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THIS EVENING, Her Majesty's Servants will perform a New and Original Farce, entitled RULE BRITANNIA ; after which will be performed the Drury Lane Grand Comic Christmas Annual, entitled THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY ; or, ter HAisticR LEQUIN AND OLD MOTHER SHIPTON, with Charac Scenery by William Beverly. Doors open at half-past Six, com mence at Seven, and terminate at Eleven o'clock every Evening. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. MORNING PERFORANCE of the Grand entitled the M DR AGON OF WANTLEY, every Wednesday and Saturday. Children and Schools at re duced prices to the following parts of the Theatre :—First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily.— THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. ANDREW HALLIDAY'S Great Drama, AMY ROBBART will be revived on MONDAY, February 27. Box-office open from Ten till Five daiIy.—THEATRE - ROYAL , DRURY-LANE. MISS VICTORIA VOKES will resume her successful impersonation of AMY ROBSART on MON DAY, February 27.—80 x-office open from 10 till 5 dai l y. — THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. ROYAL COURT THEATRE, Sloane-square, Lessee and Manager, M. LITTON. THIS EVENING, at Eight o'clock. Fourteenth Night of W. S. Gilbert's original comedy entitled RANDALL'S THUMB. Sup ported by Messrs. Hermann Vezin, W. Belford, Edward Righ ton, H. Mellon, R. Astley, and Frank Matthews ; Mesdames M. Brennan, Kate Bishop, Stephens, and Eleanor Bufton. Pre ceded by, at 7.30, TURN HIM OUT ; and to conclude with an original comedietta, by F. A. Marshall, entitled Q. E. D. Supported by Messrs. W Belford, E. Righton, Misses M. Bren nan, Kate Bishop, and Kate Manor. Box office open from 11 to 5. No fees for booking, programmes, or cloak rooms. Trains by Metropolitan Railway to the very doors of the Theatre. —Acting Manager, Mr. John Huy. /THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- The 71st Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDy.—THIS EVENING (Thursday), at Seven, O'Keefe's Musical Piece, THE POOR SOLDIER, with selections from the original music. Patrick, Miss Fanny Wright ; Norah, Miss Fanny Gwynne. After which, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new Fairy Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled THE PALACE OF TRUTH. Characters by Mr. Buckstone, Messrs. Kendal, Everil, Clark, Braid, Rogers, Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. Hill, Fanny Wright, and Fanny Gwynne. Act I. Garden of King Phanor's Country House. Act 11. Interior of the Palace of Truth. Act 111. The Avenue of Palms. Followed by UNCLE'S WILL. Mr. Kendal and Miss Robertson. Concluding with the Farce of FAMILY JARS. Mr. SOTHERN will re-appear on the Ist of May. Box Office open daily from 10 till 5. ADELPHI THEATRE ROYAL. Sole Pro prietor, Mr. Benjamin Webster ; Managers, Mr. B. Webr and Mr. F. B. Chatterton.--THIS , at 7 THAT RASCAL JACK : Mr. John Rouse. At 7.3O EVENING (sth time),, DEADMAN'S POINT; or, THE LIGHTHOUSE ON THE CARN RUTH : Miss Furtado, Mrs. A. Mellon, Mr 4. Leigh Murray, Miss M. Cooper, and Mrs. Billington ; J. Rouse, C. 11. Stephen son, and (sth appearance here) Messrs. E. F. Edgar, IVollaire, A. C. Lilly, and A. Raynor. At 9.30, the MISTLETOE BOUGH. Mr. Brittain Wright, Mrs. A. Mellon, Mademoiselle Debreaux, Miss Dubois, Miss Bella Moore, Miss Bellew, &c. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee, Benjamin Webster. Managers, B. Webster and F. B. Chatterton.—THlS EVENING, at 7, HE'S A LUNATIC. Mr. J. Clayton. At 7.30, KING 0' SCOTS. Founded on Sir Walter Scott's Novel of "The Fortunes of Nigel," written and adapted by Andrew Halliday. King James and Old Traphois the Miser, Mr. Phelps. Messrs. W. Rignold, Herbert Crellin, Barrett, .J.John stone, Marshall, J. Murray, H. Russell, Wallace, Clifford, West land, J. Clayton, &c. ; Mesdames R. Leclercq, A. Merton, R. Power, F. Addison, &c. New and magnificent scenery, by F. Lloyd and assistants. To couclude with THE HAPPY MAN. Mr. Shiel Barry.—Box-office open from Ten till Five. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND. Lessees—Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne.--THIS EVENING, at 7, CHISELLING (142nd Night) Mr. David James. After:wh ich, TWO ROSES (215th night), by James Albery. Conclude w ith (73rd night) ELIZABETH. Sup ported by Messrs. J. Montague, David James, and T. Thorne, &c.; Mesdames Amy Fawsitt, A. Newton, and Nelly Power, &c. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, LIVING AT EASEAMessrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Bufton, and F. Hughes. CCEUR-DE-LION, Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turuer ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. ufton, Santley, Lee, Guoda &e. And ON AND OFF. ROYALTY T EIEATRE.-TO -N I G HT, February 9.—The 26th time of an original Comedietta, by R. Reece, in Two Acts, entitled DORA'S DEVICE. At 7.30, DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND ; at 8.15 DoRA'S DEVICE ; concluding With W H ITTINGTON JUNIOR and his SENSATION CAT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC. - EXTRAORDI NARY and COMBINED ENTERTAINMENT. PRO FESSOR PEPPER on THE WAR. Special Edition. Musical and Pictorial Illustrations.—Mr. GEORGE GROSSMITH, Jun., in the Fairy Tale, THE YELLOW DWARF, every Evening; GRECIAN STATUARY, by MADAME BOUSFIELD ; and a thousand and one other Entertainments all for ONE SHILLING, daily, 12 to 5 and 7 to 10. 11{ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view, Portrait Models of the ex-Emperor and Empress of the French, and Prince Imperial. Also, Marshal Bazaine, Marshal Canrobert, General Trochu, &c., Admission, ls. ; Children under Ten Years of age, 6d. Extra Rooms, 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view, Portrait Models of the King and Crown Prince. of Prussia, Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern. 