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MOSES and SON, CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE, NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER 0: HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT -ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. B RADFORD, YORKSHIRE. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING. Frock CoUs. Der.3l Oxford CJ.►t 3. Coats. 255. 17s. Also at other prices Also at Also at other prices, other prices Also at other prices MOSES and SON beg to remind the public • that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its quality, and they venture to affirm that every article sold by them is - ...onsiderably cheaper than what can be obtained at any other ho Ise in England. juj IGI MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST o f . , GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTLNUED: LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1870. Si s T u T s ler 1 Tourist utts us Summer uer Dress • Trousers. Trousers. IMMEDIATELY after the declaration that war 245. 245. 10s. 6d. 15s. inevitable, the Emperor NAPOLEON received at 28s. 28s. 12s. 6d. 16s. 6d. Palace of St. Cloud Messieurs the Senators in de 365. 365. 14s . lBs tation, headed by th e i r P res id ent, M . ROUHER. Friday, M. SCHNEIDER, the President of the 0( 40s. 425. 15s. 6(1. 21s. Ldgislatif, accompanied by his colleagues, wa 455. 48s. 17s. 6d. 245. upon his Majesty with a similar address, express 555. 525. 20s. 265. of the acceptance by the national representatives _ the warlike poli c y announce d b y t h e Sovere i gn. U Also at Al so at Also at Also at other prices. other prices. other prices. other prices a COMM risum of AT qntrx,-.,,,,,,-7,-. - a ..i......._ .__:...... ORDERS by post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. E MOSES and SON'S PRICE Li: Tof BOYS' CLOTHING : Knickerbocker Suits. Eton I Brighton 1 Harrow Suits. Suits. ! Suits. 9s. 6d, 18s. I 18s 13s. 6d, 235. I 23s 16s. 6(1 265. 1 265, 48s. I 48s. Also at Also at Also at I Also at other prices. i other prices. other prices. other prices. MOSES and SON supply every description of • clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any article exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-fre E. 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. - V.AUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.— Lssees—Messrs H. J. M on tae, D. James, ad T. Thorne.— e TII IS EVENING, at 7 30 CUPBOARD LOVE, n by F. Hay. After which, at 8, a new and original Comedy, in Three Acts, ent.tled TWO ROES , by James Albery. T o conclude with the new and successful urlesque. DON CARL' ; or, The Infante in Arms Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power. Amy Fai,vsitt, T Lavis, and A. Newton. Doors open at Seven. Commence at 7.30. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE, Sole Lessee and :V anveress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE SCHOOL FOR SCAI* DAL. Mr. erry, Mr. D. James, Joyce ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E, ufton, Hughes, and E. Fowler. And THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. literary kleptomania, just as is said now very plainly by a Dublin reviewer in regard to Mr. DISRAELI'S appropriation of "A. Million of Money" (Miss AMELIA EDWARDS'S) for the enriching of " Lothair," otherwise Lord BUTE, his Marquis- Millionaire---just as was hinted almost as plainly years ago by Father PROUT, when revealing Mr. DISRAELI'S famous "crib" from M. TRIERS, when pronouncing his apparently original and certainly magnificent eulogium in the House of Commons on the Duke of WELLINGTON. It may be, on the other hand, that the words of M. SCHNEIDER were an unconscious quotation, and that the EMPEROR'S identification of the source from which they were taken was evidence at once of his ready memory, and of his wide reading. Seriously, however, and sooth to say, the whole incident is nothing more nor less than an exceedingly naif admission of the care with which these kind of official reciprocations of sentiment between the great bodies of the State and the Sove- reign, are got up and prearranged. Further proof of this may be readily found by those who will take the trouble to compare notes in regard to other portions of the speech of M. SCHNEIDER, and of the reply of the Emperor NAPOLEON. Said the former : "Leave the regency without anxiety in the hands o our august sovereign the EMPRESS. To the authority commanded by her great qualities, of which ample evidence has already been given, her MAJESTY will add the strength now afforded by the liberal institu tions so gloriously inaugurated by your MAJESTY." Said the EMPEROR himself: "I confide to you the EMPRESS, who will call you around her if circum- stances should require it. She will know how to fulfil courageously the duty which her position im- poses upon her." Nay, still more strikingly, "Behind