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"WINTER OVERCOATS, IDo, to -S.Z. B OY'S OVERCOATS, 76. t3d. to 455. EMOSES and SOY beg to remind the public o that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its quality, and they venture to affirm that every article sold by them la considerably cheaper than what can be obtained at any other ho tsa in England. MUSES and SON'S _I2J. OXFORD C0A.4., 1% to 54 CAMBRIDGE 00ATa, 124 to 50,2- KRItTOLT JA.OKETS, 158,, to 424. SUTILERLAND JACKETS, 19 60E4. RUSLNESS SUIT, 28% to 00a. Ti MOSES and SON'S easy and accurate system 4 • of self-measure enables them to execute ()edam by poet with the guarantee of a faultless Qts 1: 1 1 M O SES and SON'S F ROCK 00 9.T8, ige, to 6.34, DRESS COATS, 25e. to 603, mORNING TROUSERS, 118. Od. to 219, DRESS TROUSERS, 12a. 6 , 1. to 265. MOURNING SUITS, 28s. to 24 -EMOSES and SON invite special attention • to their large stook of GEN fLEMEN'S DRESSING ROBES at ISs. to 20 Guineai ; the assortment is unequalled for variety el materials and designs, and neatness and elegance of finish. V MOSES and SON'S Jule BOYS' CLOTHING : KNICKERBOCKER SUITS, Da. 6d. to 408. TON SUITS, 15s. to 40s, BRIGHTON SUITS, 18s. to 48a. DRESS SUITS, 25a, to 635. ,MOSES-and SON supply every description of . clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes ; also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any ticle,exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with itulea for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments aro closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness la resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNED of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKr3RIRE. r f HEATRE ROYAL DM. ;:Y-LAN -I- Lessee and Manner, Mr, F. B. CILATTIMTON.—This Theatre having been re=decorated under the direction of Mr. C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., is now Open for the AUTUMN DRAMATIC SEASON, THIS EVENING, Nov. 4. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'elook, and terminate at half-past Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from Sixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to F our Guineas. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. MISS NEILSON will appear in the character of AMY ROBSART, in the Drama of that name, THIS EVENING, Nov, 4.—THEATRE ROYAL DRUILY-LANE. 71/IR. T. 0. KING will appear in the character of INAL VARNEY, In the new Drama, entitled AMY ROBSART, TIM EVENING, Nov. 4.—TREATILF, ROYAL DRURY-LA NEI 1101110110 BUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated YOKES FAMILY will appear at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING, Nov. 4.—THEATRE ROYAL DEWILY LANE. A MY ROBSA RT ; a new Historical Romantic - Drama, written by Andrew Halliday ; founded on Sir alter Scott's celebrated novel " Kenilworth, - with new and characteristic scenery by William Beverly, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Nov. 4—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LINE AMY ROBSART; new drama: Characters by Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Vokes, itemp d. Mortin, and Rosins Vokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Nov. 4,—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LINE. MY ROBSA_RT; New Drama, characters by Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, J. B. Howard, 'Attain Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon, Yokes, F. Stanforth, H. Naylor, and Fred. cokes, THIS EVEN - ING, Nov. 4.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. A MY ROSBART; New Drama. The Overture and _rt. Incidental Music selected and composed by W. C. Levey, executed by an increased Orchestra and numerous Chorus. The Ballet and Grouping of Crowds arranged by Mr. John Cor mack. The whole produced , under the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling at a Quarter to Eight THIS EVENING, Nov. 4. — THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by Martin Becher, at Eleven o'clock THIS EVENING, N0v.,4. —THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. MORNING PERFORMANOE.-AMY ROB SART.—In answer to numerous applications from parties residing in the suburbs, it id respectfully announced that a Special Morning Performance of this Grand Historical Drama will be given on WEDNESDAY, Nov. 9. Children and Schools admitted at reduced prices to the following parts of the theatre —First circle, dress circle, and stalls. Doors open at half-past One, commenee at Two. Box-office open from Ten till Five daiIy.—THEATRE BOYAIi DRURY-LANE. A DELPHI THEATRE ROYAL.—SoIe Pro prietor, Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER ; Managers, Mr. B. VEBSTER and Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.—THIB EVENING, at 7, THE GREEN BUSHES, OR ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Miami, Madame Celeste ; supported by Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Mr. Billing.ton, Mr. Ashley, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. C. H. Stephenson, Mr. C. Sonnet, and Mr. Charles Wilmot. And THE MILLINERS' HOLIDAY. Mr. John Rouse and Miss Eliza Johnstone. ST. Manageress, Mrs. JOHN WOOD.— This Evening at Fight. will be presented (for the eighteenth time in England) Victorien Sardon's great play, FERNANDE, revised by Sutherland Edwards, Esq. Act I. Reseued, Act 11. Loved. Act 111. Won. Act IV. Triumphant. Cha racters by Messrs. Farren, Leeson, Lin Rayne, Murray, and Lionel Brough ; Mrs. Hermann Vozin, Miss Larkin, Miss Fannie Brough, Miss Turner, and Mrs. John Wood.—Doors open at 0.80. At 7, TO OBLIGE BENSON by Tom Taylor, Esq. Messrs. Harry Cox, Grainger, Mervin ; Misses Marian Inch and H. Everard, At 8, FERNI,NDE. At 10.30, ONLY Dby John Oxenford Esq. Messrs. Young and Grainger ; Misses Adair and Turner. —During the vacation the family circle has been recon structed and decorated.