The Sun. — London, England, 1870-10-06 00:00:00

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() 1-klika Uri N.--This Theatre having been re-decorated under the l4':" tion of Mr. C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., is now Open for the AUTUM' DRAMATIC SEASON, THIS EVENING, Oct. 5. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at halt-past Ileven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from Sixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four 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, Oct. S.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LA NE. R. T. C. KING will appear in the character of IVA_ VARNEY, In the new Drama, entitled AMY ROBSART, THIS EVENING, Oct. S.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. pHO BUS'S FIX, in which the celebrat e d YOKES FAMILY will appear at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. S.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. AMY ROBSART ; a new Historical Romantic Drama, written by Andrew Halliday ; founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated novel "Kenilworth," with new and characteristic scenery by William Beverly, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. S.—THEATRE ROYALDItT.JRY LANE. A MY ROBSART; new drama: Characters by Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Yokes, p, J. Mortin, and Rosina Yokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. b.—THEATRE ROYAL DR URY LANE. MY ROBSART; New Drama, characters by Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, Y. B. Howard, rittain Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon, Vokes, F. Stanforth, H. Naylor, and Fred. Vokes, THIS EVEN ING, Oct. S.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROSBART; New Drama. The Overture and 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, Oct. & THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. A MY ROBSART.—The costumes from designs an eminent Artist, the gorgeous Revels at Kenn w:rth including the Procession of the Ancient Britons Sax ons, Romans, Normans, &c, and ending with the floating ants on the Lake, illustrated by 300 auxiliaries, THIS VENING, Oct, B.—THEATRE ROYAL DRITRY-LANE. ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by Martin Becher, at Eleven o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct. 5. —THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. This Evening, at Seven, WANTED a THOUSAND MILLINERS, Mr. J. Rouse, &c.; at a quarter to Eight, The RA PPAREE, Messrs. Herman Vezin, W. Rignold, J. Clayton, A. Rayner, E. P. Edgar, Shiel Barry; Mesdames Katharine Rodgers and M. Cooper; to conclude with THE HAPPY MAN, Mr. Shiel Barry, &o. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. 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Sold in bottles, :Is each; also se., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, mind ng brush. _ . _ Iced Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 03, Upper Thames-street, Lon• don, E.O. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. Amy Robsart. DRURY-LANE--A Domestic Hercules. Phobus's Fix. QUEEN'S—Aunt Charlotte's Maid. Midsummer Night's Dream. GAIETT—Ballet. Beggar's Opear. Bluebeard. SADLER'S WELLS—Mistress of the Mill. King Lear. VAUDEVILLE—ChiseIIing. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STRAND—On and Off. Living at Ease. The Idle 'Prentice. PRINCESSEW—Wanted, 1,000 Milliners. The Rapparee. The Happy Man. ROYALTY—Our Nelly and F. M. Julius Cncesar, the Irregular Rum 'Un. OLYMPlO—Poppleton's Predicaments. Handsome Is that Handsome Does. Undine. HOLBORN—Farce. The Odds. AMPLUTHEATRE AND Clams (Holborn)—Scenes in the Arena. PALAIS IIoYAL—Dr. Corry's Panorama of Ireland—Pro. fessor Faber's Talking Machine, &c. ALHAMBRA—Grand Ballet and Varieties. CREmoßNE—Fireworks, Ballet, &c. MADAME TIISSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. Is. ; extra rooms, 6d. POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening. ••• , t" ; 11,0 - 4 of; tjjg "tgAr.k ay. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1870, ' A. "Little Comedy," so bizarre of its kindly as to be almost farsical, played in between the fourth and fifth acts of a grand and awful Tragedy—that is precisely what we have just now had intervening in this affair about BOURBAKI. The scene is alternately in France and in England. The hero and heroine of the piece are historical characters—the Empress Regent EUGENIE and the gallant soldier in command of the imperial Guard, General BOURBAKI. When the curtain rises, it is at Hast ing. There the EMPRESS and the Prince IMPERIAL have just arrived as refugees. To them enters a mysterious stranger, "M. or N. as the case may be," according to the familiar phrase in the catechism. All that we know of him as yet is that he is M.N., that is, M. and N. for once rolled into one. Affecting to be, and it is just possibly being (for his real motives as yet were simply incomprehensible) an enthusiastic partisan of Imperialism, Monsieur N. endeavours to draw the Empnitss into a quasi-diplomatic negotiation in the carrying out of which this officious intermeddler was to act at once as agent and as messenger. Failing in his endeavours, M. N. provides himself with a simple photographic carte de visite, according to one account, a profile likeness of the PRINCE