The Sun. — London, England, 1871-01-17 00:00:00

B OY'S OVERCOATS, 7s. 6d. to 455. MOSES and SON beg to remind the public E• that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its 4natity. and they venture to sly that their prices will compare favourably with-those of any other in ise in England. IZOYAL 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 ; and Mr. SUCHET CHAMPION in the Morning.—THE WORLD OF MAGIC, by Mr. J. BEAUMONT.—GRECIAN STATUARY, by MADAME BOT.TSFIELD ; and a thousand and one other Enter tainments all for ONE SHILLING, twice daily, 12 to 5 and 7 to 10, other commander. Now that the bulk of the army, perhaps the whole, is transferred to Vinoy we may expect more heavy fighting. THE QUARTERLIES AND TIM WAR. It is a remarkable event when the leading Quarterly Reviews are agreed upon any point. Such an event does not often happen. Yet they are agreed upon the war. The Quarterly Review makes an uncompromising declaration in favour of France : "The prolonged resistance of France is amply justified by her resources, and by the spirit of her children ; and (it adds) in the sacred struggle in which she is now engaged we here, in the name of all that is generous, manly, and honour able, wish her from our heart God speed." The Edinburgh Review is not behindhand. It is rejoiced to find that, in spite of the past,"France has still the moral energy to carry on this great contest for national independence. Victory is the prize of those who can make war longest, and if aught of her ancient spirit remains, she will not treat as long as a stranger treadsher soil." The Edinburgh Review is the organ of the upper middle-class, which has through out furnished the largest body of German sym pathisers. F . MUSES and SON'S OXFORD COATS, 17s. to 503. CAMBRIDGE COATS, 10s. to 503. KERTCH JA.OKETS, 15s. to 425. 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I P , 4 MOSES and SON supply every description of . clothing, rendy-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes: also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoez, andcomplete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any tide exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. 31OSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset when busi ess 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, _ COUNTRM BRANCH. RADFORD. YORKSHIRE. THEATRE' ROYAL, DRURY LANE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, F. B. Chatterton.—Morning Performances every Wednesday and Saturday, until Saturday, February 25th, inclusive.—THlS EVENING (Tuesday), will be produced the Drury Lane Grand Comic CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, written by E. L. Blanchard, entitled the DRAGON OF WAN - TLEY ! and Harlequin Old Mother Shipton with New and Characteristic Scenery by William Beverly, whose personal services are now exclusively devoted to illustrating the produc tions of this Theatre. The general action of the Pantomime arranged by, and the whole produced under, the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling. Characters in the opening by Messrs. Fred. Yokes, H. Moreland Charles Steyne Fawdon Yokes, H. Naylor, Seymour, Firth, Meade, Webber, F. Wright, Master Russsll ; Misses Victoria - Yokes, Jessie Yokes, Rosina Yokes, Harriet Coveney, M. A. Basquerville, A. Hamilton, Hall, Florence Hatvey, De Grey, Ross, Timbrell, Elphinstone, Har court, Lee, Leslie, Mills, White, Burpitt, Rivers, Russell, Hastings. The Harlequinade will include those popular Pan tomimists, forming a Double Company, F. Evans, and W. H. Harvey, Clowns ; Paul Herring and J. Mor is, Pantaloons ; W. Fawdon 'Yokes and Stonette, Harlequins ; the Misses Rosina and Jessie Yokes, Columbines ; Miss Lizzie Grosvenor, Har lequina. B. Slowman, Imitator of Birds, &c. Mr. H. Collard ' the Pocket Sims R eeves. Master Dassie, the Chickalear y Bo y . E. D. Lyon, the Short Footman. Lawson and Garton, the French Fierrots. Master 11. Rawlings, Clog Dancer. La Petrie, the Baby Velocipedist. The Masks and Costumes from Designs by Vandyke Brown. The Music Composed and Selected by Mr. W. C. Levey. The Dances and Action of the Ballet, and the general bu siness of the Children's Scenes, Invented and Arranged by Mr. J o h n Cormack. The Co mic Scenes and Tricks, &c., arranged by Mr. John Cormaek and Messrs. Evans and Harvey. Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven. Box-office open from 'fen till Five daily. Private Boxes, 1,2, 3,4, and 5 Guineas. Stalls, 7s. Dress Circle, ss. Fir . st Circle, 4s. Balcony, 3s. Pit, 2s. Lower Gallery, Circles Upper Gallery, 6d. THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY ; or, Harle q uin Old Mother Shipton, will be produced To-night (Tuesday) January 17, and positively with drawn on Saturday, February 25. Places can be secured from the first until the last datand e. MORNING PERFORMANCES every WEDNESDAY SATURDAY ; therefore, to prevent disappointment, an early application for seats is respectfully requested. Box-office open from Ten till Five daiIy.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. UORNING PERFORMANCES of the Grand T - Pantomime, entitled the DRAGON 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 10 till 5 daily.— THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. THEATRE ROYAL, H AYM AR K E T.- Fiftieth Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDY. —PHIS EVENING (Tuesday) at Seven, O'Keefe's Musical Piece, THE FOOR SOLDIER, with selections from the original music. Patrick, Miss Fanny Wright, Norah, Miss Fanny Gwynne. After whieh, 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, Everill, 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. T. Kendal and Miss Robertson. Concluding with the Farce of THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. Box once open daily from 10 till 5. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee, olßen jamin Webster. Ma na g ers, B . W ebster and F t er ton.—THlS EVENING , at seven, PEEP 0 ' DAY , by. B Edmund Falconer, terminating with the celebrated Quarry Scene. At 8.30 an entirely ne w grand spectacular extrava4ganza, entitled LITTLE GIL BLAS ; and How he Played the Spanish D(j)euce By H. B. Farnie. The music by Frank Musgrave ; the ballet . , groupings, ac., by J. Milano ; the new and magnificent scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds and assistants ; the costumes after drawings by Gustave Dori. To conclude from with Ten till HE'S A LUNATIC. Mr. J. Clayton.