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WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith, W.—FUNDS are urgently needed, and the Committee earneli l lY appeal to the benevolent to assist them in carrying on jieir useful work. T. ALEXANDER, Sec. and Sup. CSAVIOUR'S HOSPITAL and REFUGE, Alfred-terrace, Upper Holloway, N.—This In s tit u ti on ' affords a Refuge for Women seeking to abandon a life of sin, especially those about to become mothers, and provides a Home for the Children of such. FUNDS are very urgently NEEDED. Bankers, ndon and South Western (Holloway Branch). HUGH R. GOUGH, Hoa. see. THE LATES I E ) ITION of "TB E SUN" supo,ed as soon as published, eontaiuing all the LATEST NEWS t.nd SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H W. HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Hta.ektriars-road London. EMOSES and SON, • CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. TEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER of HART-STRE3T. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. B RADFORD, YORKSHIRE. L - 1 MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of E • G ENTLE: EN'S CLOTHING. Frock toats. Also at other prices. t -- 1 MOSE! • that the quality, and the is considerably c ho ise in Englani S and SON bea to remind the public cheapness of an article depends entirely on its ly venture to affirm that every article sold by them cheaper than what, can be obtained at any other rU .4 MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of . GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED: Summer Tourist Summer Dress Suits. Suits. Trousers. Trousers. 245. 245. 10s. 6d. 15s. 28s. 28s. 12s. 6d. 16s. 6d. 365. 365. 14s. 18s. 40s. 425. 15s. 6d. 21s. 455. -48 s. 17s. 6d. 245. 555. 525. 20s. 265. Also at Also at Also at Also at other prices. other prices. other prices. other prices ORDERS punctual measure introd guarantee a fat E MOSES and SON'S PRICE LI. Tof .12J. BOYS' CLOTHING : Knickerbocker Suits. Brighton Suits. Os. 6d. 13s. 6d 16s. 6d, by post are attended to with care and lity, and the easy and accurate system of self- Mced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to iltless fit. Harrow Suits. 19s. . 235. I 235. 21s. 265. 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A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can not fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manu facturer, Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, is. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and Ns. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd. An Um bilical Truss, 425. and 625. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly, NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases 01 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 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. — JNO. CIONELL and CO. have at length, - with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s each also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15e. each, nclud ng brush. Bed Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, f 3, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.O. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness,protects the enamel from , lecay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price lb. dd Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London. /11HORLEY'S HORSE and CATTLE SPICE, j_ In Penny Pack ets only, of all Corn Chandlers in London, and Of all Grocers, Druggists, and Corn Dealers in the Country. NATIONAL INSTITUTION for DISEASES of the SKIN, Gray's-inn-road and Mitre-street. Physi cian, Dr. BARR MEADOWS, 49, Dover-street, Piccadilly. Ave rage number of Patients under treatment, 1,000 weekly. Free letters are available for necessitous applicants. THOMAS ROBINSON, Hon. Sec. 110SPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT, Golden-square, W. President—the Right Hon. the Earl of STRAFFORD, F.R.S. This Hospital has relieved upwards of 24,000 patients since its foundation, and is in great NEED of FUNDS to meet the heavy current expenses. EDMUND WYLD, Secretary. Dress Oxford C)at3. Coats. 30s. 21s. 355. 265, 425. 30s. 50s. 365. Also at Also at Also at other prices. other prices lother prices Eton Suits. 1- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 87u. MA DAME TUSS AUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER STREET. On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial ; King William of Prussia, and Count von Bismarck. Admission, Is.; Children underlo years of age, 6d. Napoleon Rooms 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. PRINCE OF WALES'S—A 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. QMEEN'S—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Axe and Crown. VAUDEVILLE —Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 ; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily (except Sun days). Admission, ls. on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. MADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls.; extra 6d. BREECH-LOADERS IN STORE. One of the last utterances of Mr. Cardwell in the House of Commons was in reply to a question re garding our stock of breech-loaders. It will be re membered that it was then stated that. there were 300,000 Sniders ready, and that they could be issued at a moment's notice. Acting on this state ment, Lord Elcho a few days ago addressed a letter to the commanding officers of the Metropolitan Volun teers, in which he recommended that the immediate arming of the Volunteers with breech-loaders should be made a condition of continued service. Lord Elcho having talked the matter over with the Secre tary of State, has thought fit to modify his ad vice, as he now feels satisfied that the stock of Snider rifles in store would not justify the imme diate arming of the 150,000 efficient Volunteers. He states that of the 300,000 breech - loaders in store about 100,000 are required to meet pressing demands, and