IMPERIAL, according to another account, a vignette view of the imperial residence at Hastings, and armed with this, and with a suspiciously authorita tive passport through the Prussian lines around Metz, M. N. worms his way into that impregnable fortress, where he forth with obtains an interview with those three still unconquered military chieftains of the imperial army there shut up—Marshal BAZAINE, Marshal CANROBERT, and General BOURBAKI. Deluding all three into the belief that he, the bearer simply of a photograph signed by the Prince IMPERIAL and of a passport signed by Count von BISMARCK, was a diplomatic negotiator fully authorised at one and the same moment by the EMPRESS and by the Prussian Prime Minis ter, or Chancellor of the North German Confederation, M. N. actually induces General BOURBAKI to quit Metz, dressed as a civilian, and, after threading his way with safety through the Prussian lines, to hasten across the channel to Eng land to have an audience with the angust lady there in exile, and whom he still regards as his Sovereign, M. N. himself diverging southwards in order to go back to Count BISMARCK. General BOURBAKI presents himself to her Majesty the EMPRESS, to her very great astonishment in her present place of residence in Kent, Camden House, Chiselhurst. Then comes the eclaircissement—it is all a hoax ! Dismayed at having forsaken his post of danger, bewildered at having been brought into this unaocountable dilemma, General BOURBAKI appeals to the Earl GRANVILLE so far to intercede for the vindication of his - (Bounnmas) imperilled honour as a soldier, as to obtain him a free pass through the German lines back into Metz. That chivalrous request has been as chivalrouslSr responded to. BOURBAKI is again at the head of the Imperial Guard inside the fortifications of Metz. There the last banner of Imperialism still floats, defended, among all the gallant army there at bay, by no more daunt less soldiers than Marshal BAZAINE, their chieftain, and his two gallant lieutenants, Marshal CANROBERT and General BOURBAKI. ' THE contrivance of the balloon post has dissipated the apprehension that Paris during the siege would resemble an island in the midst of an impassable sea, cut off from all communication with the outer world, and all intelligence of the events passing within it denied to the rest of the French people. The science of ballooning is not so far advanced that aeronauts can guide their vessels whittler they will; but with a fair wind they can easily sail across the German lines, and descend in some place not occupied by the invaders. During the last few days many letters have been received from Paris, and a regular balloon post is established. These missives as yet have brought no intelligence—quite the reverse. Lif e very alarming in the French capital, as described in the balloon correspondence, is decidedly humdrum. In formation on , Some important particulars seems carefully withheld ; but we learn enough to shew the fallacy of certain vivid specula- 1. HE SUS, LONDON, TI.ULTRSP4-IY, OCTOBER , 18n. tions which were freely indulged in by acute out siders. Hitherto no discord has appeared. When the Germans first came np, some ominous signs did, indeed, manifest themselves. The Reds seemed a:ixious to conduct the defence of Paris on their own peculiar principles. This danger, however, so far from increasing, has diminished : the stern reality of the German circumvention served to sink all minor difficulties, and for the time at least the Government of Defence meets no rival to its authority. The •, rumours of street fighting are quite unfounded. The city is much quieter now than at any previous time during the last twenty years; and if its inhabitants do not Make a very heroic defence, they have at all events not commenced operations by rebelling against their chiefs. Men of such diverse opinions as TROCHIT, PICARD, GAMBETTA, and ROCHEF-ORT can all fight the enemy in harmony, and the battalions of Belleville and Lavillette find more pressing occupation than carrying Socialism into practice. It seems equally unquestionable that the garrison is improving in effi ciency, as it must inevitably do, for the drilling is constant, and the soldiers require no ex hortation to bring them to this irksome duty. Not yet could these men hope _ . to fight the victors of Sedan on even terms ; but the advantage of com batting behind strong works makes all the difference. Of the number of the defenders portentous accounts reach us. When the blockade commenced it was known that General Tnocuu commanded above 300,000 troops, good, bad, and indifferent. This total has risen in the balloon letters as rapidly as the bal loons themselves, and half a million, 600,000, are now the usual quotations. It will not, perhaps, be rash to conclude that the original number has been materially aug mented. There are many more than 300,000 men in Paris, and as the great bulk of the inhabitants can have little occupation, they will naturally prefer en rolling themselves as , National Guards to idly watching their felloW citizens fight in their defence. Probably the number of defenders is limited only by the supply of weapons. With respect to the important question of food less is known. It was to be expected that milk, butter, fish, and similar articles of diet would fail very soon after the blockade