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CoRN ER of TOTTENH &M-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BR A, DFORD, YORKSHIRE. T HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. Lessee and Manager, F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, Her Majesty's Servants will perform a New and Original Farce, entitled RULE BRITANNIA ; after which will be produced the Drury Lane Grand Comic Christmas Annual, entitled THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY ; or, HAR LEQUIN AND OLD MOTHER SHIPTON, written by E. L. Blanchard, with Characteristic Scenery by William Beverly. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven, and terminate at Eleven o'clock every Evening. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. MORNING PERFORMANCE of the Grand 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 Ten till Five daily.- THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSART.—In answer to numerowi ap plications, it is respectfully announced this Drama will be revived on Monday, Feb. 27. Box-office open from 10 till 5 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 daily.— THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.I ROYAL COURT THEATRE, Sloane-square, s.w. Lessee and Manager, M. LITTON. THIS EVENING, at eight o'clock. Eleventh Night of W. S. Gilbert's original comedy entitled RANDALL'S THUMB. Sup ported by Messrs. Hermann Vezin, W. Belford, Edward Righ ton, 11. Mellon, R. Astley, and Frank Matthews ; Mesdames M. Brennan, Kate Bishop, Stephens, and Eleanor Bufton. Pre ceded by, at 7.30, TURN HI OUT ; and t conclude with an or i g inal comedietta, by F. SA Marshall, o entitled Q. 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, HA YIkIARKE T. - The 68th Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDY.—THIS EVENING (Monday), 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, lkiesdames 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. Webster and Mr. F. B. Chatterton.--THIS EVENING, at 7, THAT RASCAL JACK : Mr. John Rouse. At 7.30 (2nd time), DEADMAN'S POINT; or, THE LIGHTHOUSE ON THE CARN RUTH : Miss Furtado, Mrs. A. Mellon, Mr 3. Leigh Murray, Miss M. Cooper, and Mrs. Billingtonßouse, C. H. Stephen son, and (first appearance here) Messrs. E. F. Edgar, Vollaire, 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 Chatterton.—THlS EVENING, at 7, RE'S A LUNATIC. * Air: J. Clayton. At 7.30, KING 0' SCOTS II Founded on Sir Walter Scott's Novel of " The Fortunes of Nigel," written and adapted by Andrew Halliday. King James and Old Trapbois the Miser, Mr. Phelps. Messrs. W. Reguold, H. Crellin, Barrett, J. John stone, Marshall, J. Murray, H. Russell, Wallace, Clifford, West land, J. Clayton, &c. ; Mesdames R. Leclercq, t A. Merton y F. , R. Power, F. Addison, & c. New and magnificen scen 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 (139th Night) : Mr. David James. Afterjwhich, TWO ROSES (212th night), by James Albery. Conclude with (70th night) ELIZABETH. Sup ported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, David James, and T. Thorne , Lim; Mesdames Amy Fawsitt , A. Newton, and Nelly rower, &C. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, LIVING AT EASE. Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Bufton, and F. Hughes. CCEIJR-DE-LION, Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Button, Santley, Lee, Goodall, ttc. And ON AND OFF. IRO YALTY T H.EATRE.-TO-NIGHT, February 6.—The 23rd 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 WiIiTTINOToN JUNIOR and his SENSATION CAT. MADAAIE 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., &c., &c.— Admission,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 llohenzollern. 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. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER. MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON, E.C . 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Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 5s , 7s. ad., and 15s. each, including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, London, E.C. THEATRES AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley. COVENT GARDEN —Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty. ADELPIII—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 7 -Found Drowned. The Lottery Ticket. The Carnival Ball. ST. JAMEs's-To Oblige Benson. War. Jenny Lind at Last. An Unhappy Pair. OLYMPIC —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 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. Cceur-de-Lion. PRINCE OP.WALES'S—Ours. Locked In. 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. A MPHITHEARE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the Arena. On and Off. 