of the remaining 200,000 a considerable portion is in Canada. Lord Elcho may have the best of reasons for modifying his advice to the vcduuteers but the statement of Mr. Cardwell to the House of Commons must have been erroneous. Of what possible use can several thou sand rifles in Canada be to the people of England in case of war with a European Power ? It is satisfactory to learn, however, that every effort is being made to increase the supply of Snider rifles. THE WAR-SHIP OF THE FUTURE. Admiral Sartorius is indefatigable in his advo cacy of ram war-ships. An objection having been made that rams would be liable to injury owing to the momentum of power used, the Admiral retorts that the point has been settled by cases already men tioned, where three of these formidable ships sunk some of the most powerful men-of-war, without sus taining any injury to themselves. A more recent example has taken place at Cherbourg., where a ram going into that port struck against a large ship, and so serious was the damage that the vessel had to be docked. This occurred, too, when the ram was going at a very slow speed—not more than two knots. Admiral Sartorius states that if the object receiving the blow is at rest the ram backs the moment the blow is given, and has no difficulty in disengaging itself. On the other hand, if the ship struck be in motion, the onward motion would materially aid the ram in freeing itsel4 and this would be completed by the backing of the ram's engines. THE REPUBLICANS AND THE PRUSSIANS. Improbable as the idea seems, the Parisians are firmly convinced that the Irreconcilables have allied themselN es to the Prussians with the view of bringing about a revolution in France. Our Paris correspondent says that a paper found on a Prussian spy, arrested at Metz, contained a full plan of the scheme by which the Revolutionary party were to set to work in Paris with the aid of Prussian agents. But more evidence must be forth coming before credence can be given to such designs. It would be unjust to the Irreconcil ables (there is such a thing as injustice to Irrecon cilables), to accuse them hastily of leaguing with their country's enemies. Aud much as the Prussian Government dislike Napoleon, they dislike Revolu tionists more. Bismarck must be very hard up for offensive weapons before he takes to overthrowing Napoleon by setting up a Red Republic in his stead. A FRENCHMAN'S WARNING TO THE EMPEROR. It is to be hoped that the Emperor Napoleon and his principal generals before they opened the present war had the opportunity of reading the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne's interesting account of the manner in which the French lost Waterloo. It would seem, however, that if the Emporor or his generals have perused the book, the words of warn ing uttered by the Prince to the French military authorities are being allowed to fade unheeded from their memories. Prince Edouard de la Tour d'Avergne declares in hip work that the battle of Mont St. Jetta as the French call that of Waterloo, was lost through Marshal Grouchy, to whom had been confided the right wing of the French army with strict orders to keep it concentrated between the Prussian forces and the Duke of Wellington. On the 16th, 17th, and 18th of June, 1815, this officer really seemed, according to his historian, to have either lost his head or concocted most disgraceful lies. For while writing on these critical days to Napoleon to say that he had all his divisions safe and in position, the latter were all parted asunder, and two divisions were separated a long distance from the third. The result of this bad generalship was that when Blficher's army was allowed to approach from St. Lambert 30,000 strong, upon a field where about equal numbers were already hotly engaged, the French were vanquished, as all the world has known and talked about for fifty years. GENERAL FEELING AFTER DEFEATS IN WAR. Speculative minds have already begun to wonder in what manner the French will act, if the last battle of the war in which they are now engaged should result adversely to their arms. In influential German quarters there is a strong conviction that the war will be over in less than a fortnight, and that the Germans at that time will make terms with the French Government, or with the central authority in Paris, but not with the Emperor him self. Of course, if the Emperor is to abdicate, or to withdraw in any other way from the throne, the difficulty of explaining the feelings of the French at the sore crisis is woefully enlarged, but merely considering how Frenchmen will think upon the subject of general defeat, is a question, perhaps, which will not be a hard one to solve. France, it is believed, still boasts the community described by Goldsmith— " Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease, Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please ; " and arguing upon the truth ot this couplet, remember ing the well-known fact that after the occupation of Paris in 1815 the cheerfulness of the Parisians soon dispelled the gloom of the hostile invasion, and gave way to thoughts of a better civilization and dream of progress and development, one is forced to consider that resignation will soon ensue. After great defeats in all countries, it is said that the method of reasoning is something like that of railway com panies and owners of collieries, who show that, when a fatality occurs, it has come in spite of every precaution that human ingenuity could suggest for obviating that very mishap. The lively French have been known to waste less time in brooding over their cares and sorrows than any other nation in the world, and it is therefore probable that they will, after trial, the more immediately all become like railway directors or colliery proprietors. AFFAIRS IN ITALY. Matters still wear a threatening aspect in Rome. The iVazione, a Florence paper, denies, through its Berlin correspondent, that Prussia intended to do more than ensure