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Venus versus ALHAMBRA—Grand Ballet and Varieties. CREmoRNE--Fireworks, Ballet, &c. MADAME TUSSAVD'S (Baker-street) —From 11 a.m. till 3 p.m. and 7 till 10 p.m. is. ; extra rooms, 6d. ST. JAMES'S HALL. —Christy Minstrels. Every evening. POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening, THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGI r O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST N EWS of the WAR, and of all other events. 72 , tJ 7 i tr:tii •; ! 1.• ( i 4 LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 1870. Idle THE biter end, seeing apparently that it must come at last, is nearer we can only hope than the most sanguine amongst us anticipate. Diplomacy appears for the time being to be almost paralysed among the neutrals. The Prussians have seemingly full swing. Not a voice is raised among surrounding nations to say, with the authority of any one of the onlooking " Powers that be" at London, at Vienna, at St. Petersbur,z, "Hold ! E noug ! Thus far—and no further !" France having crossed swords sixteen years ago with Russia, having eleven years ago com pelled Austria to lower her standard on the field of Solferino, having for these last eighteen years, in fact, for these last two-and-twenty years, that is, ever Since Louts NAPOLEON became the head of the Government, the true and staunch ally of Eng land, in peace and in war—France, now, at her direst need, has not a friend to help her. Not one amongst the sovereign powers of the world feels calle 1 upon, like CAMILLUS, to throw his sword into the scale, when the honour and the very existence of a great nation seem to be momentarily oscillating. There is one small consolation, small, that is, comparatively, all the while this terrible tragedy has been enacting, the recognition of which as an actual fact has, at any rate, in some degree ten ded to assuage the anguish caused by the recognition of the powerlessness of England as a neutral to prevent the continuance of the fearful carnage that has been raging, now in Alsace, now in Lorraine, .now in Champagne, and that is of course the rapid increase and multiplication of the funds collected in this country for the relief of the appalling suffer;ngs of the sick and wounded, of the dying and the maimed at the actual seat of war. In the further ance of that humane enterprise, at least, England has all this while not been apathetic. If she has not seen her way to interpose effectually between the infuriated belligerents, she has striven at any rate to her uttermost to vindicate her character, for humanity, by her ready and eager assistance at the ambulance. Throughout all classes of our com munity, the appeal has nowhere been made in vain. From the QtrEEN, who is the patroness, and the PRINCE of WALES, who is the preside-it of this sud denly improvised association, down to the poorest cottager and the lowliest artizan, aid, varying from a thousand pounds sterling to the humblest scraping together of a few lapence, has poured in week after week, ever since the war commenced, is pouring in still with no sign of slackening or abatement; and, .as fast as it has been pouring in upon the hands of the treasurers, this timely aid, either in money or in kind, has been distributing comfort lavishly and yet discriminatively among the tens of thousands stricken down upon those terrible battle fields, where death and agony have descended alike upon the defeated Frend'a and the victorious Germans, in the shape of the most ghastly mutila tion and the most terrific massacres. While the tri color has been lamentably draggled through the dust, and the banner of the black eagle, bullet-riddled and blood.-stained, has been carried triumphantly through a rapid series of victories, the white armlet, with its noble badge of the red cross has at any rate been proudly donned by England, I eager, at the least to proffer her good services for the comforting of the sick and wounded among the Franco;k4ermanlielligefents. If Only , htrdiplomacy could havebbeii 6itectiv6l to the negotiating of a timely pacification ! SEPTEMBER 20th has come and gone. It is a not able anniversary. Sixteen years ago on that day French and English troops fought their first battle together, and won their first victory, on the banks of the Alma: Var more memorable was that same day of the inontli seventy-fight years ago. Sep tember 20th, 1792,. , 5avv, the " cannonade of Vainly," safe Paria unfortihed Paris—saVed seores,of miles away froth her streets. It was a great deliverance. Paris seemed then in more evil plight than it seemed on this 29th, September just past. The last days of August 1792 had been alinost a diSastrous as those of 1870. It wag on the 28th of the month that DUMOURIEZ reviewed the discontented, demoralised, almost mutinising French troops in that very town of Sedan which Was; more than three-quarters of a century later, to Witness the overthrow of the Second Empire. Then, as now, the vast Teutonic-host was pressing on through France, led by a Sovereign Prince, the