—Box Office open Five. ADELYHI THEATRE ROYAL.—SoIe Pro prietor, Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER ; Managers, Mr. B. WEBSTER and Mr. F. B. CIIATTERTON.—THIS EVENING, at 7, a new Drama, in One Act, SMOKE. Mr. Billington, Mr. Ashley, Mr. C. H. Stephenson, Mrs. Billington, and Miss Furtado. At 8.15 ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. 3lr. B. Webster and Miss Furtado. To conclude with THE MISTLETOE BOUGH. Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Elise Holt, Mademoiselle Debreaux, Mdlle. Camilla Dubois, Miss renew, Miss M. Cooper, and Miss Bella Moore, Mi. Brittain Wright, Mr. John Rouse, and Mr. Odell ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA COMPANY, (LIMITED). —LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING (Tuesday), .Tannary 17th, will be produced the New Opera, ALI BABA (written expressly for this Com pany). Boxes on the grand tier, £3 35.: stall tier, a 12s. 6d.; upper circle, £1 lls. 6d.; orchestra stalls, 10s. W.; grand tier dress seats, 75.; upper circle seats, 45.; pit tickets, 2s. 6d.; amphi theatre, ls, OYAL STRAND THEATRE. It Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBORGUGH. This Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE. Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Huftoa, and F. Hughes. CCEIJR-DE-LION, Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Bufton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c. ROYALTY THEATRE.—TO-NIGHT, JANUARY 17.—Sixth time of an original Comedietta ' by R. Reece, in Tw o Acts, entitled DORA'S DEVICE. At 7.30, DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND ; at 8.15, DORA'S DEVICE ; concluding irith IVIIITTINOTON JUNIOR and his SENSATION CAT. 1 4 1 1408E3 and SON'S -Ay I NTER OVERCOATS, 19s, to £5 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, lB7 VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND -- Lessees—Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. .Tames, and T. Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7, CHISELLING, Mr. David James ; after which TWO ROSES (195th night), by James Albery. Conclude with ELIZABETH. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, David James, and T. Thorne, dcc. ; Mesdames Amy Fawsitt, A. Newton, and Nelly Power, Sze. MADAM E 'IUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view Portrait Models of the eg-Emperor and Empress of the French, and Prince Imperial. Also, Marshal Bazaine, Marshal Canrobert, General Trochu, &e., &e. &c. — Admission, Is. ; Children under Ten Years of age, ad. Extra Rooms, Gd. 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. Also Count von Bismarck and Count von Moltke.—Admission ls. ; children under ten years of age, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. extra.— Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. DARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.O ). 2HE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND JARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20e Per ream. B. d Fine Cream Laid Note; a cheap paper..... ...... .. Superfine Cream Laid Note ; much approve d . 4 0 1 Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note ;especially recommended 5 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note .... 7 0 Straw Paper, " Patent ;" adapted for rapid writing ............. 2 6 Large Commercial Note Papers.... Is., 45.55., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream.......... 105. 6d., 12s. 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Price lb.td.— Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair ZiL to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNE LL 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 bottle; Is. each; also 5a., 7; 6d., and 158. each, includ ing brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street, Lon don, E.C. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley. COVENT GARDEN —Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty. ADELPHI—Smoke. One Touch of Nature. Mistletoe Bough. HAYMARKET—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Truth. Uncle's Will. The Spectre Bridegroom. VAUDEVILLE —Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the Invisible Armada. ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA, LYCEUM—AIi Baba, OPERA COMIQUE Blue Devils. Found Drowned. The Lottery Ticket. STRAND—On and Off. Lion. ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. War. Furioso. OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur lesque) Paul and Virginia. ROYALTY—Dora's Device, Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat, and Diamond Cut Diamond. GAlETY—Operetta. A Christmas Story. Alladin 11. QUEEN'S —Charles 11. Merchant of Venice. GLOBE—Rights of Woman. Delicate Ground. White Cat. Rely on my Discretion. HOLBORN—Ticket-of-Leave Man. Jezabel. PRINCE OF WALES'S. Queen Stork. Ours. Locked In. PRINCESS'S—Peep o' Day. a Lunatic. 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. EGYPTIAN HALL—Poole and Young's Panorama of the Franco-Prussian War. AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the Arena. ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. ALHAMBRA—New Musical Entertainment, " Superba." POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After noon and Evening. PALMS ROYAL—Performing Gorilla. MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street)—From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. is.; extra rooms, 6d. Living at Ease. Coeur-de Bombastes Little Gil Blas. The He's CONSISTENT. One passage in Count Bismarck's note, replying to the charges of barbarity against the Germans, is almost laughable. "It is not," he says, "in the intention of the present rulers of France to facilitate a restoration of peace. Consequently, they have rendered impossible the free expression of opinion in France through the medium of the press and of national representatives." This comes from the chief Minister of the Government that imprisoned Dr. Jacoby for pro testing against annexation, that removei two members of the