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A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 318. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 318.6 d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd. An Um bilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. 1,1 MOST O that th, quality, anti th 4 is ?.onsitierably ho Ise in Eng'al S and SON beg to remind the public c cheapness of an article depends entirely on its ey venture to affirm that every article sold by them cheaper than what can be obtained at any other nd. . NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-LAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking Price 4s. 61, 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each Postage, 6d. 1 - 1 MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of J• G ENTLE,AIEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED Autumn I Business Morning , Dress Suits. Suits. Trousers. 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It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 38 each; also 55., 78. 5d., and 15s. each, nclud ag brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon , ion, E.C. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS LYCEUM—Farce. Innisfallen, or the Men in the Gap. SADLER'S WELLS—Farce. Hamlet. QuE.EN's—Midsummer Night's Dream. Farce. GAIETY—Ballet. Bluebeard. Beggars' Opera. PRINCE OF WALES—M.P. Queen Stork. Locked In. VAUDEVILLE—ChiseIIing. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STRAND—SchooI for Coquettes. Idle 'Freiitice. Chops of the Channel. PRINCESSES'—Wanted, 1,000 Milliners. The Rapparee. The Happy Man. ROYALTY—Our Nelly and F. M. Julius Oncesar, the Irregular Rum 'Un. OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicaments. Handsome Is tha t Handsome Does. Undine. NATIONAL STANDARD—LittIe Emily. Mars. Venus versus ALHAMBRA—Grand Ballet and Varieties. CREmoßNF—Fireworks, Ballet, &c. 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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 and SON : LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE, HEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.—SoIe A Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.—This Theatre having been re-decorated under the direction of Mr. C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., will RE-OPEN for the AUTUMN DRA MATIC SEASON on SATURDAY NEXT, Sept. 24. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at half-past Eleven. 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 make her First Appearance at this Theatre, in the character of AMY ROBSART, in the Drama of that name, on SATURDAY NEXT, Sept. 24. — THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LA NE. R. T. C. KING will appear in the character of VARNEY, in the new Drama, entitled AMY ROBSART, on SATURDAY NEXT, Sept. 24.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. A. DOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by Martin Becher, at Seven o'clock on SATURDAY NEXT, Sept. 24.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSA RT ; 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 on SATURDAY NEXT, Sept. 24.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSART ; new drama Characters by Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Vokes, Kemp, J. Mortin, and Rosina Yokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock on SATURDAY NEXT, Sept. 24.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSART ; New Drama, characters by Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, J. B. Howard, Brittain Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon, Yokes, F. Stanforth, H. Naylor, and Fred. - Yokes, on SATURDAY NEXT, Sept. 24.—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 on SATURDAY NEXT, Sept. 24. —THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSART.—The costumes from designs of an eminent Artist, the gorgeous Revels at Kenil worth, including the Procession of the Ancient Britons Saxons, Romans, Normans, &c, and ending with the floating Pageants on the Lake, illustrated by3oo auxiliaries, on SATUR DAY NEXT, Sept. 24.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. TIDHOBUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated YOKES FAMILY will appear at Eleven o'clock on SATUR DAY NEXT, Sept. 24.—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 RAPPAREE, Messrs. Herman Vezin, W. Rignold, J. Clayton, A. Rayner, E. F. Edgar, Shiel Barry; Mesdames Katharine Rodgers and M. Cooper; to conclude with THE HAPPY MAN, Mr. Shiel Barry, &c. AUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- V Lessees—Messrs. H. 3. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, 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. Irving, G. Honey, Lin Rayne, W. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Fawsitt, T. Lavis, and A. Newton. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH This Evening, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING ; The . School for Coquettes. Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Bufton, and F. Hughes. Th e N ew B ur l y - Burly-Esque, " THE IDLE 'PRENTICE." Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Bufton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c. ; and, THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. THE LYCEUM THEATRE (Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER). THIS EVENING, a New and Original Irish Drama, by the author of " Peep o' Day," entitled INN ISFALLEN ; or the Men in the Gap." Box-office now open. Acting Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. MA DA ME 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, ls.; Children underlo years of age, 6d. Napoleon Rooms 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. WONDERFUL 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, ls.; reserved seats, 25.; c hild ren, 6 d . P a l a i s R oya l , Argyle-street, Oxford-street, W. THoRLEY'S HORSE slid CATTLE SPICE, In Penny Packets only, of all Corn Chandlers in London, and Of all Grocers, Druggists. and Corn Dealers in the Country. SUN" . at THE LATE EDITION of " THE Mr BEAUMONT'S. " The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand v • ilt liv ws-,-,--k-...._41 ( 7---,:',/- _ i -.....)-w --, ~.sr -z--,,1 1 ‘-‘ , l_ \nii ~--. -,,, kt, _....„ repudiated by an outraged country, and the war, for a moment interrupted, recommenced with greater ferocity than ever. 'EVERYTHING considered nevertheless, the de parture of M. JULES FAVRE, Foreign Minister to the French Republic, for the Prussian head quarters, must on consideration be regarded as a promising symptom in more respects than one. The French people, including those of Paris, are unmistakeably anxious for peace. M. FavnE's second circular shews that he, too, is animated by the same good wishes; and he now departs in the hope of realising the desire of the whole world. Such a journey would scarcely be ur.d.ertakeh unless there were, at least, a chance of success. Moreover, the consent of Count BISMARCK to receive the French Ambassador is in great measure a proof that the KING and his advisers disclaim the pretensions put forth in their name to maintain the EMPEROR as the sovereign of France, to treat only with him or somebody representing him, and to decline to treat with the Republic. So obviously wild was such a scheme that the Prussian Government has already felt the necess►ty of repudiating it. If King WILLIAM refused any dealings with that very unpleasant result of his own conquests, a Republic, would he set up a Go vernment of his own ? The EMPEROR cannot be the ruler, for he is a prisoner, and in the measures of Go vernment adopted by the present Ministry many cherished items of Imperial policy have been • de liberately set aside. The present system of rule is as different from that which it has sup planted as the system of Queen VICTORIA' is different from that of Queen ELIZABETH. The Provisional Ministry are in power ; they direct the affairs of the nation, so far as in such a time of trouble those affairs can be directed. The Prussian sovereign urges that General TnocHu's Government has been recognised only by the mob of Paris. But no attempt has been made anywhere, except on a trivial scale at Lyons, to repudiate its sway. And it is equally certain that no town or district of France has striven to prop up the falling Empire. The present Ministry has convened the Constituent Assembly with all possible rapidity, and a body which really represents the nation, will soon be sitting to ratify terms with the invaders. So far from the Republican Ministry being unfitted to conclude a treaty of peace, no men of France could with such propriety undertake the thankless duty. If the mob of Paris approved this war, the deputies of the Left who now form the Government did not. Their con sciences are clear. They have through years of obloquy protested not only against the aggression of July 15, but against all similar aggression. No party; then, could so appropriately come forward to rescue their country from this great strait as that which has had no share whatever in involving her in it. The war being utterly unjust it is only the national men of peace who can justly make peace. This is the least that can be said to their credit. It is to be hoped their mission will succeed. • AN announcement has been made to the effect . that orders have been given- at Chatham Dockyard to expedite the completion of H.M.S. Sultan with all possible speed. It is to be presumed that the loss of the Captain has induced the Admiralty to take this step. The sudden destruction of a vessel which was described as the most powerful ship afloat has,whether that description be strictly accurate or not, left a blank in the British navy which has to be filled. The Sultan will be to a certain extent an experimental ship, as her predecessor was. But whereas the Cap tain was the embodiment of the turret system, the Sultan will be the embodiment of what we may term the battery system. The two ships may, in fact, be considered represent atives of rival systems—the first that which was upheld by the lamented Captain CowrEn COLES, the second that which Mr. REED, steadfastly condemning the other, has always upheld. The Sultan will have an upper-deck midship armour plated battery, and the guns to be mounted therein will command a nearly all-round fire. The advantage of this upper deck is that the guns will be so high out of the water that they can be fought in any weather and when it would be impossible to open the main deck battery ports. In the battery above mentioned it is intended