Duke of BRUNSWICK, carrying everything before him. If it were ever lawful for captain to despair of his country, it was lawful for Dumounaz to despair of France then. The position was apparently far worse than the present is. Paris had no enceinte, no girdle of forts, no place of refuge into which a defeated army might retreat: The defence against foes Without beekned hopeletis, and alas there ttre foes within. There was a perfect panic of suspicion and fear. The city was believed . to be full of aristocratic traitors ready to betrak Paris to the invaders. Proba bly the suspicion was not unfounded. The itiNG and the QUEEN were in prison; what wonder if royalists who believed in the divine right of kings were pre pared for any desperate measure that would rescue the LORD'S anointed out of the hands of the blood thirsty sans-culottes who had massacred the faithful Swiss guard only a few days before? Then, too, it was believed that BRUNSWICK'S proclamation, with its threats of "signal vengeance" and a military ekecution " had be'en prompted by the friends of theae same aristoOrats. There is nothing so cruel as fear: and so it came to to pass that Paris - , which, on the first Sunday in September, 1870, was en fete in spite of the Onward march of the enemy, in spite of a defeat and a cap itulation unparalleled in history, and was so because the Empire had been overthrown, arid the Republic was established—on the first Sunday of September, 1792, witnessed a horrible spectacle, the "Massacres of September," which, beginning on that day, lasted for one hundred hours, and saw - the best blood of France poured out like water. If Paris has been happily spared that fearful catastrophe, it has not, on the other hand, witnessed that great victory which converted danger into safety, and drove back the enemy far away from the capital. CARLYLE, in his graphic way, has told how DUMOURIEZ held council of war at Sedan. It was but small comfort that they gave him. "The generals, strangers to DumouniEz, look blank enough, know not well what to advise—if it be not retreating, and retreating until our recruits accumulate ; tiil, perhaps, the chapter of chances turn up some leaf for us ; or Paris, at all events, be sacked at the latest day pos sible." DUMOURIEZ says .nothing, but ho has not been passing three sleepless night for nothing. The map of " the forlorn war district " is before him. His finger is placed on the spot where France is to be saved. It is the Forest of Argonne, with few practic able passes; only three or five at the utmost. BEUNS WICK is taken unawares ; while DANTON is massacring poor Abbe SICARD and the rest of the thousand and eighty-nine victims, DUMOURIEZ takes possession of the passes, and BRUNSWICK finds the road to Paris barred by a mountain wall of forty miles. Then, after nearly three weeks' manoeuvring and vain endeavour to get round the " fortress " which he could not force, BRUNSWICK finds DUMOURIEZ opposed to him .in battle array. " Five la Pattie" cries the one side ; " Es lebe dos Vaterland" the other. DUMOURIEZ and his lieutenant, Alsatian KELLERMANN, are stationed by the windmill of Valury. There they receive unmoved, assault after assault. The brief equinoctial twilight falls before BRUNSWICK ceases his attack. But at last he is compelled to draw off the forces battered by the army of Sanscu lottes, who were to have fled " like poultry." Thus Paris was saved. Thus it has not been saved this year. If it is to be saved at all, it must be Ly th e eloquence of a lawyer . rather than by another "many-counselled" soldier. TOPICS OF THE DAY. AN UNSTABLE GOVERNMENT. Between August 1792, when Louis XVI. was tbrmally deposed, and September 1870 2 . when the Decheance of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was loudly demanded in the Chamber of Deputies, the French people have tried a good many forms of Government without, it would seem, being fully satisfied with any. The Republic was established with _the fall of him who was thenceforward contemptuously knowii as Capet, and the National Ccnvention was established in the following September. Three years later it was dissolved and replaced by the Directory. The Directory, hewever, did not have a very long life, and gave place in December 1799 to the Consulate of Napoleon. Every one knows the successive steps by which the first Consul of 1799 became the Emperor of 1804, to be succeeded in 1814 by Louis XVIII. as king. Thit, monarchy was very short lived, and the " hundred days" of . the Empire followed, but after Waterloo Napoleon abdicated the second time in favour of the young King of Rome, whom Imperialists still reckon as Napoleon 11. However, the real ruler of France was the re stoked Bourbon Kim., who did what no other ruler of France has done since Louis XV, and died on the throne. Charles X, who succeeded him, was forced to abdicate in 1830, and Louis Philippe, who changed the old title of King of France into King of the French, was compelled in 1848 to fly from Paris. Then came another Republic, of which Louis Napoleon was elected