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JOHN GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more con centrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each; also ss, 7s. ed., and 15s. each, including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper T hames street, London, E.C. Aerialists of the better class, several Orleanists (this party was not strong in the late Chamber) may get in, but with these exceptions, the only men in the Assembly who have had Parliamentary ex perience will be the thirty or forty Republicans, at the head of whom are Favre, Thiers, Picard, Gam betta, and a few other well-known names. This is an important consideration. The Repub licans are orators if they are nothing else, and the fact that they will meet a mere mob of journalists, lawyers, farmers, and merchants cannot but give them preponderating influence for a time. Indeed, if the Republicans gain a majority at the elections, the course will be clear. By passing a preliminary reso lution, declaring the Republic to be the form of Government established in France, the German leaders will be compelled to accept a peace from the Republic, which will thus be recognised throughout Europe. Even if this course be not taken, it is obvious that the Republicans will start with a great advantage in their favour, especially as the responsibility of a disastrous peace will be transferred from their party to the whole Assembly. Pos sibly the advantage thus possesses will not be m a intained. The Orleanists may gn strength ; the Imperialists may have their sins forgiven them; the Republicans are very likely to suffer from internal divisions. But notthe less surely is the commencement in their favour—provided always that the elections do not result in the return of a large monarchist majority. The superiority of their position will be the greater as it seems that the Orleanist princes will not be allowed to sit in the Assembly. This part of M. GAMBETTA'S prescription is maintained. The princes were excluded by a law passed in 1848, which law was never repealed during the Empire, though an attempt was made not very long before the declaration of war. It would appear that the Ministry of Defence does not feel justified in repealing a law which successive legislatures have maintained for above twenty years. The exclusion of the Princes is unfortunate, for they are in all respects desirable acquisitions to the Assembly. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE AMERICAN GRIEVANCES. There is reason to believe, the Times „porrespOndent in Philadelphia says, that Minister Schenck will be instructed, among other matters, to open negotia tions on the fishery dispute, thus transferring to England the discussion of an almost essentially Canadian matter. The difficulty lies in the desire of the United States to secure for their own fishermen the same rights as Canadians have in Canadian waters. The injustice, however, of the de mand is much atoned for by the statement, believed to be true, that the American Go vernment is willing to pay a money equivalent to secure the privilege they seek. There is little fear in any case that the establishment of a Fisheries Treaty on a satisfactory basis will cause fresh troubles between England and America, indeed, the Nezv York Eveninf Post asserts that negotiations have already progressed so favourably that the Senate will be asked to ratify a scheme for the settlement of the dispute before the close of the present session a Washington. THE CENSUS. The Census which will be taken on the night of the 2nd of April next will be the seventh in this country. It will only be the second occasion on which the whole popula tion has been enumerated in one day. Although it is impossible to predict with any accuracy the exact numerical strength of the people, it is believed the forthcoming returns will spew that the population of our islands is little short of 31 millions. As the people numbered only a little over 16 millions and a quarter in 1801, it will be seen how powerful Great Britain and Ireland have become in the number of their inhabitants since the time of the Union. Every arrangement has been made to have the census taken as accurately as pos sible. About 33,000 enumerators will be employed at home, while English subjects upon their travels will be made objects of particular attention by officials who will co-operate in the work abroad. It has been resolved that the qualification for a place in the census is to be alive at midnight on the 2nd of April. Any per son dying before midnight, or any infant born after midnight will therefore not be included in the num bering of the present decade. Mu. JOHN MARTIN, M.P. Mr. John Martin, the "Repeal" member of Par- liament, who will probably take his seat St. Stephen's at once, has thought it de sirable to intorm the world why he took part in the 1848 Rebellion in Ireland• Mr Martin says that in 1848, notwithstand ing his intense repugnance to civil' war - and revolution, he was so influenced by the circumstances of the times that he expected au insure ectiou with resignation and a determination, if it came, to take his part in it with the people. The famine had been raging from the middle of 1840. In 1848 two million four hundred thousand of the Irish population were being fed as public paupers, and nearly half the number of Irish landlords were insolvent. All this was going on ruthlessly, while English rule bad tied the hands of Ireland and held Ireland's purse, and