at present to place two 121-ton 300 pounder guns. We, say purposely "at present," for it is possible that guns of a much greater calibre will be mounted there —guns, in fact, of nearly three times the weight. At the present time Mr. FRASER, under the superintendence of Colonel CAMPDELL, is constructing at Woolwich a gun which is to weigh no less than thirty-five tons. This gun, when finished, will have a bore of nearly 112 LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1870, THE injustice of the conditions upon which Prussia announces, through the lips of Count BISMARCK, that she will alone make peace with France, is surely indicated by the fact that the two strongholds she insists upon retaining are neither of them as yet in her possession ! Strasburg and Metz alike hold out with heroic persistence against German horse, foot, and artillery. Yt, under any circumstances, the CHANCELLOR of the North German Confederation declares, in the plainest pos sible terms, that the armies of his royal master, those victors on a dozen terrific battlefields from Wiessem bourg and Woerth, to Sedan and Carignan, will never consent to sheath the sword, until those two I very strongholds of Metz and Strasburg have been for mally guaranteed, together with Alsace and Lorraine, as thenceforth from the date of this prospective proposition—belonging not to France but to Germany. An indemnity in hard cash for the expenses of the war will have to be extorted—that as a matter of course. Conjecture has even fixed the sum at 200,000,000 francs. It may be that half the navy of France will be required to be transferred by the defeated nation to the conquerors. But in any case, quoth the mouthpiece of Germany, quoth the alter ego of KING WILLIAM, quoth the oracular mouth of Count BISMARCK, Alsace and Lorraine must be handed over to the victors, and together with Alsace and Lorraine, the still uncaptured strongholds of Metz and Strasburg. The chivalrous UHRICH and the dauntless BAZAINE are virtually laughing to scorn these most arrogant, not to say audacious, pretensions. Ilow anything inches, and will fire a 6001 b. projectile with 1201 b. of pellet powder. It is to cost £2,500. If it answers the expectations formed of it, it will be the most powerful piece of ordnance the world has ever seen. The welding of certain portions of it together at th e Royal Gun Factory latety was one of the greatest feats ever performed by the stalwart Sons of Vulcan. A mass of iron raised to a white heat, and weighing twehty-eight tons, had to be handled. The tongs used in accomplishing this weighed no less than fourteen tons. If the remainder of the work turns out as well as the recent forging, the success will be great. in that case it is intended to construct three more of these guns, and place all four of them o n board' the Sultan. It is difficult to estimate what is really meant by these figures. To raise 351 b. requires considerable exertion on the part of a man of ordinary strength. But one of these guns will weigh more than sixty times as much. And yet this prodigious weight will have to be as completely under the control of a ship's crew as if it were a ladies' travelling box. It will have to be raised, lowered, run in and out, and all this will have to be done under the most difficult circumstances, a rolling sea, and in the face of a hostile fire. The work to be accom plished ha been well described in a professional paper. Given, says the Engineer, one of the Penin sular and Oriental steamers, say 3,000 tons burthen, also a heavy sea, also a tank loco motive, weight thirty-five tons, mounted on the upper deck of the said steamer, locomotive to stand across the deck with the smoke . -box towards can possibly come from personal interviews on the one hand between- M. TRIERS and Earl GRANVILLE, and on the other between M. RILES FAVRE and Count BISMARCK, with a view 'to the carrying out to a happy issue of their amicable negotiations in the interests of peace—so long as these exorbitant and even extortionate de- mands are insisted upon in the dominant name of Germany, certainly passes our own comprehen sion. Make the transfer to Germany of Metz and Strasburg, now, at this stage of the war, while they are both of them yet holding out heroically, to the whole world's admiration, a sine qua non for the negotiating of any pacific arrange ment between the belligerents, and those belligerents are by that one single fact, doomed to the continuance of the conflict coute qui coute to its bitter end--the war is thereby rendered a war a outrance ! Sup posing for the sake of argument that any Government the bulwark ; required :—means for running said tank locomotive in and out through a distance of six feet; also means for training the after end of said engine through an arc of eighty degrees, without going half an inch in advance, or stopping short half an inch behind a given point ; also means for lifting said engine bodily about two feet ; also means for lifting, first the rear, and afterwards the front end of the said engine, so that a line passing through the centre of the boiler can be ranged through sixteen or eighteen degrees of the arc—all to be done in a heavy sea, the ship pitching and rolling all the while—these are the conditions of a problem which very few engineers would care to solve. Yet