President, which, in 1852, became another Empire under Napoleon 111., Emperor of the French. A correspondent of the Court Journal, in remarking on th's series of Governments, reminds us tbat Auber, the celebrated composer, has witnessed all these changes. Born under Louis XVI., he has successively saluted the first Republic, the fir t Empire, the Monarchy of Louis XVIII., of Oharle X., and of Louis Philippe, the Republic of 1848, the second Empire, and lastly, the third Republic. We may add that, as he is still living in Paris, it is possible he may outlive a few more changes of dynasty. THE EXPORTATION OF ARMS. Mr. Goodman, the chairman of the Birmingham Small Arms Company, writes to the Times respect ing the exaggerated statements as to the ex portation of arms to France, which he says have obtained currency during the last few days. It has been stated that 400,000 are in course of construction in London Birmingham and Sheffield, whereas Sheffield has no means for producing a single rifle. The facts, ➢lr. Goodman declares, are as follows : The breechloaders in the hands of English manufacturers at the out break . of the war did not exceed 20,000, of which 44,000 were in the hands of two manufacturing firms, one of them Mr. Goodman's own. These have RE - LOiNDON, FR DA Y, SEPTEM • BER . 23; .1876. been sold to English buyers, and he has no doubt that they hate found their way to France. It is probable, tlakt Of: the 0,000 to o,opo, remaining on hand in Birmingham and London vlieii tllee sks were effected some 2,000 have since _been shipped, but not it appears exclusively for France, as on the 14th inst. 2,520 rifles were shipped by the Middlesex to Rotterdam. Besides these rifles there were in London 11,000 Chassepots, made in Birmingham, which we're sent td France on the 18th of July, As for orflersl, their extent hag been limited on account of the rigorctis ddnditioris exaitd by both sides. The seller has required thdi Bank of England notes shall be in his • hands before the giins leave his premises, while the buyer has stipulated that every gtin shall be packed for starting twenty-four hours after the contract is made. There is no supply of Martinis, needle guns, or Remingtons in England, available for military service, and neither of the tro small arms companies of Birmingham and London has any order from the French Government. Such is Mr. Goodman's Version of the present state of affairs. Autumn I Business Suits. Suits. Also at other prices, Also at other prices. Also at other prices, Also at other prices ()I:DERS by post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enabks them to guarantee a faultless fit. MOSES and SON'S PRICE Li Tof JUJ • BOYS' CLOTHING Knickerbocker Eton Suits. Suits. - . 9s. 6d. . 15-s. 19s. Brighton ; Harrow Suits. ! 18s. 13s. 6d . 16s. 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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 NTE. - 14 R. T. C. KING will appear in the character of 1, - 1 VARNEY, in the new Drama, entitled AMY ROBSART, on SATIJRDAY NEXT, Sept. 24.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. ADOMESTIC 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 Yokes, Kemp, J. Mortin, and Rosina Vokes, 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 j 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.—Tie 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-LAKE. DH 0 BUS'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 SAPPAREE, Messrs. Herman Vezin, W. Rignold, J. Clayton, A. Rayner, E. F. Edgar, Shiel Barry; Mesdames Katharine Rodgers and M. Cooper ; to conclude with THE IjAPPY MAN, Mr. Shiel Barry, &c. THE LYCEUM THEATRE (Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER). THIS EVENING, 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. ATAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs. H. J. 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 M ess rs. 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. The New Hurly- Burly-Esque, " THE IDLE ands Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Bufton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c. ; and, THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. AIA 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, Is.; Children underlo years of age, 6d. Napoleon Rooms 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. v‘TONDERFUL TALKING MACHINE, in vented and constructed by Professor FABER, of Vienna. The neatest mechanical curiosity in the world. EXHIBITING HOURLY from eleven a.m., till ten p.m. Ad mission, ls.; reserved seats, 25.; children, 6d. Palais Royal, Argyle-street, Oxford-street, W. •It )i 'S HORSE (.sift CATTLE SPICE, Pat; Pia, only. of Cortrehandlers in London, and , L !1 Gr Drugguint and Corn I:ea.orß iu the ountry. TILE LATE EDITION of " TII E SUN" a t Mr BEAUMOgT'S. "The Wellingtou , " Wellington-street, Strand 16s. 6d. THE GATLING The latest experiments in artillery at Shoebury ness demonstrate the fact that the Gatling mitrailleuse is a most formidable and murderous weapon. Its destructiveness may be measured