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V, MOSES and SON'S E WINTER OVERCOATS, 19s. to £5. B OY'S OVERCOATS, els. 6d. to 455. EMOSES and SON beg to rculind the public 4 , that the cheapoes4 of an article depends entirely on its quality, and they venture to say that their prices will compare favourably with those of any other house in England. V . MOSES and SON'S E OXFORD COATS, 17s. to 50s. AMBIUDGE COATS, 19s. to 50s. ]IERTCII JACKETS, 15s. to 425. SUTHERLAND JACKETS, 19s. 6d. to 50s. BUSINESS SUITS, 28s. to 60s. MOSES and SON'S easy and accurate system E• of self-measure enables them to execute orders by post. With the guarantee of a faultless fit. JD MOS E S and SON'S * ROCK COATS, 245. to 635. DRESS COATS, 255. to 60s. MORNING TROUSERS, lls. 6d. to 21s. DRESS TROCSERS, 12s. 6d. to 265. MOURNING SUITS, 28s. to £5. EMOSES and SON invite special attention . to their large Stock of GENTLEME 'S DRESSING 11013 ES, at 18 to 2 ) Guineas; the assortment is unequalled for variety of ma terials and designs, and neatness and elegance of finish. E MOSES and SON'S B UYS' CLOTHING : KNICKERBOCKER SUITS, 9s. 6s. to 40s. --___ ETON SUITS, 15s. to 40s. BRIGHTON SUITS, 18s. to 48s. DRESS SUITS, 255. to 635. MOSES and SON supply every description of Clothing, ready-made or made to meas ure, for all ages, all o c casions , and .11 classes ; also Hosiery anr Drapery, Hats and Cat s; Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any Article exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices. with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Lstablishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturduy evening at sunset, when business is resumed until Eleven o'cloek. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SO LONDON. COR'S ER of MINORI ES and ALDO ATE. EW OXFORD-STREET. COB gER of HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT -ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE ITA.LIAN OPERA BUFFA COMPANY (LIMITED)—LYCEII3I THEATRE. THIS EVENING (Wednesday), January 25, will be produced (for the fifth time in any countr y ), the New Opera of ALI 11413 A (written expressly for this Company). Boxes on the grand tier, £3 Is. ; stall tier. £2 12s. 61; uope ss r circle, £ 1 Ts. 6d.; orchestra st a l ls, its 6d.; grand tier dre seats, 75.; upper circle seats, 4a: pit tifikets, 2s. 6d. ; amphi theatre, is. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, F. B. Chatterton.—Morning Performances every Wednesday and Saturday, until Saturday, February 25th, inclusive. THIS EVENING (Wednesday), will be produced the Drury Lane Grand Comic CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, written by E. L. Blanchard, entitled the DRAGON OF WANTLEY !.and Harlequin Old Mother Shipton I with New and Characteristc Scenery by William Beverley, whose personal, services are now exclusively devoted to actionsillutrating the produc tions of this Theatre. The general of the Pantomime arranged by, and the whole produced under, the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling. Characters in the opening by Messrs. Fred. Yokes, H. Moreland, Charles Steyne, F. Wright, bladon Voke s,ster IL N a ylor, Seymour , Firth, Meade, Webber, F. Russell ; Misses Victoria Yokes, Jessie Vokes, Rosina 'Yokes, Harr i e t Coveney, M. A. Basquerville, A. Hamilton, Hall, Florence Harvey, De Grey, Ross, Timbrel l, El p hinstone, Har court, Lee, Leslie, Mills, White, Burpitt, Rivers, Russell, Hastings. W. H. Pan- F. Evans and tom imists, forming a Double Company, Harvey, Clowns ; P a ul Herring and J. M orris, Pantaloons ; W. Faw d on Yokes and Stonette, Harlequins ; the Misses Rosina and Jessie Yokes, Columbines ; Miss Lizzie Grosvenor, Har lequins. B. Slownian, Imitator of Birds, &c. Mr. H. Collard , the Pocket Sims Reeves. Master Dassie, the Chickalery Boy. E. D. Lyon, the Shor t Footman. Lawson and Garton, theaFrench 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. J o hn Cormack. The Comic Sce nes and Tricks, ttc., arranged by Mr. John Cormack and Messrs. Evans and Harvey. Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven. Box-office open from Ten till Five Daily. Private Boxes, 1,2, 3,4, and 5 Guineas. Stalls, 75. Dress Circle, ss. First Circle, 4s. Balcony, 3s. Pit, 2s. Lower Gallery, ls. Upper Gallery, 6d. ---- THE DRAGON OF WA.NTLEY; or, Harlequin and Old Mother Shipten, will be performed THIS EVENING, and positively withdrawn on Saturday, February 25. Places can be secured from the first until the last date. MORNING PERFORMANCES every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY, at Two o'clock. Therefore, to prevent disap pointment, an early application for seats is respectfully re quested. Box-office open from Ten till Five daiIy.—THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. MORNING PERFORMANCE 'of the Grand Pantomime, entitled the DRAGON OF WANTLEY, ev ery Wednesday and Saturday. Children and Schools at re duced prices to the following parts of the Theatre :—First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Box-offi URce open from Ten till Five d a ily. - THEAT RE ROYAL, DRY-LANE. A" R OBSART.—In answer to numerous ap plications, it is respectfully B announced is Drama will b e revived on Monday, Feb. 27. ox-office ope th n from 10 till 5 daiIy.—THEATRE -ROYAL DRURY LANE. riEA.TRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET - Fifty -fifth Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDY.—THIS EVENING (Wednesday), at Seven, O'Keefe's Musical Piece, THE POOR SOLDIER, with selections from the original music Patrick, Miss Fanny Wright ; Norah, Miss Fanny Gwynne . After which, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new Fairy Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled THE PALACE OF TRUTH. Characters by Mr. Buckstone, Messrs. Kendal, Everil, Clark, Braid, Rogers, Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. Hill, Fanny Wright, and Phanor's Country Fanny Gwynne. Act I. G arden of Ring House. Act 11. Interior of the Palace of Tr WI uth LL . Act 111. The Avenue of Palms. Followed by UNCLE'S . Mr. Kendal and Mi ss Robertson. Concluding with the Farce of THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROO2.I. Box Office open daily from 10 till 5. ____---------_ -------- PRINCESS'S THEA.TRE.—SoIe Lessee, Ben jamin Webster. Managers, B. Webster and F. B. B en min EVENING, at 7, THE MAN After F THE WORLD : S i r Pertinax MacsycoPhant, Mr. Phelps.whh, the - tirely new, grand, s pectacular extravaganza, entitled LITTLE GIL BLAS, and How he Played the Spanish D(Deuce.—Box office open from Ten till Five. __________ ADELPHI THEATRE ROYAL. Sole Pro prietor, Mr. Benjamin Webster ; Managers, Mr. B. Webster and Mr. F. B. Chatterton.--THIS EVENING, at 7, a n ew Drama, in One Ac t, 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 Debreaux, Mdlle. Camilla Dubois, Miss Bellew, Miss M. Cooper, and Miss Bella Moore ; Mr. Brittain Wright, Mr. John Rouse, and Mr. Odell. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND. Lessees—Messrs. 11. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne.--THIS EVENING, at 7, CHISELLING (130th Night) : Mr. David James. After which, TWO ELIZABETH 202nd nht), by James Mess.bConclude with (60th night) Sup ported by II. J. Montague, David James, and T. Thorne, Btc.; Mesdames Amy Fawsitt, A. Newton., and Nelly Power, &c. ROYA.L STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, ON AND OFF. LIVING AT EASE. Messrs. Cr Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Beton, and F. Hughes. C(EUR-DE-LION, Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turn& ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Balton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, tke. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1870 THE SITN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1871. pOYALTY T EIEATRE.-TO - NIGII T, January 25.—Thirteenth 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 w ith WHITTINGTON JUNIOR and his SENSATION CAT. which will be justified by common sense and the calm wisdom of impartial minds, but Mr. Motley's errors were not serious. They were on the side of patriotism and popular feeling. A single plain, common-sense letter of Mr. Fish would have corrected them. `Vl►y did he not write it ? The truth is the natural " incompatibility " of Grant and Fish, and not Mr. Sumner's opposition, was the cause of Mr. Motley'3 reca OYAL POLYTECHNIC. - EXTRAORDI .NARY and COMBINED ENTERTAINMENT. PRO FESSOR PEPPER on THE WAR. Special Edition. Musical and Pictorial Illustrations.—Mr. GEORGE GROSSMITH, Jun., in the Fairy Tale, THE YELLOW DWARF, every Evening ; and Mr. SUCHET CHAMPION in the Morning.—GRECIAN STATUARY, by MADAME BOUSFIELD ; and a thousand and one other Entertainments all for ONE SHILLING, daily, 12 to 6 and 7 to 10. MADAME 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, ls. ; Children under Ten Years of age, ad. Extra Rooms, 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. MADAME TUSBAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view, Portrait Models of the King and Crown Prince of Prussia, Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern. Also Count von Bismarck and Count von Moltke.