you," said M. SCHNEIDER to NAPOLEON 111. " behind an army accustomed to carry the noble flag of France —stands the whole nation ready to recruit it." What is the EMPEROR'S reply to this? It is like the echoing clang of a trumpet. " Resolved energeti- cally to pursue the just mission which has been entrusted to me, I have faith in the success of our arms; for I know that behind me France has risen to her feet, and that GOD protects her." Granted that each of the interlocutors has his cue, that both are well drilled, and that the whole scene is matter of preconcerted arrangement, yet for all that, not a doubt of it, it is as effective as though it were per _A, ectly spontaneous. BOTH Sovereigns, both Parliaments have spoken. There is no need to read the address of the North German Parliament and the reply of King WILLIAM on the one side, or the address of the Corps Legislatif and the reply of the Emperor NAPOLEON 011 the other, to be sure that each side would throw upon the other the blame of this war. Both appeal with equal confidence to the patriotism of the respec tive nations, both invoke the aid and trust in the protection of the GOD of Battles. The Corps Le'gis latif, addressing the Emperor through its President, M. SCHNEIDER, quoted the saying Of MONTESQUIEU, "the real author of a war is not lie by whom it is declared, but he who renders it necessary." King WILLI A m held very different language. Ad dressing the . North German Parliament, he said that the "candidacy of a German Prince for the Spanish thr one , b o th i n th e bringing forward . -P) At, tij jo rievlr LVI I * 7 7. -jeL,4 SUIT 4 W. MORNING EDITION. _ IMMEDIATELY after the declaration that war was inevitable, the Emperor NAPOLEON received at the Palace of St. Cloud Messieurs the Senators in depu tation, headed by their President, M. ROUHER. On - Friday, M. SCHNEIDER, the President of the Corps Ldgislatif, accompanied by his colleagues, waited upon his Majesty with a similar address, expressive of the acceptance by the national representatives, of • the warlike policy announced by the Sovereign. Upon a comparison of M. SCHNEIDER'S address with the EMPEROR'S reply, one cannot but recognise how very evidently these reciprocations of sentiment were prepared beforehand, or, in other words, deliberately preconcerted. They fit into one another, so to speak, with the minute accuracy of the cast and the matrix. The one is the cameo, the other the intaglio. The fact is always discernible when an address and a reply of this character are brought into juxtaposition and carefully examined. Than in the present instance, however, we hardly know if the correspon dence between loyal speech and royal, or, as in the present case, imperial answer, has ever been more curiously apparent. In regard to one portion in particular of the address delivered to NAPOLEON 111. by M. SCHNEIDER, in the name of the Legislative Body, of which he is the President, it may be said to be a moot point to this moment whether M. SCHNEIDER himself or the Corps Legis latif, for which he was acting as spokesman, simply quoted, so to speak, without inverted commas, or um consciously plagiarised from the axiomatic wisdomof MONTESQUIEU ! "The real author ofthe war,"said the address, "is not he by whom it was declared, but he who rendered it necessary." Said the EMPEROR in his reply, in especial reference to this sententious remark of the Legislative Body or their President— cruelly it might almost be considered if regarded in the light of an apt and instant exposure of a plagiarism —" You are right to remember the words of MONTESQUIEU, that ' the real author of a war is not he by whom it is declared, but he who renders it necessary." The aphorism as it fell from the lips of M. SCHNEIDER, like one of the jewels from the lips of the Oriental Princess, was dropped as a sparkling bit of origi nality. 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MADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3.0 p.m., and from 7 tlll 10 p.m. Admission, ls.; extra 6d. and in the withdrawal of which the Confederate Government were equally unconcerned, and which interested the North German Confederation only so far as the Government of a friendly country ,appeared to base upon its success the hopes of acquiring for a sorely tried people a pledge for regular and peaceful government, afforded the EMPEROR of the FRENCH a pretext for a casus belli, put forward in a manner long since unknown in the annals of diplomatic intercourse and adhered to after the very removal of the pretext itself." The words which we have quoted are, it may be said, ex parts statements, and must be treated with equal disregard. That, however, is neither a judicial nor a judicious course. It is of the first importance that we should form an accurate opinion as to the real cause, or, in other words, the object of this war. A judge does not refuse to give judgment because both parties are