Prussian Parliament for daring to express unpalatable views, and whose leniency to journals is guided by precisely the same condition— that they shall not venture to say anything of which it disapproves. Many of the French papers daily condemn the policy of the Republican Government. ARCHBISHOP MANNING ON THE STATE OF PAlus, The touching appeal of the Bishop of Versailles, has been powerfully supported by the eloquence of Archbishop Manning. The right rev. prelate preached a most effective sermon at the Kensington Pro-Cathedral, in which he drew a moving picture of the present con condition of Paris, and bade his hearers imagine what would be the state of the citizens of London if all business were paralysed for four months, and the city cut off from communication with the outer world. There was nothing in Christianity to compare with the history of the last five months. During fifty years there had been general peace in Europe. There had been wars, but they had been short and transitory, and the Archbishop testified, from his own experi- (nee of the Continent, how rapid had been the conse quent march of civilisation and progress. Now fifty years more would not suffice to repair the wreck of moral said material well-being. Fifty years were put back as it the shadow upon the dial were put back again by an adverse Providence. No such appeal as the one he then read to them had been put forth in the history of warfare. A. city of two millions of men, shut in by a circle of iron and fire, was wasted day and night by starvation, and this within ten hours of our thresholds. Ile called upon his hearers to consider what luxuries they could dis pense with, giving the results of their sacrifice for the relief of this terrible distress.. TH BIRMINGH A M G UN TR A DR. Great activity prevails in the Birmingham gun trade, and the manufacturing energies of the several factories are severely taxel. From six to seven thou sand military rifles of all kinds are supplied weekly for though breechloaders are most in demand, the pressure on the trade obtains a ready sale for others. The Small Arms factory, et which Enfields are being converted into breechloaders, bas been at work day and night for the last four months, and the amount of its production will be considerably increased in a few weeks, when the machinery is in full working order. Despite the talk about peace the wise men of Birmingham appear to reckon on a aontinuance of the war, for there is a scheme of establishing another small arms factory, under the superintendence of Mr. Westley Richards, employing 1,500 men, and producing 2,000 rifles weekly, If this is carried out the Birmingham manufacture will amount to nearly 1.0,000 per week. Largo quantities of cartridges are being made in the town, and it is satisfactory to find that since the late terrible accidents the manufacturers have taken great pre cautions. It is significant that the Russian Govern ment has given large orders for arms and ammuni tion. An order for 30,000 rifles was completed a short time since, and another of the same extent is being negotiated, as well as orders for railway rolling stock, suitable for military purposes, MAJOR PALLISER ON GUNS. Major Palliser has given the public the benefit of his views on the relative merits of breechloading and muzzle-loading guns. He has long thought it desirable that heavy rifled guns should be so con structed as to load either at the breech or the muzzle, and he patented a bieechloader three years since which ' can be employed as a muzzle-loader as well. The ad vantages of breech-loaders have been so often brought forward that the merits of muzzle-loaders are sometimes overlooked. One of these, Major Palliser reminds us, is that the latter cannot pos sibly get out of order in the heat and flurry of action at close quarters. He has disproved by experiments the assertion that a muzzle loader is liable to be burst by the shot slipping forward when the gun is fired. Another fallacy is the belief that the breech of a breechloading cannon cannot be made as strong as that of a muzzle loader. Prior to the year 1863 the longtitudinal strengths of guns were calculated upon au incorrect principle, and consequently the heavy muzzleloadingguns,when converted into breechloaders blew their breeches out. A similar fate befell the heavy Krupp guns from the same error. Major Palliser claims to be the first who observed the law of the incidence of the longtitudinal strain, and he hopes that in the event of any experiments being made with heavy breech-loading guns, his plan of converting wrought iron muzzle-loading guns into breech-loaders, which can be employed equally well as muzzle-loaders, will be tried. HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF LE MANS. Le Mans, which has just become famous from the battles fought around the spot, is connected with many events that are of interest in the history of England. In ancient times it was the centre for Druid worship, and a Druid stone is built into the church of St. Julien. This church contains the tomb of Berengaria of Sicily, the wife of Richard Coeur de Lion, and a house in Le Mans is still pointed at as memorable for having been the residence of that Queen. The town is also notable as being the birth place of Henry the Second. An interesting cir tumstauce connected with the place is that the Plantagenet line took its name from the genet, or broom, which flourishes about the hills of Anjou and Maine. Le Mans was the scene of a terrible affair in 1793, when ten thousand men, women, and children were killed by the Republican armies who were fighting against the Vend6ans. In peaceful days the little place was noted for its clover-seed and capons. THE MEATH ELECTION. The Irish Ultra papers display no great glee at the result of the Meath election. On the contrary they appear rather disappointed, as the Irishman puts it, that the electors should send any representatives to the British Parliament. Members must be real representa tives, and " hold their sittings within the influence of their country's voice, and where it best suits their country's interests and welfare. We are tired of absentees." The _Nag of Ireland thinks that the " great cause " i 4 rather weak em-d than strengthened by securing seats in the Parliament