—Admission, ls. ; Children under Ten Years of age, 6d. Extra Rooms, 6d. extra. — Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER. MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON, EX THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND CAP ,RIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s ream. a. 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Dorset they now get neither one nor the other, every house being supplied with bread tickets, as precious to the really hungry as they are worthless to the habitual mendicant. The code of signals is conse quently worthless, and the professional beggar is apdly disappearing from Dorsetshire. DitAIIA.TIC REPRESENTATIONS IN MUSIC HALLS. A case of some importance to the proprietors of mtsic halls has been brought before the Bail Court. The defendant was the proprietor of the music ball in the Commercial-road. He had no license for dancing ; et. it was complained that he had brought out a bal!et divertissement. Some of tho performers went through movements to appropriate music, which resembled dancing. There was, moreover, a gorgeous It was contended that the act scene. un ler which the penalty was sought to be en forced did not apply to the modern music hall, and that if it did apply the defendant was not liable. He had a license for music, and the dancing com- plained of was not a substantial part of the entertain ment, but ancillary to the music. The Judge re served the points of law, but left the jury to decide two questions—as to whether the dancing "was ancillary to the music, and if the ballet was part of a regular entertainment. The jury having answered the questions in the affirmative, the verdict was entered for the defendant. ff:NDELSSOIIN AT BUCKINGIIAM PALACE, The following extracts from an interesting letter by Mendelssohn which has just been published by his son in a German periodical will be found peculiarly interesting to English readers : _ _ _ Frankfort, July 19, 1842, MANSION HOUSE FRENCH RELIEF FUND. ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 7he first meeting of the committee appointed last week, l A ice-Chancellor Bacon has had before him a case on to raise subscriptions to relieve the suffering. French • the decision of which other similar cases, arising out of people in the various districts throughout France, was the winding up of the Albert Life Assurance C6mpany de held at the Mansion House, on Tuesday afternoon. mewled, naniefy, an application on behalf of the official The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided, and the liquidator to sue General Parlby for the recovery of a loan metting was largely and most influentially attended. It of £250, without allowing any deduction in respect of his was announced that up to the 24th January subscriptions claim for damages against the company, on a life policy had been received at the Mansion House and the various for £l,OOO which the Company had issued to him some • batiks amounting to £1,739 12s. 10d., independent years before the date of the loan, and which he had de of the sum received by the proprietors of the posited with them by wq.y of security for repayment of the Daily Telegraph.' Mr. Levy announced that the loan with interest at £3 per cent. M.. E. E. Kay and Mr. sum received at that office up to the morning was £3,764 Hemming were for the official liquidator ; Mr.lF•ry and Mr. 15s. 3d. The Lord Mayor added that various sums had Bevir, for General Parlby, contended that he was entitled been promised, but not yet received, and they had not to set off whatever damages were due to 'him in respect therefore been accounted for. His lordship then said it of the Company's inability to perform their contract • would be desirable to give the greatest publicity as to the policy for £l,OOO against the CoMpany's to the movement, and for this purpose they would have claim in respect of their advance of £250. The Vice to periodically advertise the objects of the fund, and the Chancellor said that nothing could he clearer than the names of the committee. It was most essential, indeed it right of the company to bring an action for the recovery was necessary in order to ensure success, that the subscrip- of the loan at any time after it was effected. The corn tions should be regularly published. The