it has been solved, not by an engineer, but by a naval officer, Captain ROBERT SCOTT. He has devised mechanism by which the heaviest gun yet existing burg. installed in power at Paris—call it Republican, call it Provisional, call it a Ministry of Defence, call it a Dictatorship, call it anything you please—supposing, for the sake of argument, any Cabinet, acting for France, could at this stage of the war consent to negotiate peace on those terms, its very assent to a pacific arrangement upon those terms would be the deliberate dooming of its own existence. A Government so craven as, thus, to lick the dust at the feet of the German invaders, would no sooner have saved Paris from bombardment by subjecting the now more than ever sensitive pride of France to that supreme humiliation, than it would find its ignoble self, and its most despicable policy, can be worked, and which is equally applicable to _ _ _ heavier guns, even if we should hereafter exceed the 35 tons which constitute our as yet intended maxi- mum. In fact thefeat which hd has accomplished isnot adequately described by the above comparison. The 'SUN, LONDON, TUESDA Y, SEPTEMBER 20, 1870 hypothetical locomotive had merely to be moved and raised.. Ji'he actual gun has to stand charges of 1201 b: of powder and shot, weighing over 0 cwt., and the tremendous recoil which must follow, so pro digious a discharge has to be regulated and renlered innocuous: The idea of a 35-ton gun would ten years ago, have been thought as insane, as a train going fifty miles an hour would have seemed to the men who laughed at STEPHENSON for venturing to say that his locomotive would attain one-fifth of that speed. It would have been said, "Even supposing you get your gun, what will you do with it ? You will be like ROBINSON CRusoE, who made himself a ship, and then found that it was too heavy for him to move." And the sceptics would have been justified in their incredulity at that time. It then seemed as though, however large our siege guns might be, we could never get much beyond the old 64-pounders for our ships, simply from the impossibility of working them, Captain SCOTT has overcome this difficulty so triumphantly that at the present time there is not a single large gun in the navy which is not mounted on his principle. If the comparatively light guns on board the Inconstant had been so mounted we should have heard nothing of the recent lamentable acci dent on board that vossel, and a British captain would have been spared the censure of a British jury. After saying thus much, we are ashamed to add anything more. And yet it must be said. Captain SCOTT, to whom this country is indebted for having beyond all question the most powerful navy in the world, has hitherto received no reward for all his labours. Other men with far less claims to compensation have been remunerated handsomely, but the inventor of the gun carriage without which our Monarchs and Sultans would have been As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean, has received absolutely nothing. Nay, worse than that; he has been left to work out this invention at his own cost, and has not been repaid a farthing of the fortune which he has spent in so doing. This conduct towards a great national benefactor is unworthy of a great nation. We are sure that the people of England have only to become. acquainted with the facts in order to demand that some thing more than bare justice—even that has hitherto been denied—shall be done. True-hearted Englishmen, who value their country's good name, must feel disgraced so long as Captain SCOTT continues defrauded of his well-earned reward. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE MISSION OF M. TRIERS. M. Thiers has sailed from England ior St. Peters burg in the French Imperial yacht Jerome Napoleon in order to secure the co-operation of Russia in negotiating the terms of peace. The Jerome Napoleon steamed up to Woolwich dock yard on Saturday and saluted the fl: g ship Fisgard. After sending an officer on board for information, she dropped down to the Royal Arsenal, and with the approval of the Fisgard was moored to the red buoy. H.M.S. Fox was lying off the Arsenal, but the French did not acknowledge her in the usual fashion, and the etiquette of the navy would not permit the British vessel to offer an unsolicited salute. The commander came ashore at the Arsenal landing stairs, but he was not allowed to enter the establishment, not pos sessing a special order. He then went to Charing cross by rail, and some time after instructions were telegraphed from head-quarters to allow the officers and crew of the ship to pass to and fro. At nine o'clock the Jerome Napoleon proceeded down the river, and it was thought at the time - she would return, the movement being simply to avoid a breach of the Queen's proclamation. She did not, however, return, and it subsequently transpired that M. 