture of Franco is postponed. "Iv is magnificent, but it is not war," said a French officer awe-struck at the sight of the Light Brigade charging through the Valley of Death atßala- Maya. "It is magnificent, but it is not diplomacy,' we ma 3 say of the manifesto which M. JULES FAVEE has addressed through the diplomatic representatives of France, to the world. "We will not cede either an inch of our territory or a stone of our fortresses," says the Foreign Minister of the Third Republic, and yet at the moment he wrote one army had been captured, another was hopelessly beleaguered, and a third was falling back before the advancing and victorious foe. There is an heroic sound in the words, but they will not bear analysis. Criticised, they turn out to be foolish brag. The arguments put forward to support them prove to be wholly illogical and unsustain able. Because we—the Liberal leaders of France— did not wish for war two months ago, therefore Prussia ought, now that we have become the rulers of France, to make peace with us on the terms of surrendering all the advantages which she has gained. If she will not do that, says FAvrw, we will fight to the last, with "the firm confidence that our cause, which is that of Right and Justice, will triumph in the end." How can a muse which is asserted to have been unrighteous and unjust at the outset, be rendered righteous and just by the fact that the conduct of it has passed into other hands? It is true,a M.FAvaft says, that at the be ginning of the war King NVILLiAm declared that he did not will' to fight against the French people but only against French soldiers. Yet he never meant tkat he would be content to lay down his arms without imposing terms, directly the French people found grj 444,414, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1870, " THE most illustrious of all the Paris Deputies"— M. MIERS —has condoned the violation of the sanctity of the national legislature upon the occasion of the irruption of the mob into the Corps L6gis latif. The attitude assumed by the great author orator-statesman in this supreme emergency was one worthy of his historic reputation. Immediately after the Legislative Body had been compelled to abandon their Hall to the populace on Sunday last, they assembled together in an informal meeting in another part of the building. They then had announced to them by one of the deputies, M. MARTEL, what had been the decision of the committee in regard to the three propositions which had been referred to it in the names of their respective proposers—that is to say, of M. Timms, of M. FAVRII, and of the Count PALIKAO. By a majority the committee had de cided in favour of M. TmEns' proposition. They had slightly modified it, but, to all intents and purposes, it was, even after that modification, his and no other's. It ran thus :—" Considering the abeyance of authority, the Chamber appoints a Commission of Government and National defence. This Commission is composed of five members, chosen by the Corps Legislatif. It will appoint the Ministers. As soon as circumstances will permit, the nation shall be called upon by a Constituent Assembly to pronounce on the form of government." Meanwhile,' oblivious of the Committee, or dis daining its delegated authority, the mob, martialled by the leaders of the Left, that is by the Chiefs of the minority had created a new governing power altogether. A Republican regime had been re-estab lished. The Presidency of it had been offered to and accepted by General Tnoctly, already having not his foot in the stirrup but himself in the saddle, and the good sword of Paris slung at his thigh. To make assurance doubly sure, moreover, General TIiOCLIU at once took up his abode in the Palace of 12s. 6d. 15s. 6d. 17s. Cd 16s. 6d, .SEMENTS. GAlETY—Litschen and Fritschen. The Quaker. Blue. beard. PRINCESSEW—Wanted, 1,000 Milliners. The Rapparee. The Happy Man.' QUEEN'S-My Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe an Crown. ROYALTY—Our Nelly and F. M. Jvluis Cncesar, the Irregular Rum 'Un. OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicaments. Handsome Is that Handsome Does. Undine. VAUDEVILLE—ChiseIIing. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STRAND—Kind to a Fault Pilgrim of Love. NATIONAL STANDARD—LittIe Emily. Venus versus Mars. ALLIABIBItA —Grand Ballet and Varieties. enEmoltmE—Fireworka, Ballet, &c. JAmps's HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. AUDAME 1 1 C188AUD's (B;.kev-stfregat) —Frona U a.xn. till 3 pm. and 7 till 10 pan. la.; oxtoa worm 6d. Poz , vrEcaitao--..Professer rappae g Ghosts. Aftemoan and Evoking. THEATRE, Vainf, Coats. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 18 70 that they had had enough of fighting. It must be remembered that the war was endorsed by the French people originally, and that even the Liberal leaders declared that they would sink their opposi tion to it, in order to aid France to obtain the victory. They, therefore, became responsible for the war, and would have shared in the fruits of a triumph if the triumph had been theirs. It must be remembered, too, that at the present time M. FAVRE boasts of having an army of 300,000 men in the field, who Fill continue the war until the bitter end, it the victorious enemy will not accept terms of peace from the vanquished. There never was a more unreasonable proposal. It is impossible that it can be entertained. chequer, who always declared he had no money for the purp ose. THE WAR AND THE WORKING CLASSES. The working classes of this country are under ' stood to strongly protest against the continuance of the war, and a movement has been initiated by which orgrinised efforts will be made in the inte rests of peace. The stupendous folly of fighting for personal ambition or territorial aggran i dise,luent has, it appears, suggei4ted itself to the popular mind, and in confor mity with a determination arrived at by a meeting of working men in London, 60,000 addresses, urging the people to resist any further warlike action, have been distributed throughout the country, and the responses are said to be highly sate.. factory. A second meeting of working men was I held the other night i n th e me t ropo li s. Muoh sympathy was expressed towards France with its Republican Government, and the prosecution of the war, seeing that the Empire w7lB at an end, was once more generally considered unjustifiable. A resolu tion was, moreover, agreed to, hailing with satisfac tion the re-establishment of a Republics, as a mea sure calculated to lead to a speedy end of the cam paign. Consider the next argument. The French people desire to live in peace with their neighbours, and to jet Germany manage her own affairs undisturbed by French jealoasy. So says M. FAVIIR. Be speaks for himself and his colleagues. Is he certain that he san speak for the whole nation? Even if so, can he glarantee that the wish of to-day will be the wish of to-morrow, to say nothing of ten or twenty years hence ? What security can he give that the Third Republic will be longer lived than the seoond, or that a few months hence France will net have fallen under the control of a military dictator whose first object will be to restore the prestige which France has lost in this disastrous campaign? We have not the smallest doubt that the present Government earnestly and honestly desires to live in peace with all other Powers, but the present Government is a thing of to-day, and may be gone before Christmas, may be succeeded by a Government as warlike as that of the First Consul. Since Waterloo France has had revolution upon revolution, each successive Government repudiating the policy of its prede cessor. It is impossible, therefore, for Prussia, or, indeed, for Germany, to accept the peaceable assur ances of the present Government as of any perma nent value. It is easy to believe that if the German troops were to evacuate France at once General Tnocnu would not attempt to restore the lustre of the French arms by a campaign on the Rhine. But King WILLIAM and his allies have to make terms, not with the Government of National Defence or any other Government, but with some thing stable and permanent, with France itself. TOPICS OF THE DAY. TUE EDUCATION RATE. A question of considerable importance and interest n is being widely discussed, namely, the exemp tion of separate ecclesiastical districts, in which an efficient and sufficient school is maintained . from the payment of a rate for the support of a school in other parts of the mother parish from which the said ecclesias tical district has been legally separated. It will be recollected that the question was opened in the House of Commons during the passage of the Educa tion Bill, and Sir George Jenkinson moved an amendment, which asked Parliament to affirm and introduce the principle of exemption under such circumstances. The hon. baronet, however, was ,defeated by a narrow majority. In a letter to the Times he paints out that the question affects to a vital degree the future maintenance of existing schools built and supported by voluntary and private funds (excepting the aid received from the Govern ment grant). The hon. gentleman argues that if a man build or maintain a school sulii- cient ha , the separate ecclesiastical district in which he resides, and sueh school in all respects meets the requirements of the Educatien Act the person or persons supporting the school ought not to be rated. So confident is the hon. baronet of the justiee of his proposition that he believes the day is not distant when it will reeeiva Parliamentary sanction. TIIIII GREAT FIRE IN CANADA. A terrible fire has been raging in Canada by which the capital itself has been seriously imperilled. An area of seven miles was swept over by the flames with a fearful destruction of life and property. The Canadian and American papers give startling ac counts of the Beene. The Toronto Globe says of one of the destroyed villages : "Of twenty-six houses the only buildings now standing are a couple of churoher. The dwellings, stores, Post-office, are all destroyed. The people lost everything, barely es caping with their clothes. Fully thirty farmers in the neighbourhood have had• their houses, farms, and stock burned." The correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing " after eight days and nights of suffocation and heat and smoke, of fear, and loss of life and property," gives a graphic account of the danger of the capital. Even when he wrote a sudden change of wind, which would drive the still lingering flames on what he calls "an awful pile of timber," would have been disastrous. If once that were to take fire, with a moderate north-west wind, no human power could have saved the city of Ottawa from annihilation. The fury of the fire was only stayed by the Government sending down orders to break down the dam of the Rideau River at the back of Ashburnhani. This, says the narrator, was the most desperate and the last resource, for it involved the sweeping away of two permanent roads, bridges, culverts, and temporary roads, and the swamping of all the buildings on the flats, many people narrowly escaping with their lives, there being positively no time to notify them. Nothing but this disastrous remedy could savo the city, for the wind had increased to a gale, the fire was advancing rapidly, in some places, where it made " a start '' running faster than the gallop of au ordinary hove. The fire is attributed in a measure to the drought, as there has been but little rain for twenty miles round Ottawa for nearly two months, and the whole country was as dry as tinder. Great fires have certainly been very frequent all over the American continent lately, and since the Canadian catastrophe there has been a fire at Chicago doing an immense amount of damage. • OUR ARMY. All assurances to the contrary notwithstanding, many persons will not allow themselves to understand that England is at the present moment prepared by her military forces to take the field. It is true that our military system is imperfect, but there is perhaps little reason to imagine that the army is that poor, indifferent, force which .it is too much the fashion to assume it to- be. The members for the counts of Oxford have been keeping up a good old custom, namely, dining with the Dicester Agricultural Society. In the course of the evening Colonel North was called upon to. respond to the toast of the army, and he fearlessly asserted that there never was a time when an efficient force was more needed than at present, when war was near our doors. No one .would feel dis posed to object to this statement, but when the colonel goes on to indicate the defective con dition of the army and to practically declare the unfitness of Mr. Cardwell for his office owing to his unprofessional character he becomes too venturesome. " Mr. Cardwell," says the hon. member, "never was a soldier, and therefore the difficulties of his situation must be considerable. No doubt Mr. Cardwell was anxious to do right; but," added he, "in a certain sense the Minister had no power. It things should go wrong the country would have its victim, as in the case of the Duke of Newcastle." With regard to officers' claims, Colonel North exoueratvd Mr. Cardwell and the•ComMander hi-Chief, and condemned the Chancellor of .the:Ex- —the Germans who have been driven out of France— complain most bitterly of the treatment which they have received. Two cases which have come to my knowledge will serve as instances of the extreme harshness and injus tice which the French have shown. In one case a merchant at Havre, of twenty-five years' standing in that town had to leave because life was become quite intolerable by reason of the insults which he had to endure. The other case was that of an old gentleman of 76, who though he had lived at Bordeaux fifty-three years, had married a French wife, and brought up his children as French men and women, was com pelled to flee from the senseless fury of the people. Every allowanoe should be , made for a nation brought to such straits as France has been, but it cannot be for gotten that this expulsion of foreigners is wholly con trary to the precedent set by the Russians during the war with the Western Powers, and, indeed, to the precedents of nearly all former wars. A far more satisfactory incident is the return of the exiles. Victor Hugo, who vowed that he would never sot foot in France so long as " Napoleon le Petit " ruled, has returned to take part in the defence of Paris, and on his arrival could hardly speak for emotion. Tibaldi, who was said tohave been conoerned in the conspiracy of April, has gone back. Louis Blanc, whom nearly twenty years of residence in this country hail made almost an Englishman, left Brighton for Paris on Monday, and, if report be true, will shortly be returning to London as Ambassador of the French Republic. That, indeed, will be a startling change. I can hardly realise the fact of this little man, minute almost to a dwarf's proportions, whom I met, not long since, at a quiet evening party, and who lived in somewhat narrow circumstances, taking up his abode as lord of that splendid mansion at Prince's Gate, where so many a member of the old and of the Napoleonist noblesse have resided. Probably there is no Frenchman who can speak and write such pure English, and none who better understands the English nation. M. Esquires, another exile of many years returned to