by the results obtained during its trial on Wednesday. The experiments were conducted with two weapons. The first ; having a calibre of one inch, and throwing a ball Weighing eight ottnces, Was discharged at targets 36ft. broad and Oft. high; at a range of 2,100 yards: lii consequence of a couple of cartridges placing themselves athwart the lading. machinery, only 120 shots were delivered in two minutes, the result being twelve hits. A smaller mitrailleuse, with a calibre of 65 and throwing a thfee bUtce ball, ,despatched 308 bullets, with 45 hits. The larger Gatling WO next discharged at three targets same size as the last, but placed in rows to r( present a column of troops. The result was 00 hits from 238 she ts. The smaller Gaffing fired at the column 348 bullets in two minutes, making 165 hits at 2,100 yards. These re sults shew that the mitrailleuses have beaten the field-pieces at the eupposed favourite range of the latter. It had riot been eten hoped that any mitrailleuse would accomplish what the Gaffing has done. ALLEGED GEHMAN INHUMANITIES. In reply to the letter from Mr. Alfred Seymour from Sedan, the Duke of Manchester de clares that during his sojourn among the Gernian armies he did not see one man the worse for iiiuch less Offering violence to anyone. He admits that there may haVe been insWiCes of cruelty, but contends that they must have been rare, or he should have heard of them . . The Duke discredits the tale of horrors told by Mr. Seymour, and adds that he did see, during the battle of the Ist of September, fugitives French soldiers driven in from the direction of Givonne, knocking down French peasants who were escaping with them into Sedan. The insinuations about young girls are, in the conviction of the Duke, abominable calumnies. THE EXPULSION OF FOREIGNERS FRO➢I PARIS. A very distressing case, and one which illustrates the miseries attendant upon the expulsion of foreigners from Paris, came under the notice of the iusgistrate at the Marlborough-street Police-court. A groom named Davies, accompanied by his wife, applied to the court for relief under these circum stances : He had lived in Paris thirteen years in the capacity o groom, and had been in the service of General Graham and Major M'Caul, overseer of the Forest of Chantilly. He was suddenly taken ill, and before he could resume - his employ ment, the proclamation was made that all foreigners who could not support themselves must leave Paris immediately. Being unable to prove that he could maintain himself and laraily during the anticipated siege, the applicant attempted to sell his household effects, but no one would buy, knowing perfectly well that he would have to leave all his urniture behind. Before leaving Paris he packed a box with the best wearing apparel belonging to his family, but when he got to Dover he found the most valuable part of the contents •had been abstracted. He tried to get work in London, but having failed he now sought relief. He produced a passport signed by Lord Lyons as some sort of evidence of the truthfulness of his story. The magistrate could not do more than order relief from the poor box, and the sum of ss. was given to the applicant, who grate fully received it. THE TURCOS. Great curiosity and interest have been excited by what may be called the irregular branches of the two contending armies. The name of the Prussian Üblans is nearly as terrible as their presence, while on the French side are Zouaves, Turcos, and Spahis. Of the Turcos the accounts are not flattering. The b:Ld name which th y deservedly or undeservedly obtained at the beginning of the- war may perhaps be credited with some of the fearful atrocities at ributed to them, and some accounts describe them as well-behaved and submissive to discipline, while in Belgium as prisoners of war. Most of those who have had the opportunity of judging, however, agree in representing them as semi-savages, who are re strained by none of the ordinary influences of civi -I:sation or humanity. The correspondent of the Scotsman paints them in dismal colours enough. Thank heaven ! he .says, the miserable bubble of their valour has exploded. " I have seen them in action, and know them to be literally not much better than fierce cowards." The Prussians, he adds, would have been justified by all the lawi of war in &tooting these ' ferocious savages to a man, for they knew the work which they were brought in to 10, to burn the villages, devastate the country, and oppress the peasantry. " The only excuse for employing such miscreants in the war of a civilised country is that, like the negroes in the American war, they draw the fire of the enemy when they go to the front." This very humane reason for their service is too much in accordance with the cruel details of the war, for while kings and generals have been exchanging courtesies there has been some savage work in the background; such as the burning of Bazeilles by the Prussians, and the maiming of wounded Germans by the French peasantry—facts but little creditable to the civi lisation of either nation. THE