at London. "fly going there they, (tie members) acknowledge the very authority of tho Parliament whose authority they are supposed to deny by seeking from it any relief of Irish wrongs or restitution of Irish rights.' The con-lesion to be drawn from these and other organs is that among the Nationalists, Repealers, and the rest, there exists none of that unity which is strength. A CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION. A Working Men's Conservative Club has been opened af Clitheroe, East Lancashire, and a great Conservative demonstration was celebrated in con nection with it, at which several were present. Mr. Assheton, M.P., thought the Irish policy of the Government had been a failure, and claimed for the Conservatives the credit of having carried Mr. Forster's bill through Parliament at a time when he was deserted by the members of his own party. Mr. Hornby, M.P., complained of the unsatisfactory condition of the national armaments. It was useless to lay the blame on Mr. Card well; it was Mr. Gladstone who must be pronounced unfit to guide the helm of State. He thought it was the duty of England to prevent France from being crushed by Prussia. The commercial existence of England depended on the main tainance of our colonies and the wisdom of our foreign policy. Resolutions were passed declaring that in the present threatening aspect of affairs the armaments of England were in a most un satisfactory condition, and expressing the want of confidence felt by the meeting in Mr. Gladstone. ACCOMMODATION FOR SMALLPDX. Two cases which came before the Westminster Police-court, the other day, were illustrative of the want of accommodation that exists in London for cases of smallpox. A working man came forward on behalf of a young man who was sufferinit from that disease, and had been refused admission to the workhouse. He had a ticket for the hospital, but could not bo received for want of room. The young man was subsequently taken into the workhouse on an application from the war rant officer of the Court. The sanitary inspector of St. Margaret's, Westminster, applied for an order for the burial of a poor man who had died of smallpog. His children were in the room with the corpse and several people were staying in the house. The work house authorities had refused to take any action in the matter, although he had obtained certificates of the cause of death, and for the removal of the body. The magistrate at once gave the required order. The London Sick Asylum Board managers, have addressed a circular to the Boards of Guardians, res pecting the accommodation provided for those suffering from smallpox. They desire that the Guardians will make some immediate provision far their own cases, pending the completion of some extensive arrangements which the Asylum Board are carrying out for increased accommodation. The Report of the Westminister medical officer of health states that the frightful inereate of smallpox shews the necessity of vaccina tion, and also the necessity of isolation. He thinks the Boards of Guardians ought to erect suitable pre mises for the reception of the poor suffering from that disease, Dots IT PAY TO SBIO4F. ? A smoker, who Las abandoned smoking, issues a warning to his fellow-men nn2er the title " Does it pay to smoke? which question he answers in the negative; though some of his arguments against the popular practice are quaint enough. Smok ing induces content, which in this world is undesirable, and makes a man accept many things with equanimity, which he ought to resent, and amend, Smoking clogs ambition; it is a bar barism, and tends to make a man think and talk like a barbarian. Tobacco, moreover, is opposed to feminine influence, and the smoker has sel dom any feeling of awe and veneration for the august mothers of our race. The coming man, says the converted smoker, who is an American, will not smoke, but we are spending enormous sums in thp pernicious practice. Poets, painters, clergymen, editors, men of all classes, smoke. Henry Clay, the celebrated American statesman, "chewed, smoked, and took snuff," and among English worthies who set the evil example must be cited the illustrious names of Milton and Locke. It is to bp feared that in spite of all the excellent arguments brought against tobacco and all its varieties, the :smokers will remain of the same opinion still. " You will shorten your age by half-a-dozen years, if you smoke," said a doctor one day. " How many years am I likely to live ?" asked the patient. " You may live for fifty years yet," was the reply. " Very well, doctor ; I shall live forty-lour years in comfort ; and you may have the other ON." THE INUNDATION AT ROME. A correspondent at Rome says the damages done by the flood are being repaired as rapidly as the continued rain will admit of ; but the river is again rising, and a strong sirocco blowing ; and as the fall of snow on the Ap pennines has been considerable during the last week, there is some little fear of a renewal of the horrible catastrophe which they have just passed through. The Pope has given 100,000 f. to be distributed, since his first donations of 20,000 f. and 35,000 f., an l more- over has ordered Mgr. De 1114 rode to distribute all the beds purchased for the use of the bishops and their suites at the time of the (Ecumenical Council, The colleges and religious orders are also distributing large sums, but there seems, un fortunately, to be a good deal of angry feeling and jealousy between the different sects and parties even respecting these charities. It was said that Cardinal Antonelli refused permission to pierce the wall of the Vatican, as was necessary, This charge is denied by the Cardinal, who laughed at the accusation. " The Sappers had the matter in their own hands," he said, " and the first I heard (4 the wall was that they had made a broach in it." Prince Humbert and his Princess are expected in Rome on the 18th, when it is thought the Prince will assume the military command of the province. • ~t 41 la vi,841-1 HER M4,1E,571.1.7, ---.--It.