equally ready to swear to contradictory statements. We who are judges now, but who may have, we know not how soon, to become parties to the suit, ought to sift these statements, and ascertain for our own guidance which is the better founded. The remarkable letter from the Madrid cor respondent of the ?lame, published on Friday, declares that the French Government must have been fully aware of the candidature of Prince LEOPOLD, for so long ago as June 12, the French Ambassador was present at the Cortes, and heard PRIM refer toPrince LEOPOLD. He was not, indeed, mentioned by name, but he was alluded to in such a way as to leave no doubt as to who was meant. That this was so would e seem to be the fact because M. LEMOINNE, of the Journal des Debats, who was sitting by the side of the French Minister, in consequence of what Plum said, wrote openly of Prince LEOPOLD'S candidature as a well ascertained fact. The Madrid correspondent, there fore, infers that the DUKE of GRAMONT'S surprise was feigned, and that the reason why the EMPEROR did not earlier denounce the nomination of LEOPOLD was because it did not suit him to speak until he had Prussia completely in the mesh and his legions ready to march to avenge the affront of Sadowa. If NAPOLEON complains of this statement he has his own favourite counsellor to blame. M. ROUHER, addressing him in the name of the Senate told the EMPEROR that he had waited for four years, and complimented him upon his self restraint which would not let him rush into war until he had completed his preparations. For the greater part of the four years M. ROUHER was the most intimate and prin cipal adviser of the EMPEROR. He it was who was Minister of State—" VICE-EMPEROR," men Called him—when the measures were passed for reorganising the army and restoring the conscription. When his longer continuance in office would have brought about a revolution, he was promoted to be Pre sident of the Senate, and it was in that capa city that he blabbed his master's secret last week. M. OLLIVIER has confirmed the tale. The French Premier declared a few days ago that he took office on the condition that there was to be no war with Germany—a pretty clear proof that he had reason to suspect war was probable. If we seek for evidence in Prussia we shall find it fully in accordance with this from France. The Berlin correspondent of the Times declares that the sights which King WILLIAM saw in the war of 1866 made him resolve never to go to war again. " Conscious of his pacific intentions, he no doubt hoped that his determination to keep the peace would exempt him from the necessity of unsheathing the sword again." When the war was forced upon him, this brave old King shed tears. This does not • look like a thirst for war, or a lust for conquest. But, it may be . said,. it is not King WILLIAM, it is his Minister who has rendered war inevitable. Well, if the unification of Germany, the dream of his life, be a fair cases belli, then BISMARCK is responsible, is the aggressor. But we who remember how Italy has become united, has become a great power, out of a congeries of feeble States, and how the first impulse to Italian unity was given by NAPOLEON, cannot admit the right of France to object to German unity. A united Germany had nothing to gain in the way of territorial conquest. If it deprived France of the predominant power which it possessed before Sadowa, that, it might even be said, was to the ad vantage of Europe, for it was a guarantee of peace. TEE Education Bill, which came into the Com- mons like a lamb, has gone out like a lion. Friday afternoon witnessed a very stormy and passionate scene. The combatants were on the same side of the House, and belong, at least nominally, to the same party. But there are Liberals and Liberals. There are some, for instance, who think that there can be no real progress except over the necks of van quished and prostrate Tories; while others, less " advanced " in the cant sense of the word, but more really Liberal, estimate their onward movement by the ground which they traverse, not by the number of victims whom they trample under foot. To the first section belong Mr. MALL and his friends ; to the second belong Mr. GLADSTONE and the great majority of the Liberal party. Mr. MALL, able man though he is, is nothing unless a sectary. The pith and marrow of his very narrow religion is hostility to the English Church. Professing to be deeply concerned for the education of the people he hoped to have made the Education Bill a weapon for dealing a deadly blow at that Church. His love of knowledge, which we do not question, was powerless as an incentive to action when compared with his hatred of the "establishment." That the children of the poor should be taught was well, but that they should be taught by Churchmen was ill—so ill that he would sacrifice the good to prevent the evil. Hence when Mr. GLADSTONE re fused to beoome the instrument of