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. Is. ; extra rooms, 6d. After. vy_ift; " 4 7 ;slr"-; 14 , 4_ jk:lj LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1871. of Scotland and retirement. These pleas are liot of a kind to which we should attach great force, but they are not improbably at the root of the existing discontent. It is to be deplored that the feeling finds vent in an offence to a lady who has every claim upon out respect THE offer of the British Government t 3 p lace all its stores and people at the disposal of the French and German authorities to assist in revictualling Paris will meet with general approval in this country. It is a graceful act of national charity, and vet involves us in nothing like " bene- NOI 'll t neutrality." There are very large stores of food fit for immediate consumption in stantly available in our Victualling Establishments, and both ships and agents are at hand to convey and dispense it. Money for some time will be of little use; the food itself is what is required. Hence the Government can operate with far more effect than the most powerful society, for this latter must raise money, buy stores, and find means of transport be fore its services can be brought actively to beai. Yet the work is so great that assistance of every kind is not superfluous. The labour of providing au adequate stcck of provisions fox two millions of people after " the last biscuit" has been almost literally eaten, is so serious that it is scarcely possible to conceive of the task being too well performed. Private societies may continue their duties in no wise deterred by the consideration that the aid of the Government will be enough. Indeed, the distress in the outlying districts and suburban villages is itself sufficient to employ all the energies of private charity. Let the work go on, then, and if England is to derive no military glory from this campaign, she may gain renown of a not less creditable kind. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE agitation against granting a dowry to the Princess LOUISE is remarkable for the persistency with which it is carried on by working men, and the equal persistency with which members of Parliament oppose it. It is only recognising a fact to admit that the feeling against the dowry is very widely spread. Some members of the Labour Representation League have discussed the question in a most enlightened and refined spirit, and have decided in favour of the usual grant. But this is not the rule. Working men constituents in all parts of the coun- try have passed resolutions against the dowry, and have fought great battles to induce their repre sentatives to vote according to their wishes. Yet M.P.'s as a rule have manfully held out. The pres sure put upon them has little effect beyond that of producing a little temporising' and ambiguity. Unquestionably the legislators are right and their constituents wrong. Setting aside the long-winded argument about the Crown Lands, it is clear that if any reform is needed it ought not to he directed personally against any one member of the Royal Family. Whether the Civil List is too small or too great is a question which those who pay it have a perfect right to discuss; but if anything is to be attacked it ought to be the general principle, and not one unfortunate young woman. Is the Princess LOUISE any worse than her sisters that they should be taken and she be left ? Is there any objection to an alliance with a Scotchman which does not apply to an alliance with a German Prince ? Quite the revel se ; it is refreshing to escape the usual foreign importation and it is to be hoped that this example will be followed again. To "fine the PRINCESS for marry ing a Scotchman," would be in the last degree absurd. rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1871. Why, then, do the working men oppose this gran We do not believe it is because they hold the money to be so much taken from the pockets of the poor. If it remain with the taxpayer, the poor would de rive no appreciable benefit from the retention. Working men know very well that much greater retrenchments can be int:de in other directions, and that whilst millions are wasted in the army, it is a loss of time, and a diver sion of attention from important matters, to haggle about six thousand a year. Mr. HoLv- OAKE, who ought to know something about working men, suggests that the artisan class are just be ginning to exercise_ political rights, and they are naturally unskilful in choosing the direction for their efforts. They have no political instruction, for few, if any, of the daily papers write for the artisan, class. "No wonder the working class are not yet great political adepts. Nothing but a native fund of patience, good sense, and honest feeling keeps them from making more mistakes than they do." There is a good deal in this theory; but it does not account for the opposition to the dowry of such a man as Mr. ODGER, who is not withoutknowledge, nor of the adhesion to the movement of Mr. FAWCETT, who is a man of great knowledge. Probably the most potential impulse is the consideration that Royalty is now practically in abeyance, and that it is unfair to make the nation support an institution which has for the time ceased to perform any ostensible duties. It is not unnatural that the selt-effacement of Royalty in England during the last few year:, should cause dissatisfaction. The suspicion that the income of the Throne is hoarded up instead of spent in supporting the usual state, is harboured in many quarters. It is supported by th e reasoning that if the Civil List was sufficient at a time when the court was maintained in splen dour, it must be more than sufficient in these days Bo URBAKI'S ARMY. The Swiss territory has given shelter at different times to a great many visitors whom the Govern ment would have preferred to see outside, but it never had such a plague of unwelcome guests as Bourbaki's