commenced, but such deprivations are of little practical consequence. The primary essentials of food are still plentiful, and the only question is, how long will they last ? The ordinary estimate, resting on calculations of some authority, is that Paris is provisioned for two months; and with this conjecture we must be satisfied, for there exist no data upon which even an approximate independent estimate may be formed. The Government serves out the butcher's meat in rations, and it has laid claim to all bread stuffs not requ;led for private use. But these measures may indicate only that the authorities are prudent. If they are determined to fight to the end, it is obviously wise to practice economy from the beginning. To eat np the provisions recklessly in the early days of the siege could lead only to premature starvation. It seems a safe conclusion that the capture of the city by starvation will be a tedious process. 'Yet it would be very rash to judge of the final result of this remarkable encounter by the evidence which yet lies before us. The experi ment is so novel that -it must be left to work out its own solution. Considering the vast resources known to be •at the command of the besieged force it is clear that the resistance ought not to be slight, and that it may prove most desperate. The Germans themselves are evidently of this opinion. They are establishing winter quar ters round the city, bringing upheavy trains, and in all • respects acting so leisurely as to justify the inference that they believe themselves sitting down to a lengthy task. As to the ultimate success of the French, whatever chance there may 'be of a favourable issue depends upon the action of the provinces. The sec tion of the Government stationed at Tours is of course alive to the necessity of . forming an army to relieve. one or other of the beleaguered towns. If a force could be raised to relieve Metz, or even to defeat the German army marching on Lyons, the position of the host round Paris would in either case become untenable, for its communications would be lost. But the prospects of such an enterprise proving triumphant are at present slight. Of armed men there are, indeed, abundance on the line from Tours to Lyons. They are, however, so ill-equipped, officered, and organised that it is more than doubtful whether they could meet a German army of half their numbers. It is equally dubious whether their efficiency will sufficiently improve in time to save Paris. TOPICS OF THE DAY. ciairse, Paris, Metz, Strasburg. Of these the Germans have captured already • one, they have long invested another, and they are bJsieging the third. Sieges were more frequent in the wars of ancient than of modern times, but this war has been an affair of sieges. There is no French force in the open field. The war is going en, but it is a chronicle of investments, bombard ments, blockades, sorties, and, too often, capitula, tions. Of the French army cif 350,000 men who started gaily for Berlin all that are not killed, wounded, or captured,. are shut up in one or other of the fortified places which were believed to be the strength of France. Out of the whole 119 fortresses, however, only a•few have been brought into notice, but these few lay directly in the route of the armies. Toul blocked the way to Paris. Phalsburg occupied so peculiar a position that its eastern gate is called the gate of Ger many, and its western the gate of France. Strasburg' which has filled so prominent a place in the war annals, implies by its name that it is the "fortress on the highway." 'Though more than one of these fortified places have been captured, they have unquestionably greatly delayed the progress of the enemy. Their military value must therefore be acknowledged, but the terrible condi- tion of the non-combatants and the injury done to the beautiful works of art they contained, should serve as a warning that civil and military purposes should not be combined. Populous cities with cathedrals, libraries, and thousands of peaceful resi dents, should not be turned into intrenohed camps. If the fortifications of Metz and Strasburg are to be demolished for reasons of state, at least the towns will not in future risk the horrors of a siege, and the lesson should not be lost. THE NEW AMERICAN MINISTER. Oliver Perry Morton, the newly-appointed Ameri can representative at the Court of St. James's, has filled a somewhat prominent position in political circles in the States. He is.a senator, and was for merly Governor of Indiana, of which State lie is a native. In early life, being left an orphan, he served at a trade, but afterwards studied law, and was ad mitted to the Bar, where he rapidly attained distinc tion. In 1852 he was elected Circuit Judge, and obtained, while in that position; a reputation for judicial impartiality not al ways attached to the American Bench. Up to this time he belonged to the Democratic party, but left it on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. When he jtined the Republicans he became a warm oppo nent of the extension of slavery, but continued to support the Democratic policy in respect to Free Trade, internal improvements, &c., thus keeping the best points on both sides. Ile boldly maintained his opinions when nominated for the Governorship of Indiana. lie was defeated at the first trial, but in 1861 he was