-•--- OSBORNE, Jan. 16. The Queen walked out this morning attended by Lady Churchill. Prince Arthur, Prince Leopld, and Princess Beatrice also went out, The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Lowe are visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury at Hatfield. No day has yet hiien ayvointed for giving judgment in the Voysey appeal case. - The death is announced of Dr. Thomas Mayo, who was for some time President of the Royal College of Physicians. On Thursday next the judges will assemble to choose the spring circuits, which will commence about the end of next month. The chief of each court has the first pick, and then follow the senior puisne judges. '.l l he days are afterwards fixed for the sittings in circuit. RUMOURED APPROACHING RETIREMENT OF THE SPEAKER.—It is rumoured, and we believe the rumour is not Without some foundation, that the Speaker of the House of Commons will retire fram his office soon after the meeting of Parliament next month. It is said that Mr. Denison only awaits the appointment of his successor before retiring from Parliament. If this should be the case, it is considered probable that Mr. Webb, of New stead Abbey, will be the candidate put forward by the Liberal party in North Notts—in fact, we have heard that steps have already been taken in support of that gentle man's candidature.—Nottingham Guardian. NOTICE; The SUN will in future be published solely at 8 a.m., and the Evening Editions will be discontinued from this date. January 7, 1871. g mUlt LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1871. PEACE. It is pretty certain that any disposition Count Bismarck may have to accept the friendly assistance of neutral powers in arranging terms is largely owing to the state of affairs in South Germany. In the Southern States the feeling is far from unanimously in favour of continuing the war. The Vaterland, an ultramontane jonrnal of Munich, advises the King of Bavaria to withdraw his troops and conclu le a separate peace:— The people are burying, mourning, and weeping over their numerous dead. They lament over the bad business, and long for peace, peace, peace. Bavaria by the well-known offensive and defensive treaty was only bound to assist in defending the German territory, never to co-operate in a war of conquest. Is the present war, based only on the interests of dynastic arrogance, still a defensive war, or has it not in the highest degree degenerated into a war of race and conquest ? If the latter is the case Bavaria is not bound to contribute another farthing, the more so as the people have already had more than enough of blood shed in France, and wish for no complicity in further slaughter and in the murderous burnings which have already happened, and have still, through the well-known " Divine disposal," to happen. The Vaterland is the only Bavarian journal which writes in this strain, but more than one express doubts whether the campaign in France is progress ing so fast or so favourably as the German telegrams represent. In Prussia the distress is very great. In the capital alone the ranks of pauperism have been swollen by no fewer than 13,000 families. Old men are now being called out to garrison the towns. TUE PARIS ARMY. According to correspondence from Paris Ducrot is very ill, and has been obliged to allow the transference of three of his best division s t o G en er a l Vinoy's army, This news is important. What the illness can be which necessitates the transfer of three divisions, and yet allows the General to direct the rest, it is difficult to say ; but there can be no doubt as to the opportuneness of this afflic tion. Whatever may be Ducrot's merits, it is incontestable that Vinoy was far more popular with the troops. It would be worse than useless to attempt another sortie in force under any MR. FORSTER' ON THE WAS. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) Last evening the Right Hon. W. B. Forster addressed his constituents - in St. George's Hall, which was crowded by an audit nce of about four thousand persons. Alderman Brown occupied the chair, and on the platform was a large number of LiberalS of the town and district. A large section of the meeting was strongly opposed to Mr. Forster's policy in the adjustment of the question on national education, and this feeling was repeatedly manifested in the course of the proceedings. Mr. Forster, who was received with loud cheering, said he did not know that, over since he had been their mem ber, had he been so long without addressing them ; but although a Cabinet Minister, and therefore un able to speak with perfect freedom, ,he never had intended to omit his annual address. It was exactly a year since his last address, and the last half of it had witnessed scenes which defied description, for it was impossible to find words to describe them. Tuesday was exactly six months since the declaration of war by France against Prussia. What a change those six months had witnessed ! The nation was looking with feelings of sorrow on the wild and thoughtless exhultation with which Paris received that declaration, and now we were waiting in expectation of soon witnessing the entry within her gates of those Germans she hoped to conquer the first half of the year. The parliamentary half had been by no means unimportant, but he felt it to be his first duty to speak on this great question of the war, on which however he could only speak with a heavy re sponsibility attaching to every word he spoke ; indeed, some responsibility attached to the cpinion of every English citizen. On this matter he wished that his re sponsibility was more generally recognised, and that some of those who were writing on the question would reflect, but they might be sowing the seeds of hate between our . selves and continental nations. He had never felt that it was the duty of Englishmen to 'tell the French that they ought to cease resistance, but at the same time he held that Englishmen ought to be most careful that they did not mislead the French as to the attitude of England, and lead them to prolong the contest after it became hopeless. These who were partizans could not be peacemakers, and, therefore, whatever his opinion might be as to the beginning of the war, or as to its present position, it must not be expected that he should express it ; that, however, did not preclude the expression of sympathy, and who could have helped sympathising with the Germans in resisting the invasion at the onset, and with the French