army. The troops of this destroyed array entered Swiss territory in a dreadful condi tion. They were without arms, without food, almost without clothes, and with hands and feet frostbitten. Their distress reminded the observer of the retreat from Russia in 1812. The various corps and their subdivisions were in a state of complete dislocation. It is necessary to feed, lodge, and nourish this fugitive host of 80,000 men. The finances of the little Republic will feel the burden for many a year. But the Government does its duty faith 1 ully. DISTRESS ROUND PARIS. Mr. Bullock makes some suggestions as to the beat means of alleviation for the misery which will ensue when the inhabitants return to the villages in the environs of Paris. He says that " utter des• ilatlon" awaits the refugees for the most part. Their houses have lost their doors, shutters, and windows; in many in,tances the flooring has been taken up for fire wood, and holes knocked in the walls :or no reason whatever. This wretched picture is a literal descrip tion of the state of many villages where the German soldiers have been in possession for some months. It is evident that when the unfortunate owners return to their shattered dwellings they can expect no indemnity from the French Government, and yet they will be depriVeil of clothing, furniture, tools, and implements. Mr. Bullock suggests that when peace is restored the balance of the relief funds should be employed in distributing sums among those communes which have suffered the most, in order that the most indispensable articles may be pur chased. To arrive at an understanding it would be well to hold a conference of the representatives of the different societies. Each fund might then arrange to take charge of a certain number of communes, and avoid the risk of giving twice in one quarter while other places are neglected in their distress. ARMING IN FRANCE. Private letters from Bordeaux represent that the pre parations for carrying on the war are being under taken with the greatest spirit and speed there. Within the past ten days alone 250,000 rifles had arrivA, and the rate of augmentation in artillery is said to be extraordinary, three batteries a clay 1 cilia: manufactured, and this supply is inoreased by contributions from foreign countries. It is fully believed that twenty-one days of preparation, discipline, and concentration will work wonders for France; but the French are always over-sanguine on these points. THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR. A. lengthy argument has been progressing in the papers touching the German system of enforced requisitions in money and kind. Colonel Hamley strongly condemns this system asneedlessly aggravat ing the horrorsof war. Reference has beenmade to the conduct of the Duke of Wellington, who repressed pillage by his troops with relentless hand. Other writers have replied that the magnitu,le of moder❑ operations prevents this leniency. Armies must be fed, and the difficulty of supplying the enormous hosts under their care is a sufficient excuse for the requisition system. This is true to a certain extent. An invading army cannot be ex- petted to refrain from using the stores of food which lie within its reach in wealthy countries; and if the inhabitants will not furnish stores, there is no answer to the pleh that the generals are justified in compel ling them. But these supplies should be paid for. To take them for nothing is useless cruelty, and not beneficial to the interests of the invaders. When an army pays a fair price for all it takes, the inhabi tants are enabled to replenish their supplies from the surrounding districts and from foreign countries. But if no money is given, importations from neigh bouring districts cease at once, the inhabitants become in danger of starvation, and the invading army has to fall back upon its commissariat. AUSTRIA AND FRANCE. Dr. Gisltra, one of the leading Austrian politi cians, has protested, in a debate at Pestle, against an alliance with France. Austria, he argued, de rived no benefit, but the reverse, from Fre'nch inter vention in 1800. In that year Dr. Giskra was burgomaster of Blimp, and was invited by Count Bismarck, alter the battle of Sadowa, to an inter view. The Count proposed that he should go to Vienna to pave the way for peace, stating that Prussia was ready to make peace on the following conditions: —Venetia excepted, the status quo ante bellum to be maintained. No war costs to bo paid on either side. The Maine to be the Prussian frontier. South Ger many to be independent, and in such connection with .Austria as it might choose. This was all on cf ndi tion that French mediation in the peace negotiations should be excluded. Dr. Giskra sent a confi dential agent to Vienna, who was favourably re ceived; but before ho could get back to Nikolsburg, Benedetti had arrived there with his mediation proposals, which had been accepted. These, as is known, included a war indemnity of thirty million florins, wliereas the terms offere 1 to Dr. Giskra were free from this stipulation. Thus, claims that politician, French intervention cost us thirty million florins. GERMAN JOURNALISTS. The Prussians have established several papers of their own in the subjugated districts of Francs. At Versailles they have the Moniteur de Seine et Oise, whose editor, Herr Levysohn, has