elected Lieutenant- Governor and President of the Senate of the State. Two days after his election he succeeded to the Governorship, Mr. Lane having been disqualified by his election to Congress. Governor Morton found the affairs of the State in a miserable condition, the treasury at a low ebb, and the whole system disor ganised. He soon introduced a better state of things, and took active measures to commit the state on the side of the Union. The Secessionists had relierl, on material support from Indiana, but they reckoned in vain, for Governor Morton succeeded in mustering a force of 12,000 men in eight days, who were noted for the perfection of their equipments. Governor Morton introduced the plan of sending state agents to visit his troops in the field, and see they were cared for. In 1863 he had to face disaffection in his own state. A newly elected Legislature refused to receive his message, and passed a resolution adopting instead the message of the Governor of New York. Mr. Morton, however, held his ground against all opposi tion, and was re-elected by a large majority. Pro longed exertion and anxiety produced an attack of paralysis in 1800, which necessitated a journey to Italy. On his return ho was elected to the United States Senate, of which he is still a member. Ile is now about to seek fresh laurels in the diplomatic world, with which he has as yet bad nothing to . do. THE VALUE OF FORTRESSES. The Times remarks that we in this country are so 'accustomed to the sight or idea of strong places at we can hardly imagine a country studded with more than a hundred fortresses. Yet this is the case with France, which boasts of 119 towns regularly fortified and more or less able to sustain a. siege. Eight of these are of the first rank, including, of THE WAR AND THE " CAPTAIN." Mr. Gudin,ronsed by the stirring language used by Lord Shaftesbury in favour of the distressed French peasantry, has in the columns of the Standard sup plemented the appeal of his lordship. The proposal has a two-fold object. It is intended to invite artists of all nations, without distinction, to contribute pictures, so as to form an exhibition of their works, which are to be for sale should purchasers be found. The proceeds of the undertaking are to be equitably divided amongst the sufferers by the loss of her Majesty's ship Captain, and the French people in the invaded districts. The object of the scheme is a noble one, and commends itself to the beneficent public. The contributions to the Captain Relief Fund are as yet by no means adequate to the demands which will be made upon it, whilst the sum raised for the peasantry of France is utterly insuffi cient to alleviate to any appreciable extent their sufferings. As the campaign progresses the miseries of the unfortunate French people will be greatly ramified, and corresponding exertions will have to be made to assuage them. The movement will have the sympathy of the generous public and systematised effort lead to very successful results. AT FORT GARRY. It would appear that Riel, whose instant submis sion to the Red River expeditionary force was not expected, would have fought had he met with sup port from his friends O'Donoghue, Lepine, and Gay. A. proof of this supposition is found in the fact that the officers and men of the 60th Rifles, on entering Fort Garry, discovered . a perfect park of aiiillery and several stands of loaded muskets. They were, more over, there informed t6.t Riel had made the philo sophic remark that he might as well be shot defending the place as be hanged without .fighting. 'The history of the taking of the Fort shows, however, that poor Riel could not depend upon his followers, and therefore, although he was the last to leave the fortress, he was obliged to abandon it when the British troops . advanced near enough to threaten danger. There is a melancholy as well as a ludicrous aspect about the whole affair. As the dark green riflemen were seen deploying at one side of Garry, Riel was noticed at the other bidding farewell to a house, which was sub sequently found to be most comfortably furnished. He crossed the bridge over the Assiniboine, and arrived at the other side of the river just in time to see the Union Jack hoisted over Fort Garry, and to hear the firing of a victorious salute. Next day he disap peared, and no one afterwards seemed anxious to know where all the four rebellious occupants of the Winnepig settlements had found a home. The town defended by Fort Garry is described as present ing a flourishing appearance. The houses in it are nearly all stores, and the inhabitants appear to be desirous of improving themselves and the country and are tolerably contented with the prospects of the peaceful government now placed over them. The morning after the capture, the privates of the Rifles . had, it was observed, utilised the Winnipeg liquor, a drink sufficient to overturn the strongest head and demoralise the steadiest legs, but a little leniency in honour of their triumph having been shown them, the men were mus tered, recalled to their posts, and the volunteers having been placed in possession of the fort, were started on their homeward march in health and spirits. THE POST-CARDS AND LETTER CARRIERS. The introduction of the post cards has necessarily increased the labours of the officials employed in the post-office. Although