Paris last year, and was elected deputy. He—known to readers on both sides of the Channel by his charming books " The English at Home," and." The Dutch at Home " has been rewarded for his steadfast adherence to Libera principles by being appoihted Prefect of Marseilles, In England he was French master at the military schoo' Woolwich. hope, to share his fate. Messrs. Parker published a volume of religious biogrsl, called " Memorials of a Deacon," , tells the story of a young Devonshire clerg,Y° died all too soon for fame. Lieutenant-Colonel is. republishing, undel• the capital title of "an 011 10 and a New S e a," th e account of the Suez Cana l contributed to Blackwood; and surely I am scarcer in thinking him the author of the article in the number of that magazine, entitled " The Hurricane." Mr. Charles Lever wrote the on the Greek Massacres in the same periodical. Mr. Gladstone has shewn himself prudently f° lll He has bestowed one of the vacant Garters uP °ll , Marquis of W es t m i ns t er, w h o, as Earl of Gros vo' the successful insurrection of the great Whig, against the Russell-Gl a d s t one Mi n i stry o f 1866: Gladstone can afford to be magnanimous ; and, (I°l this act of generosity will, together with the apP Oll/ of Lord Halifax, satisfy the old Whigs, 1 ; 1° 4 hitherto been alarmed at the aggressive attitude Radicals. MAGAZINES FOR SEPTEMBER Scarcely any s p ace i s l e f t to us for even a hurriet, through the c on t en t s o f t h e pr i ncipal magazines. I; less to be regretted, seei ng th a t f ew will o°, t O l them even th e mos t f ug i t i ve attention in the raids' astounding events now agitating Europe. Blackwood—in its political con t r ibuti ons i s obsolete the the very morr ow o f p u bli cat i on. No other orga n daily newspaper, or rath er one p u bli s h e d lik e o ursei ce rapidly. successive editions, almost, from hour toe; can keep pace with the swift and whirling of events. " War Letter of Major 0°1 : 41 1 (self-constituted) our milit ar y correspon d en t WI French arniy," although dated as recently as th e ultimo at Paris, mi g ht f or present purposes 0, t o well have been d a t e d i n th e l ast century. Even t",,e.ty ing gusts of "A n E uropean Hurricane " (the "/ the closing political of Maga) have heee he ) stripped by the roar i ng t orna d o that has within to, few hours careered through Paris, sweeping th e i d' imperial fabri c away w i t h t h e thunderbolt of Bev,°,o9' Cornelius O'Dowd's witty comments on the 1," as it was the d a y b e f ore yes t er d ay, wr i tten as t'oejf in the so u th o f E urope, are obsolete as a 0' of course before p u bli ca ti on. A nother i ns talre e t " Earl's Deno " leads off the number. There is a P ril t, little home story entitled " Milly's First Love," an d , , the best thing in th e num b er —i s a most gen ero usl o ciative criticism on " Newman's Poems." Colburn's New Monthly contains no less than ... gfte t tinct contributio ns , among th em f our port i on s e' ~es stories by M. Sullivan, F. M. Cohen, and J. E. Ca r p e and the author of " W or th th e Winning," respect two poetical fragments, written, one of them, by to f Steggall, the oth er by Ni c h o l as Mi c h e l l, an accoun t Prussian Play in Bavaria, a review of Kent's Poems ; some other papers of a ver y m i sce ll aneous c h ar acter London Society announces its e lf, through a little as henceforth to be brought out by Mr. Beat i l: Queen's publish,,. It does not intimate, howe v 'det its late Editor is preparing a new magazine, I . II L of title of " English Society." The present number average sparkle and effervescence._ The Gentleman's Magazine is this month full er,,' breathings. " Battles fought upon the Rhine, to`' marck's Prussia," "Vive la Guerre," " Paris i Arms," and " Th e M arse ill a i se, " are all unfor t , seasonable articles at present. S o m e are ver y inlet t papers. The number also contains an inquiry ° to t, problem whether fish feel pain. "The Inves t writtrn by a competent City authority, and will I )% r and "Among the Insurance Offic es ," though rat s is better late than never. 6, Macmillan will n o t fail to command attention very important papers. " Th e Mi ss i on t o 'fro r ip will deeply interest all th ose w h o g i ve a though.' 1; unexplored and almost unknown regions of 1 11 -sl i t , fessor Seeley continues his a ccoun t o f " The ti o fr Revolution of the Nineteenth C en t ury. " Mrs. -I deals with proportional representation. d ) h The Period is an anim a t e d littl e periodical Vi - t i " , thins some c o l oure d cartoons. " Pugnacious Po h o of the Period "is a good sketch in its way- clifj peror appears in th e ac t o f crown i ng the edifice, a ,l claims that the empi re i s peace. "S o ldi ers o f t he r n gi' French and Prussian, will also obtain some notice", Benedetti shews th e Project of the Treaty, a nd tie' that it is a specimen of hi s h an d wr i t i ng a f ter a e° instruction by Professor Bismarck. is " The University Lif e o f St. F ranc i s X av ier o tst, first subject met with in the M on th. It is aa te ,p, from a forthcoming work on the life and le , t, St. Francis