—Box-office 11 to 0. No fees. lao YAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH. This Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE. Messrs. Crouch, Turner; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Bufton, and F. Hughes. The New Hurly-Burly-Esque, "THE IDLE TRENTICE." Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Bufton, Santley, Leo, Goodall, dm VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees— Messrs. 11. 3. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7, CHISELLING. Mr. David James. After which, at 8, the Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, by James Albery. To conclude with the successful Burlesque, DON CARLOS ; or, The Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, W. Stephens, C. Garthorne, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Fawsitt, T. Lavis, and A. Newton. GLOBE THEATRE.—Manageress, Miss Alleyne. This evening at 7, THE SECRET ; at 7.45, MARCO SPADA. Messrs. Walter Lacy and Fairclough. Madame Oolonna and Troupe in a grand BRIGAND DANCE. TAMING OF THE SHREW-3118a Alleyne and Mr. Fairclough. To con clude with BOARD AND RESIDENCE. (LOBE THENTRE.—Op en ever y E ven i ng a t k_A 6.30,—T11E SECRET ; MARCO SPADA ; a New and Characteristic BRIGAND DANCE, in which Made. Colonna and Troupe will appear every Evening, ei LOBE THEATRE.-TAMING OF THE ir SHREW. Great success of Miss Alleyne, as K a th er i ne : Va iriloit - :11, as Petruehin.--Eux Office open farm 11 till b. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKEI. —The EVENING, at 7, BLUE DEVILS. Messrs. Howe, Rogers, and Buokstone, Jun, ; Miss Fanny Wright. At 7.80, THE lIVALS. Messrs. Buckstone, Chippendale,Kendal, Everill, Howe, Rogers, and Clark; Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. Hill, and E. Fitzwilliam. Ater which UNCLE'S WILL. Mr. Kendal Mr. Rogers, Miss Robertson. Concluding with A KISS in the DARK. (APIRA OOMIQUE. Grand Entrance, 209 ki Strand. Messrs. LESLIB, BMUS, and NORTON Lessees. Open Every Evening with French Plus. ( - VERA COMIQUE.IIe. DkJAZET Great NJ' French Company To-Night OPriatA QOMIQUE 11 OPRA 00MIQUE 1 1 DSJAZET DAJAZET 1 DAJAZET !!! Frenahrlays I Pramla Playa 11 iirauch Playa I I 1 OPERA COMIQUE.—D I TA2ET as the PRINCE DE 9ONTI To-Night, and the E.ntito Tirench Company trona TETI:tE D.Ja.ET, Parts,. Doors Open at T. COZZLIOnne 51 S. - DEEP DAY,--Grand Irish Romantic Drama, I_ written by Edmund Falconer, THIS EVENING (Friday), Nov. 4.—PRINCEE4IB THEATRE. EEP 0' DAY.--The PATTERN FAIR--Irishl. Jig and Faction Bi ght, Illuatrated by WO Man . Women, and Childron.—Pß,LNO • sSVB TUB TILE. DEEP 0' DAY.—Tho OLD QUARRY, or FOIL DiIUIV.---Startling Sensation Scene, TRW EVELNIZTO (Friday). Nov. 4.—PRIMOEWB ryiHE GREAT OITY.--Grand Realistic Drama, JL in Two Ante, written by Andrew Halliday, THIS EMS ING (Friday), Nov. C.—PRINCESS'S THEATRE,. MA D AME T U SSA 11 D'S EXHIBITION, BAKER STREET. On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon ILL, the Empress Eugenie, and Prinoe Imperials King William of Prussia, and Count von Bismarck. Admission, Is.; Children underlo years of age, 6d. Napoleon Rooms 6d. extra. Open from 11 a.m. tllllO p.m. [OHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness,protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price la. Bd.. Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. F MOSE 73 and SON'S .1 .1 IHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1870. blood. These are the " martyrs by the pang without the palm" whom Englishmen can not forget will be involved in the holocaust of Paris. Neither can a great and generous people, who have been steadily striving for many a long year to lead the van in civilisation .and enlightenment, ao knowledge without reserve that there is no right beyond and above the right of conquest, that there are no considerations which,when armies hay e capitulated and fortresses are shattered into dust, should stay the victor's hand. It would seem from the news which we publish this morning that the Prussian King is not insensible to these arguments. Surely both belligerents, wearied with the terrible encounter, must themselves join in the earnest aspiration of England that the olive branch she has at last suc ceeded in bringing back from the scene of carnage may be the herald of a firm and lasting peace. AT the meeting of the Captain Relief Fund in the City the other day, Mr. GASSIOT, one of the Secre taries, said he thought that an earnest appeal should be made to the citizens to support the effort of the officers and sailors who had contributed to the Fund. A great many refusals had been met with in the City, and only three banks had contributed a shilling. Something should be done, he declared, to testify to the seamen that they were not neglected by the British people. ]SIr. SAMUEL MonLBY also said that he had been much disappointed at the compara tively small sums already received. Very large funds were collected for the Hartley and Oaks col liery aceidente,ibut it seemed,to have been overlooked that the loss of life on those occasions was several hundreds less than that with the Captain. He moved the resolution that it was believed, after care ful calculations, that a sum of £62,000 would be required to do justice to the survivors of those lost in the Captain, and the subscriptions at present received amounted to only £32,000. The Committee, therefore, urged their friends and fellow-citizens to enable them to complete the task they had begun in helping the Portsmouth Committee to make suitable provision for the sur vivors in connection with the catastrophe. It would seem as if little need be urged in support of these claims that were so forcibly urged by the speakers at the meeting. The loss of the Captain created such consternation at the time of its occurrence, and such universal sorrow and sympathy,wore expressed, that it appeared at first sight that all needful steps would be taken that the misfortune might demand. It is otherwise, however, and the public have learned, if they did not know it before, that there is a risk of insufficient provision being made for the survivors of those who perished in the catastrophe. It