the anticipated addition to the work of the sorters had been provided for by the appointment of boys who act in that capacity, the letter carriers do not appear to have been con sidered in any way. Naturally enough the men are extremely dissatisfied with the altered state of things. Their labours are marvelously increased, and . the report that they intend to agitate for a diminution of work and an increase of wages need not occasion any surprise. There is little likelihood, however, of a combination of the em ployees for this purpose being successful, although a determination on their part to resist the imposition of more work would inevitably tend to a derange ment of the departmental machinery. The minute of Lord Stanley of Alderley, dated the 13th March, 1866, will probably have' a deterrent effect upon the men, who, if they will only remember the peremptory extract from the minute in question which was forwarded to them when they con templated a meeting on Good Friday last' must come to the conclusion that any attempt to coerce the authorities will be visited with heavy punishment in the form of dismissal. If they repre sent their grievances to the Postmaster-General in a legitimate manner, and in accordance with the regu lations of the department, they may be favourably listened to. The following is the extract referrpe to :—"The Postmaster-General forbids, on pain of dismissal, the holding by officers of the Department Of any meeting beyond the walls of the Post-office building for the discussion of official questions." SPREAD OF SCARLATINA. Dr. Johnson, the Professor of Medicine in King's College, has made some communications to the Bri tish Medical Journal on the spread of scarlatina. He has long thought that the spread of this formidable disease is in a vast number of instances the result of gross, culpable, and even criminal negligence. If a patient recovering from scarlatina should proceed to the seaside, it is his duty to inform the proprietor of his lodgingS of the state of the case, or the next occupants of the lodgings may take the disease should no disinfecting process be adopted. Infection fre quently proceeds from sending the clothes of patients to the laundresses without clue Warning being given. Dr, Johnson mentions the case of a child who was suffering from scarlatina, whose sister had died of the same disease a few days befora. The father was a t'6 and his workshop opened i n t o th e room occupied l by the sick child. This affords an tion of the way in which new clothes may become i n f e cted. Medical attendants should be care ful to avoid conveying the disease to others; washing or disinfecting the hands after touching a patient and driving or walk ing in the open air, are obvious precautions. Dr. Johnson mentions a curious instance of the spread of scarlatina. A child was on a visit to a friend in the country, and died of scarlatina. More than a year afterwards another child came to the same house, took scarlatina, an& died. In seeking for the source of infection, it was ascer tained that a doll' which had :been nursed by the first child in her illness, and which had been put by "in a drawer, had been taken out and given to the second child to play with some days before she became ill. The suspicion seemed confirmed by the fact that in the interval between the deaths of the two children, some older children who had visited the house and had not touched the doll, remained well. kz;k>l•Ai ir:01111,111 , • --• HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, OCT. 3. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and at tended by the Hon. Mrs. H. Ponsonby, drove to Pananich Wells. Prince Arthur went out deer-stalking. Lady Churchill, the Hon. Mary Lascelles, and the Rev, Dr. Norman MacLeod have left the Castle. The Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lorne, and Mr. H. Fitzroy had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. THE OUTLET OF THE FLEET, An engineering work of considerable complexity and magnitude for the improvement of the sewage system has now been for some weeks in progress at the approach to Blackfriars-bridge, where the old Fleet, long since con verted into a sewer, is carried to the Thames between other subterranean structures that cross either above or below it. Within the space exposed at the end of Bridge-street the foundation stone of the old Blackfriars-bridge, for which search had been made in vain when the present bridge was in progress, was last week discovered. Beneath the stone were found a guinea, a half-guinea, a crown, a half-crown, a shilling, two sixpences, 31 halfpence, and a farthing, and upon it was the following inscription, which bears testimony to the place held by the elder Pitt in the minds and affections of Englishmen at the time when he resigned office as Secretary of State : " On the last day of October, in the year 1760, and in the beginning of the most auspicious reign of Gorge the 3d, Sir Thomas Chitty, Knight, Lord Mayor, Layd the first stone of this Bridge, undertaken by the Common Council of London in the height of an extensive War, for the Public accommodation and ornament of the City, Robert Mylne being the Architect, and that there may remain to posterity a monument of this City's affection for the man who, by the strength of his genius, the steadiness of his mind, and a