the spiritual rights and indepen dent action of the Pope. How Euch independence could coexist with the occupation of Rome, either by Garibaldians or by regular Italian troops, it does not define. Our special correspondent in Rome states that since tne delivery of the Prussian note, the Italian troops which were concentrated on the Roman frontier are hastening back to North and Central Italy. The Italian Government has nearly 350,000 men on foot—an enormous expense which per plexes the public. An attack on the old debateable land of Lombardy and Venetia by Austria has been suggested as the clue, while the rumour we have already mentioned gains ground that Lorraine, should Prussia be victorious, will be raised; into an inde pendent member of the North German Confedera tion under the rule of the deposed Grand Duke of Tuscany. Garibaldi is incapacitated by rheumatism and cannot even sign his letters, and the Garibaldian excitement has subsided, but our correspondent asserts that a terrible republican outbreak in Italy may be looked for should the revolutionary party triumph in France. A report was current in Rome a day or two since that the Italian forces encamped on the Neapolitan frontier were under orders to march on Rome very shortly. It was also said that the Catholic French Committee in Rome, foreseeing the probability of an Italian occupation, have lodged a large sum with their bankers at Marseilles to assist the return of all French subjects in the Zouaves should the Papal army be disbanded. The Pope, however, is believed to be resolved to try the fortune of war, should events turn against him, or any of his adversaries attack his capital. EFFECTS OF THE EUROPEAN CONFLICT. The New York Herald takes a comprehensive view ofthe Franco-Prussian strugule, and considers it a disgrace to our modern civilization that two such nations should so unjustifiably go to war. How much nobler it would have been for two such countries to have joined hands and put forth their combined strength to advance the reign of universal peace ! The only consolation to be found in the affair is that the war may turn to the advantage of the people against the dynasties. Should Germany prove victorious she will hardly rest satisfied with mere unity, but will become im patient of monarchy, and gravitate towards a Republican form of Government. Should Napoleon be conquered it is difficult to say what he will do, but France will not be inclined to submit to any Bonaparte. If he should proclaim a Republic and leave it to France to decide her own destinies, defeat after all might prove an actual gain for the country. Whatever may be the result of the war it will in all probability advance the popular cause, and shake the foundations of thrones all over the world. The American journal believes that when it has ended it will not be so difficult to see in the far distance the "parliament of man and the federation of the world." This war will not have been , wholly in vain should it hasten on this desirable consummation. ART IN WAR TIME. The opening of the Art Exhibition at Bradford in the midst of the convulsions of the Continent has served to illustrate the fortunate isolation of the Eng lish people from the tumults of war, however keen may be their interest in the subject. In the course of the address delivered by Lord Frederick Cavendish at the inauguration, he remarked upon the apparent incongruity of art and war. Twenty years ago the great Exhibition was opened in the midst of univer sal hopes that wars were dying out between the great civilised nations, and that the rivalry of the future was to be between the arts of industry. Such hopes have proved at least premature; but the speaker reminded his hearers that they were not without their value. Exhibitions of art and industry have been going on steadily ever since 18M, and have been doing their work among the people. Lord Frederick humorously told his hearers that he knew by the absence of pictures from his own house that three art exhibitions were at this moment going on in different parts of England. The promoters were, he thought, wise not to allow their programme to be disarianged by the war, for while the Government and the people were alike resolved that the country should be strong enough to maintain its honour and its material interests, it was right that this people, confident in its strength, and confident in Providence, should not suffer its educational work to be stopped. If Brituin were called to arms she would be all the stronger for this work. We have seen in the last few years what it is for a country to trust to its army alone. Austria was defeated in six weeks, and a military despotism nearer hand has proved but a broken reed in time of danger, while an educated people like the Germans have shewn them selves to be strong in their education, and strong in their patriotism. Lord Frederick evidently accepts the truth of Lord Brougham's dictum that education makes a people " easy to lead but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave," reason enough perhaps for the dislike manifested towards it by despots of all countries. WATER SUPPLY IN CATTLE MARKETS. The prevailing heat this season must make the most unsympathetic mortals feel for the sufferings of the tired and thirsty animals who stand under the burning sunshine in our market places, when their wants are brought before them. It may easily be believed, however, that with the unfortunate habit most of us have of forgetting that the lower orders of creation have the same physical wants, if not the same mental endowments, as ourselves, the ordinary supply of water in our market places is very in sufficient. It might, be supposed that instead of being as cheap and plentiful as it is amongst us, water was always as scarce in England as it has been recently in Central France, forit is only comparatively lately that drinking fountains have enabled men to quench their thirst in the streets and highways. As a