now remains for the work to be completed, and the necessary sum placed in the hands of the Committee. This countryhas never been backwar in assisting the distressed,and the sufferers in any calamity have always been promptly and liberally relieved. Such generosity has not been confined to our own shores, but the dwellers in dis tant lands have benefited largely by the liberality of Englishmen. The present occasion, the loss of the Captain, is one that especially calls for attention, and those who have the means should contribute largely to the support of those whohave a claim on the regard and sympathy of their countrymen. The calamity was a national one, and it is right that the nation should take the responsibility of the affair, both for present and future considerations, whether we look upon it as a question of right or a matter of feeling. TOPICS OF THE DAY. ,NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. J NO. OOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15a. each, nclud ng brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEEIT-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.O ). rHE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRIDES„ AND JARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s Per ream. s.d. Fine Cream Laid Note; a cheap paper..... 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An ILLUSTRATED 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 THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY-LND—A Domestic Hercules. Amy Robsart. Phobus's Fix. HAymAus.ET—A Kiss in the Dark. The !Rivals. Blue Devils. Uncle's Will, ADELPHI THEATRE.—Milliners' Holiday. Green Bushes. VAnDEvium—Chiselling. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STRAND—On and Off. Living at Ease. The Idle 'Prentice. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. o' Day and Great City. ST. JAMES'S—TO Oblige Benson. Fernando. Only a Halfpenny. _ GLOBE—Board and Residence. Taming of the Shrew. Marco Spada. The Secret. Orxmrio—Little Emily and (Burlesque) Panl and Virginia. OPERA COMIQUE -Un Soir Qu'il Neigeiat. Lee Pree St. Gervais. Les Forfaite do Pipermana GAIETY—The Happy Village. Zampa. Trombalcalzar. SADLHRS WELLS.—Richelien. Farce. STANDARD —Vicar of Wakefield. Operetta. AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Sooner in the Arena. ST. JAMES'S HALL. —Christy Minstrels. Every evening. Pounorono—Professor Pepper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening. CREMORNE—Fireworks, Ballet, &c. NEW SURREY—A Striking Similarity. Link by Link, Nobody's Chili. _ QUEEN'S—Aunt Charlotte's Maid. Midsumm Night's Dream. RoYALTY—Wealthjand Stranger, Stranger than Ever. Houtomr—Farce. The Odds. PALMS RoYAL—Professoz Faber's Talking Machine. Siege of Paris. ALIIAMBRA—Grand Ballet and Varieties. MADAME TussAup's (Baker-street)—From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. ls.; extra rooms, 6d. 4 - 4) : 11 11 at, e 4.44- LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1870. TIM despatch of Lord GRANVILLE to Lord A.UGCSTUS LOFTUS, which reaches us through the channel of a German paper, will pro bably be read with satisfaction by the majority of Englishmen. Lord GRANVILLE writes in fair and temperate tone, but does not fail to press his arguments strongly upon the Cabinet of Berlin. He propitiates the Germans by acknowledging that they have gained the vantage ground by fair force of arms, and he concedes that they have had the moral support of Europe from the outset —first, because they fought to repel a foreign invasion ; and sooondly, because they strove to maintain the right of a great nation to develope itself in the manner most favourable to its capabilities. Ha contends, however, that the glory of their achievements would be materially heightened if it could be said that the King of PRUSSIA exhausted every effort to restore peace before attacking Paris, and that the conditions of peace which he proposed were just, moderate, and in harmony with the policy and feel ings of the present ago. It is evident, says Lord GRANVILLE at an earlier part of his dispatch, that the war has already displayed features which concern not merely the belligerents but Europe at large, and in case of its prolongation this is likely to be still more plainly shewn. Count BISMARCK'S own quiet anticipation that the prolong ation of the struggle before Paris will result in the death from starvation of hundreds of thousands of persons, is not such as Englishmen can share with indifference. The bombardment of one of the foremost cities of the civilised world, though not without military prece dent, is so terrible a catastrophe that every man not carried away by the excitement of the contest shrinks from it. It is impossible in such Oases to confine the suffering inflicted to the purely military classes. There will always be thousands and tons of thousands of non-combatants on whom the weight of the bur den falls, who, powerless to prevent the declaration of war, powerless to stay its progress, are yet called upon to bear their share of the terrible retri bution that awaits the reckless shedder of human THE VICTUALLING OF PARIS. Forty days have passed since it was officially stated that, with good management, the provisions in Paris might be made to last 75 days. This calculation implies a possible reduction of rations as time goes on, inasmuch as there were then only 24,600 head of cattle in the city, and 150,000 sheep, and the maxi mum number to be killed daily was fixed in the last week of September at 500 bullocks and 4,000 sheep. The whole stock of fresh meat, ex clusive of horseflesh, would only serve the inhabitants for between forty and fifty days. Th e ' corn and flour amounted to 54,000 tons, which, sup posing one pound of flour to produce 111 b. pound of bread, and allowing only one pound of bread per day for each person, would barely give more than seventy five days' consumption. Soldiers, however, cannot fight on bread alone, and it is inconceivable that any commander could think of defending