been for the last five years the Paris correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, and in that capacity was well known at the French newspaper offices. When the Germans were expelled from Paris he betook himself to the Prussian headquarters, and became historiographer general of the campaign. Since Versailles was occu pied he has made himself very useful to the King, from his familiar acquaintance with the district. Herr Levysohu has received the reward of his exertions, but all German journalists are not so fortunate. His friend and companion, Herr Hoff, was also at Versailles, acting as correspondent for some German papers, and he complained with some bitter ness that at the headquarters the best of the news wr.s kept for his English confi•bres. .The superinten dent of the German Press was so much incensed at this that he threatened to send young Hoff back into Germany on foot with a convoy of prisoners. The journalist knew too well that such a threat would probably be put into execution, and, much agitated, he shook hands with his friend Levysohn, and went home. The next day it was ascertained that he had committed suicide by poison. THE LAW OF PATRONAGE. A great meeting has been held at Glasgow by the members of the Scotch Church, who ale favour able to the repeal of the law of patronage. Mr. Orr Ewing, M.P., alter moving the first resolution, which declared that in the opinion of that meeting the law of patronage in the Church of Scotland hal been the cause, directly or indirectly, of all the secessions from her, as well as of other serious evils, expressed a hope that the laity of the Dissenting body would support them in their efforts. If the measure proposed became law, he thought they might look forward to the clay when the Presbyterian Churches of Scotland might combine in one Church. Dr. Nor man Macleod made a long and powerful speech, which was warmly applauded throughout, and another resolution was passed resolving to peti tion Parliament, and to urge on the Go vernment the desirability of introducing a measure on the subject in the ensuing session. The Provost, prior to the meeting, men- Aled among the names of those who were prevented _ _ from being present those of the Marquis of Lorne, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, and the Lord Advo. sate. MUSIC AT THE EXHIBITION OF 1871. Musicians have perhaps been disappointel . that music is not one of the Fine Arts included. in the official programme for the coming In tern a tonal Exhibition ; but they will learn with pleasure that the most popular and delight ful of arts is not to be altogether overlooked. Tue Commissioners have issued a circular inviting each foreign country taking part in the Exhibition to send its most celebrated military band to perform at it. Free lodgings in barracks and soldiers' rations for ten days will be provided for them, and a sum of money at the rate of £5 for , each member of the band, not exceeding forty in number, will be allowed. Each bind will give two performances every day for a week at appointed times, while the Exhibition is open to the public. Every foreign country is also invited to send its most celebrated organist to per form on the organ in the Royal Albert 11;111, giving two performances daily for a week, and receiving an honorarium of £5O. The grand organ at the Albert Hall is built by Willis, and claims to be the largest in the world. By this means the visitors to the Exhibition and the Hall will be enabled to hear some of the best instrumental per formers of the continent free of charge. STELLA'S FORESIGHT. A very curious instance of "coming events casting their shadows before " was brought under the notio3 of the Irish Church Temporalities Commissioners. Anticipations of the separation of Church and State in Ireland were entertained a cen tury and a half ago. Esther Johnson, known to all litt6rateurs as " Stella," bequeathe3 21,000 to Steven's Hospitals, Dublin, in her will bearing date the last day of 1727, but added in her own handwriting a provision that if it should happen at any after time that the Established Episcopal Church of the kingdom should come to bo abolished the bequest was to be wholly null and void, and the principal and interest were to devolve to her nearest relative living. TII6 claim, however could not be allowed ; but the Judge remarked that it was curious Dean Swift should have made the same disposition, in his own bequest to the parish of Larcar, with the exception that he made no gift over. It is probable from this that Stella's apprehensions were founded on the opinions she heard expressed by the brilliant and eccentric dean. RE-VACCINATION. Large numbers of families are just at present doublas to whether there is any urgent necessity for having children and others vaccinated a second time. The Lancet of this week, and some medical correspondents of other journals declare that re vaccination is positively needful during the present epidemic for all who have not been vaccinated during the past eight years. In the cases of children over nine years of age the precaution is expedient in an especial degree, at all events in places where the smallpox disease has .manifested itself. In districts where an isolated case of smallpox occurs the only test of safety against a regular invasion would appear to be