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EADOOBII. genget3HlßL ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA COMPANY, (uaIITHII).--LYCHUSI THEATRE. THIS EVENING (Tharsdayl, January 19, Ricci's Opera, CRESTING B LA CO MARE Amnetta, bidlle. Colombo. Boxes on the grand tier, £8 M.; stall tier, £2 128. 6d.; upper circle, Li 11s. 6d.; orchestra stalls, 10s. 6d.; grand tier dress seats, 75.; upper circle seats, 45.; pit tickets, 25. 6d.; amphi -theatre, ls. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.— Bole Lessee and Manager, F. B. Chatterton.—Morning Performances every Wednesday and Saturday, until Saturday, February 25th, inclusive.—THlS EVENING (Thursday), will be produced the Drury Lane Grand Comic CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, written by E. L. Blanchard, entitled the DRAGON OF WANTLEY 1 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, 11. Moreland, Charles Steyne Fawdon Vokes, H. Naylor, Seymour, Firth, Meade, Webber, F. Wright, Master Russsll ; Misses Victoria Yokes, Jessie Vokes, Rosina Yokes, Harriet Coveney, M. A. Basquerville, A. Hamilton, Hall, Florence Harvey, De Grey, Ross, Timbrell, Elphinstone, Har court, Lee, Leslie, Mills, White, Burpitt, Rivers, Russell, Hastings. forminglequi will include those popular Pan tominaists, a Double Company, F. Evans, and W. H. Harvey, Clowns ; Paul Herring and J. Mor is, Pantaloons ; W. Fawdon Vokes 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 Reeves. Master Dassie, the Chickaleary Boy. E. D. Lyon, the Short Footman. Lawson and Garton, the French Pierrots. Master H. Rawlings, Clog Dancer. La Patrie, 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 business of the Children's Scenes, Invented and Arranged by Mr. John Cormack. The Comic 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 opeuineas. n from Ten till Five daily. Private Bo xes, 1,2, 3,4, and 5 G Stalls, 7s. Dress Circle, ss. First Circle, 4s. Balcony, 3s. Pit, Ss. Lower Gallery, ls. Upper Gallery, 6d. THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY ; or, Harlequin Old Mother Shipton, will be produced To-night (Thursday) January 19, and positively withdrawn on Saturday, February 25. Places can be secured from the first until the last date. MORNING PERFORMANCES every WEDNESDAY and 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. ftfORNING PERFORMANCES of the Grand ILL 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. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. So l e Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH Thi s Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE . Messrs. Crouch , Turner; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Buf ton, and F. Hughes. CCEUR-DE-LION, Messrs. Terry, Paultbn, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Lofton, Sautley, Ike, Goodall, ctc. rrHEATRE ROYAL, HAYMAR K E Fifty-second Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDY. —rkis EVENING (Thursday) at Seven, O'Keefe's Musical Piece, THE POOR SOLDIER, with selections from the original music. P a trick, Miss Fanny Wright, N o r ah , Miss Fanny Gwynne. After which, at a quarter to Eight o'cldck , a new Fairy Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled THE PALACE OF TRUTH. Characters by Mr. Buckstone, Messrs. Kendal, Everill, Clark, Braid, Rogers, Mes d ame s Robertson, Chippendale, C. Rill, F anny 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 . by UN C LE'S WI. Mr. Palms Miss . K e ndal and Robertson. Followed Concluding with the Farce of THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. Box ()Mee open daily from 10 till 5. pRINCESS'S THEATRE. —Sole Lessee, Ben jamin Webster. Managers, B. Webster and F. B. Chat terton.—THlS EVENING, at seven, PEEP 0' DAY, by Edmund Falconer, terminating with the celebrated Quarry Scene. At 8.30 an entirely new grand spectacular t extraavaganza , extravaganza, entitled LITTLE GIL BLAS and How he Played the Spanish Do)euce. J3y H. B. 'Farnie. The music by Frank Musgrave ; the ballet, groupings, &c., by J. Milano ; the new and magnificent scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds and assistants ; the costumes after drawings by Gustave Dor6. To conclude with HE'S A LUNATIC. Mr. J. Clayton.—Box Office open from Ten till Five. ADELPHI THEATRE ROYAL.--Sole Pro prietor, Mr. BENJAMIN WVISTER ; Managers, Mr. B. WEBSTER and Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.—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. Mr. B. Webster and Miss Furtado. To conclude with THE MISTLETOE BOUGH. Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Elise Holt, Mademoiselle Debreaul, Mdlle. Camilla Dubois, Miss I ellew, Miss M. Cooper, and Miss Bella Moore , M i. Brittain Wright, Mr. John Rouse: and Mr. Odell VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND Lessees— Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7, CHISELLING, Mr. David James ; after which TWO ROSES (197th night), by James Albery. Conclude with (65th Night) ELIZABETH. Supported by Messrs. 11. J. Montague, David James, and T. Thorne, &c. ; Mesdames Amy Fawsitt, A. Newton, and Nelly Power, &c. TliE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1871. ROYALTY THEATRE. -TO -NIG HT, JANUARY 19.—Eighth 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 WHITTINGTON JUNIOR and his SENSATION CAT. m A s i t ) r A ee lN t lE on l v U ie S w S P A or i t i ra D'S itmo E d X els H of lß th l e Tl - O Em N, Bakr iaeroraend Empress of the French, and Prince Imperial. Also, Marshal Bazaine, Marshal Canrobert, General Trochu, &c., &e. Admission, ls. ; Children under Ten Years of age, 6d. Extra Rooms, 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. MADAME TUSSA UD'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 la. ; children under ten years of age, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. extra.— Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. )ARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS. 192, FLEET-STAR= (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LAM), LONDON (E.C4. I'HE PUBLIC, z,UPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND JARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20e Per ream. e.d. Fine Cream Laid Note ,• a eheap paper,..... .. .... w Superfine Cream Laid Note ; much approved .. 4 0 Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note ;especially recommended 6 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note ................. 7 0 Straw Paper, " Patent:" adapted for rapid writing ..... 2 6 Large Commercial Note Papers Bs., 4s. be., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream .....10s. 6d., ne. 6d., and 14 6 Outsides Foolscap . 6 6 Letter Paper for scribbling... plain, 45.; ruled ditto, 4 6 Tinted Lined Note ... five quires for ls. 6d., or 6 6 New Vellum Wove "Club House" Note, five quires for 28. 6d. Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s 6d, be 6d, & 6s 6d .. 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It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, includ ing brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon ion, E.O. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA, LYCEUM—Crespino e la Comare. DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley. CovENT GARDEN—Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty. ADELPHI—Smoke. One Touch of Nature. Mistletoe Bough. HAYmAnKEI , —The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Tenth. Uncle's Will. The Spectre Bridegroom. VAuDEvaLß—Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, ar the Invisible Armada . . OPERA COMIQUE Blue Devils. The Lottery Ticket. STRAND—On and Off. Lion. ST. JAMEs's—To Oblige Benson. War. Found Drowned, Living at Ease. Coeur-de Bombastes 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. In. PRINCESS'S—Peep o' Day. a Lunatic. ASTLEY'S—Englishmen in Paris. Little Tom Tittlemoust , SURREY—Farce. My Son Jack. NATIONAL STANDARD—Farce. Ride a Cock Horse to Locked Little Gil Blas. 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." PoLvnomm—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. in.; extra rooms, 6d. ..ek, 4111 L LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1871. THE FAMOUS PLAN. General Trochu's " plan," so far as anything is known of it, seems to have been formed on the assumption that assistance would arrive from the provinces. He had no idea of getting away from Paris unaided. He meditated forming an army in side Paris whilst others were forming out side, and at the proper moment the two would join hands. But at least five conditions were necessary to success in this enterprise :-1. To form a solid army in Paris under severe discipline. 2. To extend the defences of the place, and to make it what is called impregnable. 3. To prevent or suppress all efforts at risings or revolutions. 4. To rouse the provinces from their stupor and bring nearly all the available me❑ beneath the flag, so as to constitute at least four armies, which would con verge at the same time upon Paris, while a fifth army would manoeuvre in the East to intercept the communications of the enemy. sth. To have suffi cient food to wait. All these have been complied with more or less ; but the fourth and fifth do not combine very well. There are armies in the pro vinces, and there is food in Paris, but the one doeA not appear likely to last until the other can get up. The work has been bard and most honourably performed, but it all goes for nothing unless the provincial armies and the food supplies keep in tolera'ile accord. Trochu, now that his plan has failed, appears from all accounts to know not what to do. nothing for the War Office. Several were present at the meeting of the Favre Demon stration Committee, and declared their inten tion to take part in the " turn out." Other , matters were discussed at this meeting—including the conduct of the wretched British Ministry for not protesting against the bombardment of Paris. The chairman declared that if the English Government desired to find a right precedent, they could have referred to the protest raised by the Council of Neutral Nations, in 1848, when Radetsky was about to bombard Milan, That protest, which was headed by the , representative of England, saved Milan ; and surely what had proved effectual in the case of an Italian city would have been equally suc cessful with respect to the capital of France. It was a disgrace to the English Government that Air. Odo Russell had not protested against the bombard ment when he was at Versailles. Our departments , were " Bismareked." Mr. Salomona read the Government Circular to the Volunteers, and declared that the Government could not pre- H;ent the men from attending, for they paid for their uniforms themselves. The meeting was ad dressed by three volunteers, who announced their intention of being present at the Fevre demonstra tion, and said they would relinquish their rights of English citizenship. On the suggestion of Mr. Odger it was resolved to hold a meeting in Trafalgar Square, next Monday, in sympathy with France, and as a protest against the policy of the Govern ment respecting the bombardment of Paris. A. resolution was carried unanimously expressive of The the deep regret of the meeting that the Governmen should have interfered with the Volunteers, and en. treating the Volunteers themselves to disregard the prohibition. It is a great pity that the working men should commit themselves thus. The German leaders have a perfect right to bombard Paris— lamentable as the result may be, just as much as any other fortified city. FIELD ARTILLERY. An interesting lecture has been given by Lieutenar. Jones, Royal Artillery, at Woolwich, on the " Future Armament