DUSTER AT SEDAN. The •celerity with which one of the London journals was enabled to give to the public a full account of the battle of Sedan justly earned for it a large ,share of praise. The writer who described the battle, perhaps wrote in rather too blasé a tone to altogether please English readers, but even this drawback to his energy was forgotten when we heard that he was an American. All commenda tion, at all events, was given to the Pall Mall Gazette for being the first paper to publish a graphic chronicle of the Most • important engagement during the Continental struggle, and the estimation of the proceeding was intensified when it was stated rather grandiloquently by the same paper that its correspondent had reached London by special ains. A new . light is now thrown on the entire matter, and people can see for themselves that the fall ,Mall Gazette ought not to possess all the praise for spending large sums for special trains from 12attlefields, - or even for the rapidity of the publication of " The Battle of Sedan." brief; the proprietor of the New York Tribune, who for an account of the battle of Gravelotte spent two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars for the trans mission through the wire alone of its correspondent's description, had. apparently the same gentleman as the Pall Mall Gazette acting as the representative of the Tribuneb Sedan. Glancing at the Tribune, we caught the old stel - f 'of the refused duster about which so much laughing 'WAS Mused, and a clearer observation shewed us that the narrative in that 4 olOnftl *las the .same . (only telegraphed) as that for - *Vidi the London newspaper had obtained so much Pfai36 foi , giving to the world. It is only fair that in r great achievement like the American correspondent's, praise should be honourably awarded to the news paper proprietors who sent so persevering a man to the field. If the "Special trains" were a joint specu lation; it is only right that the praise for a large ex pendittire of nfoney for the public good should be divided, and that the Ttibuni should be thought as highly of in the matter, if not more so, than our, Contemporary in England. NEW POSTAC4E STAMPS. The Post-office is undoubtedly the best managed department of the State, or at all events feWe?t com plaints ate made respecting it. Most legitimate concessions are made to piittlie opinion, and it is note worthy that one change for the bat& is generally soon followed by another improvement. The Go veriiiiitnt deserve the, good opinion of the nation for the recluctio•) -Mile!! has just been made in the rate of postage, and, for the othei: ailities given for intercommunication. Still going in the direction of progress, the authorities have determined to make another change which we venture to think will confer a great boon upon all classes, commercial or otherwiSe. The Postmaster-General has officially announcA that on and after the Ist October next postage stamps of the value of three-halfpence will be issued. Doubtless the change will be thoroughly appreciated; and its advantages soon made manifost. METROPOLITAN ITiiußsDAy. On November 13, 1851, the price of Paris Rentes was kndwn the same morning on the London Stock Exchange, and guns were fired at Dover by communications from Calais. Ever since that date ; the date on which the submarine telegraph was opened, not es day has passed until this present week, without direct eoMmunication between the two capitals. In this morning's papers there is nob a single telegram of yesterday from Paris. So far as the rest of the world is concerned, that great city is as though it had been • swept off the fade of the etirth, or swallowed up in some tre mendoUs catastrophe of nature. Suoh an event would have seemed impOssible three months agd. The man who on June 22 pfedieted that on the same day of Septem ber, English newspapera ilould haVe appeared without a word of yesterday's news froth Pitis i would have been counted insane. He would have been thotight all the madder if he had prophesied that on the same day which saw Paris almost wiped ' out of our journals they would have contained ail announcement of the entry of the Italian troops nto Rome; and the surrender of the Pope. •" What, Italy seize upon Rome and France have nc;thiiit; to say to it ! Could any thing be more extravagantly insane D' Nevertheless, all this hashappenekand the strangest thing abodt it is that the news which we have received has almost ceased to produce any excitement by reaion of the news which we have not received. Three months ago the events in Italy would have been set forth in the biggest of capitals. Now letters of moderate size are thought large enough to announce it. An event so tremendous as the downfall of the temporal power has almost lost its interest by reason of those still more tremendous events which have preceded it, and which may follow it. To-day, however, the expectation is that these events will not follow. We are now hopeful of peace. Evert the fresh bloodshed which this morning's papers announce — the defeat