at a time, too, when the country produced from her own soil and her own waters more than enough food for her population. It was no wonder that patriots should become disposed to resort to desperate means to relieve their land from a desperate condition. It had, however, been the doctrine of the repealers, that resistance to Govern ment authority, should never be resorted to unless the Government flagrantly violated the Constitution under which it was pretended that Ireland was ruled. A violation was made, when John Mitchel, holding views identical with those of five-sixths of the population at the time, was tried and sentenced by a packed jury, and when the Government sus pended the Habeas Corpus, and challenged its already maddened Irish subjects, disarmed, pauperised, and half-starved, to fight. The successful insurrection by the people in Paris in 1848 decidel a band of Irishmen to try another like it. Mr. Martin acknowledges he was mistaken when he thought the bulk of the nation would join the cause; but he, nevertbele,s, still thinks that all the condition 3 required • to justify a loyal citizen in rebellion were present in Ireland then. rHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 18'11 THEATRES AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of antley. C OVENT GARDEN —Lottery Ticket. Sleeping W Beauty. ADELPHI—That Rascal Jack. Deadman's Point. The Mistletoe Bough. PRINCESS'S—He's a Lunatic. King o' Scots. The Happy Man. HAYMARKET—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Truth. Uncle's Will. Family Jars. VAUDEVILLE -Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the Invisible Armada. OPERA COMIQUE—Found Drowned. The Lottery Ticket. The Carnival Ball. ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. Vesta. An Unhappy Pair. OLYMPlC—POppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur lesque) Paul and Virginia. ROYALTY—Dora's Device. Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat. Diamond Cut Diamond. GAIETY—A Christmas Story. Alladin 11. QUEEN'S—A Day After the Wedding. 'Twixt Axe and Crown. ROYAL COURT THEATRE—Turn Him Out. Randall's Thumb. Q.E.D. HOLBORN—Jezabel. Ticket-of-Leave Man. STRAND —Living at Ease. Coeur-de-Lion. PRINCE O F,WALES'S—CIosed. ASTLEY'S —Englishmen in Paris. Little Tom Tittlemouse SURREY—Farce. My Son Jack. NATIONAL STANDARD—Farce. Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross. SADLER'S WELLS—Sinbad the Sailor. AMPHITHEARE AND CIRCUS (Holborn) —Scenes in the Arena. ST. JAMES'S HALL— Christy Ministrels. Every evening ALHAMBRA—Grand Concerts. POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. noon and evening. MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. ls. ; extra rooms, 6d. On and Off, Af ter• 4 ? 4 -1 3 g ?,‘ 4 ble, including tea, coffee and sugar, spirits, wine and tobacco. MR. GOSCREN ON VAGRANCY. In conferring with a deputation from the county of Kent on the subject of vagrancy, Mr. Goschen said that the Poor Law Board was anxious to establish a uniform system with regard to diet, work, and general treatment, but he could not deal with the labour question until some change was effected in the law. This would, however, be shortly obtained. Food must be given to the vagrants, or alms-giving could not be effectually stopped. Some slight improvements were effected in certain distracts by the police fol lowing regular tramps and imposters, but isolated cases could not do much good, and it was necessary , for all the districts to act in unison in the matter. Mr. Goschen was opposed to the system of sending casuals to private lodging-houses, be cause such cases afforded no discipline or labour. He was also against the practice of closing the work houses at an early hour, because it induced the tramps to follow the illegal course of sleeping in hedges and barns. He was in favour of separate wards for tramps, and he thought the powers he should ask from Parliament would enable . him to order guardians to erect new wards, which were greatly needed in many places. TRAINING SHIPS FOR BOYS. There has often been much perplexity as to the best means of dealing with our street arabs, but one method of education has been almost in variably successful. The training ships at Li verpool and elsewhere prodtice gratifying reports. It seems as though the natural boy love for the sea, and the comparative freedom and animation of the life on board ship were valuable elements in breaking in the young wanderer of streets and alloys to a regular and settled mode of earning a livelihood. The sixth annual meeting of the Liverpool training-ship Indefaigable shewed that situations are easily found for the boys when ready for sea, and those that have been already pro vided for are well spoken of by their employers. Mr. Graves, M.P., who presided, remarked on th) great need which existed for organising some com prehensive scheme for recruiting our navy, as by the decadence of our coasting trade, and the introduction of steam in connection with shipping, we had lost our old nurseries for sailors. A. Liverpool committee last year instituted inquiries into the subject, and the result was that the falling off in seamanship in the mercantile marine was owing to the abolition of the compulsory apprenticeship system, and the consequent want of training. If the system .on which these training ships are based were. enlarged and extended, it would supply this great want, as well as being an incalculable benefit to the boys themselves. THE RECENT GUNPOWDER. EXPLOSIONS. The late terrible explosions in ammunition manu factories have directed public attention to the necessity of an increased supervision of such estab lishments. The Aston Local Board addressed a memorial in reference to