of our Field Artillery." Having remarked that the controversy respecting the merits of muzzle loaders and breechloaders had been decided in favour of the former, he addressed himself to the question of metal. Bronze had been adopted as the fieldagun for India, but it had been sliewn by recent experiments to ' be quite unserviceable. Steel was too brittle when used by itself, being likely to burst. England had no steel gun with the exception of the seven-pounder mountain howitzer, known as the Abyssinian gun. Wrought iron did not possess the requisite hardness when used alone, but the very best construction , would be found to be a steel barrel strengthened with wrought-iron coils. There never had been an instance of these guns bursting from lair usage. The chief argument employed in favour of bronze guns was economy; but the saving of a few thousand pounds should not call for the conversion of a whole armament. The lecturer believed that the English artillery was the best in the world in the material an I mode of manufacture. The field-guns should be made more serviceable, however, and he thought the IG-pound shell gun just made in the arsenal could suppl 3 the present want. Every campaign intro duced a larger projectile, and the present war had the same tendency. He's MR. BAXTER ON DIRECT TAXATION. Mr. Dudley Baxter has been reading a treatise on direct taxation before the Statistical Society. Our whole system, he maintained, required consolidation and reform, being both irregular and anomalous. As regarded Imperial taxes, what could be more absurd than the treatment of leasehold pro perty, subjected to double taxation as real estate and as personalty ? What could be more anomalous than the law that personal property passing by will paid probate duty, but passing by settlement paid none ? What could be more irregu lar than the whole system of the imposition and adminiAration of local rates ? Everyone would agree that it would be ft good thing to relieve the dwellings of the poor from bearing so much of the burden of pauperism. Further, we ought to do something to remove the great inequality which existed between the burdens of real property and personalty, and still more as compared with earnings. Land paid 15 per cent. by direct taxation, houses 14i or 11 per cent., according as they were leasehold or freehold, while personalty paid only 8 2-3 per cent., and earnings 2i. Mr. Baxter held that this excess was out of all reasonable pro portion, and considered it especially disadvantageous as discouraging improvements, and hindering the poor man from acquiring a piece of land. The mode of levying the poor-rate should, he thought, be altogether altered. A common fund should be raised throughout the kingdom, and Schedules C and E, and the unrated portion of Schedule D should contribute. CATCH V. SHARN. The public will not have forgotten the case of Catch v. Sheen, in which the plaintiff, the master of Lambeth Workhouse, sued Mr. Shaen for pub lishing defamatory statements respecting Mr. Catch's proceedings towards paupers. The jury found £6OO damages, whereupon the judge stayed judgment. The foreman of the jury explained that this large sum was not thought excessive for " a man and his wife earning the equivalent of £3OO a year." Most people will be of opinion that two whole years' income is rather excessive in the way of damages for libel; but the foreman mistakes the real cause of the judgment being stayed. The disclosures in court respecting the management of Lambeth workhouse were such as to provoke from the judge strong expressions of condemnation. Evidence more or less trustworthy was adduced in favour of various bharges of ill-treatment. The judge himself saw some of the cells, and denounced them in no measured terms.. For publishing an account of this state of things Mr. Shaen was condemned in damages of £6OO, and the enlightened jury think the sum not excessive. The moral is clear. Let no imprudent. philanthrop'st turn hie attention to workhouse affairs. A jury of British ratepayers will teach him that the management of paupers is not to be lightly meddled with. SEIZURE OF WATCHES. The Glasgow police has made the largest seizure of supposed stolen watches which has ever taken place there. The police took possession of two hundre 1 gold end silver watches which composed nearly the whole stock of a maker named M'Courty. They were in duced to search the shop on account of a stolen watch which was pawned having been traced to M'Courty's possession. The police ha 1 long sus pected that watches were "reset" in the shop, but until the other day had no opportunity of proving such to be the fact. The watch in question had been given by WCourty to a man to wear while his own was being mended. It was pawned by this man, and the detectives recoverei it as stolen ,property. Upon a minute examination of the watches, thirty-five have been identified as ha"ing been stolen in different parts of the city during the last six months, and a great many others have been altered; or "doctored," as it iS called. When the police came into the shop, they found i\l'Courty and his workmen engaged in altering watches. APCourty is supposed to have been connected with the business of a jeweller who was outlawed for resetting at the last Circuit Court. He and his workmen have been apprehended. MR. NOEL AT ATHENS. Great excitement and some indignation have been created at Athens by the proceedings relative to Mr. Frank Noel. This gentleman was accused of com plicity with the brigands, and of having caused the murder of his countrymen, last spring, by advising the marauders of Xarathou to stand out lor an amnestx. Ills defence is that he persuaded the brigands t( accept the ransom offered, and to give up the deman lor an amnesty. Mr. Noel has now presented himself to the authorities, having concealed himself for