his bitter hostility Mr. MIALL exploded in fierce wrath. The disestablish ment of the Irish Church had pleased the member for Bradford, not as an act of justice to the nine-tenths of the nation who did not belong to the pseudo-national Church, but as the commencement of that long list of measures which was to result in the overthrow of the Establishment in England as well as across St. George's Channel. The Education Bill, the Burials Bill, and the University Tests Bill were all in his eyes directed to that end. The two last have failed to become law this session; the first has left the Church where she was—if, indeed, it has not strengthened her position. So Mr. MIALL is full of bitter words against the men who have led him through the Valley of Humiliation in stead of into the Beulah of Disestablishment. In the extremity of his disappointment he threatens Mr. GLADSTONE, with all kinds of serious conse quences in the future, including a general "To your tents : 0 Israel," on the part of the Nonconformists. It was not to be expected that Mr. GLADSTONE would sit quiet under this denunciation. In the first place he had the right to challenge Mr. MIALL's claim to be considered the spokesman or the Non conformists. As we have more than once pointed out, and as the member for Bradford him self confessed on Friday, Nonconformists are not unanimous with regard to the Education Bill. Colonel I3Enlisronn, who represents an essentially Dissenting constituency, declared that he had pre sented petitions from 23,000 members of one, and that a by no means numerous body of Dissenters— the Primitive Methodists—in favour of the bill, and that Mr. SPURGEON, who could gather under his banner more Nonconformists than any member of the House, supported the bill. Mr. MoRLE - k and Mr. BAINES have both spoken and voted for it. In fact there is no need to pursue this argument any farther, for Mr. Mum, admitted that he had been beaten because of the division in his own ranks; in other words, that his representation of Nonconformist views and wishes had not been accepted by a large number of his co-religionists. But even if the case had been different; even if the dissenting M.P.'s had invariably voted together, there was no reason either in justice or in policy why they should have everything their own way, including the unwise and ungrateful sup pression of that system to which the country owes the education which it has received during the last thirty years. Mr. GLADSTONE had to consult the wishes of Churchmen,.who have borne the greater part of the toil and the cost of education hitherto. Rather he had to rise above all sectarian distinctions, and to treat this as a great national question, in which there must be some amount of giving and taking on all sides, and which certainly would not admit of the triumph of any at the expense of the rest. Mr. MIALL has not been able to view this great question otherwise than as a battle field of rival sects. He has failed to make it this. He has failed even to arouse the susceptibili ties of Churchmen, or to make them withdraw the very substantial concessions which they were willing to make, and which should have been received in a very different spirit on the anti-Church side from that which Mr. MIALL and his friends have shewn. As for Mr. DixoN, the main count of his indictment is that the Government has improperly allowed the continu ance of religious national teaching, and he means to propose next year a secular system. For this, no doubt, he will agitate during the long vacation. We believe that the agitation would have failed under any circumstances. It must prove utterly futile now that the country has its attention engrossed by the gigantic conflict on the Continent. With Europe in arms, England cannot afford to listen to the jeremaids of disappointel Dissenters and baffled Secularists. The country is to be congratulated that, in spite of their opposition, England is put in possession of a national system of education in the very same week that the dogs of war are let loose' on the Rhine. TOPICS OF THE DAY. ENGLAND AND THE WAR. The attitude of the English Government in view of the struggle between France and Prussia, and of her own possible complication in the quarrel, does not give satisfaction to the military journals. One newspaper thinks that the quiet responses given to questions in Parliament are too :awe-stricken in their character, and betoken an apathy that seems highly out of place with the importance of the subject. Another of the professional journals considers that the process of " setting our house in order" is being undertaken in too dilatory and chivalric a manner. All agree that preparations for taking a part in a European conflict ought to be made by England, light as the chances may be that she may be required to discharge even a single shot. The first step in altering this state of things wasp it seems, taken on Wednesday last