kind of happy contagion of his probity and spirit, under the Divine favour and fortunate auspices of George the Second, recovered, augmented, and secured the British Empire in Asia, Africa, and America, and restored the antient reputation and influence of his Country amongst the Nations of Europe, the Citizens of London have unanimously voted this Bridge to be inscribed with the name . of William Pitt." Times. LITERATURE The Innocents Abroad, a BoOle of Travel in Pursuit of Pleasure. By Mark Twain. John Camden Hotten. • Perhaps the most interesting chapter in this very attractive volume is the introduction by Edward P. Hingston, in which we make the personal acquaintance of Mark Twain, the editor of the Territorial Enterprise, and a literary celebrity of California. It was in 1863 that Mr. Hingston, having business in Nevada, paid his first visit to the office of the Territorial Enterprise, a " daily paper, well edited, copious in its inforniation, fortunate in its rtisements, of large dimensions, and published every morning, where a year or two previous there had been the silence of the wilderness, and the tents of the Indian Savage." "In Mark Twain," he tells ns " I found the very man I had expected to see, a flower of the wilderness, tinged with the colour of the soil, the man of thought, and the man of action rolled into one, humourist and hard worker, Momus, in a felt hat and jack-boots. In the reporter of the Territorial Enterprise, I became introduced to a Californian celebrity, rich in eccentricities of thought, lively and racy, quaint in remark, whose residence upon the fringe !of civilisation had allowed his huinour to develop without restraint, and his speed to be racily idiomatic." Such is Mark Twain, as de scribed by an admiring countryman. The book before us is a record of an expedition of in quiry among the celebrated• places of the Old World by a party of expectant visitors from the New. The " Innocents Abroad " describes the voyage ; and while the new Pilgrim's ProgresS chronicles the adven surous. return home, both volumes will more than repay perusal, for they are full of the raciest humour, and are provocative at times of inextinguishable laughter. Honduras : Descriptive, Historical, and Statistical. By E. G. Squiers, M. A., F.S.A. Triibner & Co. Believing that recent events, and more especially the commencement of the great Inter-Oceanic highway through its territories, have invested the Republic of Honduras with especial interest, this book has been issued by Don Carlos Gutierrez, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Honduras in Great Britain. It is a very concise and comprehensive history and description of Honduras, taken from a well-known work on the States of Central America by Mr. Squierb, formerly Representative of the United States in the Central American Republic, and recently Commissioner in Peru. Considering the small dimensions of the book, we are surprised at the variety of interesting information which we find here amassed. Possessed of " vast re sources, a climate adapted to every caprice, not less than to the products of every zone, the author believes that " high power and greatness are yet in store for the hitherto little known, long distracted, and as yet utterly undeveloped Republic of Honduras." Fairy Life and Fairy Land. A Lyric Poem. Illustrated. L. Booth. This charming picture of the ways and doings of Fairy Land is singularly original in its design, and eminently graceful in its execution. It lays claim to indisputable authenticity, being communicated to mortal intelligence by no other than Titania herself, through her secre tary, Thomas the Rhymer, or Thomas of Ercildonne. To " Break a butterfly upon the wheel" were as nothing to the heartless audacity of the critic who shout,' attempt with any severe handling to analyse the peculiar merits of such a work ! Without aspiring to any particular poetic excellence, the versification is pleasing and graceful, and flows on in an untiring current of undulating and humorous lines. In giving a glimpse of the favourite resorts of the fairies, Titania, like her subject iPuck, "puts a girdle round the earth," and in rapid and vivid panoramic view " Himalaya far," " the flowery land of old Cathay," " the languid shores of fair Japan," " Indus' banks," "Ganges shores," "Our own loved gardens of Cashmere," and other spots of kindred interest pass before us. The writer evidently possesses a very keen appreciation of the beauties of nature in every land. The scene is principally laid in Portugal, in the neigh bourhood of Monserrat. The fairy queen, after describing to us her powerful sway, not alone in Eastern lands, but over all Europe's climes, exclaims with rapture— . " But I love beyond them all, The sunny realm fair Portugal. By Douro's and Minho's mountains And all their sparkling crystal fountains, My gay court their revels keep When the drowsy world's asleep. Then seek me straight the fabled strand Where Tagus rolls his golden sand And Setubal's rich landscape glows." It would appear that at the present moment, at all events, the fairy queen has made a discreet selection, Portugal being as yet undisturbed by the war which is agitating the greater portion of the European Continent. A BISHOP ON THEATRES. The Bishop of Manchester presided at a meeting of the Hulme Early Closing Association, on