re-vaccination. ENGLISH COUNTRY LIFE. Hospitality, we are told by the Saturday Review, constitutes the best check upon English eccentricity and selfishness, enables men to cultivate the habits of courtesy and self-denial, and sometimes to forget themselves for ten consecutive minutes. The writer in the Review, probably mindful of the near approach of the London season, and of the fact that county ball-rooms, lately so resplendant in pink calico, will soon again become the resort of scientific lecturers, comments somewhat graciously on the amount of genial friendship shewn in country houses in England when at their best, but abuses the man ner in which hospitality is as a rule tendered. It is an extreme 'view to suppose that without a periodical influx of guests an Englishman's house would not only be his castle, but also his lunatic asylum. The Saturday Review seems rather to trust in large parties of visitors, however, espe'ially in houses where there is £5,000 a year to spend ; but it deprecates the extravagancies into which county families have rushed in providing amusement for guests. Even in the one pursuit of shooting the dimensions of the sport have extended to a horrible extent, and to be " given over to the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air" which was a reproach at the beginning of the last century, is now no longer such, for battues have become at fashionable country houses so plentiful that guests accept invitations everywhere now-a-days without much consideration as t ) their respect for the host and hostess, but with very much indeed as regards the number of rabbits and birds offered to them as victims. In hunting circles, moreover, men think no longer of "going to Lord John's," but in stead speak of having a day with Lord John's capita . dogs. THE LATE MR. T. W. ROBERTSON. In common with all those who have ever had the good fortune to witness the excellent comedies of "School," "Ours," and " M.P.," we deplore sin cerely the death of Mr. T. W. Robertson. Perhaps no dramatist succeeded in so short a period in becoming popular with the public as the de ceased author, whose name was first mentioned in London, in c ‘nnection with that. of the late Charles Browne, or "Artemus 'Ward," in 1808. No dramatic author of the present day should more fairly claim our gratitude, inasmuch as were it not for Mr. Robertson's revolution in favour of social and pleasant comedies, W. 3 might even still at every theatre be victimised with the wretched sensation pieces and the nonsensi cal burlesques which were in vogue when " Caste " and " School " were offered for public patronage. Two only of Mr. Robertson's comedies may be said to have been failures, or comparatively so, and one of these, the " Nightingale," produced at the tdelphi, Theatre, was placed upon the stage at the time that Mr. Robertson was first attacked with the illness which has now terminated in his death. Some little time ago the author's wife died, and it is much to be feared that the sorrow for this event considerably accelerated his own daath. r-Aq _ rt Cantu HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, FEBRUARY 4, The Queen walked and drove in the grounds this morn mg, accompanied by Princess Louise. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out. February 5. Her Majesty, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold attended Divine service at Whippingham Church this morning. THE NAVY ESTIMATES. The Navy estimates for the year 1871-72, the Army and Navy Gazette anticipates, will, when laid on the table of the House of Commons, shew an excess of from £400,000 to £500,000 over those of last year. .)EATH OF LORD PENZANCE'S FATHER The death is announced of Edward Archer Wilde, Esq., solicitor, of College-hill, City, the father of Lord Pen zance, Judge of the Probate and Divorce Courts, and brother of the late Lord Truro, who was Lord Chancellor from July, 1850, till February, 1852. Mr. Wilde, who was the oldest London solicitor on the Rolls, having been admitted in 1810, died at Brighton on the ,Ist February, in the 84th year of his age. THE NEW GOVERNOR OF QUEENSLAND. George Augustus Constantine Phipps, the Marquis of Normanby, who has been appointed Governoor of the Australian province of Queensland, was born in 1819, and, being an only son, succeeded his father in the title in 1863. From 1847 to 1851 he sat in the House of Com mons for the borough of Scarborough. He has served in the Scots Fusilier Guards, been Comptroller and Trea surer of her Majesty's Household, and Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen. From 1858 to 1863 he filled the post of Governor of Nova Scotia. In 1844 the new governor married Laura, daughter of Mr. Robert Russell, by whom he has issue four sons (the Earl of Mulgrave being the eldest) and three daughters. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK ON THE WAR AND ENGLAND'S DEFENCES. The members for Maidstone addressed a large number of their constituents on Friday evening. Sir John Lubbock touched, in the course of his speech, upon the policy of this country in regard to the French war ; and I defended the Government from the charge of having neg- ' lected the national defences. He said :—I venture to say that with respect to our defensive con dition, no fair accusation can be brought against the present Government. I believe there never was a time when our Army and Navy were more efficient than they are at present. We have at the present time 40 ships of the line, carrying 506 guns ; and the largest navy next to ours is' he French navy which only counts 31 ships, and 283 guns. A great deal has been said about stores ; that the Government have cut down the taxation of the country by running down the stores to a dangerous point, but what is the fact ? At the present moment to take the case of Deptford—which I think is a very fair average case—we have a large amount of stores, and I think the present Government have done very wisely and economically in not increasing them. We have beef enough to last for seven and a half years—s.nd if it lasts for that time it must have bean very good beef at the beginning. There is four years' stock of " pickles," six years' stock of white wines, candles for ten years, blue cloth No. 2 for seven years, jackets for twelve years, comforters for three years and a-half, and striped shirting for five years. I do not blame the pre ceding Administration, believing that there were some special circumstances to account for these large supplies, and that therefore it would not be fair to bring an accusation against them. At the same time I do say that we may appeal to these stores as an evidence that our present Government has not cut down our taxation by any nig gardliness or undue economy in that direction. With re gard to the army, what are the real facts ? Those who attack the Government at the present moment have two main questions which they bring against the Gladstone ad ministration. They say, "You have been so very economical that we have now no army and navy able to defend us against a foreign attack. so parsimonious that we are thrown open to the invader." And the second charge against us is, that we ought to have helped Fiance; that we should have sent an army into that country and driven the Prussians out of it. It is perfectly evident that these two questions are not con sistent with one another. If we have got no army to defend ourselves we should scarcely have' been able to defend France against Prussia. On the other hand, if we have got an army so powerful that with a stroke of the pen we can drive all the Prussians out of France, then it is quite clear, the Government . have not left this country utterly at the mercy of the invader. In the year 1830 the whole force in this country for defensive purposes was 50,800; in 1840, 53,000 ; in 1850, 108,000 ; in 1860, 100,000 ; and last year 110,000. More than this, if we exclude the " depots" belonging to regiments on foreign stations, our force last year was 80,000 more than in 1868. I say, therefore, upon this point our Government may fairly argue that its questioners have nothing whatever to complain of. But it is a very different question, whether our defences are in a satisfactory position, and whether our forces, both naval and military, do not require to be entirely reorganised. Let us, however, not be led into the error of supposing that we shall really get a good army by merely increasing the amount of the taxes which we have to pay for it. Our army costs us fifteen millions per annum, and the Prussian army only costs ten millions, and is superior to ours. I for one should like to see the army in a more efficient condition. (Applause.) I ventured myself last session to bring forward a, motion in the House of Commons on the subject of military education. It was then proposed that the little science taught to our officers—or required from them —should be still further reduced, and instead of it, a little more Latin and Greek required ; so that we must take our officers from the most aristocratic classes in the country. I objected to the object and the way of going about it. Although, however, Mr. Card well did not see his way at the moment, the principle which I ventured to suggest has been adopted in the Indian Department, for the Engineers have exactly the same system of examination I recommended, and there fore I cannot help thinking that in the next session we shall see it applied also to the army generally. I think myself that it would be as well if our officers were selected by open competition, and then advanced by merit ; still, until we hear what is said on the other side, I should not like to commit myself to so large a question. The suspensionhas been announced of Mr. liyam L. Yuly in the Mogador trade, whose liabilities, after a career, apparently, of little more than a year, are stated at be tween £20,000 and £30,000. We are informed that Mr. Spence, who presided at the annual meeting of the North of E t nglancl Anti- Tobacco Society, held on Thursday evening, has intimated his intention to subscribe £lOO towards the proposed guarantee find, for extending the operations of the society. ST. LEGER'S LIFE OF BALFE.—The author of this charming little anecdotal memorial of the great Eng lish composer has within the last few days received an autograph letter from his Serene Highness Prince Teck, thanking him for an exquisitely-bound copy, which has been graciously accepted by H.R.H. the Princess Mary. LORD DERBY'S IRISH ESTATE.