fear of being sent to the prison of Chalcis, where smallpox had broken out. He has been allowed to select st.me other dwelling. It is an acknowledged fact in Greece that the brigands have accomplices all through the country in every class of life. • The official report cf the late Prime Minister states thai 260 brigands were in Greece three months after the Delis' murders, and that, so late as last September, e:x persons had been carried off, of whom two were murdered and two mutilated by the brigands. Yet no effor: q of the Govt rnment or the military authorities succeed in routing out the criminals. It is therefore held by the English at Athens to be as unfair as it is absurd to fix upon one solitary Englishman as the only forthcoming accomplice. The judicial investigation has been so mismanaged that it has done very little good, and the perpetual bickerings in court only serve to pre vent the elucidation of the truth. INDIAN FORCES. A correspondent in Calcutta, in discussing the position of India supposing hostilities should break out between England and Russia, dwells strongly on the importance of utilising the restless spirit, on our frontiers. Sikhs, Goorkas, and Beloochees make splendid soldiers under efficient leaders, and an army of 50,000 such could be at once sent to the Danube. Very few of the English troops could be spared from India in case of war, as Russia would be certain to try and stir up sedition. These turbulent tribes, if not enlisted by the British, will find other leaders, and therefore in every point of view it would be desirable to enrol them, should fighting actually be necessary. Supposing that under the worst eventualities all communication between Eng land and India were temporarily cut oil, the only deficiency would be British soldiers, who cannot be manufactured. India has powder and cart ridge factories, and can turn out her own bronze guns and shells, while she has a good reserve of iron guns awl small arms. A Snider factory is in prospect, and the supply of ammunition is very good. The infantry have with them 200 rounds of ammunition per smooth-bore musket, and a reserve of 300 rounds in the nearest magazine, or 400 per Enfield rifle. The Snider is to have 500, and these proportions will be increased. So far from India being a drag on England in time of war, she will be of immense value, and may, if need be, be made the basis of an offensive war on a formidable scale. THE PIGEON POST. The Pigeon Post, which excited so much interest at the commencement of the siege of Paris, was for some time extremely useful in the transmission of intelligence, and the greater part of the messages thus sent arrived at their destination. Fears are now entertained, however, that the short days have been great impediments to success. The pigeons will only pursue their way so long as they can see, and therefore it is evident that this is the worst time of the year to employ their services. Their dislike to nightwork cannot be overcome; and it was found advisable by those dispatching messages froM Tours to send them northwards and make their starting point as near Paris as possible, in order that they might reach their destination before dark. I: they fail to do this they frequently neglect to com plete the journey on the morrow. They occasionally forget their mission, and are led astray by other pigeons, or settle in a strange dovecot. Unmindful of the important interests of their communication, they will sometimes rub it off their feathers and fly in without their precious despatch. These little messengers have also to encounter dangerous enemies in the Prussian hawks, and they :are seized now and then by hungry travellers for food. The Pigeon Post is kept up in Bordeaux, but as the distance to Paris is too great to be accomplished in one day's flight, the pigeons are taken in baskets to some place beyond Tours before they are started, Tim NEXT AMERICAN PRESIDENT. One of the principal drawbacks to the Constitution of the United States is the perpetual agitation going on with respect to the great official elections. No sooner are President and Vice-President safely installed in their seats tlian the several parti,ans begin scheming and plotting for the next candida ture. " There are politicians in this city," writes a Washington correspondent, " who have thought of little else for this two and a half years past, and will think of little else for the next eighteen months to come." The favourite candidate for the next Republican nomination is the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Vice-President and Speaker of the House of Representatives. His case, says a narrator not too favourable to him, ie more adroitly managed than any other. His celebrated letter declining further polis deal honour, and declaring his determination to retire into private life, was generally believed to be in earnest. At the right moment, however, his rivals will learn that Mr: Colfax is "in the hands of his friends." The House Committees of the Fortieth Congress were arranged by Speaker Colfax, according to this statement, with a view to his future election. In the Committee on Currency, care was taken to have a large majority who would see that the national banking system was not attacked by Con gress, and, as a matter of course, the National Bank and Treasury ring worked in his favour, and will work again. The Committee of Ways and Means was arranged so as to suit the high tariff league and the American Iron and Steel Association, which has been called the wealthiest and best managed political close corporation in the United States, having the making and unmaking of some of the highest officials. Other monopolies have been secured on Mr. Colfax's side, at least so say his opponents but as the trial is still eighteen months off we shall probably hear a good deal more on both sides. NEWSPAPERS