when a Council was privately held at the War Office. On that occasion the consequences of France or Prussia violating the neutrality laws were discussed, and plans for arrangements necessary to meet such a crisis are said to have received much consideration. Twenty-five regiments were, it is understood, ordered to be made ready for instant service, and the advis ability of supplementary estimates being voted with a view to the embodiment of the militia was, is believed, deliberated upon with much On the authority of the military papers, we are told that the English supply of large and small arm ammunition is lamentably deficient, that the organisation of the whole war depart ment is so radically defective, that it would inevitably collapse if in its present con dition the strain of war should be put upon it. st riousnes. THE ROYAL GENERALS. The King of Prussia, like his Imperial opponent, will take the chief command during the war with France. His Majesty is considered a good general of division, but the opportunity for any display of his capabilities as commander-in-chief have been few. In the Baden campaign of 1848 the Prussians did nob gain much glory, and the King was looked upon in those days as a stern martinet. He is in his seventy-third year. Frederic William, the Crown Prince of Prussia, was born in October, 1831, and is the cnly son of the King. His early education was conducted under the well known Dr. Ernest Curtius, after which lie proceeded to the University of Bonn. His military studies were commenced under the guidance of General Von Schreckenstein, and he held a command in the campaign against Denmark in 1864. It was in the war with Austria, however, that his name as a sol dier was prominently brought forward. His rapid marches through Silesia contributed greatly to the Prussian victories, and his appearance at the battle of Sadowa was the crowning point of the day. It need be hardly stated that he is the husband of our Princess Royal. Prince Frederic Charles is a nephew of the Queen of Prussia, and is 42 years of age. His first field of battle was in Schleswig, in 1848, and in 1849 he served with his uncle in Baden, when he was wounded. He subsequently went to Bonn, and studied under General von Roon, the present Minister for War. In the war against Denmark he succeeded Count von Wrangel as commander-in chief,. and made himself conspicuous at the bombard ment of the Diippel forts. In 1866 he was the head of the first army, and displayed considerable dash. At Sadowa, however, his rashness in venturing to attack the Austrians before the arrival of the Crown Prince was severely condemned. THE WAR AND THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Serious doubts are entertained as to whether the Franco-Prussian war will not interfere with the annual International Exhibition of 1871. The Commission apprehend that impediments will be placed in the way of their completion of the foreign collections. France, Prussia, and Germany will not now, it is feared, be able to devote attention to the :objects which they have been asked to contribute. It is said, on the other hand, that some portion of the continental collections has already been made; but under the changed condition of affairs, the comprehensive scheme of the Royal Com mi,sion can scarcely be carried out, and the arts of peace bid fair to be sacrificed once again to the engrossing claims of warlike preparations. THE MONEY MARKET. The Economist, in discussing the effects of the war upon the money market, observes that the borrow ings of the great Powers are beginning with wonder ful rapidity. France has opened a credit for £22,000,000, Germany for £20,000,000, and the effect of this must be to raise the value of money through out the world. The future loans will evidently, thinks the Economist, be on an immense scale, and though we may ultimately receive a large number of forei g n savings, the effect of these will b e counter- acted by the loans which we shall make to the belligerents; so that though London may be the cheapest money market during the war, it will be a dear ono in comparison with late years. Competent persons believe that money before long will rise rapidly to 5 per cent. On the whole, though the interruption of existing trade causes Ilosses which the profits of new trade do not efface, the Economist is inclined to think English trade will gain considerably. All the most dangerous competitors of English manufactures are forced to diminish, if not to suspend operations. Many of the skilled workmen, and even some of the manufacturers are drawn off to the army. The great towns may themselves become the seat of war, and all commer cial security is consequently lost. In the second place the war has broken up a vicious speculation in the raw material of cotton, which had been forced up to an extravagant price. Thirdly, there will be a great trade in instruments of warfare, which both belligerents will wish to buy here, and fourthly, all the carrying trade will be in our hands, as well as an augmented commission trade. English vessels will be able to keep the sea while French and Ger man will be a prey to hostile cruisers, and "the one great seat of peace " is certain to be the storehouse of all commodities, and the place for transacting intermediate dealings. For these reasons the Economist believes that instead of the rise in the value of money in our market being retarded by a diminution in the trade demand, as far as English commerce is concerned that trade demand will maintain itself, and will co operate with the war demand, and make the rise in the value of money more likely. Camb. Coats. 