natural consequence heated and thirsty wayfarers took refuge in the public house, but cattle, sheep, dogs, and horses, wiser in this respect at least than their reasoning masters, would not do so if they could. There is no resource fbr them but to pant and droop under the sunbeams, while the water for which they long is denied them. In the case of cattle and sheep exposed in open markets, perhaps, for many consecutive hours, the remedy is easily found, while the want is very pressing. The Rev. Mr. Morris, of Hayton, York, points out that in York market, through which 7,000 beasts and 80,000 sheep sometimes pass in a clay, there are but three small troughs, though the cost of water at York is only 6d. per 1,000 gallons. A. few troughs might surely be run up at very little expense, providing at the same time for the faithful and indefatigable colley dogs. Other markets less carefully planned and managed than the one at York are probably still worse off. Surely this is a matter which our pro vincial reformers might spare a little time and trouble to look into. THE DROUGHT IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. The Bostcn Advertiser says that the probable extent of the foreign demand for American breadstuffs may be estimated from the reports that have reached the States of the drought in Europe. In Great Britain four-fifths of the hay crop of the year are lost. The illustrated papers have shewn the consequences of the drought in France, and furnished pictures of burning, forests and ineffectual attempts to extin guish the flames. The extent of the diminution of wheat in the two countries must be arrived at approximately. The severe drought must have affected spring-sown wheat, and the enormous loss in hay must be made up by a resort to grain for feeding cattle. The drought which afflicted the Atlantic States last summer was very injurious to grass fields. The hay crop of the United States is derived from a belt of country of four or five hundred miles in width, but by many its value is put in comparison with the crops of cotton, so that a small percentage of deterioration has a powerful influence. The loss in the hay crop of France is important, as indicating the damage to wheat, probably one-fourth ; while the loss of the hay crop in England amounts to a calamity. Between the harvests of 1870 and 1871 England will probably require ninety million bushels of wheat, to be supplied by the whole world, and France will require at least fifty million bushels. The Boston Advertiser laments that the Americans lose the advantages which might be derived from the war from the want of such Congressional legislation as would enable their people to compete for the carry ing trade on a sound footing. THE FESTIVAL OF JUGGERNAUT. In spite of the Indian Government, the Hindoo fanatics still contrive to keep alive the strangest of all idolatrous festivals, and human life is sacrificed in order that Vishnu may be propitiated. At the annual festival at Hurripal, which contains a shrine dedi cated to the legendary god, an accident occurred to the car when in a narrow road, and the result was the crushing of three people to death. Another case occurred at the festival in Serampore, when four people either threw themselves, or were thrown by others, under the car A. letter written by an on looker states that the crowd at Serampore was un usually small save on the last clay, when the cars re turned to the temple. The superstitious belief that eternal bliss will be secured to those who sacrifice themselves to the mighty Juggernaut can only be eradicated by the spread of education among the Hindoo women, who have always been the chief victims. ht ... Al* --: varmlin c ur t ... .„,tc, ,!!„, , HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, AUG. 18. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leo• pold, and Princess Beatrice, arrived at Balmoral at half past three o'clock this afternoon. The suite in attendance consisted of Lady Churchill, the Hon. Mary Lascelles, Sir Thomas Biddulph, Sir William Jenner, Colonel Maude, Lieutenant Pickard, Mr. Sall, and Dr. Poore. THE WINNER OF THE QUEEN'S PRIZE. The shooting for the Queen's Prize at Shoeburyness closed yesterday morning. The winners were the first detach ment of 3rd Middlesex, who made four direct hits and one ricochet in the five rounds, being the score of 34 made on Thursday evening. The practice was made with a 40-pounder Armstrong breech-loader at a twelve foot target at 1,500 and 2,000 yards fired at alternately. A LARGE PURCHASE OF PORT. —Several rumours, none 'of which have stated the real facts, have been floating about the market lately about a sale of •considerable magnitude of rare old ports, the growth of the late Baron Seixo, whose lodge at Villa Nova contained 2,500 pipes of, port at the time of his death. In order to give our readers the facts of the case, we made inquiries of the buyers, Messrs. W. and A. GILBEY to ascertain the full extent of their purchase. We are in formed that they had bought of the trustees of the late Baron Seixo, 1,225 pipes of port, consisting of about equal proportions of 1834'5, 1840's, 1847'5, 1858's, and 1863 vintages, part of wtlich has already arrived, and the re mainder is being shipped.— Wine Trade Review. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The number of visitors yesterday (Friday) was 6,144. An order has been forwarded to Devonport to bring forward immediately all the ironclads now at that dockyard, including the Iron Duke, the Audacious, the Hotspur, the Invincible, and th e V anguar d. - W estern Morning' News. Lord Dunglas, son of the Earl of Home, and heir to the title and ancestral estates in Lanarkshire, Ren frewshire, and elsewhere, was married on Th urs d a y t o Miss Grey, daughter of Captain Grey, R.N., and niece of Sir George Grey. The Civil Service Commissioners have issued the regulations for the competitive examinations by which in future persons are to be selected for temporary employ ment as writers, thereby saving a large expenditure for highly paid officials who are engaged in mere clerks' duties. It has been asserted that Count Benedetti has been in England, on an important mission, because he was among the passengers from Dover to Calais a few nights ago. This rumour is founded on the fact that a son of the count's has just returned to France to take arms in the Garde Mobile. The five hundred men required to augment the strength of the Army Service Corps have been readily obtained in a week, and are now hard at work on the parade ground learning their setting-up drill. It is ex pected that an order for the raising of another 500 men will be issued in a few days. The Admiralty have directed that in future the en gineer students at Chatham Dockyard who may lose any time during their period of six years' servitude are to make up the time thus lost before they will be granted their certificates to enable them to be appointed assistant-en gineers in the Royal Navy. TRADE IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND.-Sir Peter Tait has again received very extensive contracts, and at the present time a large number of operatives are kept constantly employed in his factory at Boherbuoy. This intelligence leads the Limerick Chronicle to tell the opera tives of that city that there is now ample employment for every female who is anxious and able to earn her living. One of the results of the war can hardly have been looked for—namely, an increase in the demand for silk products. The Standard says that all the workshops'of Lyons and Roanne have been invited to furnish large quantities of silk gauze for the manufacture of cartridges, the preparation of which has not slackened, notwith standing the supply of 125 millions now in store. The experiments, at Chatham, with the new pon toon, the, invention of Lieuteuant Blood, of the B Troop of Mounted Engineers, having been so successful, the authorities have directed that eighty boats (four bridges) are to be immediately made. For this purpose a number of artisans belonging to the Corps of Engineers have been set to work to make them. The Board of Trade has received a report from one of the crew of the British ship Elizabeth Fleming, twenty-seven tons, which was burned in lat. 39 N., lon. 16 W. After the fire had raged for a time all hands took to the boats, and remained by the ship all night. At daylight they shaped their course for Madeira, and were picked up by the ship Jerusalem, of Aberdeen, for Mel bourne, which took them to about fifteen miles off Madeira, where they again took to their boats. They reached Funchal on July 17. On the 12th of March last the American ship China, Silas Weeks master, whilst on a voyage from New Orleans to Liverpool, fell in with the British ship C. C. Horton, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, bound from London to Boston, and in a sinking condition. After laying by her for some time the China succeeded in receiving all hands (20 in number) on board her and landed them at Liverpool on the 24th of March, during which time the rescued persons were very kindly treated. In recognition of these services the Board of Trade have awarded Captain Silas Weeks a binocular glass. THI: VOLUNTEERS AND THE BREECH LOADERS. —Lord Elcho has written a letter to the London papers, in which he says that since he recommended the immediate arming of the volunteers with the Snider he has thought the matter over with Mr. Cardwell, and has been satisfied that, though there are 300,000 Sniders in store, 100,000 are required to meet the pressing wants of the army, navy, militia, and pensioners, and of the remaining quantity many are wanted for Canada. He is is assured, how ever , that in the event of volunteers being called out they would be armed with the Snider, and that, as it is, they will be served out gradually in time for the Queen's Prize next year to be shot for with breech-loaders. THE QUESTION OF MEDIATION.—Writing on the chances of mediation in the interest of peace between the powers now at war, the London correspondent of a Man chester paper says it is pretty certain that at this stage the Prussians would demand not only a pecuniary indem nity, but a cession of territory. Those in favour of mediation forget that though the French army has been very hard hit, the strain on the strength and resources of the French nation has not yet been half so great as on the German side. From all we hear it is evident that the tremendous efforts already made by the Germans —particularly the Prussians—will be felt for years. All business is at a standstill—society is disorganised, and in many places the marks will be visible for the lifetime of the present generation. It is this which has enabled them to strike such tremendous blows at their adversaries. THE HOME SECRETARY. A writer in the Manchester Courier . says :—" There is an impression abroad that Mr. Bruce is to retire from the Home Office where he will be succeeded by Mr. Forster. It is so obvious a change, and so much demanded in the public interest, that it is pretty sure not to come to pass. Even the ministerial prints allow Mr. Bruce to be a failure both in Parliament and at the Home Office, though they console themselves with the reflection that he is the only failure. Cer tainly he is the biggest failure, though everybody con cerned in or acquainted with military affai rs w ill t e ll y ou that Mr. Cardwell is infinitely a more costly one for the country. The truth is Mr. Bruce ought never to have been placed in so responsible a position. An Under- Secretaryship was the full extent of his calibre, and even his friends were doubtful whether he had the temper, the accuteness or the firmness for a big place like the Home office. His career there has been a constant succession of failures. He has promised more measures and withdrawn more than any of his predecessors within my memory." [ADVERTISEMENT.] -- Holloway ' s Ointment and Pills Diseases of the Chest.