for resisting invasion new. (Cheers.) The hon. member expressed his confidence that when Par liament met Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville would be able to prove that they had done their best to preserv e peace. They had offered advice to Prussia to withdraw the original cause of the war, and Prussia followed the advice ; advice to France after that cause of war was withdrawn, not to declare war, and !that advice he was sorry to say France did not follow. It might be alleged that if the Government had expressed strong opinion as to the horrors of the war and the evils it would bring on Europe, they might have stayed it. He did not believe that Count Moltke's strategy and Count Bismarck's plans would have been changed by such means, but that was no reason why those means should not have been resorted to. If it could have been believed that any good results would follow if our Go vernment were to attempt to lay down terms on which peace should be made, the answer of Prussia,and probably of France, would be, that it was Rot for those who made war to make peace, and that it was for neutral Powers to step in and say what should be the conditions of that peace. After again urging the necessity of refraining from any partisanship, if England was to have any real chance of bringing about peace, Mr. Forster said he was conscious that the position which ho urged the nation should take up was not an easy one, but deviation from it would amount to throwing away any chance of becoming peacemaker by becoming partisan. He was aware that there were some who would regard all moral force as useless, and who were prepared to go further and declare that moral force was worthless unless followed by physical force, that they would follow up words by blows, and make England's influence felt in this contest. He was not himself of this opinion, and he would tell the reason why. There had been some meetings held and articles written in support of this view of armed interference. He did not want to exaggerate either these meetings and these writings, and he rejoiced that Parliament would soon meet, because in that assembly, largely elected by household suffrage, more meetings would soon be reduced to their true proportions as representative of the national feeling. He believed that the meetings and the articles were largely inspired, in the first place, by sympathy with the suffering patriots of France, but behind that he feared there WAS another feeling less respectable than sympathy, and that was that the nation was hearing so much about war, and getting so excited, that it was beginning to be infected with the war spirit. (" No.") A gentleman said " No, no," but he must be blind to the signs of the times if he did not recognise the fact that the war spirit was in truth a most contagious disease. He did not wish to be misunderstood, he was not a member of the Peace Society, though he was born a member of one, and lie recognised the fact that occasion arose when war, horrible as it was, became a duty, but when not a duty war was murder, whether carried on out of the greed of territory, or for the, sake of glory. What right had he, then to declare war against either France or Prussia. He did not say that in no ease ought one country to come to the help of another, but he did say that the cage in which it would be the duty of England to join either France or Germany had not yet occurred. Some urged that England ought at the beginning to have threatened France to sign against her if she declared war, and that that would have stopped the war ; but threats were dangerous things, and he believed that in this case, in stead of stopping the war, they would have extended it ; amid if the Government had a duty towards other countries, they had also a duty to the people of England, the duty not merely of refraining from spending their money, but also of refraining from sending their sons to slaughter in p, quarrel which was not of their making. He was for peace at any price short of the non-performance of duty. The duties which „England had to perform were the de , fenee of her own shores and her dependencies ; and he therefore sympathised with the attitude of Lord Granville in his attitude on the Black Sea Question and the fulfilment of obligations. Therefore he held that the Government was right in accepting an obli gation in regard to the neutrality of Belgium, and declaring its readiness to fulfil that obligation ; but he wauld be very careful about incurring such obligations in future. Mr, Forster referred to some passages in a recent speech of Sir Charles Dilico's, and repudiated a notion which seemed to be con veyed in them, that England might go to war and not exert herself further than by blockading a few ports. If England did go to war she would have to strain every nerve, and prepare both to be heavily struck and to strike heavily in reply. Sir Charles Dilke was not right k in the belief he expressed of the rumour that it was through an underhand influence on the part of the Queen that had prevented the recognition of the French Republic by England. There was no truth in the rumour, and the course of the Queen had been perfectly constitutional and like that of an English lady. The simple fact of the matter was that it was the " custom of the English Government to present credentials to the chief person of any Government, and if it was a monarchy, to the king; if a republic,to the president ; but at present there was no ;ecognised president of the French Republic. As soon as there was, the ordinary courses would be taken. Meanwhile, the friendly relations existing with the French Government and Lord Lyons had opened com munications with it immediately after its formation. Mr. Forster denied that the action of Lord Palmerston at the time of the coup d'etat afforded a precedent for the action of her Majesty's Government at present, and closed his reference to foreign affairs by expressing his hope that ere long we should see an end of any estrangement between England and the United States, From what he knew of the character and past life of General Schenck, the new American Minister, there was good ground to suppose that by the long-standing dispute between Ame rica and England -it was continually obliterated