Xavi er , an d i s a mos t i n t eres ti ng artie n , story of " Wafted Seeds " is continued, an d is 0 ° 7 ,41 , , complicated. Part the first of the " Unknown Sir Thomas Moore " is deserving of notice. ,t ol ' other subjects m a y b e men ti one d "English Iteforw' and Industrial Schools," ye Le Polled presents its usual elegant appear,al,;e affords descriptions o f d ress an d f as hi on w hi c h wi ll fascinating to some readers. f c' htf The Westminster P a p ers i s a mon thl y j ourna l of whist, gams of skill, and the drama. THE CAPITULATION OF SEDAN. The news of the capitulation of sedan has mused great excitement among the continental nations. The Turin Gazette takes a comprehensive view of the affair, and says that the troops under Macnahon were in great difficulties, and decimated by a sustained conflict of three days, deprived, in a great measure, of arms, and, above all, of artillery ; wanting munitions of war, and also provisions of food. An attempt might have been made to beat a retreat, if not by the whole, at least by a groat part of the army, which was the most solid and best pzovided for, but it is generally believed that the Emperor Napoleon was opposed to this act of desperate energy. It is certain that the preference given to this opinion saved the existence of the Emperor, and of many courageous oneswho would willingly have died sword in hand rather than have given up their arms to the enemy; but it is also certain that the traditional valour of the French could not have allowed them to consent willingly to so shameful a compact, one to which the military records of their people prefients no parallel. As for Napoleon he cannot possibly exclaim with Francis the First, after the battle of Pavia, "All is lost except honour," because his honour was the first thing he lost. With regard to the war the 7 orbs Gazette hesitates to believe that it is finished; King William has conquered the dynasty and the Bonapartist, ' bat he has not conquered France. THB PAST HARVEST. Notwithstanding the severe drought we have ex perienced, an approximate estimate of the crops makes it clear that wheat is beyond an average yield. The expectations with regard to the fine crop of oats and barley are more than realised. The unusually large yield of wheat is attributed to the cold retarding spring insuring short and stiff straw, and the favourable blooming time enabling every embryo kernel to set. In many districts the heads of wheat average fifty grains, and the importance of this will be understood when it is known that the yield is usually forty grains. A writer truly says that the peculiarities of one season so seldom recur in another., until after a long cycle of years, that the : lessons they teach we generally forgotten before they again become applicable. Had the season of ' 1808 been anticipated in 1870 a greater area of wheat would have been sown; the lands would have been cleared of stook in early autumn, and the abundant supply of hay would not have been consumed. THE TURF IN IRELAND. When the probable break up of the Palmerston Horse Breeding Association of Ireland was referred to some weeks since, we had pleasure in making it known to English reader& how deep an interes k Lord Mayo has always taken, not only in the formation of such institutions but also in the advancement of tuxf interests gene rally In the sister country. His lordship, it may be now stated, has not ceased his efforts for the welfare of racing breeds, and for the sustenance of horse racing in Ireland. At the present Curragh "September meeting," the Viceroy of India has no less than eleven horses entered, and Irishmen generally are so proud of his Lordship's consistent support of the turf as exempli fied in "his entries for the Curragh programme even on this single occasion, that We learn they earnestly hope he may be the man called upon to give the usual "three dozenof champagne to the turf club " in recognition of his being the largest winner. At a time when interest in the turf is said to be diminishing, sportsmen through out the kingdom will acknowledge how great must be Lord' Mayo's anxiety for its revival when, although himself in India, he directs that eleven of his two-year-olds shall contest for the "Anglesea Stakes" in distant Ireland. We may here add as a proof that the decline of racing is not as yet very perceptible on the other side of the Channel, that in the races for the "Anglesea Stakes" and- for the "Railway Stakes" forty-five hores have been entered in the respective cases, while in the contest for the " Queen's Plate," over a flat course of four miles, the promised field is scarcely less well supplied. The fastest time that the race for the Queen's Plate over the Curragh course, a distance which is seldom traversed in the present age of early racing and short distances, has ever been run was in 1752, when " Skewball " rendered himself worthy of his sire, the " Godolphin Barb," by coming to the winning post in seven minutes and fifty-one seconds after the start. I wonder what the Regent-street tradesmen will do who have hitherto boasted the Imperial patronage. Will they take down the Imperial