a city contain ing two millions of inhabitants till provisions of all descriptions had become exhausted. It will, however, be a month before the people feel the real pangs of hunger. THE NEW SCHOOL BOARDS. The Bishop of London, in a letter to the Times, says that whatever may prove to be the working of the Education Act of last session it has given a powerful impulse to voluntary effort and private beneficence. One of the objects of the Bishop of London's Fund was to provide schools in poor and populous districts, and to this object no less a sum 'than £33,000 has been devoted. At the close of last year a careful investigation was made into the result of six years efforts in this direction, and it was found that while the increase in the number of ecclesiastical districts, churches, clergy, and lay-helpers had, under the operation of the fund, surpassed expectation, the number of schools had not increased in the same proportion. It was then determined to appropriate a larger sum for the provision of schools. The passing of the Elementary Education Bill rendered more vigorous action necessary. A timely legacy of £lO,OOO enabled the Board to apply that sum towards the supply of educational deficiences in the metropolis. Fourteen districts have been selected where the need of education is most pressing and where there is the greatest probability that the grant made will secure the completion of the schools. There is reason to belieye, says the Bishop, that accommodation will then have been provided for nearly 8,000 children. Still other applications have to be met, and a special appeal has been made for £7,000 to be raised if possible during the pre sent month. • FUNCTIONS OF A UNIVERSITY. The inaugural address of the winter session of the University of Edinburgh was delivered by the Principal, Sir Alexander Grant, LL.D. lie c!qssed the idea of a university under three heads.: A university may exist as an examining Board, like the London University, and may confine its functions to laying down standards of learning and science; and thus guiding the teaching bodies from which it remains distinct; or, secondly, it may exist like Oxford and Cambridge as an aggregate of college and tutorial teaching, with professorships as a sort of accidental appendage ; or, thirdly, it may exist, like the Scotch and German universities, as a pro fessoriate, with large classes of otherwise indepen dent students. Each of those forms contains some thing good, which the others would do well to assimilate. The examining system, said the Princi pal, if judiciously carried out, is very useful in giving definiteness to the aims of students, and the entrance examination, especially, is a landmark with which no university ought to dispense. The tutorial system has very great advantages, especially in the teaching of languages, and to contrast, in short, the tutorial with the professorial system, it may b 0 said that under the one the pupil is made to do every thing ; under the other everything is done for the teacher. It is to the tutorial system that the superior accuracy of classical scholarship in England is to bo attributed. Professorial lectures, however, seem more proper to a University, and fitted for those who have finished their school course. Many subjects such as those connected with experimental science, are best taught by professorial lectures. THE NECESSITY FOR EDUCATION. Now and then isolated cases, 'exhibiting the dire need of some compulsory educational process for the young, and the great want of guardianship that is manifest with respect to their lives, crop up to our astonishment. Two striking instances, exemplifying neglect in the cases of poor children have occurred this week. At the Lambeth Police Court three lads, of about twelve years of age, " whose heads reached barely above the top of the dock," were charged with being drunk and incapable in the streets. It was proved that a man had given the boys a large bottle of rum between them "to warm them up," as he said, in return for their efforts to push home a: heavy barrow for him. Al the Wednesbury Police-court a lad of ten was accused with stealing a quantity of iron, the property of the Darlaston Steel and Iron Company. The prisoner had been found " sneaking " from the Iron Stores, with a quantity of scrap iron in his hat. As this prisoner was of so tender an age, the magistrate thought it would be best to bind the father of the child over to watch him carefully for three months, after which time if he did not show signs of reclamation, he would be sent to prison. The parent, on being called, declared he had already done his best for the lad. He had a large family, and this boy he had managed to send to a Sunday school,, and to make him "at tend a night school a bit." The magistrate dismissed the case with the following words: Thank God, the time is coming when every one of you parents who neglect to send your children to school will be broug•it before me and punished. SELLING EXCISEABLE LIQTJORS TO CHILDREN. The recent conviction of a spirit dealer at Glasgow whose salesman had supplied a child under fourteen years of age with a quantity of whisky for its father, has created no little consternation amongst the pub licans. The licensed grocers, too, seem alarmed, and the question of their responsibility under similar circumstances is raised. A. grocer, writing to the North British Daily Mail, thinks it hard that those who, like himself, sell both groceries and spirits, should be compelled to refuse to "implement" a mixed order, and to serve a child with bottled beer and spirits, along with tea and sugar. He thinks it could not be maintained that the child would be likely to purchase the spirit for its own use, or to have a cork-screw in its possession. It is difficult to see how the writer :hould be in a state of doubt as to the liability of a rocer for serving a child under age. The Scotch law is perfectly clear upon the point: it simply places a prohibition on the sale of intlxicating drinks to a child of tender