AND TELRGRAPIIB. The .2VOU7 York Herald boasts of the wonders achieved by newspaper enterprise in that city since the first message tripped along the telegraph wires between Baltimore and Washington in 1844. How the wires have worked since then ! it exclaims. How they have told on trade, on politics, and on journalism ! The Herald during the American civil war expended tour hun dred thousand dollars in getting news by telegraph. In the Abyssinian campaign news was conveyed by the wires from America to England in advance of the British Government. The Franco-German • war has afforded an opportunity for displaying American energies, and the New York public are very few hours behind ourselves as regards the main features of the conflict. Thus the New York Herald, on January 7th, publishes telegrams from the Times' Berlin correspondent, which appeared in London on the mo.rning of the 6th, the despatch from Ver sailles, announcing the bombardment of the southern forts, and the details of the new Cabinet of King A macleus, . besides all the fuller information of a day or two previous. The Iferald boasts that it has spent 150,000 collars in keeping its readers "pc steel" in the latest news of the struggle. The telegraphic agencies are multiplying enormously, and the States will speedily be in communication with all the West India islands. "The clay is not distant w'.•en Pacific cables shall make news from Shanghae and Pekin, from Calcutta, and Madras, as important, if not as interesting, as news from Berlin or London, and the telegraphic columns of the Herald will re flect Sydney and Melbourne, Bombay and Teheran, as faithfully as they now reflect Rome, Constantir nople, Versailles, and Liverpool," BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.- -GRATEFUL AND CON FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation as rendered it ageneral favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine preperties of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. Each packet is labelled—JAMES EPPS Sc Co., liomceo lAthic Chemists. London. Also, makers of Epps's Cacaoine, a very thin evening beverage. —Advt. t - A:,,,: \ 1TAC.,•: 41 t_ ~,,;„ e t 1 ' truirt ''':',:,,.-.-'-;:':-,*--- 1 tit lulu .t , f , _ 1-,!,, i ,,, ~..._ -7.- II E I? MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 18. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Beatrice. The Queen drove out this afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. Robertson's comedy " War" was produced at this theatre on Monday last, and met with but moderate success. The dialogue is not up to the standard of this author's productions at the " Prince of Wales," of which house he seems to be really the genuis loci. In the present play the hero is a young French officer, the heroine a German girl, residing, with her father, Herr Karl Hartmann, at Sevenoaks, and betrothed to Oscar de Rochvamres, to whom she is on the point of being married, when news arrives of the declaration of war, and Oscar must immediately proceed to Paris to join his regiment of which his father is colonel. The tidings arrive in the midst of festivities given in honour of the approaching nuptials, agony succeeds to merry-making, and the curtains falls on Lottie broken-hearted at the forced departure of Oscar. A battle field near Sedan is the next scene, and here we find Oscar severely wounded, watched overby his father, the colonel, who is also wounded. Karl Heutmann as a surgeon, and his daughter Lottie as a hospital nurse, both under the , protection of the red cross, pass over the field, and Oscar is discovered byLottie, and is entreated by him to marry him before he dies. To this she consents, and the lovers are led into an adjoining church. The wedding over, there come the sounds of renewed battle, and Oscarsinks to the earth uttering the words, " Vive la France." In the next and final act Lottie is again at Sevenoaks, mourn ing as a widow, when her father arrives accompanied by the old French colonel, who has been liberated on paroie, but good news is brought to them by an old sea captain, a friend of the family, who com municates the intelligence that Oscar is alive, and the play is brought to a close by the news—after an unaccountable amount of shilly-shally ing—being broken to Lottie, who is overwhelmed with joy at being restored to her husband. Miss Fannie Brough impersonated the heroine in a very creditable manner. Mr. A. W. Young represented the old German, and Mr. Henri Hertram of the Thiatre Gymnase, Paris, appeared as the old French Colonel, and deservedly obtained much applause, his acting being unquestionably the best throughout the whole piece. RAILWAY COMPANIES AND THEIR SERVANTS. There seems to have been a first-rate railway accident on Monday at Bradford. The 4.55 Bradford and Hud dersfield train arrived at the Lancashire and Yorkshire station at Bradford before its time, going "at a frightful speed," and was only brought to a halt after passing through theiwall of the porters' room. To add to the fun, five or six of the porters had a narrow escape of their lives, and a coal merchant was actually driven through the wall with the falling masonry, both his legs being broken and he himself so injured that he is not expected to recover. The sole drawback to the success of the exploit is that although there were about thirty passengers in the train, only a few of them were hurt, whereas, of course, they might have all been killed on the spot. The accident is attributed to the neglect of the guard in not applying the break, and he has been taken into custody for "being drunk." It is always wise in cases of this description to give the guard into custody, but it would add to the convenience of the public if the guards who are drunk were taken into custody before rather than after an acci dent. The driver, ibis stated, made