necessary arrange- pony, at the risk of its capital, had expended a large meats for carrying out these suggestions having been amount in loans of this sort, and upon any emergen c y made, several new members were added to the committee, which required them to replace money thus expended; including the Duice of Devonshire and the Marquis of they were entitled .to bring actions for the recovery of Salisbury. that money ; and on the other hand, if General A discussion then ensued as to the best mode of admi- Parlby thought that 5 per cent. was too large interest' nistering the fund. Ultimately £750 .in money was for- for him to pay, it was open to him at any time to pay off warded to Versailles. A long discussion then ensued the loan. As to the question of set-off, this was not relative to the hest means of neutralising any stores or a case to which the principle of set-off could he applied. food which may be sent out, the object of the committee If, upon the principle of Bell's case, General Parlby were being to provide a depot near Paris from which to be compensated in respect of his claim under the policy to supply the wants of the inhabitants. for £l,OOO, how could the court or anybody say what immediately upon the capitulation of the city. The amount this company would have to pay to enable General result was that the Lord Mayor undertook to see Lord Parlby to reinsure his life for£l,ooo in another substantial Granville upon the subject, and, after hearing what his company ? The application of the official liquidator must Irdship suggested, calling upon Count Bernstoff in order, be granted. lssible, to obtain the Prussian sanction to the move- PRESIDENT LOPEZ'S WILL. In the Probate Court the will of the late President Lopez came befiwe Lord Penzance, under extraordinary circumstances.—The Solicitor-General, with whom was Sir Travers Twiss, Q.C. (the Queen's Advocate-General), said he had to move that a grant of administration should be granted to Madame Lynch.—The learned counsel said that the case had been before his Lordship on a previous occasion, and that Lord Penzance said he was desirous in the interest of all parties that more details should be given in reference to the execution of the will. He had several affidavits which he believed would con vince the judge. Lord Penzance said that notice had been sent to the registrar of the day, stating that a caveat had been entered. If so, the court could make no order that would override the caveat. A learned counsel for a Mr. Abbott said that his client had practically agreed to withdraw. Sir Travers Twiss said that no second caveat had been entered.—Sir John Coleridge went on to say that one of his affidavits spoke as to the 12th of January. The per son making it said that on the 23rd of December he saw Marshal Lopez sign a document, which he believed to be his will. That document was signed in the open air, and the deponent, who was one of the staff, had every reason to believe that it was a will. There was also an affidavit of Major- General McMahon, the Minister for the United States in Paraguay. He stated that he held that position from June, 1868, to June, 1869, when he was recalled. The deponent believed that in December, 1868, the deceased made his will. In that month the deceased gave it to witness to deposit in the American Legation. When General MacMahon left Paraguay, he left the will with Marshal Lopez. Dr. W. Stewart was one of the attesting witnesses to the will. The learned counsel went on to read from Captain' Burton's book on the late war in Paraguay, where the correspondence of Lopez to MacMahon was published. In that Lopez very much wished that the will should take effect, and that Madame Lynch should have the whole of his property—LordPenzance said that on the positive evidence of General MacMahon he must make the grant to Madame Lynch, subject of course as to whether there was a caveat entered. The will was a military one, and they had the evidence of an expert that the'will was executed according to the law of Paraguay. —The counsel for Mr. Abbott said he should like the Solid- tor-General to tell him if Madame Lynch was really a married woman.—Sir John Coleridge ; I will communi cate everything I know to my friend. If he can tell me whether she is a married woman ; it is more than I can. (Laughter).