arms ? If so, what style and title will they adopt ? " Perfumer to the Empress of the French " was all N ery well and proper ; but "Perfumer to the French Republic " would be too absurd. If anything beyond the disastrous war were wanted to complete the downfall of the Bonapartes that has been supplied by the conduct of Prince Napoleon and his sister the Princess Mathildo. It will be remembered that at the commencement of the war the Emperor gave the Prince a command, and that the officers of the army who were to have served under him absolutely refused to do so, so little confidence had they in " Plon-plon," who, as they remembered well, was always just in time to be too late during the Italian campaign of 1859. Not being allowed to display his military incapacity, the Prince betook himself to Italy on a diplomatic mission, and endeavoured to persuade his father-in-law to throw himself into the whirlpool of ruin which was fast drawing the Emperor into its vortex. Events travelled so fast that while Victor Emmanuel hesitated it became out of his power to help his formal. ally. But though the Prince had failed, he remained in Italy, and sent orders to have his curi osities and articles of virtu and furniture sent away from the Palais Royal to a place of safety. The people who had charge of the Palace refused to i .obey. While he was in. Italy safe and sound, his wife, the Princess Clotilda, remained in Paris and though she, as an Italian princess, had a good excuse for leaving, she continued at her post to the end—to the end of the Empire and the dynasty. The last of the Bonapartes was not a Bonaparte, not a French man, but an Italian woman. She left Paris amid the re gret and the respect even of those who rejoiced at the downfall of her adopted family. As for the Princess Ma thilde, her departure has proved the climax of indignity. She had got as far as Dieppe with her sixty and odd boxes when she was taken by the police. The sixty and odd boxes remind one of the thirty carriages full of luggage which the Emperor took with him to the campaign. But the Emperor's baggage was at least his own. The Prin cess's was not ; and is supposed to be public property of great value, including among other things the Emperor's secret official correspondence. She has had a strange career, this captured Princess. She was a daughter of ex-king J4rome Bona parte,and was born at Trieste in 1820. On the downfall of the first empire she assumed the name of Countess of Montfort. In 1841 she married the Russian Prince Anatole Demidoff de San Donato; with the condition that the children should be brought up as Roman Catholics. This brought down upon her husband the anger of the Russian Government. The marriage was without issue, and in 1845 it was dissolved by mutual consent. The Prince was compelled by the Czar Nicholas to settle a pension of 200,000 roubles (Z. 34,000) on his wife, and she then settled in Paris, and lived in grand style. When Louis Napoleon became President of the Second Republic, she did the honours of his house, and continued to do so after he became Emperor until his marriage. She then settled at Saint Gratien, . and set up as a patron of letters and the arts. On the death of Sainte- Beuve, the eminent French critic, a few months ago, there was a good deal of talk about the letters which she had written to him. Sainte Beuve's heirs proposed to publish them, but she regained possession of them. Mr. Richard Wallace,the natural son and the heir of the late eccentric Marquis of Hertford, has signalised the entry upon his inheritance in a noble manner.. He has written to the International Society for the relief of the wounded that he has placed to its credit at Rothschild's 300,000 francs (£12,000), on condition that the money is devoted to the establishment of an ambulance, to be called the Hertferd ambulance. The committee have gladly accepted the offer, and have asked Mr. Wallace to be present at the departure of the ambulance. Canon Liddon's sermon upon the war, at St. Paul's Cathedral, on Sunday afternoon was very eloquent and very long. Three-quarters of an hour before the service I commenced there were no seats to be had. The aisles were so crowded that the members of the choir had to fight their way to their seats ; even the steps of the lectern were occupied, and the rev. canon who read the lessons had to surrender his dignity and push through. To this congregation, three fourths of which had already been standing for an hour and a half, Dr. Liddon preached for over an hour. As to the power of his descriptions of the horrors of the war, and the thirst shewn for news of it in this country, the short summaries that have been published give no idea. The " point" of his sermon was that inasmuch as neither prosperity n or adversity was the measure of moral goodness, we should not hastily judge either France to be receiving the punishment of aggression, or Prussia the reward of a just foreign policy. Ministers are returning to town somewhat slowly considering the importance of the crisis. Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville have, indeed, been in constant com munication and hard at work throughout the recess. Mr. Childers and Mr. Cardwell have been looking after their departments, as indeed they had good reason to do. The First Lord of the Admiralty has unfortunately fallen ill again, and will have tatake a holiday with the uncom fortable conviction that all which was stated in the Western Morning .News respecting the deficiency of stores, and which he contradicted in the House of Commons just before the close of the session, was only too true, as the Army and Navy Gazette has just told him. He is now gone to Germany with his wife, I believe to take the waters. Mr. Forster has just come back from the moors. Mr. Lowe has been paying a visit to Mr. Pender the millionaire briber of Totnes, and to Mr.. Bass the great brewer, who has good reason to cultivate the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Bright seems to have passed into oblivion, so Ipng is it since we have heard anything of him, and so rapid has been the march of events,during the last few weeks. As for the other Ministers, I wot not what has become of them. Literary news must be scant in times like these. Poor Mark Lemon, who died in embarrassed circum stances and under a peculiarly distressing family calamity which I do n)t care to name, has left a novel called " Blue Petticoat," which will be published shortly. Mrs. Oliphant's tale " John," which has been appear ing in B/ackwood's Magazine, is to be republished in 2 vols. Mrs. Pender Cudlip is going to write a serial novel in Charles's Wain. Mr. Rotten has just brought 'out an amusing book called " The Inno cents Abroad," by Mark Twain, the American lecturer, who may perhaps follow in the wake of pony Artkaus . Ward and p . a3r p. 4 visit to England, but uq, • I LITERATURE. Money's Worth. A novel. Three vols. By TOLD 11? Tinsley Brothers. titlf, 11 In this novel, which is divided into th ree books, e fo lug' i , "Constancy," " Cash, „ and " Content," with a P,,' lA, —" Love and Lucre "—Mr. Hood enunciatesp Ve" 01 11 ' tical theory, and one which his readers, howeve,,i: e J, they may admir e it as a theory will be little incl' o f ', ' t put in practice. "Money's Worth "is the title o r, book, but money's worthlessness is the purported pages. In the prologue we are introduc 0; two sisters, Laura and Mary, who marry, 'e l /A, for lucre and the other for love, and who are eaei%,l3o: way unfortunate. Laura contrives to entrap the. ' I3 ,P, wealthy Mr. Clayter into a belief of her affect's, of, when she has attained her object, and is mistre,s9oo,4 good position: she indulges in a course of fas,. lll l . 0 0 , frivolity, and her poor husband, who is unfitted i c .'., 4 society, is driven for companionship to old friends neighbouring tavern. The picture of his deterneo mentally and bodily, until he dies of delirium trePslt i the midst of one of his wife's gay parties,. is P" 1 0 1 :0 the extreme. The heartless wife •is punished c i ; o. ‘ turn. In her second marriage she is , 0:4 for her wealth by a needy lover, and, strange ": 0 5e,,, , in both instances a runaway horse is the ultimatelyl the marriage of Laura Clayter. The author in V, to us her after trials and disappointments seems t,_° 0 6 1 4 Laura Elwin with some commiseration, in which O dd ment we must confess we feel no sympathy. }ter 0 0 0 to her first husband merits a worse retribution 0 - suffers at the hands of Herbert Elwin. Laursl ", Mary, who marries for love, is a very silly roms°." S who is easily taken in by an adventurer, a Capta o r k , it sari:l, who assumes the title of captain on the atr e e ; 9 : of some skirmishing in Spain, and who believ es soft-hearted Mary to be an heiress. When, i.',.' A P, marriage, he finds he has been mistaken, his ind- 1 , 6 : 4 1x; is extreme. The character of Captain Hassard, voi t 'd a conspicuous part in the three volumes, is consis .Oe Y the last. He thinks of. no single individual but 11 .,,, e 4t and is guilty of no generous ac ti on or unselfish e.,'" P, His sentimental, silly wife is also well p our t ra yed. F way of "flapping" her hands in hopeless, helpless_ irel pair in every trial a n d emergency, great or small, '', t 1 indicative of her peculi ar c h arac t er , or vi3";l4; character. The actual heroine of the ya p Violet Hassard, is the daughter of the worthless eP,, Hassard and his weak-minded wife. She is haP,_.l ) .4 I ) ; , dowed with all those excellent qualifications, in vo)" e st, parents are singularly deficient. A charming em hodili 3 o 4 "constancy " and " content," Violet finds her haPPl' l o 4o' s no way dependent upon " cash." Tie hero of the s oo; Lawrence Oldham, a gentleman of the press, il p‘w i for a considerable period actively engaged. ri• , the columns of the Daily Cockcrow, and 0 0 for a time e dit or o f th e " Obelisk Mai; Dce e The author apologises to th e rea d er f or h av i n g c i,eili as a hero one of his own craft, but he expresses 1 ;1 1 0 1 ;j natural belief that such a choice may not be' c 3, 0 0,1 interest for the publi c . It i s t rue th at David Colni J. and Arthur Pend e nnis (th e e dit or o f t h e origlo e,; Mall) were literary heroes ; but, in depi c ti ng 0 0 , 0 6 titular trials of Lawrence Oldham's career, the ant Pie his history enters into many mysteries of the craft, `.C o de he believes to be not altogether familiar to the mil t s 41° In the office of the Daily Cockcrow, for example ; sv.v o tli e introduced to Captain Pen, under a variety of disc i " i!J aspects, from the exquisite gentleman, apparelled 1 r ?, height of fashion, who daintily draws off his lavella e r tA ; gloves and proceeds to write some crushing leadingL i o ce, flaying some luckless Minister alive, down to Laf '.: O i v" particular friend, old Higginbotham, rather br i , v ,:te r p an extra glass at a late hour of the night, but, Acti'i; ° I his condition at that period, always up to his NO.