325. i 325, 1870. THE WAR AMD THE WORKING MEN. The war is not likely to be very popular among the working men of any nation for long, however much they may be carried away by temporary en thusiasm. It has already put an abrupt termination to the much-talked-of "Passion Play" at Ober- Ammergau, and the peasant who played the chief part in the drama has been summoned away to figh t• The Telegraph, always apt at drawing graphic morals from the ordinary events of life, advises the popula tion to watch well that other Passion Play of Napo leon and Bismarck in which "Moloch is grandly set forth upon the stage of. war as a contrast to the Prince of Peace.' Perhaps, says the monitor, the audience of many populations gathered about the Passion Play of the Dynasties, will hiss the piece off the stage of humanity for ever. In the plainer lan guage used by more ordinary mortals, the labouring classes of the various nations affected by the war will resent indignantly the needless misery and loss inflicted. "War will go out of fashion for ever," says the Telegraph, laying metaphor aside, "on the day when the workmen of the world refuse to slay each other." That they have good reason to do so is shewn by the fact stated at the recent meeting of English working men on this subject. Since the declaration of war wheat has ad vanced nine shillings a quarter, and bacon has *gone up twopence a pound. Such alterations as these press very heavily on the toiling classes, and thus even the nations whose rulers stand resolutely aloof from the now "Passion Play" will have cause to con demn the reckless policy which prompted it. "OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT " IN TROUBLE. The correspondent of the Times at Metz has given a long account of his arrest by the French military authorities. He takes some blame to himself for the conduct that led to his short confinement, and it must be acknowledged that his offence was, to say • the least of it, injudicious in the extreme. The correspondent and two English officers, who seem to have been as indiscreet as himself; met a soldier in a caft, and, struck with his joviality, invited him to j oin the party, and to take a glass of beer. It is denied that any attempt was made to elicit information. from the soldier, but the conversation turned naturally upon the topic uppermost in their minds. They remained chatting for about twenty minutes, when the special correspondent left, and retired to bed. About mid night, however, he was awakened by a waiter, who informed him that the two English officers had been arrested. He immediately proceeded to the guard-house to explain the matter, when he too was arrested upon the ground of his having given liquor to a French soldier in order to sound him as to the movements of the force. In fact he was accused of being a Prussian spy. The correspondent dwells on the fact the soldier had but one glass of beer. He thinks that considering no compromising documents were found on them, but that, on the contrary, one officer had his passport and commission, and the other his passport, while he himself had private letters shewing that he had had letters of introduction from M. 011ivier, unnecessary strictness was shewn by the officer on duty in placing them under arrest at all. A PATRIOT. Germans have the love of country strongly developed, and the number of well-to-do natives of the Confederation who are daily leaving London is a sufficient proof that whatever may be the result of the war, the people are determined to fight to the death. An incident in connection with this patriotic feeling has occurred in London, where a certain Carl Kobill found himself before a police magistrate charged with defrauding the London and North-West ern Railway Company of the sum of 10s. Od., being the amount of his fare from Birmingham to London. The patriot did not dispute travelling without pay ing the amount mentioned, but urged in excuse that he had left Birmingham in obedience to orders from the Prussian Consul, who promised to meet him at the Birmingham Station and pay his fare. This he failed to do, and rather than lose time, he deter mined to proceed without a ticket. This statement was found to be correct, and the Prussian Embassy having paid the fare, Carl Kobill was sent on his way rejoicing. 