Tuesday night, and declared himself a warm advocate of the movement which the society supports. His Lordship offered some valu able advice to his audience on the proper use of leisure hours. He counselled them to avoid low places of amuse ment, but refused to condemn the theatres. Theatres, he said, had been used by the Greeks as valuable instru ments of national education, and he inclined to place " Richard III.," as produced at the Prince's Theatre, in Manchester, on the same level, as a public instructor, with the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides. THE MINISTRY. A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian writes from London as follows :—" If there is some disappointment, there is little general surprise at the dispersion once more of her Majesty's Ministers after their brief reunion in Downing-street. Little hope was entertained by those best acquainted with the paramount feelings that govern them, of any decisive or important result ensuing f rom their being called together. The majority of the Cabinet are in sympathy Prussian. If it were not so the Home Secretary would hardly have gone the length of calling prostrate France a defeated burglar, against whose return and resentment no securities that could be exacted ought to be considered excessive. A French gentleman spoke to me with great feeling on the public use of such language by Mr. Bruce. 'I do not presume,' he said, to call it unbecoming in a Secretary of State, for Ido not pretend to be au fait with your political etiquette ; but I say it is not generous, not wise, and, I still venture to hope, not English." COMIC) PAPERS. (From Punch.) LETTERS PATENT.—Post Cards Some persons carry punctuality to such an extent that it becomes a vice. People bringing little bills are flagraw instances of this. THE EUROPEAN EXAMPLE.—If the present war, with all its slaughter, and especially that which it h as brought on the aggressors, be not followed by a lasting peac e , it s event will certainly prove the inefficacy of capital punish ment. AN UNSELFISH POLICY.--It is perhaps a mistake to suppose that the British Government could in no way de part from its policy of non-intervention in foreign affairs, so as to satisfy belligerent nations. If British interference were of such a nature that it obviously could not result in any consequence to this country but unmitigated disaster, then possibly they would not ascribe it to selfish motives, and might be satisfied. (From Judy). As the conduct of Paris led to the siege of Troy, so the conduct of Trois led to the siege of Paris; the trois being Bismarck, King William, and Napoleon. COMING IT RATHER STRONG.—Since the removal of the French Government to Tours, the hotel and cafe keepers there have been reaping a rare harvest. At least three times the amount paid during the Pierre Bonaparte trial (and Goodness knows ! that was high enough) is now freely given for houses and apartments. Decidedly these inn keeping gentry are fully equal to the exigencies of the situation. Their efforts are quite Tours de-force. The Marquis de Lavalette, whose health has been very indifferent of late, has left London for Scotland, where he intends to make some stay. Professor Huxley does not desire to be put in nomination as a candidate for a place on the Metropolitan Board of Education. General Lee is now reported to have been less :verely attacked than at first announced. He is suffer ig, not from paralysis, but from extreme exhaustion. It hoped that he will recover. DEPARTURE OF REINFORCEMENTS FOR IRELAND —On Tuesday there embarked from Liverpool for con veyance to Dublin, 15 officers and 373 rion-commissioned officers and soldiers of the 91st Regiment. There are also three officers and 99 men of the 31st Regiment gone on board the same vessel to Ireland. The names of the officers are Captain S. Christian, Captain J. T. Gardner, and Lieutenant R. S. Mansfield. GREAT COTTON ROBBERY.—The discovery of a robbery of sixty bales of American cotton from a ware. house in Beaufort-street and Manor-street, Liverpool, has been made by the police of that town. It is also stated that a number of bottles containing paraffin oil, matches, and candles were found among the very large quantity of cotton remaining in the place, in such a position as to leave no doubt that the burning down of the warehouse was'intended, so that in the destruction the robbery of the 60 bales might escape detection. A reward of £5O has been offered for information leading to the apprehen sion of the thieves and recovery of the property. DUBLIN AND THE RIVER LIFFEY.—The Dublin Town Council have finally resclved on carrying out a great work of local improvement under the direction of Mr. Bazalgette, the engineer of the Londonniain-drainage scheme, namely, the improvement of the sewage s3rstem, and the purification of the River Liffey. On Monday the report of the committee of the corporation, detailing the result of a visit of a deputation to the Treasury on the subject, was adopted, and it is probable that contracts will immediately be advertised for. The Government haveagreed to lend to the corporation, on security of the rates, a sum of £350,000, at five per cent.