from taking all part in foreign affairs, and was disregarded by all neutral Powers ; but the truth was that foreigners estimated the influence of England by her power and her spirit, and not by the writings of dissatisfied politicians and discontented officers. Our navy was, he believed, stronger than ever it had been before ; and our army had, he contended, no need to be increased to the size of those possessed by countries which were liable to have their . frontiers overrun by • hundreds of thousands of soldiers. . nay reform, nevertheless, was necessary, and lie believed that a measure of that kind would be a principal measure of next session. Mr. Forster contended that Mr. Cardwell had been most unfairly dealt with, . and prejudice unde- Servedly raised against him. He was in truth a man of great moral courage, and, moreover, an unassuming man. Having referred to the measures to be introduced in the coming session—the Ballot,the Abolition of University Tests, the Licensing Bill, and the Trades Union Bill—the right hon. gentleman concluded by defending the Education Bill from the objections raised against it. ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. The general annual and quarterly meetings of this institution took place yesterday at Willis's rooms, Admiral Sir Edward Belcher in the chair. The annual report pre sented, which was a marked contrast in a financial point of view with that of the precedin g year, was adopted. Various committee reports having been brought up and read ; it was recommended to the court with a view of meeting questions that might hereafter arise on the subject of commutation under the recent Admiralty retirement scheme for officers of the Royal Navy with reference to its bearing upon membership, that a resolution be passed at this meeting to the effect that commutation by an officer of his retired or half-pay, in accordance with the provisions of Her Majesty's Order in Council of February 22, 1870, would in no way affect the pivileges conferred upon him as a member of this corporation. The recommendation of the committee was adopted. THE ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS OF COM MERCE AND THE INCOME TAX, &c. A meeting of the Hull Chamber of Commerce was held on Friday, R. Glover, Esq., president, in the chair, to decide on the subject to be introduced at the annual general meeting the Associated Chambers of Commerce next month. The subject originally brought forward some years ago by this Chamber, viz., " Tribunals of Commerce," has at last assumed the form of a Bill to be brought before the next Session Parliament, there to undergo the ordeal of professional amendment, and afterwards, in the absence of opposition to become the law of the land. The ques tions of international general average, of abrogating the present vexatious regulations for obtaining a return for spoiled stamps, were decided to be again introduced. On the subject of the abolition of the income tax, schedule D, on the motion of J. L. Seaton, Esq., vies-president, the following resolution was unanimously adopted :—" That the tax on trades and professions, being impolitic in principle, incapable of realisation, even approxi mately, with equity, and being most vexatious and offensive in its operations, is a tax which ' should only be resorted to in cases of great emergency, and ought now to be repealed, and the Asso ciated Chambers having arrived at the above conclusion as the result of their experience and investigation, de termine to represent their views by deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer." TIIE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The past week has brought us again into winter, with the severity increasing as its days were spent, and a thin covering of snow has mostly begirt the country, with slept occasionally falling. Work in the fields, with the exception of cartage, has been stopped. The farmer has been forced upon thrashing, while the grazier has had sharp work to keep his stock in good heart at the double price now paid for fodder, and the scarcity of turnips. But we hear that the young wheat shews no signs of harm, and should the weather only . keep steady we may be the better off for this timely cold, as spring is too far a head to hope for its revivifying influence. In keeping with the dull ad vice from London on Monday, when a general thaw seemed probable, and the weather had affected samples, most markets noted a decline of ls. ger qr.; but on Fri day there were indications of reaction, oreign orders coining again liberally to hand, more flour being again bought at 275. to 275. 6d. per barrel, and about 50,000 quarters of oats, nearly all in granary, at 225. for Russian, and 245. 6d. for heavy swedes, the early capitulation of Paris being reckoned on, and no storehouses but our own being in condition to send prompt supplies'—Mark-Lune Express. SMALLPDX AND THE LONDON CABS. Hardly a day now elapses without some one being summoned to a police-court to answer a charge of hiring a Public vehicle while suffering film smallpox. On Saturday Rebecca James, who, it is stated, ' was very ill, and has recently been under medical treat ment for smallpox," appeared before the magis trate at the Thames Police-court, on a charge of this. description. It seems that on the 17th ult. the defendant,. who was then labouring under the disease in question, was. driven in a cab from Boar's-head-court, Whitechapel-road„ to the Whitechapel Union House, and thence to the smallpox word in Pavilion-yard ; but as she did not herself hire the cab she escaped conviction. This is only one of many other similar cases that are con stantly occurring, and will occur so long as there are no proper arrangements for providing, means for the conveyance of infected persons from their homes to the hospitals. The evil has been so often pointed out to the authorities, and they have been so often warned of the inevitable consequences of their neglect to adopt this simple sanitary precaution, that with them rests the blame of the wholesale propaga tion of small-pox which has taken place through the medium of London cabs, It is not enough that in some districts - a carriage for sick persons is kept at the work house. When a case of smallpox occurs in a house, and it is necessary at once to remove the patient, our organisation should be such that the removal may he immediately effected with out trouble or expense to those concerned, instead of, as at present, an utter ignorance prevailing as to the course to be adopted. The security of the public should be provided for by a simple administra tive process. In the condition to which London has been now reduced, owing to the shameful apathy displayed by those in power with regard to the public health, we require a central sanitary board, sittinr; en permanence, whose office should be open night and ' 3 a 3; and where every information can be afforded 19111 ) , assist ance given to those standing in need of its- —Pall Mall Gazette. At St. James's Hall, on SP:turday, in a match between Bennett and W. Cook . , the latter had a break of 752. He made 220 "spots." 