an ineffectual effort to stop the train, and to save himself at length leaped from it. In so doing he doubtless exercised a wise discretion, though it is impossible not to feel some pity for the thirty passengers who at a frightful speed were propelled through the wall of the porters' room in a train under the charge of a guard supposed to be drunk and without a driver. This accident ia x how ever, " a step in the right direction 1" the railway com panies, sick of slaughter, have taken to knocking down their own buildings i and perhaps, with their passengers and porters all killed, their engine -drivers missing, and their stations levelled to the dust they will deign at last to notice the general devastation they are causing, and adopt and enforce such discipline and regulations as will at least prevent that utter annihilation of everything and everybody to which they appear to be advancing with rapid strides.—Pall Mall Gazette. THE INDIAN PUBLIC WORKS DEPART. I'JENT. The strictures of the Indiayi Government on the conduct of the officials concerned in the failure of certain buildings at Allahabad have naturally attracted a good deal of attention even in England, but the inference which the Indian papers seemed inclined to draw from the matter, that the incompetence And neglect of duty exhibited in this instance indicate a general rottenness in, the organisation of the Inditn Public Works Elepartment, appears to be somewhat premature. Con sidering the vast extent of the country, and that vernmen its affairs ts are administered by a number o f separate go working independently of each other, it does not follow that because business is carelessly transacted in the North West Provinces, the example should be repeated in Madras and Bombay, or anywhere else. And since the cry against the incom petency of military officers for undertaking civil works has again been raised, it may not be out of place to remind our readers that within the last few months it was discovered that the whole of the bridges on one of the great lines of Indian -railways, over a length of some hundred miles, were tumbling down before the line was opened for traffic, and that they had to be rebuilt again at a cost of between one and two millions sterlinw. The incompetent engineers are not military men on this occasion. These cases are an illustration how much of mere luck under lies human affairs. Two or three men neglect or misunderstand their duty, and occasion a loss of - ten or twenty thousand pounds. The affair is duly investigated, and the governor, in a fit of very just awl natural indignation, orders that the offenders shall be gibbited by a public reprimand. A similar failure of duty occurs on an enormously larger sole, and the affair does not get beyond the notice of a few officials ; unless, indeed, the shareholders of the company have a more or less dim perception of what has occurred, when they aye offered the favourable opportunity of investing a couple of millions more capital atocl on undeniable security for carrying out what is euphemistically called an extension of the works.—PaU Malt Gazette. A QUESTION OF LIABILITY.—At the Salford County Court, on Tuesday, before Mr. R. S. Sowler, Q.C., deputy judge, the case of Vandieman v. Howarth and Atkinson was tried. Mr. Smith (Messrs. Smith and Boyer) was for the plaintiff, Mr. W. Cobbett ap peared for Howarth, and Mr. Gouldthorpe for Atkinson. —The action was brought to recover a sum of £l 9 for repairs done to a house in Arlington•terrace, Broughton, which is occupied by the defendant Atkinson. The plaintiff is a joiner, cabinet maker, and general repairer of property, carrying on business in Sussex-street, and on the I.sit of June he received a note asking him to call wpen the defendant Howarth. The latter told him to, go to Arlington-terrace and see Mr. Atkinson. The plaintiff on arriving th ere was, shown some places where it was thought necessary to have repairs made, and expressed his, intention of c ommencing them next day, Atkirison, said, however, that if he did not start work that afternoon he would employ some one else. The plaintiff thereupon began the work, and from time to time received instructions from Atkinson, who desired him to use the very best material. The defendant Howarth, who was understood by the plaintiff to be the agent of the property, said he would call upon him at the house, but he had never done so. When the work was completed, the plaintiff applied to both the defendants for payment. Howarth sent a note saying that he should apply to those who employed him, and on application being made to Atkinson he denied that he had ever done so, The only course the plaintiff said he had was to summon both parties, Mr, Cobbett said that, upon the allegation of the plaintiff that Howarth was merely the agent of the property, his client was not liable.—Mr. Gouldthorpe said the property belonged to a Mr. Chadwick, and his client was simply a tenant. Mr. Howarth was the agent, and it was promised, when Mr. Atkinson entered the house, that it would be put in thorough repair.—The Judge, after some discussion, gave judgment against the defendants as joint contractors, leaving the further adjustment of the matter to be settled between themselves.—Mr. Cobbett asked the Judge's pop 4§4ipn to appeal, which was refused, LONDON SCHOOL BOARD. Jn Wednesday, at a meeting of the London School ,ard, Lord Lawrence (President) in the chair, the Board formed themselves into a committee for the purpose of electing a clerk at a salary of £BOO a year. A discussion ensued, when it was determined that the election should be private, the press and the public were therefore requested to withdraw. in about an hour the doors were re-opened, when the Chairman announced that the choice of the Board had fallen on Mr. Croad, late secretary to the Bishop of London's Fund, by one vote above the number recorded for Mr. Lichfield. A report was read from the Officers' Committee submitting the names of the following six candidates for the situation of statistical clerk at a salary of £3OO a year. Mr. T. Bond Bishop, Mr. William Francis Dewey, Mr. Charles William Isitt, Mr. George Rogers, Mr. Arthur Smither, and Mr. Augustus W. Watson. There were 107 appli cations. The report was received, and the next meeting ay appointed for the attendance of the candidates and lie election. MR. FORSTER AT BRADFORD. Mr. Forster's fiel !