'fliers was on board and had sailed for St. Peters- MEDICAL DEFECTS IN THE FRENCH ARMY. According to the published returns the effective strength of the French army in January, 1869, was 441,437 men, and for this number there were 423 medical officers employed in the hospitals, and 586 in the regimental services, or one to 437 on a peace footing. In war time, however, the proportions are not the same ; a regiment of 1,500 or 1,800 whilst in garrison is raised to 3,000 for a campaign, and, inasmuch as it leaves a medical officer at the depot, it has but one medical officer to 1,500 men. In the next place, they are not properly utilised, not being employed in the ambulances. Of 423 hospital medical officers only about 200 are employed in treating cases in the ambulances, not one-half of these practising surgery. This being so, if the rules were rigorously adhered to, not above 100 surgeons are disposable for ambulance service. These figures indicate the defective condition of the French medical staff. The fact that most of the French wounded have been left in the hands of the Germans renders their inferiority of little or no account, but had they been victorious they would have suffered terribly. In fine, the military system of France seems in all respects to have been imper fect in its organisation. SYMPATHY WITH THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. Thu expected demonstration of the Irish National party in London, in favour of the French Republic, did not take place on Sunday. It was explained that some of the prominent initiators of the move ment had had to leave London, and in their absence the meeting could not take place as arranged. There was a goodly attendance of Frenchmen, who in loud and excited voices discussed the position of affairs in their native country. Germans, too, were present ; but, although they engaged the Frenchmen in a controversial spirit, no encounter of an objectionable character was noticed. The occasion was improved upon by several leaders of the Land and Labour League, and the well known political lecturer, Mr. Owen, addressed the throng in advocacy of Republicanism. A Mr. • Johnson pro posed, and was of course successful in marrying, a resolution congratulating the French people on the establishment of a Republic, and demanding its re cognition by the English Government. The Presi dent of the Land and Labour League, in proposing an address to the German and French peoples calling upon them to insist upon their Governments making peace and disbanding their armies, is re ported to have been very forcible in pointing out the evils of a standing army. Other intended demon strations are announced. THE CARE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED. The public will learn with satisfaction that there is nothing approaching maladministration in con- nection with the National Society for relieving the sick and wounded on the Continent. Infallible evi dence is given on this point by Mr. A. J. Simmons, manager for the firm of Spiers and Pond, refreshment contractors. These gentlemen having been asked to ascertain whether it 'were practicable for them to co-operate with the National Society, they sent Mr. Simmons to Douzy, Balm], and Sedan, in order to be able to pronounce a decided opinion. Their manager re ports that he saw nothing which would justify him in thinking that the operations of the firm could be of any material assistance to the Society in minis tering to the wants of the sufferers. They seemed to have almost everything necessary or desirable, and the medical gentlemen were, he says, untiring in their devoted and zealous assistance. This assurance, that the money so generously contributed is not misspent, cannot but have a beneficial effect, and will encourage the benevolent to continue to subscribe to the fund. , VICTOR HUGO AS AN AUTHOR. In the year 18M, and upon the night of the 11th of December, Victor lingo fled for his life from the authors of the Coup d'Etat in Paris. Since this eventful date the illustrious exile has lived and worked in the Channel Islands: In one of his own poems Victor Hugo says, "We see the surface, but the life below The inner soul of all things, who can know ;" and arguing from this view it might be a difficult task for us, to attempt to search out traits in the great novelist's political characteristics which might be found blameable. To a generous country like Eng land it will, perhaps, be sufficient to remember that he has been very kind ail his life to Arab children, and that he has been a dis tinguished writer. His fame and reputation will be thought worthy, after an enumeration of his qualities in these respects alone. But M. Hugo must be ad mired in an especial degree, for the pertinacious manner in which he has striven against his destiny and banished in thorough earnestness of • labour, the gloom which has doubtless served to darken eighteen years of his existence. From the Channel Islands, principally from Guernsey, there have issued to the reading world the following works, all the result of hard toil and thought on the part of the French exile—" Les Chatiments," "Les Contemplations," "La Legend() deS Siecles," " Les Mis6rables," " William Shakespeare," "Les Chansons des Rues et des Bois," "Les Travailleurs de la Mer," and " L'Homme qui Rit." A man who can in a saddened retirement set himself to accomplish a series of famous works like these, is entitled to the highest respect from his fellow Men. IRISH EDUCATION. A. significant step is being taken with respect to the Irish systems of education by the Roman Catholics of Dublin. They are signing a declara tion urging that education to be fruitful of good should be founded on religion. The subscribers moreover