—Lord Penzance : It might be something like a Scotch marriage. (Great laughter). FRAUDULENT TRADESMEN. At the Clerkenwell Sessions House the justices have been engaged in trying effenders charged with using fraudulent weights and measures, and some " curious frauds," we are told, were brought to light. Weights were discovered in the possession of tradesmen ingeniously constructed of very light wood or cork covered with a thin external shell of iron, by the use of which unfortunate purchasers have been defrauded to an enormous ex tent. A Mr. Thomas Freed, stall-keeper, of Whitecross street, has been in the habit of weighing his customers' purchases with a so-called pound weight of 5 oz., two half-pounds of 3 oz. 2dr., and a light quarter of a pound weight. The weights of Mr. Thomas Vaughan, stall keeper, of the Caledonian-road, are of still more modest pretensions. His pounds only weigh 3 oz. 11 dr. and 3 oz. 1 dr. ; his half-pound. 2 oz. ; and two quarter pounds, 1 oz. and 3 oz. respectively. The court held that it should ill discharge its duty to the public if it did not mark its sense of the conduct of the defendants, and inflicted a fine of £5, or hard labour for one month. Fortunately for the inhabitants of Whitecross-street and the Cale donian-road the defendants were unable to pay the fine and were sent to prison ; but it must evidently be a rare occurrence for people in receipt of the large profits: which Messrs. Freed and Vaughan should earn by their business to be unable to raise a £5 fine, and it is of course possible that their imprisonment may be only a temporary inconvenience, from which they will be relieved on communicating with their families. In cases, how ever, where the fine is forthcoming, the discharge of such delinquents as these cannot be a very edifying sight for the unhappy wretch who is sent to gaol without an alternative for taking a loaf of bread under pressure of starvation, perhaps from the counter of the very tradesman who in happier times has defrauded him of his poor earnings, and whom he now sees escaping with comparative impunity from the hands of justice. Some day, perhaps, we shall be ashamed of the platitudes about the equality of all men before the law with which► we are in the habit of flattering our vanity, and shall really set to work to bring about that equality in fact. And one step to it will be to punish the thief behind the counter with the same severity as the, thief before it. The barometer having again risen on all our coasts, readings have become high generally, and are rather uniform ; that at Ardrossan exceeding by only 0.3 inches that at Dover. Temperature has fallen somewhat both in the south-west and north-east of our islands, and 1 5 rather low generally. Light westerly airs and calms con tinue on our northern coasts, but throughout England and the south of Ireland easterly and north-easterly winds are general—blowing a fresh gale at Yarmouth, but moderate to light elsewhere, Slight rain has fallen in places. THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS Loursr.--- Workmen are now employed in excavating the ground be tween the arched gateway leading to the grand flight of steps at the west entrance of the cathedral, in order to forts the new roadway, which must be completedbefore the nisr riage day. To do this a roadway will have to be formedfroni a spot within the Castle-yard, opposite the north sid e of Henry the Eight's gateway to the Horse-shoe Cloisters, and so on to the foot of the steps. -From the archwaY a's the cloisters a covered way, it is understood , will be in right up to the west door of St. George's Chapel, for the use of such of the guests as may use this I: 6r of the building as a place of arrival on tb"., wedding-day. Thus, while some of the guests Arrive at the west end, others will enter the cathedral 1:4 the south door and the c l o isters—the Albert Alenaorl Chapel being reserved for the use of the members a the Royal Family and more disting uished visitors. Since se last Royal marriage at St. George's Chapel —that of tu Prince and Princess of Wale s—a most interesting add/0° to the adornments of the cathedral has been the erection ft, the splendid new alabaster reredos at the eastern end of% choir, and which is overlooked by the Queen's closet. .