„%tl e s the following day, so much so, indeed, that it is ii. u - tlO., of general belief, with regard to him, I s o " if a cannon ball were to carry o ff hi s h ea d , the '-''''i c le• t; of him (as the Yankees say) would finish the 0 4; c1 1 , The days of the Cockcrow are, notwithstandin, e so l , staff, unluckyily numbered. The young hatildlitO e Daybreak makes its appearance, and Lawrence u pio' has to cast about for a new career. He thinks of les'..;ol o • di' fie shorthand and abandoning literature, but a PI, " friend remonstrates with the idea. " The Prei c irei j ; says, "is like Saturn, who would devour all his chi , Poor Cybele (Literature) has great difficulty to Prr f ee any for herself." How it ultimately fares with liav!,:ai !ii Oldham we shall not here reveal. The curious -,-,-, amply repaid, for on investigation of his history' th e y r t , assuredly find more than their " money's worth' in l o ' t d rusal of this entertaining novel. The chapters do "i t the villainy of old Soarsdrake and others, and tk e o 4lo vellous transformations of the Lovely Leontine 01 .„.tic°," aliases, are not much to our taste. We should I c te; larise, however, among the numerous touches of char , ob; with which the work abounds, the old lawy ko th e Mogridge,who is so learned in the law that he is ' ll 0 1 ,1) , f concentrated essence of legal knowledge, and is av 3 6B ' e to his employers like Liebeg's concentrated, esse.. l o beef-soup. A. little bit of Mogridge is sufficient f.. 1 0 13 0 client's emergency, and the s t oc k rema i ns un dinii d tli for the future requirements of the firm." BeYe"„ e t6 interest of the tale, and its clev er s k e t c h es o f char:eiP the reader cannot fail to b e c h arme d w ith th e frank 6 'i c ed spirit and Thorough kindlineeS of tone by which, chhpter in the whole w6rk is anim a t e d throd i gkon.' . . . MITIMOPOLIrAN UOSSIP.-THURSDAY. The correspondents c f the Lor.don daily papers have certainly shown a wonderful amount of energy with regard to the late eventful scenes of the war. The palm must be given, so far as the battle of Sedan is concerned, to the Pall Mall Gazette. :The correspondent who described the battle end the capitulation, took a special train through Belgium, crossed over to England, wrote out his narrative returned to the seat of war at once, and then "interviewed' Bismarck. Since then he has been back to England and has once more returned to France. This gentleman calls him self Holt-White. His real name, I believe, is Haidee, and • I am told he is an American officer. It is a pity that his otherwise excellent letters should have been marred by excessive egotism. What, too, must one think of the man who, when he was offered the flag of truce as a memento of the most memorable event of the century, refused it because it was only a common duster ! His fellow -countryman, P. Barnum, will gnash his teeth with vexation at the oppostunity thus lost of doiag bnsiness with the fortunate correspondent, The celebrated showman would have given thousands of dollars for the duster, even although "it differed in no respect from ordinary dusters." lam almost inclined to think that the correspondent, who, as a Yankee, could nob have been deficient in cuteness, must have dreamt that the duster was offered him ; dreamt it in a dream super induced by Bismarck's too potent beer. Dr. Russell has also been back in England, where he r wrote that most graphic letter which appeared in Tues day's Timor. Until then he had scarcely done himself justice, and had allowed himself to be beaten by his especially the correspondent of the Daily News. But on Tuesday he re-established his reputation. lam told, but really cannot credit the statement, that he is gone or going to Paris. This would be an act of fool-hardiness for one who throughout the war has been the confidant of the Crown Prince of Prussia. His colleague, poor Colonel Pemberton, who was shot while close to the Crown Prince of Saxony, was only a short time ago best man at a wedding, and was the life of the party. He was a great favourite with all who knew him, and was especially popular in Cainbridgeshire, where he was best known The arrivals of etnigrts in England during the last few days have been very numerous. The involuntary einigr.Fie THE EUROPEAN WAR A. SECOND EDITION of THE SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGHT O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events.