years. The object of the legislature is quite obvious, it is to prevent as far as legal enactments can, the familiarity of the young with a pernicious custom, and to remove them as far as possible from tempta tion. To argue that the law should draw a broad distinction between a publican and a grocer, simply because the trade of the latter has a duality about it, is preposterous. FACTS FOR THE METEOROLOGISTS. It appears from the intelligence which arrives from various, sources that the year 1870 is as likely to be famous in the records of meteorologists as in political and military annals. Within the last week or two we have received details of tremendous floods in the southern part of the United States, of a disastrous hurricane in Cuba, and of an almost unprecedented rainy season in Victoria. While on the north of the Equator there has been a very general complaint of the drought, which in many countries has made itself severely felt in the Southern Seas, the winter season just/terminated has been unusually wet. The rain which has fallen since the beginning of the year reaches the remarkable height of upwards of 22 inches. The creeks and rivers up the country were nearly all bank high when the rain, which had stopped for a few days, again set in. As was appre hended so soon as the unwelcome change was per ceived, great damage was dono, a sudden flood sub merging the lower lands and carrying away the bridges, sweeping down the fences and destroying a vast amount of property. The agriculturists have, of course, suffered heavily, and there were some narrow escapes at sea, but happily the loss of life, so far as known when the mail left, was not serious. An idea of the severity of the rain storms may .be gathered from the statement that at midday on the Bth of September, when the "water came down in sheets," an inch of rain fell in the course of an hour. THE CONSTITUTIONAL DIFFICULTY IN AUSTRIA. Great anxiety is felt as to the result of the Bohe mian elections, as the direct system has not been tried before. The members of the Czech districts will not in all probability take their seats. Should the Government carry its candidates against the opposi tion of the Federal party, there will be a sufficient number of representatives to support a Constitutional policy. This result is of importance to a Govern ment which desires to maintain Parliamentary union in the State. Surprise has been expressed that the Ministry, which was accused of Federalist lean ings, should have introduced direct elections, which have formed the subject of dispute between the Federal and Centralist parties. A Hungarian paper in referring to this says that such events are not unusual in the history of Constitutional States, and that the most important Whig principles have been practically carried out by Tories. Court "`IA . 4 Ciri it Tat HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Nov. 1. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold, drove to the Linn of Dee. The Marchioness of Ely was in attendance. The Princess of Wales drove out !yesterday, attended by the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey. THE MISSION OF M. THIEB.S.—The Lille corres pondent of the Manchester Examiner, writing on Monday evening, thinks the crisis of the mo ment is now with M. Thiers. When he enters Paris he will probably convey the news of the disaster at Metz. Is it possible that it will not rouse them to see their position' at last, and to accept counsels, we may rest satisfied he is prepared to give, if he has the courage to tell them the country is not prepared yet to come to their aid, that the hopes and prospects held out by Gambetta on his arrival at Montdidier and since are exaggerated, and if they don't tear him in pieces for saying so. It cannot but be hoped that if such a man as Trochu will not risk waste of human life and suffering for so barren a prospect of success, all now depends on what Thiers may dare tell and counsel Paris, and in what humour she listens to him. HUNGER IN PARlS.—After my meagre dinner, I was strolling along the quays near the river, Vestontac as leper as M. 011ivier's heart, when I saw a woman leaning over the parapet. She turned as I was passing her, and the lamp from the opposite gate of the Tuileries shone on her face. It was honest and homely, but so careworn, so utterly hopeless, that I stopped to ask her if she was ill. " Only tired and hungry," she replied ; " I have been walking all day, and I have not eaten since yesterday." I took her to a e,af6 and gave her some bread and coffee, and then she told me her story. She was a peasant girl from Franche Comt6, and had come to Paris, where she had gone, into service. But she had soon tired of domestic service, and for the last year she had supported herself by sewing waistcoats in a great wholesale establishment. At the commencement of the siege she had been discharged, and for some days she found employment in a Government workshop, but for the last three weeks she had wandered here and there, vainly asking for work. One by one she had sold every article of dress she possessed, except the scanty garments she wore, and she had lived upon bread and celery. The day before she had spent her last sou, and when I saw her, she had come down to the river, starving and exhausted, to throw herself into it. " But the water looked so cold, I did not dare," she said. —Diary of a Besieged Resident. METROP 0 LITAN 0 OSSIP.