—four per cent. to represent the interest, and one per cent. a sinking fund, to exhaust the principal in a certain number of years. There were no dissentients in the body. The arrangement is con sidered an excellent .one for the citizens. The sewage of the city, under the new plan, is to be carried by pipes running parallel with the river to a point below the tide way, where it will be dispersed into the sea. Some say the work will cost not a shilling less than half a million . sterling, but the necessity for such a reform is universally' admitted. THE MAGAZINES. If the illustrations in St. Paul's Magazine were fairly creditable, there could be no fault to find with the October number. As they are, however, they serve only to disgrace the reading matter. Mr.' Anthony Trollope's well-known talent for describing a fox-hunt, is once again, and now adventitiously shown to us in a chapter of " Ralph, the Heir," but the wretchedy executed drawing that accompanies the tale disen chants considerably the admirer of the author's skilful, spirited descriptions of the field. The " screw" of a horse that the artist represents as the hunter of a wealthy squire, by no means reflects favour ably on the taste of the owner. Indeed, any one looking at the .picture, might think that Ralph's father, when the animal rolled over him, was only served right for mounting such a quadruped. In the story of Ralph the Heir, the working man's candidate, Ontario Moggs, loses the election at Percycoss ; and Mr. Trollope reflects on his fate by saying that he was ashamed to face the town, in which so many agitators, supporters of his own, would be the principal ones to greet him. Moggs, how- ever, had " just manhood enough in him to make a speech, and then he escaped by the night train " to London. The workingman's candidate must have travelled homewards in an additionally melancholy mood in consequence of the weather, as Mr. Trollope says the day was a "foul, rainy, muddy one, without a glimmer of sun, and with the thick pervading melancholy atmosphere, which forces upon imaginative men a conviction that " nothing is worth having." By the - a'aithO'ress of " John Halifax Gentleman," a series of sketches, entitled "We Four in Normandy " are begun in this number of St. Paul's; The authoress' well-known abilities as an entertaining writer are as clearly marked in her descriptions of foreign travel, as in her social novels, and the particulars of the places rambled over—Paris, Caen, Bayeux, in getting to the ultimate resting-place, cannot but be read by all readers with unusual interest just now. The authoress is very unjust to herself, we think, in one little phrase. "We four " are made up as follows : " Number one is a gentleman, num bers two, three, and four, are of the inferior sex." We will not admit that all the three could be inferior in anylight if the authoress was amongst them. Contributions on " Officering in the British Army," advocating a revision of the system ; on " Joan of Arc, and a memoir of La Fontaine, are all excellent additions to the list of subjects in St. Paul's. THE LATE PROFESSOR MILLER.—In the late William Allen Miller, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Che mistry in King's College, London, whose death was an nounced yesterday,. chemistry has lost an accomplished votary and an effective teacher. Dr. Miller died of apo plexy on the 30th ult., at Liverpool, whither he had gone to take part in the proceedings of the British Association. A deputation, consisting of members of a com mittee of a proposed National University for Industrial and Technical Education, waited upon the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House yesterday. Among those present were Dr. John Mill, the Secretary, Captain Charles Mercier, the Mayor of Kingston, Mr. Alderman Gould, of Kingston, Colonel J. M. Carter, Mr. Alder man Thomas, of Swansea, and Mr. Braithwaite, ex-Mayor of Halifax. THE ATROCITIES OF THE CHINESE.-A letter from Shanghai, speaking of the surrender of the converts, says the torture they have undergone was a fitting pendant to the murder of their teachers. About fifty seem to have been arrested in the first instance, but many of these got out through the (monetary) intervention of friends. Regarding the condition of the remainder, the following is a paragraph from a report by an English surgeon : At the request of the French Minister, four Roman Catholic converts have been removed from the yamen to the foreign settlement. One is an old man over sixty years. They have all been more or less tortured in various ways, and present a perfectly horrible appearance ; their bodies fearfully emaciated, and covered with gangrenous sores, filled with maggots. One man has been placed on a rack, and all his joints cracked. Another has been beaten so severely on the hands and feet that the tendons are exposed. There are still in the yamen three men and six women (converts) but these are in such a wretched state that the authorities dare not move them. One of these women has had needles driven underneath her finger nails, and her body sprinkled over with drops of boiling oil. Another, a young girl aged sixteen years, has had all her fingers chopped off by . small pieces. It is reported that they have suffered other indig nities too horrible for publication,-Guardian. BREAKFAST. — EPPS'S COCOA.--GRATEFUL AND COM' FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it a general favourite. 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