of General Vitioy—is hailed as an incident that will tend to hasten the end of the wars There are urgent reasons why it should end. Not only is the bombardment of Paris an event which the World would deplore, which even the besiegers would lament ; but there is even a more cogent cause for termi nating hostilities. It is no secret that the political con dition of Paris excites great alarm. The Reds have shewn themselves in force. Most of them are armed. It would be a terrible thing if the parallel between September, 1870, and September, 1792, so close in these respects were to be rendered still more close by another "September massacre." It would be most lamentable if the history of the Second Republic were to be repeated in that of the Third, and June 1848 were to be acted over again in Sep tember or October 1870. Did your readers note the strange appropriateness of last Sunday's first Lessons to the great events on the Con tinent? They could scarcely have failed to do so. Mar vellous was the coincidence between the position of Jeru ralem as described in Jeremiah v. and that of Paris now. Still more marvellous the parallel in Jeremiah xxii. be tween Shallum and Napoleon, between the captive king taken away to a foreign land and Napoleon a prisoner in Germany ; or again, between the latter and Coniah " cast out, he and his seed cast into a land which they know not." The course which events have taken in France sorely puzzles extreme politicians in this country. The high Tory Standard, which was frantically French so long as Napoleon was on the throne, inspired therein by Lord Malmesbury, finds itself now greatly divided between its philo-Gallicanism and its anti-Republicanism. It detests Jules Favre and all his associates, but cannot give vent to its hatred lest it should seem to be favouring the still more detested King William and Count Bismarck. On the other hand English Radicals of the Odger stamp find themselves so enamoured of the new Republic that they are forgetting all about the origin of the war, and are now assuming that France is its innocent victim instead of its guilty originator. Happy they who can keep their minds clear of party politics, and read the lesson of this great conflict without the aid of spectacles " blue " or " red." It is to the credit of Englishmen that they will not allow themselves to be partizans in their aid to the victims of the war. Yesterday a strange sight might have been seen in busy London. The spacious churchyard of St. Martin's-in-the Fields, Trafalgar-square,. was filled with bales, and boxes, and casks, which were being corded, packed, and labelled by a little army of porters. All the goods were marked with a red cross, and on reading the addresses I noticed that some were in the ordinary Italian handwriting which we English use, some in the Gothic characters which Ger mans adopt. The goods were bound to various destinations some to Belgium, some to France, some to Germany, Bouillon, Pont-h-Mousson, Coblentz, as the case might be ; but all were intended for the same holy object—all, whether bandages, disinfecting powder, or clothing, were destined for the relief of both the nations who have been made the victims of this most unholy war. I rejoiced to see these packages. It cannot he denied that during the last week or two suspicion has been growing up that the money contributions are likely to be overdone, and to share the disastrous fate which has befallen that most grievously mad-administered charity, the Royal Patriotic Fund. Tre idea has got about that it is intended to es tablish a permanent fund for future wars, to be devoured in the interval by an army of clerks and secretaries, and " honorary " commissioners with handsome salaries, and all bent upon the object of not expending upon proper claimants the funds entrusted to them. It is to be hoped that Colonel Loyd-Lindsay will be able to dissipate this idea. At the same time he should declare if the money now so liberally subscribed be not applicable to the relief of starvation as well as of wounds and sickness. The sums so freely spent on costly daily advertiiements in several London papers would go a long way to supply the needs of the unfortunate peasants of Eastern and Northern France, who have lost everything. Among the ladies who have so nobly gone in person to the relief of the sick and the wounded in the war is Miss Kingsley, daughter of the canon and novelist. She received a proper training in the Chester Infirmary, and is now gone to the' hospital at Bingen, on the Rhine, where a large number of sufferers are housed. When King George of Hanover was dethroned by King William of Prussia he started an " organ " in Paris in order to represent his interests and aid him in regaining his Crown. Jt was soon found that the journal was very costly and very ineffectual. It put countless crowns into the pockets of editor, publisher, and the rest of the staff, but it did absolutely nothing towards putting a crown upon the head of King George. Consequently, the journal in question was speedily discontinued. Someone, I know not who, though I daresay M. Pietri knows, has started a journal in London, in order to support the Bunapartes. I have a copy of it before me. It is called La Situation. *lt is a small . paper of four,pages, each con taining four columns, is well printed in large type, ands the price is announced as " un penny." La Situation centains some tolerably smart writing, and among othe things puts the following question, referring to a s ubject that appears to have altogether escaped public a ttentio he n. \vi m ; has become of General Changarnier ? When t EepUbligau Gene r a l j oined Na p oleon at Metz the Left thought that . 