-THURSD AY. Of course, the subject discussed at yesterdry's Cabinet Council was the armistice. There were three Ministers absent : Mr. Cardwell, who is with the Queen ; Mr. Bright, who is not yet convalescent; and the Duke of Argyll, whose absence is not accounted for. Mr. Chichester Fortescue's presence is one of the most hopeful signs of the times. He has, I believe, been able to attend all the recent Cabinet Councils. This would have been impossible a year ago. But the Irish policy of the Government has already borne fruit. We no longer hear of agrarian outrages ; we are no longer troubled by a seditious press; the Fenian movement in Ireland is said, by those who are best acquainted with its manifestations, to have collapsed. True, Irish Churchmen are quarrelling in their Convention, but their disputes are confined to themselves and do not affect five sixths of the nation. The Land Bill seems to have per suaded Irish tenants that there is "a more excellent way" than shooting landlords. As for the Coercion Bill passed last spring, its existence has proved quite sufficient. Not once have its provisions been put into force. No visitation for arms has been made, no arrest has been effected, no journalist has been prosecuted. All this is very satisfactory, not only in itself, but also because it has allowed the Government to give almost un divided attention to the continental crisis. We know how the negotiations have been set on foot and are still being carried on by our Government, and it is to these in great measure that Paris owes her immunity from the bombard ment which should have begun three or four weeks ago. Probably this is not the only cause of the delay. There are abundant signs of a Bonapartist intrigue. The gather ing of Generals at Wilhelmshohe, and the presence of the Empress there during the present week—the first time she has seen her husband since the 27th July, when he left with "Lulu" for Metz—point to a grand conference of the old governing and military authorities of France. It may easily be conceived that Bazaine—of whose integrity with respect to the surrender of Metz, I, for one, am by no means satisfied—has been urging the Emperor to agree to that cession of territory which Bismarck has declared over and over again to be essential to the restoration of peace. Tho Empres, who detests . such an idea as strongly as Gambetta himself, may well have been prompted to undertake her journey for the purpose of dissuading her husband from consenting to any such terms. In ccnnection with this matter I am assured that the mysterious visit of General Bourbaki to the Empress, at Chiselhurst, was the result of a deeply laid Prussian stratagem. Prince Frederick Charles was very anxious to learn the condition of Metz, but could not do so. At last a well-known French Imperialist was persuaded to undertake the dangerous task of acting as Prussian spy. He said that he must enter the city ostensibly as a Frenchman, and in French interests, and charged with a regular mission. That mission was to communicate to General Bourbaki the desire of the Empress to see him. The General made his way out with the Frenchman, and the latter having been inside Metz twelve hours, and having learnt all that there was to learn, communicated his information to the Prussian head quarters. The very able letter of Professor Von Sybel which ap peared in yesterday's Times is likely to exercise a good deal of influence on public opinion. The German historian of the French Revolution appears to be as great a master of English prose as Professor Max Muller himself, who from his long residence in England might be expected to have acquired a knowledge of our language which his colleague at Bonn might not have attained. Your readers are aware that " M.M.," who writes in the Times, is the second professor named above. They may not know that " Scrutator " is Mr. Malcom Mac Coll, a well-known High Church clergyman and Gladstonian who is a frequent contributor to the Guardian, in which paper he powerfully defended the present Premier's Irish Church policy at the last general election. "M. 8.," who has been writing to the Times on the war, is, I believe, Pro fessor Mountagu Burrows. Th "Hertfordshire Incum bent" is, as I suppose all the world knows, Canon Blakesley. The question, " Ought Bismarck to insist upon the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine as a condition of peace ?" was discussed last night at the well-known London Debating Society—" The Sons of Ishmael." The mem bers, who meet at each other's houses, assembled last evening at the house of a quarterly reviewer, and a candidate for the London Education Board. The disputants were for the most part well-known in the world of letters, and though I am not at liberty to mention their names, I may state that I never heN rd a discussion better sustained, and that the vote was by a large majority in the affirmative. One of the ablest of all the quarterly articles on the war is that in the Edinburgh Review. It is now stated that the author of this article is no other than the Prime Minister himself. It is probably the knowledge of this fact which has in some measure stimulated Earl Russell to maintain his claim to the character of " the complete letter-writer," by announcing that he has in the press a pamphlet, which he styles, "Remarks on the Military and Political State of the Nation." But this is not the only reason which has made the veteran Earl in this his three score and nineteenth year once more rush into print. He has still sufficient clearness of political vision to see that the question of the coming session is the reorganisation of our defences, especially of our army. This, I have reason to believe, is engaging the attention of Mr. Cardwell, and will be one of the foremost, if not the very foremost item of the Ministerial pro gramme for 1871. The wonderful success of that " armed nation," Prussia, has given such an impetus to the military reformers of this country, that I believe it will enable the not very resolute Mr. Cardwell to overcome the obstinacy of the Horse Guards, whereof young Mr. Trevelyan has spoken with that abundant frankness which freedom from the trammels of office enables him to use to good purpose. It will, however, be no easy task. The purchase system is a huge obstacle, which will need a very large golden spade to remove it. But it appears, at present, that Mr. Cardwell's task will be lightened in so far as it will not be made a party question. It seems as if the Conservatives were prepared to give the Minister of War the same patriotic support which they gave the Minister