deny that the perpetuation of a mixed system, or the design of changing Dublin University more into a mixed college than it is, would satisfy them. They protest against attempts to force any education upon their people net based on the Catholic religion. and they claim as taxpayers a per fect educational equality. If these views be sup ported, as there is every probability they will be, by a large number of the Catholics of Ireland, Mr. Fawcett's scheme for "opening" Trinity College scholarships and fellowships, will have to be dropped in the next session, and the question of making the Catholic University of Ireland a thoroughly sub stantial, adequate, and important institute will most likely be revived with some vigour. THE TAMWORTH ACCIDENT. The pointsman who works alternately with the man Evans, accused of sending the ill-fated train at Tamworth into a wrong siding, has, it is said, sent in his resignation to the :London and North Western Railway Company, on the ground that he cannot longer retain the fearful responsibility attaching to the position he has filled. Twelve hours' work in succession is declared to be too great a strain upon a signalman for the duties to be safely performed. The sad origin of a calamity, the extent of which has not yet been revealed, there being still a boy supposed to be missing, and the injuries of the Post office clerks having been found more serious than was at first apprehended, may probably be alone traceable to the pointsmen having too arduous labour on their hands, and to one of their number having become tired or puzzled over his most important duties. Clearly the signalmen have had more than a fair quantity of constant watching and care expected frora them, else why has Evans' colleague at Tamworth resigned ? Mr. Muntz, M.P., writes to the papers advocating that what are known as " meeting points," that is, points which enable a train to pass on to another line when moving in the same direction in which the trains usually travel, should be abolished on important lines of railway. He says that when " meeting points" do not exist a train to be shunted can Qnly enter a siding after being stopped and backed into it. While they do exist, railway travellers passing over them at 40 or 60 miles an hour will be always sub ject to be guided to destruction by the momentary error of a careless or nervous pointsman. It is to be hoped that the Tamworth accident will lead to a tho rough consideration of the railway point and signal system, and especially to a just and humane regula tion as regards watchmens' hours of duty et night time on a railway possessing such extensive co mum nication as the London and North Western. THE GOVERNOR OF COLORADO. A_ distinguished officer—and one, moreover, who has led a life of singular vicissitude and difficulties —Colonel Gilpin—appeared before the members of the British Association at Liverpool on Saturday. Mr. Hepworth Dixon, when introducing his Excel lency to the audience, stated that he had met that gentleman in the Rocky Mountains some five years since, and that he had declared that Colonel Gilpin and Brigham Young were the two most remarkable men on this planet westward of the Missouri river. Col. Gilpin had penetrated the great desert of America, as Colorado was then called, before any Anglo-Saxon ever dreamt of doing so. When the old Mexican war came ho conquered the territory which he had previously discovered, and he was afterwards elected Governor of the region which owed its foun dation to his sagacity and enterprise. The most memorable act of all, reflecting on Colonel Gilpin's energy and philanthropy, was that he was the origi nal proj ector, twenty years ago, of the Great Pacific Railway. The British Association has many advan tages, but one of its chief ones is the opportunity it gives the ordinary world of coming face to face with men entitled to fame and honour. Livingstone was never thought anything of, till he told his experiences before the British Association, and now we have reason to think we should never have heard much of Colonel Gilpin were it not for the occasion afforded for his debut as an essayist this week at Liverpool. The audience heard more of this distinguished officer and of his country than we have space to mention, and some of the troubles he had to encounter, in establishing rule, and authority, and civilization in Colorado, were humorous, as well as interesting in a scientific light. When, for instance, Mr. Hepworth Dixon visited the gallant officer at his home in Denver, he found the only newspaper in the place printed on yellow sugar paper for want of anything better. In its pages little information was given, but announcements in large type of the following salutary character met the ,eye everywhere :—" The Smoky Hill-road open. Arrival of two English gen tlemen. Now go ahead." That Smoky Hill-road, Mr. Dixon assured the people of Liverpool on Satur day, had already been covered by a railway, which, ten days ago, was opened from St. Louis to Denver city, and that was Colonel Gilpin's work. • Cartnitar HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, SEPT. 17. The Queen drove to the Spital of Glenshee, accompanied by Princess Beataice, and attended by Lady Chrchill. Prince Arthur went out deerstalking. Mr. Albert Grey had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal family. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ommended by the medical profession in preference to French brandy . Sup plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Royal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfast or at that London oMccs, 4. Beaufort Buildings , Itrand. (tr LYCEUM THEATRE. On Saturday evening this theatre was reopened unclear the manageme n t o f M r . E. F a l c oner ; the novelty Po lice r Leing a new Irish me l o d ra ma, entitled " Innesfallen, ° :the Men in the G a p," f r om the pen of the mans, The principal characters were supported by r .;,- ; ,, Emery, Mr. Nelson, Mr . E. Falconer, 'w— owing Ernstone, and Miss Patti Josephs, but, doubtless, „ to the hurry in which the piece had been hrougny forward the success was not as great as it might have loco. With judicious curtailment, and the removal of two o . r three incidents that it was plain did not please the pb.ll° on Saturday evening, the drama may be made attractive; but it certainly will not turn out another " Peep o' 1) 37 : Mr. Falcone r ' s rece pti on was particularly enthuslti!, and it seemed t o b e th e d es i re o f all present to assist Di! Falconer in secur i ng success . The scenery and OW mounting of the piece was extremely b e autiful, and :;re have faith enough in it t o believe that it will, af te . r A n iy e necessary alterations have been made, beuunl e attractive. Mr. Falconer has our best wishes for Perf ect success in his venture. INDIA The Indian Chambers of CommerceS h ave e e the Government of India for a suspension of the lII° _ o Tax Act, pending a rev i s i on o f p r ofits which have beena . seriously affected by th e grea t f a ll of cotton a t the ot break of the war. 2'h° A question of "neutrality " has arisen in Bornbaja•he, French want to export a quantity of coal t o n ear settlement two miles square on the Malabar was! os es. Cannanore—as they say, for purely commercial puTvent The Prussian Consul called on the Governmen t to P7,.ions this ; and it was prevent e d f or a time, though in struc' have now been issued to letthe coal proceed. rh isa. Education is beginning to spread over Cochiii - ' The under the auspices of the French Government' „ o ink(' College of Saigon co un t s among it s p u pils tw° h ' pr sot relatives of the Emperor of China and several ineln;stre the Royal family of Siam. During t h e last se vra eb 5,500 natives attended the s c h oo l s organised by the rgeo. administration. French history, ar ithmetic, an graphy are the principal studies taught. Tial' Lord Mayo asked permission to depute a few.,-„, ocl w as officers as attaches to the belligerent armies. ',A U° informed by telegraph that the arrangement cool F ren ch made. Subscriptions have been opened at the w 0 French Consulates at Bombay and Calcutta in aid of - w- French soldiers. sol oll The Bombay Gazette says it is in contemplation, 3 , 0 1 a considerable section of the Hindoo comina ll s4 loo o Bengal, to get up a subsc r ipti on to the amount of .encir, rupees, in order to secure the sorvices of Baboo ese nt Lall Mittra, to prooeed to England, and there rePr4iye to the Government and the public the views of the 11'01 population on the subject of the proposed local cesses, other measures contemplated by Government (vat The divorce case of Goad v. Goad, in the Chiel,..'ol, of of the Pur.jaub, has resulted in a decree of dise olu ' i b e ing marriage, a permanent alimony of £7OO per annu li ' awarded to Mrs Goad. 'ah Colonel Malls on, guardian of the young 3 1,33 ' -31 0uslY Mysore, has been throw n f rom hi s h or se and so sera- hurt that it is feared he will be obliged to go home. THE SIEGE OF BITCHE. The Libertg publishes a letter from Bache, date i giving some particulars of the siege, and the situoi%ir that fort. At th e ti me o f th e p rec i p it a t e r etreat aft er battle of Wo er th, M. Mat Lieu, the commander of th,,a,,ye Division of Faillyos Corps,.sent to Bitche all the lugs 74i,in the waggons, the chests, &c., so as to put thenl,_ A — be the protection of the fort, sending word of S if , had done to General Failly, and asking for hie ts of During a month Captain Mathieu awaited the ordv--,A his general, while the Prussians invested the place, ni t ; they twice bombarded and twice assaulted without Oshos The besieged know nothi ng o f th e d e f ea t of A lO3l ate or the change of government. They refuse to believe be , statements of the German papers which the siegers sent to them. The last French they have seen was a copy of the D " .. of August 11. The correspondent of the Libertpt io f that the fort can resist all the attacks of the 4,000 Yr up. ; i gi that•besiege it. Only famine or want of provisi , °l/1 id compel it to surr en d er , a result whit*,j. lte not immediately t o b e apprehen d e d 85 0%1 army stores were sent in. On the sth May b oo made a sortie, and killed 259 Prussians. They ha ve fo e. several times summoned t o surren d er, b u t a lways „ ur re ' bo a To the flag of truc e announc i ng t h e d e f ea t of Wl'el and the capitulatio n o f S e d an, C ap t a i n M a thieu reP " French army may perish but France does not p e and will avenge it." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE' TATTERSALLS'-YESTERD AY. CESAREWITCH. 