-day at Bradford furnished ample evidence of the great schism which is gradually coming to pass in the Liberal ranks. The majority at the meeting on Monday expressed in the amend ment which they succeeded in carrying their disap proval of the Education measure passed mainly by Mr. Forster's exertions, and their grief at the means employed to secure its adoption. That is, several leading clauses of the Act were passed by the help of the coin mittees, and in order to get this help the said clauses had to be very Conservative in tor.e. This feeling will probably not much affect the relations between Mr. Forster and his constituents, but it represents very plainly the great influences at work. Be tween the Radicals and the class of politi cians who furnish most of the present Ministry there is little sympathy, and them can be little affinity. The two have worked for many years together, because the Radicals were weak: they commanded no important section of voters. The enfranchisement of the " residuum " has made a great difference. As fast as the new electoral element develops its power, so will the reconstruction of parties be brought about. THE FAVRE DEMONSTRATION. The War Office has forbidden volunteers to take part in the grand demonstration to Jules Favre. But the volunteers, at least some of them, care THE CAPE DIAMOND FIELDS. Dr. Williams, the Dean of Grahamstown, has sent another letter to London respecting the South African Diamond Fields. He says that his former statements as to the extent and richness of the fields have been more than corroborated. The diggers are only now doing as they were advised by experts from the first—going down 30ft. deep, and diamonds are found there just as abundantly as at the surface. The earlier corners kept as close to the rivers as they could for the convenience of getting water easily for washing this wonderful gravel. They knew not, therefore, how far, measured from the river's banks, the diamond gravel might extend. Now, however, that there may be about some 15,000 males there, chiefly colonials, crowding together under canvas, each man or party settling down on his own few square yards of claim; con stantly also changing his claim for another, and few as yet caring to go deepeer than five feet, some are, of course, elbowed away to a greater distance from the rivers, as much as two, four, and six miles, and have, of course, to cart the water for washing. Nevertheless, when they go down into that hard soil, with its heavy boulders and close bound red gravel, the rubies, garnets, and diamonds are now found just as richly as they were close to the river's bank. He heard on reliable authority that 25 miles from the Orange River bank a spot had been struck, and there, too, the diamonds were found. The percentage of larger stones—say of from 18 to 40, 50, 60, and 80 carats weight, many of them gems of the best shape and description—is something marvellous to those who know a good deal of the Brazilian mines. The Cam brian steamer, which brought home this letter, had a consignment of over 1,000 diamonds from one colonial house alone. TIIE REPUBLIC AND THE ORLEANISTS. The Prince of Joinville has written a letter stating that, although he was accepted by General Chanzy and commissioned as a major, he was arrested by order of AL Gambetta, closely imprisoned for five days, and then sent to England via St. Malo. Daft, the well-known Nottinghamshire batsman, who sustained an injury while at cricket at the close of ast season, and which was feared as likely to prevent him playing in future, has sufficiently recovered to enable him to appear in the field at the opening of the season. THE WEATHER.—Since Tuesday the barometer has risen on all the coasts, the change having been greatest in the north of our islands (nearly 0.6 inch at Nairn). Readings are much more uniform than they were, though still low. Temperature had fallen in the north of our islands and the English Channel ; it is, how ever, still comparatively uniform. Rain has fallen, prin cipally in the south and south-east, with hail and snow ill pl aces. It is said by a Scotch paper to have been arranged that Lord Lorne and the Princess Louise shall spend their honeymoon at Claremont House. The question of their premanent residence still remains to be decided. Bushy Park, near Hampton Court, is spoken of as more convenient in its distance from town than Claremont. It appears to be intended, however, that the Marquis and Princess shall spend a good part of the year in Scot land. THE STOURBRIDGIR RAILWAY FRAUDS.—It iS rumoured (says the Birmingham Post) that Mr. W. Adcock who is charged with committing serious frauds on the Stourbridge Railway Company, took his departure last week for New Zealand ; also, that a discovery has just been made in Worcester of a considerable quantity of plate, cutlery, linen, &c., which was clandestinely re moved from " Sunnyside," the bankrupt's late residence , shortly before Mr. Adcock took his flight, but which will now be brought under the auctioneer's hammer for tile benefit of his numerous creditors. BOILER EXPLOSIONS.