64 NEWS " OF THE WAR. The arrangements by which some of the London papers are enabled to publish news of great battles before they are fought, and news of other great events which never will take place at all, are worthy of notice. The other day there came information of a meeting of Prussians and French which resulted in no hurt to either side. A few French Chasseurs were outnumbered and retired without fighting. This "Battle of Saarbriick " was at once improved upon by a morning paper of enterprise, which announced "from its special correspondent " that the French had been beaten with the loss of seven killed and twenty-three wounded. Thisgreat embellishment was at once appropriated without acknowledgment by an evening paper, not inferior, it would seem, in enter prise to its contemporary. After publishing this treasure the same evening journal had on Saturday the assurance to say that the first big fiction of the war was sold in Paris in the shape of a telegram ' announcing that there had been a great French victory at Thionville, in which 5,000 Prussians were killed. The " Battle of Saarbriick " may be a little fiction, but the account given of it is not the less utterly unfounded, as are certain further embellishments published in another issue of the aforesaid morning paper. This journal has acquired a great fame. The newsboys know "what's what" in intelligence. They are so well aware of the character of the news in this paper that when they get a poster with sensational announcements (they get one of this kind very often) they turn down the name of the paper out of sight—obviously in fear lest the public know as much about the matter as they do. Poor public ! Between the editors and the boys, what chance has it? DECORATION OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. It appears that the idea of decorating the interior of the Houses of Parliament with works of art has not been abandoned. Mr. Ayrton has lately called together a meeting of artists, who have been engaged in works at Westminster, and taken their opinions on the subject. The matter will not be entrusted to a committee of amateurs, but due consideration will be paid to any scheme which can be suggested by these artists, and it may eventually be put before Parliament in order to obtain a grant to carry out the desired end. The mode to be adopted will, in all probability, be 'fresco, or the new compound of paraffin and wax. The advocates of fresco point to the unchanged con dition of Dyce's frescoes in the Queen's robing-room as a proof of the superiority of this mode of execu tion. Paraffin and wax have been successfully tried on some of the pictures which have suffered at West minster, but the experiment was not so fortunate when made on those which were wrought with wa terglass. NEW NAVAL LIGHT. If the application of modern science to engines of destruction renders war in solve respects more ter rible than of old, it serves to mitigate its dangers and inconveniences in other ways. In naval warfare the extraordinary improvements in lighting will greatly assist the movements of commanders. Thus, according to a French paper, it is intended to supply several vessels of the fleet with an apparatus fbr lighting up the line of the horizon in dull weather, and for illumi nating any particular point of the sea coast at which it is intended to disembark at night. An electric light and a strong reflector are placed in the, fore part of the ship, and the light is produced by means of a magneto-electric machine. Fresnel's reflector has great illuminating power, and will shew a particular point of the coast two miles off without the vessel bearing the .light being distinguish able. The Austrian admiral who defeated the Italians at Lissa declared that had he possessed Fresnel's lights, he could have annihilated the enemy while at anchor. The. Austrian fleet, in fact, passed close by their adver saries at Ancona one dark night, but could not tell how far they were conscious of the proximity. The Russian Government intends employing these lights for Cronstadt, and the British ironclad Heroine already carries one. France herself will now be able to profit by the invention of the clever Frenchman. THE PECULIAR PEOPLE. A trial which has just taken place at Chelmsford Assizes is a sad commentcry on the civilisation and enlightenment of the nineteenth century. A farm labourer, named Isaac Finch, was put on his trial for murdering his wife, to whom he had been mar ried twelve years. On the morning of the 29th of 'May last the woman was found in bed with her throat cut, the infant lying beside her being covered with blood. Front the evidence given at the trial it seems probable , that the murderous attack was made when the man's. wife was asleep, and that a bill-hook was the instru ment used. There can be little doubt that the man