—The daily increase of deaths from these causes is positively appalling. During the last three weeks from the hot days and chilly nights many aged and delicate persons have died of bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, and other chest complaints perfectly reme diable at their outset. Let no one afflicted in the chest hesitate for a moment to use Holloway's potent remedies. Properly used, they will mitigate each symptom, and avert those disastrous consequences, now grievously noted by the Registrar-General. Rub the Ointment thoroughly over the chest at least three times a day, and take the pills exactly according to the printed instructions affixed to each box and pot. Immediate relief and permanent cure will result. Camb. Coats. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ............34 after 7 I Afternoon ........ 1 after 8 f.5.' vUlt EVENING EDITION. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1870. MARSHAL BAZAINE makes it a rule not to divulge any of his movements until some time after they have taken place, for fear of informing the enemy. To this practice it is not for outsiders to take excep tion; but one trifle of information could hardly do any harm at present, and it would immensely relieve the mind of the anxious French nation. He should just inform the world where' he is. This knowledge, under some circumstances, might be useful to the enemy ; but it is quite certain that, in this case, the Germans are fully acquainted with his where abouts, whereas Paris is suffering extreme agony because she does not know. The Germans claim to have cut off the retreat of BAZAINE'S army from Metz to Verdun, and to have driven it back into the former town. BAZAINE says his army, after the ter rible fight of Tuesday, encamped on the positions they had conquered. Where were those positions? The commander-in-chief does not tell us. Surely he cannot have been, as the Germans say, driven back into Metz. Such a retreat could not be atoned for by any extent of triumph in actual fight. If Marshal BAZAINE has been com pelled to fall back upon Metz, all is lost; the war must immediately be ended. Even if the Germans have fairly planted themselves between Metz and the line of retreat, the situation of the Imperial forces must be next to hopeless. Divided into two parts and separated by many miles, with the whole German host intervening, there would remain nothing for the French corps but defeat or surrender in detail. in fact, whilst the Marshal is claiming a victory, every impartial on-looker is wondering and doubting whether the beleaguered army has not sustained a hopeless strategical reverse. If BAZAINE will tell us where he is, that news will go far to clear up.this difficulty. He has told the French people a tale of triumph, but actually omitted to say where the conquerors spent the night after victory. THE appalling character of the war now raging in Lorraine beggars description. Armies ranging from 150,000 to 250,000 men contending separately with each other thirteen hours consecutively, from eight o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock in the evening—armed on the one side with the needle-gun and the gatling ordnance, on the other with the chassepot and the mitrailleuse— cause a destruction of human life and mutilation of the wounded, a variety of horror and an amount of agony beyond all precedent in the world's former experiences of war. It is the realisation at last of what has long been anticipated. With this disad vantage, however, that there would seem to be small prospect of the early arrival of the time, so often of late years looked forward to, when the weapons of battle should become so fearful in their destructiveness that the nations of the world would by mutual consent abolish, for once and for all, the supreme arbitrament of war—referring their quarrels thenceforth, that s, from the advent of that halcyon day, to peace ful arbitration. The implements of destruc tion have become more and more terrible in their character, but there seems no more prosper; that war will be foregone by kings or peoples than there was in the remote past, when arrows were shot from the yew bow, or stones hurled by the sling or the catapult. Again, it has often been argued that, with the perfecting of these modern arms of precision, there would, at any rate follow, almost by necessity, this consolatory result— that campaigns would be brief, and victory speedily gained on the one side or the other. As a startling comment upon this must illusory anticipa tion, the very war which has recently brought France and Prussia into deadly collision was announced as likely to be a long one in the Emperor NAPOLEON'S proclamation. A. single battle, as we have just now seen, to our horror, can last through thirteen hours altogether, although the belligerents are armed with instruments of war of the most fearfully destructive character well conceivable. The realisation of the . horrors of these terrible conflicts, the personal realisation of them by the individual rulers, of men at the potent beck of whose finger they are called into existence, it has often erroneously been sup posed would tend to secure the world from their repetition or recurrence. So entirely futile has been this fair promise that, strange to say, it has been related both of the King of PRUSSIA and of the EM PEROR of the FRENCH that, after riding over a battle-field the former in 1866, during the campaign closed at Sadowa, the latter in 1859, in the campaign closed at Solferino— each was so awe-stricken by the horror of the spec tacle then immediately brought under his observation, that both EMPEROR and KING declared they would have none of it in the future, that they would do their very uttermost to prevent the possibility of such deadly - miseries being again created and multiplied. Yet, in spite of that bitter lesson, here are these very two men, at the head of gigantic forces armed to the teeth, and deal ing destruction upon one another with all the re sources of the formidable sciences applied to the per fecting of the implethents and missiles of modern warfare ! War is sharper, but it is not shorter, as the world comforted itself by hoping it would prove to be. It is only more and more destructive, terrible, pitiless, and desolating in its Character. Further than ever, would we seem to be, from the halcyon epoch when the swords are to be beaten into ploughshares, and the spears into reaping hooks. Instead of that the metal is only welded into' deadlier shapes than ever, into rifled cannons and breech-loaders, into the needle gun and the chassepot, into the gatling and the mitrailleu se. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE IMPERIAL LAND COMPANY AND THE NATIONAL BANK. M. Eugene Lafitte, the original conductor of the busi ness now possessed by the Imperial Land Company of France, seems not to have enjoyed greater immunity from litigation than his successors ; for prior to the transfer of the undertaking to the existing campany he had various extensive monetary transactions with the National Bank, which -have resulted in Chancery proceedings during the last five years, and respecting which he has filed a new bill, the object being to attach a certain liability to Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P., Sir J. McKenna, and other directors of the bank. The suit has, of course, been hotly contested up to the present time, and M. Lafitte, finding that some of the allegationi in his original bill were founded on slightly inaccurate data, made an application yesterday before Mr. Allen, chief clerk in the chambers of Vice-Chancellor Bacon, for leave to amend the bill. To this an objection was raised on the ground that it was not, strictly speaking, vacation business. The Chief clerk intimated that he could not accede to the appli cation in consequence of the objections urged on the defendant's behalf ; but the plaintiff said that the matter was so urgent that he should feel bound to make an imme diate appeal to Vice-Chancellor Malins, in whose branch of the court the proceedings had beeninstituted. THE COMMERCIAL INDEMNITY CORPORATION. At the Mansion House yesterday the Hon. James Tobin, Andrew Clark, Josiah Robert Pearse, Philip Lincoln Carman, William Frederick Tritton, and Herbert Lloyd Thomas were again examined before the Lord Mayor on the charge of issuing a false prospectus relating to the affairs of the Commercial Indemnity Corporation of Great Britain, of which they were directors. Mr. George Lewis again appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. F. H. Lewis, Mr. Montagu Williams, and Mr. W. H. Roberts appeared for the defence. The corn ' pany, it may be remembered, commenced business in December last, and was ordered to be wound up in June. Liabilities had been incurred on policies to the extent of many thousand pounds, but there were no assets whatever, and it was alleged that a statement which appeared in the prospectus, that upwards of £70,000 worth of shares had been subscribed for, was entirely untrue. To-day the following additional evidence was given Mr. Abraham Judah Levi, printer, who was examined on the last occasion, was recalled, and stated that the company owed him £407. The large prospectus regarding a further issue of shares was printed at his office. There were ten thousand copies, and these were put in separate envelopes and delivered at the company's office. He knew . all the defendants, and had seen them at the office. of the company ; he had known Mr. Tobin, Mr. Tritton, and Mr. Thom as f or t wo or th ree y ears . After witness had filed a petition to wind up the company, Mr. Thomas and Mr. Pearse came to his office, and said they would have a meeting in a few days, and that they would do all in their power to settle his claim. On a subsequent occasion he attended at the company's office. The board was sitting specially. Mr. Braithwaite, the managing director, came out and spoke to him. Mr. F. H. Lewis objected to the statements of Braith waite being taken as evidence. Mr. G. Lewis said Braithwaite was one of the defen dants, and a co-conspirator. The Lord Mayor allowed the evidence. Examination continued : Braithwaite said the directors wen willing to give me bills of the company for my debt. I said I would take them if the directors put their names on the back, but they would not do that, and I therefore declined to take the bills, and the petition went on. In reply to the Lord Mayor, Mr. Lewis said if the directors had put their names on the bmk of the bills they would have been personally liable. Otherwise the company only would have been liable. Examination continued : I never got a farthing. Cross-examined by Mr. F. H. Lewis : I signed the articles of association. I had fifteen shares. 1 did not pay anything for them. They were given to me by Mr. Braithwaite, and from his statements I believed the com pany was a flourishing one. I received all my orders for printing from Braithwaite and Jenkins, the secretary. Pearse and Carman gave me no orders. By Mr. Williams : I believed the representations of Braithwaite. I had known him in other matters of busi ness. For a long time I had no reason to doubt his representations. lam no party to this prosecution, but I should like to get my money back. (Laughter.) I do riot expect to get any of it though. (Renewed laughter.) Mr. Henry Walter Wheeler : I am an accountant at Gresham Buildings. Under a voluntary liquidation I was appointed liquidator of the old company. I do not know of any landed estate which that company ever had. I have received nothing as assets of the old company and I have spent 3s. out of it. (Laughter). (Agreement produced by which the new company were to pay 30,000 shares for the good-will of the old company). Mr. Wheeler : I am unable to say whether the old company ever had more than five or six premiums. The new company was to pay the old 15s. of its premium income, but they had paid nothing. Mr. Lewis : It was stated in the agreement that the debts of the old company were £2,800. Who told you that ? Witness : Mr. Braithwaite. Mr. Lewis : Have the goodwill shares been handed to you, or to any nominees for you ?