—At a conference on the subject of boiler explosions which has just been held in Manchester; resolutions were passed declaring that cony potent periodical inspections should be enforced by laW• It was held, however, that the administration of the system should not be entrusted to Government officers , but to distriot hoards, " constituted partly of gentlemen elected by the steam-users themselves, and party of a officio members, to be chosen on behalf of the public, the boards having the power of making such laws, rules, And regulations from time to time as mig'at be found necessary for the conduct of the service," In the general *tie which ensued at the attack on Ville-Evrard a French lieutenant was taken prisoner 137 five or six German soldiers, who dragged him to the banks of the Marne and pushed him into a boat. Two men got into the boat and were rowing him towards the enemy 's lines, when he sprung out and disappeared beneath the waters, to the great dismay of the Prussians. He landed on the opposite shore, and being well acquainted with the country he managed to gain Neuilly under cover of the darkness. He is still in the hospital, but in a fair way ° f recovery. He has been promoted to the rank of captain- AMERICAN ARMS FOR FRANCE.—Cargoes 0 f arms and ammunition continue to be despatched to France from New Y or k f or th e use o f t h e F renc h ar mies-' The French steamer Lofayette, which sailed from Nel York on the a ft ernoon o f th e sth i ns t an t, h a d on bear" 100,000 stand of rifles and an immense quantity of arnral nition for Havre and Cherbourg. The arms were prin . pally Remington and Springfield rifles, of the Unite' States army pattern for 1861. ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—SiIver medallions ° the Royal Humane Society have been awarded to Mess ,J. Harrison and Samuel B. Bailey, of Sydney, Isle, ° South Wales, for attempting to save the crew of the Walter Hood, which was lost at Ulladulla on the 29t of April last. A silver medallion was also voted to Henri M`Gran, of the Irish Constabulary, for saving a brothe, r , constable from drowning, while bathing, at great r is " to himself. Awards of the bronze medallion have be en made to William Mason, Charles H. Jones, of h*" Majesty's ship Trincomalee; C. F. Moodie, H. C. Ate` terman, Frederick Cowley, and Thomas O'Connor -1 each case for saving life. SOMETHING 'LIKE "PROTECTION; ' — stater addressed to Congress shews that an one invoice of tons of salt, costing in 'United . States' curren%, 1,637 dols., and imported from Liverpool, the- d u -f o amounted to 3,291 dole., or 200 per cent. on cost. ",,, another instance, an 680 tons, costing 1,526 dols., the (112/0 was 3,04,1 dole., or 199 per cent. In yet another, on . tons, costing 695 dols., the duty reached 1 ,i 65 4° 90 0 of 206 per ornt. The New York Tinies says : —The frel , on the cargoes averages about 175 per cent. of cost, s' i co that, surely, should be sufficient protection for this brsi l „, of American industry ! If to this item be added the cl,""a we have in the cases cited evidence that the Ononls4 producers are protected to the extent of from 374 to per cent. of the value of their product. Is it wrong" '- describe an interest that is cared for so extravagautlY a inonopoly ?" TEXAN " PERSUASION."—A correspondent of ° to e Denton Monitor says a handsome dashing woman rokle a village in that region a few days ago, and, aliglit'" from her horse, went rapidly to a drinking salo?a1; where a number of sovereigns were having a 11,1,0 time." She singled out the finest looking man lo crowd, and walking up to him, seized him by the ar o and ordered him to put down the glass which b e : v o cl about to drain, He dashed down the glass - e a rushed away ; the lady followed, and finally eorrierj him in the billiard room. She told him in a firm 960 determined voice that the place he was, in and„ - (1; course he was pursuing would not answer for her has"` - /l o that he was wasting her property, and that she woul(103• longer consent to be disgraced and impoverished by 11.1001 She demanded his pistol. He refused, She took it fl him, cocked it, and presented it at him, and told biol. J", A must leave or die, He concluded to leave. She mar a 5 him out as a prisoner of war to where his horse t he hitched, ordered him to mount, and in a few minutes her two were leaving town, the wife riding in the rear °f captured lord, with his six-shooter in her hand. doi lt N EW S FROM CHERBOURG.—A correspon of writing from Cherbourg, says ;--The rnovenieottei. troops to the front from this town continue s uns"3o ot When passing the railway station to-day I saw t ho le three hundred cavalry waiting to be sent on. The sv population has, in fact, become military civil li fe f a te L l civil employments are at a standstill. Three illot vessels lie in the dock, sadly in want of repa ir, but °wit' workman can be found in the town to attend t°, w itO wants. The inner basin of the dock is crowded h iii Prussian vessels. Provisions here have arisen o c , price. Sugar—an article in great demand anione' t 1 French—costs 24 to 26 sous a pound, even whe n , to. quality is but second-rate. Immense qaantities °lhe, bacco, which come from Havre, are being stored e 'd, When the exportation of eggs and butter was stoPP l . t icle 4 was naturally expected that the price of, these Ito' would be _diminished. This expectation has beeli t o ,s :3 4 v gether d4,appointed. Fresh butter costs as tile_ c o th e t sous a pound, and eggs are 32 sous a dozen. Th e w r ot : !: here has become extraordinarily mild. To this. A_ 01 1 1 1 suppose, must be partly ascribed the hilarity o f tn f tary officers in the town. Their joy' at the prosPec v g o 3o 4 early departure to, Chanzy's army is unbounded- 001 pox is ragbag here with fearful effect. The railway oven for vassenf, ,, ,er traffic as far as Caen." THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Pubiished Every Morning at EIGIT F O'CLOCK, with SOME lIOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS ot the WAIL, and ot all other events.