the fatal explosions at Witton to the Home Secretary, and have in return received a reply stating that the works of Messrs. ICynoch and Ludlow have already been officially inspected, and also that the general question of the manufacture and storage of gunpow ' der is " under the consideration" of the Government. The Home Secretary's letter points out to the Local Board that there are considerable powers of control and search conferred by the existing acts. If local authorities would make judi cious inquiries from time to time as to the manner in which such dangerous manufactures are conducted, they might, if any illegal practice was carried on, ob tain a search warrant and enforcement of penalties. It is well that this fact should be clearly under stood and generally known in regard to dangeroui manufactories, since if any autho rities had taken the trouble to investigate the manner in which tke manufacture of cartridges was carried on at Messrs. Ludlow's works, they would certainly have never sanctioned the use of stoves which could be opened for the warming of dinners in the midst of gunpowder. PEACE CAMPAIGNING. The faulty character of British military arrange ments is well illustrated in the arrival of the Tamar at Kingstown. The headquarters of the 97th Regiment and the depots of two other regi ments were on board, so that altogether, with women and children, the vessel carried more than a thousand souls. The whole force was ordered immediately to disembark, so that the detachments might reach their destinations the same day. Insufficient time was allowed for the necessary arrangements, an I the greatest confusion was the consequence. It was impossible to take ordinary care with the baggage ; it was tossed out of the ship, and many boxes were broken and their contents strewed on the wet ground. When they reached Dublin, it was found that the 84th could not proceed to its destination, Fermoy, as the last train had left, and the men were billetel in Dublin for the night. The 97th were en route for Mullingar, but they met with numerous delays. A. sufficient number or carriages was not provided for them in the first place, and the train afterwards came to a stand for want of water, so that an hour and a half was wasted in pumping. The men had no food pro vided for them, owing to the scramble of disembark ing. Things were no better when Mullingar Barracks were reached. No gas was laid on, and no fuel or candles provided. Men, women, and children were exhausted, famished, and wet to the skin, while proper refreshments were unattainable. Filially, only half the requisite number of mattresses could be provided. The jour ney from Dover to Mullingar was not of a charac ter to induce men of a " superior class " to enter the army, for it is a chronicle of discomforts and priva tions most unnecessarily entailed through want of due foresight and provision on the part of the autho rities. THE CHARITY CHILDREN OF LONDON. Some reminiscences of the late Mr. Thackeray are given by Mr. Fields, the eminent Boston publisher, in the columns of the Atlantic Monthly for January. One of the stories chronicled in the periodical is de scriptive of the author's feelings with respect to what he called the " grandest sight of the year in London." Mr. Fields says that Thackeray took him. to see this sight; it was nothing but a multitude of charity children singing in St. Paul's CatheJral. As the children of poverty poured out their anthems of praise, " the hater of humanity," as the Times called him, was seen to hide his face, wet with tears, while his whole frame shook with emotion. Afterwards, in one of his books, Thackeray wrote the following passage, which confirms much of what Mr. Field has written of him, " And yet there is one day in the year when I think St. Paul's presents the noblest sight in the whole world ; when five thousand charity children, with checks like nosegays, and sweet, fresh voices, sing the hymn which makes every heart thrill with praise and happiness. I have seen a hundred grand sights in the world—corona tions, Parisian splendours, Crystal Palace openings, Pope's chapels with their processions of long-tailed cardinals and quaveririg choirs of fat soprani—but think in all Christendom there is no such sight as charity children's day. Ron Anyli, sett angeli. As one looks at that beautiful multitude of innocents : as the first note strikes : indeed one may almost fancy the cherubs are singing." GODS AND MEN. To hear one of the debates at the Paris . Revolu tionary clubs might be an effectual Mode of con vincing Englishmen that Gambetta, though such a horrible person, is very mild compared with some of his countrymen. The Red Bellevilleites were engaged the other day in drawing up a list of can didates for the National Assembly. Victor BOARD OF TRADE RETITRNS. The Board of Trade returns are now published i n a new form. It appears from those just ismed refer ing to January, that the exports of British produce show a considerable falling off as compared with the two preceding years. The chief decrease has been in malt liquor, coal, cotton yarn, and copper, which have decreased to the amount of 40 per cent and in cotton manufactures, which are less by 9 per cent. This decrease is, of course, easily explained by the interference of the war with the French and German trade, and few readers will require the explanatory note to that effect appended to the returns. The note gives also some explanation respecting the import returns, which under the old system related to a period of from fourteen to twenty-one days, whereas under the new plan they represent the importations for the whole month. Among the articles imported free of duty, a falling off in grain of all