--LOrd Derby, in answer to his Tipperary tenants, has stated that he wishes to dispose of his Irish property from feeling that the in terests of an absentee proprietor are not likejy to be so well protected as those of a resident landlord. Being willing to meet the views of the leading tenants, he would be glikd to receive froln them offers tor their holdings, " where the lot would not be an isolated one injuring the corpus of the estate," but he would not refuse other offers or sell for less than the market value. It is believed that a number of the tenants who are of a comfortable class will make an effort to embrace the opportunity a pur chasing their holdings. LITERATURE Art. Nos. I.—VIII. Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, Photography is here most happily applied to the diffu sion of a purer taste for art. Art is here, in other words, reproduced and reflected in a wonderful manner by the magical aid of the lens of the camera and the marvellous agency of collodion. The thought out of which this exquisite serial publication has sprung into existence is eminently felicitous. It brings the luxuries of wealth within reach of the most moderate competence. Replicas, so to speak, of an entirely new kind are, in these pictured pages of Art, brought to homes as unpretending as the suburban villa and the rural cottage. Precisely as the totographic album comprises _within it " counterfeit . presentments" of the "human face divine," so does Art, aided by the same wonder-working application of science, place in our hands, month after month, the vera effigies now of an oil painting, now of a water-colour drawing, now of a crayon sketch, now of some rare specimen of the ceramic art, of the noble art of the sculptor, of the more utilitarian art of the metal-worker, of tangled glimpses of Nature herself, peeps of woodland scenery, and nooks and corners of hedgerow vegetation. The result is altogether charmingly varied, singularly attractive, and, appraised though the publication is by the publishers at half-a crown per monthly instalment, in many respects to the student both of art and of nature, it is simply invaluable. illustrative of the extraordinary richness of effect which As photography is capable of producing upon occasions, we would:simply direct attention to the noble portrait from Vandyck. Then, again, as chewing how a masterpiece in the shape of a line engraving can be reproduced by the photographer's apparatus, nothing could be happier in the way of what we may call a proof positive than the lovely copy here given of Raffaelle's La Belle Jardinière. To see how much can be made of an exquisite interior, it will suffice to turn either to the Picture Gallery or the Drawing Room at Strawberry Hill, near Richmond. For statuary as thus shadowed forth again with all the round ness and substance of the stereoscope, the reader could hardly do better than examine the masterly manner in which one plate mirrors Theed's statue of the late Earl of Derby, who is there pourtrayed, by the way, not as is said erroneously in the letter-press in his robes as a peer, but in the far more gorgeous robes and badges and paraphernalia peculiar to a Knight of the Garter. Another admirable reproduction of a sculptor's masterpiece is here given also in Milne's group of " Samson strangling the Lion." There are, besides these, the " Flora" of Greuze, from Prince Demidoff's collection ; a reflex of Sir Joshua's " Holy Family ;" a copy of the " Charles I. in Vandyck's Studio," from the original of Escosura ; and various other illustrations worthy of careful examination in this diversi fied and admirably well selected series of photographs. The publication is altogether, though in appearance costly, in reality a very marvel of cheapness. It is ably and carefully edited—the list of contributors in cluding such competent hands in the way of criticism as Blanchard Jerrold and Edmund Oilier. In the interests of Art as a study, it is earnestly to be hoped that Art as a periodical may long flourish, for it unmistakeably takes rank at once as among the number of our practical civilizers. Nasmitk's Practical Linguist—German. Two volumes. Daid Nutt. The Hamiltonian system of tuition in foreign languages is well known, a system describable as interlinear, or translating made easy. It has long been popular. It elears away no doubt many difficulties. But it is for the most part, as we may say, like learning to swim with bladders. It is like teaching a child to walk by putting him in an old fashioned go-cart. It is like a flagrant reversal of all the laws of the schoolroom by legalising what is known in schoolboy phrase as " crib." Starting upon the Hamiltonian system in search of the requisition of that new sense, as it has been happily called, another foreign language, the student is seldom, or ever, or at any rate not for a long time afterwards, self-reliant. He has been, so to speak, coddled overmuch. He walks with a stick, or rather hobbles with the aid of crutches. He breathes through a respirator. His sight is guarded and dimmed by green-goggles. The system is hardly, for these reasons, to be encouraged—for some of these reasons indeed, it is, on the contrary, to be deprecated. A wholeSomer, sounder, far more bracing and invigo rating system has long been what the hackneyed phrase of the prospectus-framer terms a desideratum. That long hoped-for system we seriously believe has, in the " Prac tical Linguist " of David Nesmith, been at length disco vered. Mr. Nasmith's name as that of