of Education last session. They feel that the safety of the country is too serious a matter to be made a battle-ground for the Ins and the Outs. Our military authorities are at this time much and wisely exercised by the important problem of establishing direct internal communication between all our forts and arsenals. At present some of the principal naval ports are without that unbroken communication which it is so desirable should exist, and in one instance access is attainable only by a line which might be de stroyed by a single gunboat. It is not improbable that the principle which has been adopted in India and in British North America may be applied to this case, and that Government will guarahtee the interest on the capital needed, to make the necessary communications, The Sefton libel case, which has been carried on a outrance by the noble plaintiff, will reach its final stage next week, when the defendant, one of the proprietors of the Sheffield Telegraph will" be brought up at Westminster to receive sentence. The Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire has so far answered to Dr. Johnson's dekription of a good hater. In the meanwhile it is a matter for grave consi deration that journalists should be exposed to a danger incurred by no other portion of thecommunity—that of being made criminally liable for an action in ,which they had no share. Every man must expect to be civilly liable for the acts of his agents, to pay in purse for their faults and blunders ; but that they shoUld be made to pay in person is utterly monstrous and opposed to the whole spirit and tenour of English law. it is the more outrageous, because this provision exists only in England, and is not to be found in Scot land, where, notwithstanding, the press is as respectably conducted as in any part of the kingdom. I have often alluded to the energy of the conductors of the Daily News in getting information from the seat of war. This was remarkably illustrated a few days ago by a telegram, two columns long, describing the capitulation of Metz. The Times handsomely acknowledged the enterprise of its competitor. Your readers will not be surprised to learn that the circulation of the Daily News has nearly doubled during the war. Another item of news whish concerns both journalists mid the war is that Colonel Loyd-Lindsay has spent six thousand pounds in advancing the fund for the relief of the sick and wounded. I have little doubt that no portion of the fund has bpen more profitably exrended than this sum. Every day the interest in the election of the School Board becomes greater. So far, the number of candidate, who have come forward is not so large as might have been expected. It is less than thrice the number of vacancies. put this fact is due in some measure to the to-operation of parties who, it was thought, would be found 11°.i .r b ; vi l o ec Churchmen and Dissenters are working together harmony never before exhibited, being united bY to mon dislike and dread of a purely secular ecl u , cl . l o6 So powerful and predominant is this feeling that can e ' a who certainly have always been credited with sec o i ideas, have been compelled to bow to public opine 11 3 1 e say something civil about the Bible. For instance , Mr. Hepworth Dixon's address now before me, n na lo in pti I find the following passage which the denominat i° ; (o will find wholly unexceptionable, but which quite a different spirit from that which was shown b9,:11) Dixon's party in the House of Commons. He saga' one who has travelled far and written in in illustration of the sacred book, I / i.ll lll dot favour of Bible-reading in our schools, while 7. e fer regard for conscience and for scripture, I wen' u , - Th. ferce the reading on those who do not want result of this language is that Mr. Dixon has se ew ; t og members of his committee well - known P is !: io ministers like Dr. Angus and Mr. Dawson 13 n7 1 .0 5 0 addition to a whole crowd of literary men and 1. 0 of the St. John's Wood persuasion. S° ; , - tl l ° Mr. Joseph Payne (author of the able article ` - er ic* British Quarterly Review on Higher Education in 4 0, and who is a member of the League), avows his re n{l though with something less of empressement °foie' Dixon, to sanction Bible teaching if the electors of bone will send him to the Board. Meanwhile, can"; i is going on vigorously. Ladies are taking P a , tv if of it with the utmost zeal, and a lady canvasser in b e L i Mr. Hepworth Dixon tells me how pleased, as mat the she has been to find the lower middl e the bakers and grocers and butchers—well a,equaint e only with the education question, but also with g e literature, such as Mi. Dixon's various books. to i Mr. Thomas Hughes has just returned from the 110 i States, where he has been doing good service bY 5 °; 5 0 6 with the people of that country against their unren s° ,:i l o demands with respect to the Alabama question. '"'""00 spoken well, and with so much fervour and feelieg , o o it can hardly be doubted that the intercourse h et A tho the American nation and an Englishman, imbued 111 , :7 0 1,, thorough love for America which " Tom Brown DOeta has had a most beneficial effect. Another returned Aw can traveller is Dr. Angus. toga At last the "sacred soil" of Hyde Park has c- -A , 4 t ha be "fouled" by the navvies. For the last ten nlon"'",, s hf most beatiful resort in London has been made hid e°- embankments and cuttings, and locomotives 0• trucks full of filth. These works were ei netted with the cleansing of the Serpentine , 11 , Mr. Ayrton was so anxious to spoil. ' s. ' l ; ;l y, and engines and trucks have now been cleared s Of and the water has been let into the river. It is 01Y 0 full, however, and the banks of brown earth on eithera are a poor substitute for the sloping lawns which 0 0 form the margin. I suppose Mr. Ayrton could net turf. This work has been accomplished, in spite of the 1 1; ance of the First Commissioner. But how about 001 and far greater work—the new Law Courts to Not a stone has yet been laid, not a foot of gre °l/ `:, o o* yet been excavated. The work was ordered to he menced months ago, but Mr. Lowe has a vision 0. own, and why should he undo it? Like MS' l fl oo and Gambetta, he says " not an inch 01 0 territory, not a stone of our fortresses." „y i d territory is Downing-street;' his fortress is the , ei s and nasty building which he is bent upon erecting'? Parliament has told him that he shall not build it- . 