61.7 fortunes , w hi c h ,'',ad befallen the French aria. had found a panacea for all t he rals- Since Grarelntie an d ti edan we have heard nothing patriot. of this distinguished &oldie. have done very rat Wherever he is he does not seem t 4; o hope for betternt for Frande, What reason is there 1,, --yatriot. Where is things from his friends of the Provisional G°ver r on e ist than we have had from himself, asks the little Nac ° .. e er journal ? Perhaps La Situation will have a longer 4t than its Hanoverian inspired contemporarY% all events there must be vastly more Frenchraen London to read it than there ever were Germans in rari 9 since 1815. London streets swarm with the Gauls, er '' . ster pecially Regent-street and the parts about Lei° sqUare. As for the London cabbies, they are ra04111,5 fortunes out of the purses of the prosperous, but tim/01,", Paris bourgeois who have fled hither, and who, have 116 : . yet learnt the mysteries of that wonderful coinage , whie l they Must imagine was devised for the expr ss purP°se° fleecing unhappy foreigners: I grieve to say that Lady Herbert of Lea is volt seriously ill, and her condition causes great anxiety was on this account deemed necessary to keep from he r , the news of the foundering of the Captain with he r secellu son on board. The Illtletrated London News of Saturcl a Y will have portraits of Captaid P 'irgoyne and Captain ColeS, and also an engraving of their ill-fated ship. Lovers of nittsio will be glad to hen that the dang,hte` of Jenny Lind, though still too young to appear in Pub lic ' has already given proof that she inherits her mother 5 talent. Indeed, a well-known musician, Mr. Lam' gives it as his opinion after hearing' Miss Goldsclu ili ' v that the daughter's voice surpasses the mother's. While beautiful Paris is preparing to blow itself up in the event of its being captured, ugly London is stenagY im proving and decorating itself. Within the last fe' weeks asphalt has been laid down in several of the prilY cipal streets with the result of giving us a noiseless* cleanly, and firm treading road instead of the deafen' ing, filthy, and slippery stones that we 113°° _, had to endure. The experiment was first trio in Threadneedle-street, and with such suc cess that it has been adopted in Holborn and other ixuportallt thoroughfares. Another great improvement will shortly be revealed to Londoners. Wayfarer); along the Thames , embankment have noticed a wooden paling on the Orb.' side, which was evidently only a temporary structure. Behind it there has, within the last few days, be en laid out a miniature park with grassplots and gravel This will soon be thrown open, and make still mere en. joyable one of the noblest promenades in the world. Spending a few hours at Malvern, where, by the WV I was nearly devoured by midges, who covered one like the coal dust that one collects in a r ail ; way journey on a dry day through the midi'''. counties I found a considerable gathering of eccles l3s : tical dignitaries. The Bishop of London and his fatt 4ll were climbing the hills like ordinary persons. A 13°4 church was opened near Malvern on Tuesday, and ti le ' Bishops of Worcester and Exeter were the preachers'. Travelling on to Worcester I found the place redolent a hops. Hops were here, there, and everywhere, and eve r ' the town hall was crammed with them. The repairs of the cathedral are approaching completion. The new windows are a vast improvement. At Salisbury I found, a few ( 1391 before, a forest of scaffolding, and the work of restoration very little Wore than begun. The restoration of t he choir is to be a memorial to the late Bishop, Pr. Hamilton. Never do I remember literature so dull as it is now. I C° new books are coming out. There are plenty written,' but the publishers say that it is useless to publish the M' I think they- are right, for I hear on all hands ev er) : one saying that for the last two months they have rev uothing but the newspapers. The result is that Purel/ literary papers, like the Athenceum, have shrunk wonder: fully, and their advertising pages are reduced to the loos' minimum since the Russian war. Cffu t trtglar, HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL ? SEPT. 20. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise .Ina Penc e Arthur, and attended by Lady Churchill, went 1.717 tQ "- Dhu Loch, The Marchioness of Ely has arrived at Balmoral. PROMOTION AND RETIREMENT IN Tfl° ORDNANCE CORPd. The report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Pr ° ‘ motion and retirement of the officers of the Ordnailef' Corps has just appeared among the Parliamentary 13 1 Books. The basis of their inquiry was twofold, 1. "r l J 3t fixed annual sum for retired full pay should be aboli sil , o e r o prospectively. 2. That retirement of regimental OWL °f not being general officers be compulsory at the ag° . 0 sixty, on A 1660 a year. The points on which they w e required to report were the expediency of adopting eel l r pulsory periods of age or service for retiremel' i : The expediency of permitting optional retirenow; the cost of the measure and its bearing on other arms the service. The committee, after a long and careff; investigation, arrive at the conclusion that compuls°"], retirement is inexpedient in itself, and that its adoption o' not needed in the case of either Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers. As to the expediency ", . permitting optional retirement, they approve it, and think the general interests of the cisorP' would be best served by the retirement of the Colonel', who are superannuated at 60 y e a r s of age t o a Reserve"' List with a right to future promotion, but as they recour; mend the immediate abolition of th e re ti r i ng pensions °J . £6OO a year under the existing system, they are of opilll oll that the superannuated Colonels should have th option of taking the pension or going on the Reserve List. The Bishop of Manchester on Wednesday con° 43 ; crated the new church of St. James the Less, Grea t Ancoats. His lordship expressed an opinion that in SOT: respects it was a noble aim for 'a man to desire to Inn money, if only he did it honestly, and with the object o spending it patriotically; and he rejoiced that in Lan' cashire as much or more of that high spirit existed tlia: probably in any other part of England. The clinr e f will seat 654 persons, and has been erected at a cost ° £2,500. THE POPE.—From R ome we h ear th a t o n til e ' Feast of the Nativity of O ur L a dy th e P ope wen t to 00 . Church of Santa Maria del Popolo, at ten o'clock, and iu full state, preceded by his cross-bearer on the white Wl le used on occasions of gala, and accompanied by the Car: dinals the Senate, and th e Bi s h o p s res id en t. Hi s Haine s ' looked well and full of courage and confidence, and it 1 0 4 , noticed during the High Mass at which h e ass isted the he looked upward frequently and appeared to be speaki ps ,,, rapidly in a low voice and with remarkable earnestness, if conversing conversing with some unseen presence. On leaving entering the church he was most warmly acclaimed 13 1 the crowd. —Church Herald. THE CITY OF RAGUSA.—Letters received ill Liverpool on Wednesday state that the little boat, City Ragusa, about two tons burden, had arrived safely 9 'v Boston, after a most daring and adventurous voyage from Liverpool. The little vessel left Liverpool in June t asty and after putting into Holyhead and Queenstown make some necessaryrepairs, left towards the end of 0 :: month for New York. Captain Buckley, in a lett er ,. which reached Liverpool on Wednesday from Boston, saY S A " God be thanked for our safety d ur i ng a har d and trying time. I am in gobd health, an never was in better spirits." The City of Ragusa reache d Boston on the Bth instant, and h e r lo g w h e n Plw e lished will probably be a most interesting Ong' The greatest number of miles made in one day was 0. 7, the least 11 ; the average speed being four knots per hoer, The original destination of the " City " was N e w York but, as she was leeking badly, she put into Boston fo r repairs. RETURN OF MR. LAMONT'S ARCTIC EXPE- 1) 1 ' TION.—The Diana arrived at Dundee on Monday, all Ne u ' five days from the coast of Norway. Mr. Lemont's inters' tion during the past season was to test the practicabili t y of penetrating into the unknown regions of the far north by way of Novaya Zembya ; but an immense accunl" lation of unusually heavy drift ice encumbered the western shores of that country up to the end of June, and in forcing her way through this, the Diana had the 11215 , - , fortune to carry away one blade of her propeller, as we as to consume such a quantity of her coal as to render any further attempt at exploration in a northern direction inads isable ; and Mr, Lamont therefore devoted the remainder of the summer to hunting the walrus, the Polar bear, and the reindeer on the coast of Novaya Zembya and in the Kara Sea, which lies between that island and the estuaries of the great Siberian rivers O bi and Yenissei. We understand that Mr. Lamont ba° brought home many curious specimens of geology an natural history, as well as a most accurate and valuable series of barometrical and thermometrical observation s, tending to elucidate the set of the currents in the north-eastern part of the Arctic Ocean. —Dundee 461- vertiser, ~_ _ SI LA 2 00 Ti fallk whiel At ploy € I nSigi tak et dead aeellt T 1 3'esti Plan upon ' 0 tl Kiera And Title dray Putt uPoi hith 11 1 3 01 E C