kinds is noticed, with the exception of wheat, which skews a slight increase. There is, too, a very large increase, amounting to nearly sixty per cent, in cotton. This is due to large arrivals from America. An increase in several articles subject to duty and intended for home consumption, is percepti- Hugo was proposed, but even this Republican would not suit. He was " a man of the past," whereas the Belleville gentlemen wanted " men of the future." Rochefort was next proposed, and loud cries of " He has betrayed us" resounded through the ball. But one citizen supplied, a strong argument in favour of placing Rochefort upon the list : You have all read the first number of his journal, the Mot d'Ordre. Well, he there openly proclaims himself a regicide. (Loud Applause.) That word has put an end to all my doubts, and my vote is in favour of citizen Rochefort. Regicide, citizens, regicide ! If there was amongst us a man who desired to kill all kings, I would not be satisfied with making him a deputy, I would make a god of him. It appeared doubtful, however, whether Rochefort was equally advanced in the cause of regicide, and therefore he was rejected. THE CROWN PRINCE. The husband of the Princess Royal is the hope of Germany. He is one of those rare men who com mand the respect and confidence of all classes and parties—a triumph which never was and never will be achieved by the present King. He is popular with the Liberals because he is known to favour principles of freedom; with the Conservatives because he upholds all the same the dignity of the Royal State ; with the military because he is an admirable commander. lnthe latter capacity a Leipsic magazine speaks of him : " Placed in the difficult position of commanding a mainly non-Prussian army, he has excellently assimilated the various elements, though he has never paid special attention to the South Germans as though bidding for their favour. He has on the contrary simply expected from them what they could perform, and at the beginning more than once showed the Bavarians that he relied mostly on the Prussians for difficult duties. He first won con fidence by his impartiality and measured tone; warmth was kindled by his victorious leadership, and hearty and honourable friendliness to individuals did the rest." So well did he perform the difficult duty of reconciling North and South that the Bava rians soon liked better to fight side by side with the Prussians than with any other German race. '/F* O l l P qe 4,9 G U Tit urtulat HER MAJESTY, WINDSOR CASTLE, FEBRUARY 8. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Prince Leopold also went out. Her Majesty held a Council to-day at three o'clock. The Prince of Wales visited the Duke of Cambridge yesterday morning. REPORTED ILLNESS OF THE PREMIER. The London correspondent of the Dundee Advertiser says :—" You will regret to hear that Mr. Gladstone has been in bed for three days. The illness of the Premier at the present moment—when so much depends on his judg ment and activity—is a matter of serious concern to the country." MEETING OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL --- --- Her Majesty held a Privy Council on Wednesday after noon at Windsor Castle. There were present at the Council, the First Lord of the Treasury (Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone), Lord President of the Council (Earl de Grey and Ripon), Lord Privy Seal (Viscount Halifax), Secretary of State for the Colonies (Earl Kimberle , ay)nd the Lord Chamberlain (Viscount Sydney). At the Council Mr. J. R. Davison, Q.C., M,P. (Judge Advocate), was sworn in as a Privy Councillor and took his seat at the Board accord ingly. At the Council Her Majesty's Speech, to be de livered at the opening of Parliament, was agreed to. After the Council Captain Walker (Board of Trade) had an interview with her Majesty, and received the honour of Knighthood. Mr. Arthur Helps was Clerk to the Council. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF LORD JUSTICE MELLISH. Shortly after the conclusion of Hilary Term, Lord Justice Mellish had a serious attack of the gout. His lordship, however, regained his usual state of health atter the few days of rest and quiet which the vacation enabled him to enjoy ; but on Tuesday a relapse of the complaint took place, and was of so serious a character that for a time the life of the learned judge was almost despaired of. Although a perceptible improvement has since taken place, his lordship is now totally incapacitated from work, and was, consequently, unable to take his seat in the Lords Justices' Court on Wednesday, the first day of the sittings after Hilary Term ; and it is feared that, I even under the most favourable circumstances, his lord ship will not be able to resume his duties on the Bench for several days to come. THE LORD CHANCELLOR OF IRELAND ON THE ROYAL MARRIAGE. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland presided on Monday night, in Dublin, at a banquet, the first of a proposed annual series, in aid of the Solicitors' Benevolent Society, and, in proposing the toast of " The Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family," said that the toast possessed a good deal of additional interest just now, because, at this moment, there was pending an event which would cast the light of natural affection upon the dull stateliness of ordinary royal marriages. Upon two sides, the very high and the very low, in this country—or in England rather than here—there had been a good deal of observation, very little justified, upon that coming event. On one side it was said that this marriage w ou' . d interfere with the social relations Hof classes in th's country, and on the other side they had heard a great deal