a great intellectual benefactor we have long been familiar with, by reason of his extraordinary compilation of the " Chronometrical Chart of the History of England." That masterly per formance, the fruit of enormous labour, and of perfectly inimitable dexterity in the manner of its arrangement and classification, we have taken occasion years ago in these columns to commend in the strongest terms at our command. The lingual scheme now propounded by our author and illustrated, or, in other words, very clearly and succinctly set forth in these two pamphlet-volumes upon German, appears to us, after mature consideration, and a most carefully examination of it, as an entirely original and eminently practice system, to be worthy of the brain that conceived and the hand that executed the Chronometrical Chart already mentioned. Mr. Nasmith's plan admits of very ready explanation. It is the result, as lie tells us in his intro duction, of many years' meditation upon the study of foreign languages. It is designed to facilitate the study and acquisition of any one of the foreign languages. Mr. Nesmith begins with German, but promises to follow the present work •up with others a a similar character on English, French, and Latin--" Practical Linguists " that we for one are pre" pared to welcome, when they do appear, most cordially. Mr. Nasmith's system is based upon the numerical value of words—the idea, here, as it seems to us, being capable of illustration upon the instant by reference to the nume rical value of letters in a compositor's case, as is very weli known alike to the . printer and the typefounder. Calling in statistical of words atistical with the inquirytohis utmosta atidingeptotainsigble ur the numerical meri o t u author built up gradually two catalogues, called respee" tively a Permanent Vocabulary and an Auxiliary Voca bulary. Knowing only 15Q words of the Permanent Vocabulary, anyone of ordinary intelligence can at one° carry on a conversation of considerable range in the lan guage which he has thus far, and only thus far, acquired- Then follow exercises in English, and after that exercise° in German, word by word. Subsequently the German L 9 then translated into English without any regard totot meaning of it as English—the whole being a faithful trans" cript in English from the German verbal, arrangement- This Mr. Nesmith terms, for want of a better phrase , Anglicised German. It accustoms the reader to "tb ' in the foreign mould." Afterwards, as the foreign vo cabir lary increases, the words naturally, as he says, drop in t° their proper places. Then come the Grammatical Coy mentaries, containing all the essential rules of. Gerrneu grammar. To recapitulate ; First, the words ; secondly' the combinations ; thirdly, the grammatical rules : each of these in the order of their value. Let any stilt-1 0 apply himself thoughtfully to the study of the plan bel set forth by Mr. Nesmith with admirable lucidity, 5 %. we are satisfied he will find the toil of acquiring a lanp',neg so taught, as compared with other systems of tuiti° ll ' diminished by one-third at the very least. iT Lord Elcho, according to John Full, will in - probability move an amendment to the Address. Sir Edwin Landseer has been suffering frora ear treme illness ; but he is now progressing favourably. We have it on good authority that French ager; in London are still giving out contracts for war suPP.: The Inverness Courier says: "Mr. John Bright i 9 expected tocome to Invergarry about the end of Felons"' for salmon fishing." An Order in Council has been issued, setting , -°, ,0 r o f that, under the provisions of the Naturalisation Ac:;,- last session, her Majesty has entered into a convell";ef with the United States to the effect that any citizel!t'o those States who have been naturalised as 13r/ 00 subjects may now divest themselves of their status such subjects. The Queen has appointed Ernest Alexander Cie:el l-; dinning Schalch to be Attorney-General for Jsra3eer He has practised at the Common ILAN'? Bar, and is 3 T o j. 4 ber of the Home Circuit. The Law Journal believe s , roey the first gentleman appointed to the office of -A-tb% the General of Jamaica from the ranks of practitionerlfre o English bar, all his predecessors having been seleet°l-` the local advocates. tbs t Official announcement is made in the GaZet te lop the Queen has granted unto Sir Thomas Ersk i nets, K.C.8., the office of Under Clerk of the Parliara7. ryri d the room of Sir Denis Le Marchant, Bart., resigil e `Areat has directed Letters Patent to be passed under tlle-1., Seal appointing the Rev. John Manley . forthWal 4,;iitca Prebend in the Cathedral, Exeter ; and also r of Treasurer of the said church. next ERRATUM.—In the second paragraph of our so Friday, art should have been act ; a nd the two 1.1 7... jar tences ehould have run as follows : —lt will throLis, light upon the dark places, happily now verY not en o urs a bi numbers, but it prevents, or at least does n do pte the fuller and more complete publicity alreadY t is drawn forth by the newly-issued balancenUeecoot, those offices who have notAing to hide. This 913 0 r 0 c f 3 Provident Clerks' Association, whose report a d a 4; for the thirtieth year lie before us, 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 NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events.