0 1 possession is nine-tenths of the law, and the Cha11....0 of the Exchequer, being in possession of the pubrlep can afford to snap his fingers at our lawgivers, , al l that he moans to do as he likes, just f '!„,,0 0 Ayrton is doing what he likes with Kenn(' Gardens, in defiance of the recent emphatic prohibiti°, Parliament. Meanwhile the Strand site is lying howling wilderness, a hideous deformity in itself , 1 0 loss of tens of thousands every year in the interes t °f ol l purchase money. And all this time there are ov er ,o hundred thousand paupers in London, some of "oPooi at least, might be employed in this great nag' work, which Mr. Lowe seems resolved to mar. I regret to inform you of a most serious inne s which is about to be made upon our time-honer r 2 stitutions. The Lord Mayor is not to go through 'fro Bar next Wednesday. He is to be shunted off t ° t ba Embankment. Thus we go on from step to step downward path of revolution. Formerly his lordship the make one of his journeys by river ; but f( was abandoned several years ago. Now i or pears that his lordship's gallant men in v' P ;oil are going to shirk our main thoroughfare' o ft " Lord" Dakin will not even pass by hie 0,4 tea-shop, hard by the gate which Dr. J .° %Y , loved. I suppose the city authorities look upon the a bankment as a sort of via media between the river Os Stland. They will hardly find it a via tutissimay thinking. They will soon be swept away in the 1 :01 lution which gives London a really organized cal) with its ten or a dozen mayors, unless, indeed, his v e ship's retainers should escape their fate by going cession through the main sewer, fo t• The agitation against the Post Office, which 017 shadowed last week, has already become a ver/d i d stantial fact. It would seem as if this departrae ll ", given way to pressure exerted by the railway coraP:4 Yet not to yield a boon is one thing, and that thing'? have been done by tho companies in the first lusts/ 06; 0 to withdraw a boon after it hasbeen granted is quite an ° l o thing, and to the public is a thing wholly intele il 9 The Marquis of Hartington, who, if it were not fo r Lowe and Mr. Ayrton, would be the least popularr e ilo ber of the Ministry, will have to restore to the publi c parcel post which he has taken from them, or he sv w d his life a burden to him. Meanwhile, it would 1 : 4 4 for every town and village in the kingdom, to meraery the heir of all the Cavendishes. Last Sunday I had an opportunity of hearivg, famous preacher, the Rev. George Body, late of hampton. There was an enormous congregation ; ft , seat was taken half an hour before the service begin:lid the sermon? Well, it was simply fourth-rate v. - di ing. There was not a single original 2, in it. There was absolutely no ability wln" u ' l lif The preacher seems to me to have attained his cel ew , simply by adopting a style which used to be c°l l enough among Dissenters, but which has rapidly peared, as their culture and education have ads h ,.. 4 To shout and then to whisper, to gasp and then t ° ,:" and to say the same thing over and over aol P' as if repetition were the soul of logic, accompany this with much bodily co ntor ili . and occasional familiarity of style, are e D oi dients well-known to the frequenters of revivals' they are certainly novelties in the sober decorous CI A II of England. It was curious to note the nodding lle P- 1 01 the men in last Sunday's congregation whom this rousing preacher failed to keep awake, but who ori oi have listened intently enough to a Magee or a j force. Mr. Orbey Shipley is one of the ultra-High Chur l ? who suggest the proverb " too far east is west." Di ° ol 4J senter could excel the editor of The Church and the P in contempt for the bishops ; and his last manifee o 4 of scorn for them is the proposal to erect a huge Or which shall be entirely free from episcopal CO and in which there shall be countless altars fe t offering up of almost incessant masses with,o o : most gorgeous accompaniments of ritual and con/ The services are in fact to surpass those of Rome i ll quency and magnificence ; and the most explicit tro t peremptory rubric in the whole Prayer Book is to be out, and the Sacrament is to be " reserved," so that it 9 be kept for perpetual adoration. On what principl e V Shipley calls himself an English Churchman, wild worships all that Churchmen burn, and burns a ll tha t worship, it would be hard to say. Your readers will by this time have noticed 10 Jo+ kin's reply, in Macmillan's Magazine, to Mr. Storlij Brooke's article, which last week I intimated ' e : appear. The other literary news of the (1 7 0 0 1 that two members of the Rothschild f am bringing out " The History and Literate the Israelites acccording to the Old Testament 0' Apocrypha," and that Miss Hampden has written ° t ic of her father, the late Bishop of Hereford, which ° i to be an instructive commentary upon factitious cal tical combinations, and a "caution" to agitators, t° . an Americanism ; and that Miss E. S. Drewry has 1 : 00 - press a novel entitled " Baptised with a C of ! The title would have been appropriate enough f it o ) biography of " Lulu " and his " baptism of fire." jo llf write I receive Miss Julia Wedgwood's " Life o f . l id Wesley," which has been published by Messrs. Maces a/ and is a substantial volume of over 400 pages bee'' il lt' most complete index. It is not one of the SundaY h series ; the last of these yet published, Mr. ° ll- 0 0 01 1 " Life of St. Anselm," has just been sent me by t he publishers. THE EUROPEAN WAR. 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