of hard, captious, narrow, and ungenerous references to it. He did not be lieve that the nation responded to the one feeling or to the other. On the contrary, he was of opinion that the great good heart of the nation throbbed in sympathy with those young people who had not been prevented by the forms of etiquette from coming together as man and wife. He believed that the broad, generous heart of this country would be liberal in endowing the Princess, who was about to be married to a person beneath her in rank, but still of exalted birth ; that they would endow her with an appanage not less, yet not more, than should be given to a daughter of the British Sove reign. The Lord Chancellor, in giving subsequently the toast of " The Lord-Lieutenant and Prosperity to Ireland," expressed a hope tbat the growing intelligence of the people, the augmented toleration now existing in Ireland for opinion on the one side and on the other, and the increasing unity among them, would lay the foundation for a moral and social prosperity such as they had never seen before. In giving the toast of the evening, " The Solicitors' Benevolent Association," he said it was most desirable that the two branches of the legal profession should stand in relations of amity and confidence towards each other, It was true the two branches were not amal gamated, and he hoped they never would be. Were any union of the two branches tried, he believed it would fail signally as in America. Each had its own place and its own rewards, although he confessed that of these the bar bad the lion's share. The Speaker arrived in London on Tuesday. Convocation will assemble on Tuesday next in the Jerusalem Chamber. An Irish magistrate, censuring some boys for loitering in the street, said, " If everybody were to stand iu the streets, how could anybody get by?" The Hon. Mrs. Norton is said io be engaged on a work shortly to be published, " Lives of the Poets Laureate of England." GAZETTE NOTICES.—It is notified in Tuesday night's Gazette that Earl Granville, her Majesty's Princi , pal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from her Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin a copy of an Imperial order,_ annulling the Royal order of the 18th. July, 1870, which exempted conditionally French mer chant vessels from capture. The Gazette also contains an nouncements of the appointment of Dr. Payne Smith to the Deanery of Canterbury ' • of Mr. Reginald Palgrave to the office of Clerk Assistant of the House of Com mons ; and of Mr. Ar c hibald Milman as Second Clerk Assistant. BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COM- FouTiNo.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it a general favourite. The Civil‘fservice Gazette re marks :—" By a thorough knOvtledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Each packet is labelled—JAMES EPPS & Co., Homceo pathic Chemists, London. Also, makers of Epps's Caea6ine, a very thin evening beverage.--Advt. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1871 THE temper of the French people is so distinctly ik favour of ending the war that it is not rash to entertain great hope of peace. The press, with the exception of some extreme organs, breathes little of a bellicose spirit. The terrible penalty, cession of territory, is faced with something like resignation in not a few journals. The candidates for the Assembly are stauding on the peace "ticket" in great numbers, and even those who would prefer fighting on, take care to express their willingness to accept reasonable These are signs which cannot be without meaning. The nation accepts its defeat; its spirit is broken ; its resources are greatly exhausted; not fewer than one million of its able-bodied men are prisoners of war. To fight on would simply be to struggle against hope. It appears unlikely that any further resistance will be determined upon, unless the German terms are so heavy that to fight would be less ruinous than to make peace. It would be much less ruinous it the demands of Count BISMARCK resemble thos3 telegraphed by the Beilin correspondent of the Timls. This programme was not original, for it was first published in the Schlesische Zeitung, and appears to have emanated from some military source. 'With the exception of the CROWN PRINCE, the Prussian officers are generally in favour of very harsh terms. It is to be hoped, however, and there is some reason for believing, that the Prussian statesmen will be wiser and more moderate. It is as useless to ask for four hundred millions sterling as to attempt to annex the whole of France to Ger many. War cannot be made "to pay." terms. IT may perhaps be prudent to defer speculation as to the character of the French National Assembly until the choice of the electors becomes known ; but some considerations naturally present themselves. The representative body will consist almost wholly of men who have never before sat in a Legislative Chamber, or taken any part in the functions of Government. The number of members to be elected is 753 (some re ports give 759) whilst the Corps L6gislatif, which was dissolved last September, was at its maximum when it counted 292 deputies. If the whole Imps rialist Chamber were returned again, nearly two-thirds of the New Assembly would be new men. But there is not the slightest prospect that all, or indeed any large proportion of, the ex-deputies will secure re election. It does not appear that many of them are making the attempt. The great majority of the old Chamber were official candidates, elected on a system which made the Legislative Body a mere Imperialist machine. They were nomi nated by the prefects of the divers departments : the prefects carried on the campaign, and