10 to 1 agst Wheatear (taken and offered) 1000 to 70 agst Tabernacle (take n and offer cl i, a kea) 1000 to 70 agst Tabouret (offered-1000 to 6 0 100 to 7 agst Hawthornden (offered) 20 to 1 agst Falkland (taken) 20 to 1 agst Mars (taken) 1000 to 40 agst Adonis (taken) 1000 to 40 agst Make Haste (taken and wan ted) 30 to 1 agst Typhoe ns (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Bonny Swell (offered) 1000 to 30 agst Recorder (taken) 40 to 1 agst Royal Rake (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Pax (taken) 2000 to 40 agst Cherie (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Ploughboy (taken) 500 to 10 agst True Blue (taken) 5000 to 75 agst Sister to Cherie (taken) • 5000 to 50ragst Spy (taken) 1000 to 9 agst Nightjar (taken) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 100 to 7 ast Podesta oered f r ee& 20 to 1 agst Tabernacle ff —offe ) red (25 to take CITY BETTING—YESTERDAY. CESAREWITCH. 100 to :9 agst Wheatear (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Tabouret (taken and wanted) 25 to 1 agst Bonny Swell (t a k en an d o ff ere d) 40 to 1 agst Blueskin (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Faraway (taken) 500 to 10 agst Normanby (taken) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 1000 to 70 agst Podesta offered 3000 to 100 agst Tab ernac l e (taken a fter 40 to 1 take to 2100) 33 to 1 agst Fich u (taken aftei 40 to 1 laid) A. Cambridge correspondent writes that j t egos buildings have just bee n com pl e t e d a t Caius ddi• Colleges at Cambridge, by which se venty-two st tional sets of rooms at the f ormer , an d twenty-foul - 0 _ , the latter, will be the result. Extensive alterati are likewise contemplated a t P em b ro ke and Christ Colleges Nat Mr. Bradlaugh, who h as b een a dd r essing ' a meetings in the country, d e li vere d a l ec t ur e on the W on Sunday evening at the Hall of Science, e/. Old- Nap tr4ti London. He fiercely a tt ac k e d th e E mpero r ea ch and expressed his entire sympathy with the - 1 : 1. Republic. con' FRENCH YACHTS IN THE THAMES.----" 2 1 , 7 the siderable inrerest was occas i one d on S a t u rday ea ch arrival of two French yachts in the Thames' ~cht having a widely diff eren t o bj ec t . Th e steamy Jerome Bonaparte a rr i ve d off the Arsenal at W °°_'‘„ — e ht for the purpose of em b ar ki ng M. Thi ers . The it Eugdnie was brought u p a t th e same p l ace , and asva l is said, the commands of the Empress. sta te CANADA.—A letter, b ear i ng upon th e present oa _ ette of Canada, has been fo rwar d e d t o t h e Birmingham r for publication. It sa y s :—" I d o no t expect :411 years will pass before th e D om i n i on o f Canau 3 be be part of the United States, or, likelier independent. The p resen t Liberal Government are u° e. their best to sever th e co l on i es f rom t h e British thrc?rin Every British soldi er i s w i t hd rawn from t h e Dorail lici ee t except those in the Red River Expedition, and to 120 1 0 any Fenian invasion th ere wou ld on l y b e the volu tr n o " org ps e , and militia. Not con t en t w i t h w i t hd raw i ng the it dismantles all th e f or t resses o f Q ue b ec an d other 13 ,1 b. towns, offering the arms and ammunition for sale by lic auction. SUPPOSED Loss OF HERR ING FISHING-13°1S. The north easterly g a l e w hi c h b ro k e over the f coasts ° Berwickshire and N or th um b er l an d on Wednesday orwoo' in g last has caused the loss, it is believed, o f at leas t i t i herring fishing-boats. Th e storm came on so sudd e and raged with such e x t reme v i o l ence f or two or three con hours, that many fishing crews who were at sea ha d • oi ls siderable difficulty in obtaining shelter in the van ports between Berwick and Shields. During " - ruun ing f uesday, the master o f a sc h ooner, which was of for shelter, saw, wh en i n th e neighb N ourho od, ot. the Coquet Island, t wo l arge fi s hi n g boats P bti t tom up and the crews clinging to them ; der the storm was so violent that he was unable to reuea7d them any . assistance. As nothing further has been h. of these boats and crews, and as at least two boats have been been missing since Tuesday, it is feared that theY, the gone down and their crews have perished. One o f boats missing belongs to Berwick, and was i n charf,t, e , James Lawrie ; the other boat missing belonged to mouth, and was in charge of Alexander Aitchison. -°`_.`,l the other boats that were out in the gale have either returne.: home or have been accounted for. The relatives and frie. ll _ l 7. of the missing men ent e rtain the gravest apprehension,' for their safety. COP . BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.- -GRATEFUL AND n , as t re rendered it ageneral favourite. The Civil Service Gaze FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this Rreparatiotei. marks :—" By a thorough knowledye of the natura l laws Which govern the opefations of digestion and nutrition , ana cocoa , careful application of the fine properties of well-selected Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a deli° 17, flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doc, bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold on tin-lined packets labelled—JAMES EPPS & Co., Ho mceopau" Okemists, London,—Advt. 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