was insane at the time when he took his wife's life, and it was mentioned that he had been in the habit of attending the meetings of the "Peculiar People." When apprehended there was found upon him a Bible, with the leaf turned down at Ist Samuel, chapter 17. In the 51st verse, the following words occur : "Therefore David ran and stood upon the Philistine, and took the sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him and cut off his head therewith." This matter carries its own explanation. The fanatic ravings of the " Peculiar People " had evidently affected an already weak brain, and in a fit of frenzy the man perhaps imagined that he was carrying out the behests of duty. •M. PAItADOL. The esteemed politician, who has just died by his own hand in America, to judge from a letter written by him to a friend shortly after accepting the diplo matic position he had gone to America to fill, left Paris for a variety of reasons, the chief being his powerlessness to enter the Cham ber and his reluctance, even if he could have entered it, to serve in the Ministry from which he considered he could not have escaped " any more than M. Buffet," while the Emperor's "ascertained tenden cies " were such as they were. His heart would have chosen, he declared, to live in France and renounce politics, but that would have been impossible. Accordingly, seeing in the American retreat "some thing in the order of destiny," he accepted it for a year or two to prepare him for Ministerial affairs, and to keep him away long enough for the course of events to be settled and determined. There is a melancholy interest about M. Paradol's letter, the whole tone of which bears witness to the extremely conscientious scruples of the man. In its opening paragraph he says " the regrets which my resolution may have caused is more painful to me than I can state." At its close he adds, " Thus far, to those who know more than I do, I say only one thing; it is that whatever it costs me I could not and ought not to do otherwise." DECREE OF INFALLIBILITY. The Vatican has published the text of the Decree of Infallibility, which was passed on the 18th instant. The non-contents were not present, and only two dissentients appeared against 553 Fathers in support of the Dogma. The most important words of the decree set forth that, according to a divinely revealed dog,ma, when the Roman Pontiff speaking es cathedra defined that a doctrine on faith and morals was to be held by the Universal Church, he then, by the Divine assistance promised to him, enjoyed that infallibility with which the Redeemer endowed His Church in defining doctrine on faith and morals. In consequence the decision sof the Roman Pontiff were to be regarded as irreformable of them selves, and not in virtue of the consent of the Church. RELIGION IN GERMANY. Ernest von Bunsen has written to the Tinzes on the subject of a review of a work entitled " Religious Thoughts in Germany," in which he is reported to have said that nearly three-fourths of the Protestant population in Germany repudiated the doctrine of the Divinity of Christ. lie explains that this obser vation bore reference to the dogmatism of St. Atha nasius and the Statutes of the Council of Nice, and denies that the majority of Protestants in Germany no longer hold the Divinity of Christ as their central doctrine. He declines to enter into a detailed description of the reasons which induce them to consider the said doctrine in harmony with Holy Writ, but not with the Statutes of the Nicene Council, and the dogmatic opinions of St. Athanasius, and concludes his remarks by asserting that the majority of Protestants in Germany, as in other countries, dislike the notion of Interpreting the Bible by the creeds, and choose rather to interpret the creeds by the Bible. OFT)I, 4 • tfturt ICM OlENetra l l ar .ss HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, JULY 23. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon; and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with Princess Louise. Prince Arthur and Princess Beatrice also went out. OSBORNE, JULY 24. The Queen and Princess Louise, attended by Lady Waterpark, drove out yesterday afternoon. Tier Majesty and their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service at Osborne to-day. The Rev. George Prothero officiated. The Hon. Florence Seymour has succeeded the Hon. Mary Lascelles as Maid of Honour in Waiting. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENT TO-DAY. At Lord's Ground (grand cricket match)—l Zingari v. Household Brigade. Mr, Carlyle has been nominated unanimously to the office of President of the London Library, in place of the late Lord Clarendon, the ei Spain of 18, perty vessel War. to v of A found dent I will h obser l subjec War•— 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. Th Earl tio n ; ordez Man( obser rules the p of p a vatee eneua war. Baili n ades, must of t] ha s z his E