bullied, bribed, and cajoled the peasantry into voting straight. Thus an official candidate was not expected to dis play any ability ; on the contrary, the more stupid he was, the greater his fitness for his past. lie was not required to make speeche3 to the electors, alai in the Chamber his only duties were to vote for the Government and to put down the Republican orators by rattling his paper-knife. There is no more like lihood of these gentry finding con6tituencies willing to have them under a free system than there is of a❑ owl or a bat flourishing in the light of clay. The candidate who got a majority by the votes of some convicts who were let out of gaol for the express purpose of polling, and the candidate who won by premising one district a dungpit at the Government expense, and of excellence unparalleled, are not likely to prevail without these aids. These and many more legislators of similar stamp have served Paris to laugh at, and their day is done. A few LITERATURE MISS BRADDON'S NEW STORY. Fenton's Quest. By the Author of "Lady Audley's Secret." Three Vols. Ward, Lock, and Tyler. The principal attraction of Belgravia for some months past has been this latest story from the hand of one who has already contributed eighteen tales of more or less ex cellence to popular imaginative literature. It is a very library of fiction that Miss Mary Elizabeth Braddon has within the compass of but a very few years produced. And rapidly though these works have been run off one after another, calamo currente, it is only fair to say that the majority of them are, as narratives, simply enthralling. Critics may depreciate their merits, may disdain them. as in various respects violations of art, and some amongst them even as outrages upon nature ; but, for all that, the tale-teller has her way throughout with a vast multitude' of readers secures their ready attention whenever she pleases, and literally again and again captivates their imagination. " The Trail of the Serpent," " Run to Earth," " The Captain of the Vulture," and " Ralph the Bailiff," we care little or nothing for ourselves, regarding them as jejune performances, and in a manner purely experi mental. " Lady Lisle" and " Rupert Godwin" were not much better, all considered. "Only a Clod," "The Lady's Mile," and " Sir Jasper's Tenant" take higher rank altogether. "Birds of Prey," "Charlotte's Inheritance," and " Dead Sea Fruit" are in everyway better. " John Marchmont's Legacy," " The Doctor's Wife," and " Eleanor's Victory " are in every way worthier of regard, and in some respects are entitled to the discerning reader's admiration. But, as tales of witchery, there are three books out of the nineteen stories thus rapidly penned by Miss Braddon, that to our thinking still bear off the palm incontestibly and beyond all possibility of comparison—" Aurora Floyd," " Lady Audley's Secret, " and the " History of Henry Dunbar." If Miss Braddon had written nothing else than those three remarkable fictions, she would have taken rank among the number of English novelists.. To these it is that she owes her reputation. By them she will be remembered. It is as the writer of those three narratives especially that she is always welcome, when she comes to us again bearing in her hand three new volumes of fictitious incident. We forget the other fifteen works, and think only of " Henry Dunbar,"of " Aurora Floyd," and of " Lady Audley's Secret," when we tura, somewhat eagerly, we will admit, to an examina tion of the present work, this novel called" Fenton's Quest,', the last and not the least welcome reprint from the pages of Belgravia. The Quest is not a crowner's, by the way— it is simply a search after a missing wife, the heroine of the narrative. Never until now, so far as our remem brance goes, has any novelist contrived to a jilt, a flagrant jilt, a jilt pur et simple, not merely interesting, but lovable. Fenton, the lover who is jilted, for all that, strikes us throughout as rather a spoon. Never was a trusting lover and a confiding friend more basely deceived. Yet the guilt of his intimate companion, the guilt of his betrothed wife that was to have been, he meekly condones—accompanied though that guilt is with the most despicably sly concealment. Altogether the story here related is a sort of wicked am plification of ",Mariana in the moated Grange." When Mariana is hid away at the Grange, in the dry moat of which we are told that the primroses and violets were scattered about in the early spring time in affluent abundance--we miss only " the blue fly' singing "i' the pane "—the moose in one part shrieks behind the mouldering wainscot, and the refrain all through that portion of the narrative is that " he cometh not," and that her life is " aweary, aweary." It is Shakspere's heroine and Tennyson's in modern costume. And as one may say all but gone to the bad —certainly with no claim left to her entitling her to be regarded for a moment longer with any sense of respect either for the truthfulness or for the loyalty of her character. Two localities there are in this book—two localities and two characters—that after we have read the tale through live in our remembrances as having been most freshly and most cleverly delineated. One is the old silversmith's den and household in the narrow purlieus leading out of Wardour street, Soho. The other is the large, lonely, rambling farm near the Grange already mentioned, the owner of which farm is surely the strangest specimen of an English farmer that the pen of a British novelist ever yet pourtrayed miserly, mean, despicable, money grubbing, selfish, pitiless, the most contemptible of mortals, the miserablet to look o at—marrying for her go od i looks a young grl wh not only