6 or 60 of the whole number of pointg. The eatholic4 'a Flanders are said to have re sponded with 'readiness to the appeal of the Archbishop of Malines, b.jr signing petitions to the King, entreating him to intncede with the great Powers in favour of the resto ration of the temporal power of the Pope. Intelligence comes by the arrival of the Seine w ith the West - India mails, that the French war steamer Bouvet, which recently had an encounter with the Prus sian gunboat Meteor, near Havannah, had taken in a supply of coal at Kingston, and left for Martinique. DEATH OF GARIBALDI'S DAUGHTER.--ACCOunts from Rome state that Teresita Canzio, the only daughter of Garibaldi, is dead. She was the daughter of his first wife, the Spanish Creole Anita, and the twin sister o f Ricciotti, his youngest son. She is said to have been the favourite child of the General, and an amiable and kind hearted woman, The General has received addresses of condolence. AN OLD SALT.—The Philadelphia Ledger chroni cles the death of George Giles, who was born in England in 1780, and, when quite a lad, was seized by a press-gang in London and forced into the Navy. He witnessed the famous mutiny of the Nore, and saw some of the muti neers flogged. While on an expedition under Nelson he. managed to desert, and eventually escaped to the old dis • trict of Southwark, Philadelphia. He resided there until! misfortunes and old age drove him into a benevolent. institution there, known as the Old Man's Home, in which , he died last month at the patriarchal age of 91. THE NEW CUSTOMS REGULATIONS.—At a meet ing of the Shipping Committee of the Hull Chamber of Commerce, under the presidency of H. J. Atkinson, the new Customs Regulations as to the furnishing of certified particulars of the quantities and values of goods on board outward and inward bound ships, within a week after • clearing, were discussed. As this would entail copies; of manifests and of bills of lading of every shipment,. amounting in many cases to four or five hundred different entries in one steamer, and the separate values of each, it; was felt as almost impossible to do this without, in many' cases, grave errors, and equally increased expense. lt was decided to appoint a deputation to wait upon the Lords of the Treasury at the end of the month ; and, its the meantime, to seek the co-operation of other chambers interested in these regulations. MR. J. A. ROEBUCK ON THE PRESENT CRISIS., —Mr. Roebuck has written a letter to an elector at Shef field, in which he says, after stating that he had thought two years' absence was quite enough to wipe him out of men's recollections :—`, I can easily fancy, however, that the want of a plain, bold speaker, with some political knowledge, may be felt at the present hour, whet" England's interests are trembling in the balance. I sit and chafe, knowing I can do nothing,- and seeing that weakness and imbecile vanity' rule and guide our councils in this important crisis- The next year will place in jeopardy the honour,- the power, aye, the very existence of our country, and alli we can dp is to sit by with folded hands, and accept quietly! what fate shall bring. But this language is useless; Wei must submit. As for myself, I am very well, and men' tally I believe myself to be as vigorous as ever. AIY blindness, thanks to modern art, has been greatly relieved , and I can read and write as usual. lam writing to yon by the aid of what I t may call my new eye, and the resu lt lies before you, no very bad specimen of renovated sigh . Years are stealing on ; I know not what I may be capable, of when the time for action comes. But if then I sAialt be as I am now, I shall be willing, if called on, to fight my old fight in favour of truth and freedom, 4KI to do battle against noisy humbug and vulgar hypocrisy." MR. GLADSTONE AND GREENW/554.-- , -The Lib Oral Association of Greenwich have held another meeting Wit s respect to the requisition on faot calling on Mr. Gla,dston 6 to resign his seat for the boroUgh. Some discussion took place as to the course which the supporters of Mr. Glad , stone should follow—whether they should hold a public' meeting of their own, or attend the meeting held by the' promoters of the requisition, It was suggested that I t the meeting of the opposite party was a ticket affair , I would be difficult to gain an entrance, and therefore 'it would be idle to attend it in the hope of fro', discussion taking place. After various proposaLs - an amendment was carried to the effect that a meet3' ic y by ticket could not represent the opinions of the 3- iZ g li, and therefore the affair should be regarded w' -'°, We' rence by the general electors. A resobatir Ai that a counter-meeting should be heid vr also an amendment that mew as rejected , tike electors should go to the the requisition meeting woes wo' a ofure Hall, ~ admission. It was anno,uwed ' had received a letter fro la held, and deinfv 34 4 ,, used that ,",, r0 Greenwich, which stateA.l a well-known inhabitai vrial . that Mr. Baxter-Lal l y ,31 it p h ro i v n u _ s : 'll oa had originated in a how- that the Gladstone meno l ito intended limits. .It , .., and had now passed Ley on, t he Liberals w6 A lin t oi - seemed generally understood thal;_ or t time, - .d a vote of confidence meeting in as" THE EUROPEAN WAR The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGH r O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events.