—Witness : No. Mr. Lewis : Has any proposition been made by the defendants to hand the shares to you ? Witness : No. Examination continued : I have handed the books of the old company to Mr. Parry, the liquidator of the new company. There was no other agreement but that re ferred to. In reference to the old company I have liqui dated nothing. (Laughter.) By Mr. F. H. Lewis : I was appointed liquidator by a resolution of the board. I think I got the appointment through Braithwaite. I knew from him it was only being liquidated for the purpose of forming a new one. I did not go into the affairs of old company as liquidator. I asked Braithwaite for the the books, but could not get them from him. The agreement was prepared by Mr. Agar in the interest of the old com pany. I did not know, as a fact, one way or the other, whether the debts were £2,800. The 30,Q00 shares were to be divided among the shareholders of the old com pany upon my nomination, but as a fact I did not know whether there were five or 30,000 shareholders. I signed the deed, believing the statements of Braith waite to be true, and believing myself to be acting as the intermediary between the old and the new company. I had known Braithwaite for five years. By Mr. Williams September 1869, I had a conver sation with Braithwaite in relation tot he formation of a new company. He said the old company could not suc ceed because it had not sufficient power to do ordinary fire business, and he said that complaints had been made on that head. Generally, he said, the thing was very pros perous so far, as they could do business, and he wished the establishment of a new Company, with powers to do the ordinary fire business, and with a new board of directors. He asked me if I knew of any persons that would act as directors and I told him I did not at that time. He said there were a good many shareholders, and that they were all to become shareholders of the new company. Subsequenty to that I had many interviews with him, and he told me it would be a very good co m p an y, an d that it would be worth any gentleman's while to become a director of it. He told me there were 9,710 shares fully paid up, and 20,000 with 2s. 6d. paid. I remember hearing something from Braithwaite about a landed estate in connection with the company. I remember Mr. Tritton calling at my office in November, 1869, and that during that inter view Mr. Jenkins, the secretary of the company, came in. Mr. Jenkins had the articles of the company-, and some one was si gn i ng th em, and I remarked to Mr. Tritton, " I think this will be a very good concern." I repeated the substance of what Mr. Braithwaite had told me, and Mr. Tritton then and there agreed to become a director, and signed the articles of association. Mr. Tritton had come in accidentally, and not by appointment. In the beginning of December Mr. Agar called with the prepared agreement between the two companies. I had not previously seen a draft of it. I signed the agreement, and I did so because Mr. Agar told me it was all correct and formal, and after I signed it he took it away with him, Some time after Mr. Tritton signed the agreement at my office. He asked me if it was all right, and I said, "Oh yes, I have already signed it." Mr. Jenkins was present. About the month of April, my suspicions having been aroused in consequence of my inability to get the books, I spoke to Mr. Tritton, , and asked him to look at the share list, and he promised to do so. In the following month Mr. Tritton ceased to be a director. £15,000 capi ta was to be called up from the shareholders of the old company. Mr. Thomas Martin, one of the firm of Messrs. Walker, Martin, and Cu. ship and i nsurance agents, Leadenhall street, said that he effected several insurances in the com pany, and that before doing so he was furnished with a number of small prospectuses, which he distributed among his clients. Mr. Daw, insurance agent, deposed to effecting in surances in the company to the amount of £B,OOO or £lO,OOO. His commission was 25 per cent. Mr. Parry, the official liquidator of the new company, said that the books of the old company were in his possession, and it appeared that the total amount of pre- - miums received by that company was £1 14s. lid., paid on two policies on the 7th and 9th April. 1869. One thousand six hundred and ninety shares were marked as fully paid upon the old company, and 150 in the name of Mr. Levi, with 20s. paid, leaving £l5O to be paid. That was all the goodwill transferred to the new company. Mr. Levi said he never heard of these one hundred and fifty shares. Upon this evidence Mr. G. Lewis asked the Lord Mayor to commit the defendants for trial, for publishing false statements relative to the company; also for con spiring to make these statements and to keep a false register. Mr. F. H. Lewis then proceeded to address the Lord Mayor, on behalf of Messrs. Pearse and Carman, and stated that he would call witnesses to chew that they were highly respectable gentlemen, and not adventurers in any way. Mr. Williams next spoke on behalf of his clients. His lordship adjourned the inquiry till Monday week, stating that in the meantime he would go over the whole of the evidence with the chief clerk and consider its bear ings in reference to each of the defendants. The matter was adjourned accordingly and the defen dants were admitted to bail. A' New York paper says the island of Jamaica has been visited in the present season by heavy rains such as it has not experienced for the last forty years. THE EUROPEAN WAR. THE SUN, which is Published Every Morning at Eight o'clock, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper, will always give the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events.