despises but loathes him, and finally doing her out of the bulk of his possessions on his deathbed by bequeathing them to a local charity on the carefully-de fined condition that his name shall be conspicuously dis played, with esquire attached to it, as the munificent benefactor of the institution. It is in a secluded room of this old farm house that Marian—in Quest of whom her jilted lover, Fenton, has been so long and almost despairingly going through all kinds of adventures— unnaturais at length found to have been secre ted by her father because of the latter's determination, if possible , to secure to himself the fortune left to her, and away from him, by her grandfather, the Old Soho silversmith. A fire that destroys the farm, and all but destroys the heroine just before the close of the story brings about the revelation—the surprise of which would have been all the more welcome had it been correctly conjectured for some time previously by the reader. It would be idle to assert that Fenton's Quest will in any way enhance, but, at the least, it fairly sus tains Miss Braddon's reputation as a novelist whose works are read eagerly almost upon the moment of their publi-, cation. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, HOLBORN. This popular place of amusement was filled to over flowing on Monday evening on the occasion of the debi t of " Lulu," a young lady of Circassian origin, whose Wow derful performances have earned for her the designstioli of the eighth wonder of the world. The various feats of equestrianism in the arena were of a highly finished oa diverting character.; but the attraction of the evening 05 undoubtedly Lulu, whose appearance excited 12 s little wonderment, it being almost incredu lol that the possessor of a form so diminutive should be capable of executing such astounding feats of strength and daring as the previous annoulice. ments had led the audience to anticipate. All a ppreli e l, sion of danger was allayed by the air of confidence whicv the young gymnast evinced, and th e fact that a large P ' ie ce of network was extended b eneath the platforln which was suspended in mid-air on which the er ar tiste stood. One of the many feats which cited the curiosity of the spectators, was turning " ,f backward somersault, and alighting from a distance ~e twenty feet on a bridge sixteen inches wide. But t most extraordinary of all was a perpendicular bound fr ( r the top of the fence of the circle to a height of Well' five feet. That this is done b y means of some invt: a gency is beyond a doubt, but wh at that agency is stile audience are left to surmise. That the feat is skilful, till involves calculations of extreme nicety on the part of Lowo order to avoid being propelled beyond the mark aili leci t etl is also unquestionable ; and the applause whic s heetre of the performer concluding by jumping from gl/ote something like twenty feet, and malting three conivej, revolutions in the air before alighting, was well de sef a No doubt the commodious am p hitheatre will be vigtse a large number of person s durin g the engagement , wonderful young lady. The Bishop of Manchester has wr itten a IeAO tlie advice to the clergy and churchwardens of St. Jo" th e Baptist's Church at Hulme, Manchester, respect eo n ` ' ritual observed in the Church, and against whic 4 plaints have been recently made. tli 4 PRESERVILD MILS.—The difficulty of obt 3l ,viti; good milk has always hitherto been a vexed ques ti°ll f °ll - they being entirely at them ereY ° i . i iile to dairyman who has the monopoly of the locality i ll ,fle if they may chance to reside ; but it is pleasant to beAe stele, note that an immense improvement has of late o ld apparent in the supply of this truly household voi4a Milk can now be obtained from all grocers and c ,,, - olt in a preserved state, being transported direct w D a r'sell t from the rich pasture-lands of Switzerland, 113 ', tlio t d hither firmly secured in tins hermetically sealed, 606erviof will remain good for any length of time. In it s P.ise 3 05 state the.milk has a pasty appearance, which is ''" roe he the fact of sugar being mixed with it to a ssist Ofder Z o t of preserving ; and the only thing necessary.to r`, o or „,' it preserved milk ready for immediate .use 18 s ,' s yllelo water upon as much as a person may wish to ns:' , ol ,e. ti p: at once dissolves, and is both milk and sugar g.,,,,,, ivi,.o the present Franco-German war the .Auglo•P " i re t oe Company, of 38, Leadenhall-street, London, qie i l os_ io r their resources taxed to the utmost to s upplY Pari s 1 ) : 0 1 armies ; and large orders were received from !i l ia rig t ' s io to the investment, but for want of time they„ev es t IN/ be fulfilled. The rate of importation comes, f or 4 -'0( 0 of this article is, on an average , 1,500 ,?lrsio,lB,,eii, 11b. tins per monthshould be borne. n Vbe ''„ e pt each tin is equal to five pints of crude milt ra j ret D ie known medical authority, Dr. Lankester, A _noolir:gio: inquests held by him, has commented in a law', t he it i l i ef' manner as to the advisability of the products, o,_l_,, i iii v t; Swiss Company being substituted for br . 9 e s__%':, o l in t o?, it was not possible for a mother to suckle n j_.,i t ifos_ tlil, and it is to be hoped that, from the high el fd tit s!;,,,oo r all quarters that have been gratuitously Painolo'.ifite` p re sekved milk, it will be come more general suc h a' apineciatcd, and meet with the success wOlO-' ' enterprise deserves. THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGHT O'CLOCK, ' with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This Edition will always contain the LATES 1' NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events.