„ opposite this new altar-piece that the marriege cereraonl!, be performed, and around this s p ot accommodation f 1. o Royal family and the memb e r s of the House of Argo; will be provided, while the r est of the choir and the , of the Knights of the Gart er and la y clerks Will theb re served for the company invit ed to be p resent at riage. The lay clerks and c horisters, under the superVl vile of Dr. Elvey, organist o f the cathedral, will occuPcoi, organ loft over the west entra nce to the choir. The ! di e of the arrangements will come under the control et Lord Chamberlain's department. re p ro IsiCepANefltAheFlFvoeurlDdlgrT ? a — tis Pay au y . t ry 6d. and ls. Diaries give most value for your menet Letts Housekeepers' and Ladies' Diaries are much improsea. Invisible Ink for Postal Cards, 6d. a re much ouLretStst,satoioffinceer 6Ddiari. a THEATRES AND AMUSEMENTS ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA, LYCEUM—AIi Baba. DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley. COVENT GARDEN —Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty. ADELPHI—Smoke. One Touch of Nature. Mistletoe Bough. HAYMARKET—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Truth. Uncle's Will. The Spectrp Bridegroom. VAUDEVILLE -Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the Invisible Armada. OPERA COMIQUE Blue Devils. Found Drowned The Lottery Ticket. STRAND—On and Off. Living at Ease. Coeur-de. Lion. ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. A COINAGE GRIEVANCE. A correspondent directs the attention of the Master of the Mint to a long-standing grievance with re spect to sovereigns. The other day he obtaine l some sovereigns from his bankers Which on being weighed appeared to be correct. They were all weighed at the same time. When some of these sovereigns were offered. at Somerset-House, in payment of duties, they were refused on the score of being light, and it was intimated that they could only be received on payment of threepence for each one. If a banker is asked to supply a hundred sovereigns he puts them in a heap in the scale, and if they conie up to the de sired weight they are considered genuine; but the chances are that some are heavier than others when taken separately. A sovereign of the year 1838 is lighter than a Sydney Mint coin, but among so many mixed sovereigns the excessive weight would make up for the deficient weight. The grievance of the matter is this, that at Somerset House and the Bank of England each sovereign has to stand on its own meritß, and is weighed separately. The correspondent thinks that the gold used in the London Joint Stock Banks ought to be as good in Somerset House as it. is everywhere else in the world. THE NORTH POLAR ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Captain Sir L. M'Clintock has supplied the Royal Geographical Society with a very interesting paper, drawn up from the report of the German officers who were employed on the recent North Polar Expedition, which was organised by a Mr. A. Peterman, of Berlin. Two steamers, the Germania and Hansa, were specially fitted up for the party in June 1869. Its members, who made some important geographical and scientific discoveries, managed to find plenty of amusement in the dreary regions in which their lot was cast. Captain M'Clintocik tells us that they had good sport, making heavy bags of reindeer, musk oxen, and bears, but as t ;e latter were very numerous, and approached the ships in considerable numbers, they were found to be rather unpleasant neighbours. On the return voyage the ships parted company, and the party on board the Hansa appear to have encountered great hard ship. For two hundred days they drifted among fioatingice on the .!oast of Greenland, and were placed upon short rations. One of the crew became insana . owing to the privations be was subjected to, and finally the vessel herself was crushed to pieces in the ice. Fortunately, the whole of the party managed to find refuge in the boats, and succeeded in reaching a Danish settlement, where they were kindly cared for at the German mis sionary station. It is impossible to award too much praise to Professor Peterman, to whose untiring advocacy, indefatigable energy, and pecuniary support the success of this expedition is due. AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION. The prospects of a Confederation of the Australa sian Colonies are said to be very encouraging. The sudden expansion of Confederated Germany into a compact and colossal power, has had its weight with the colonists, who, not un reasonably, considered that the strength and unity of action resulting from the federal principle in Germany ought to exist among them selves. As the colonies are in different stages of growth, and could not be expected to have identical views on the subject, it was wisely suggested by the politicians of Victoria, who have taken the lead in the matter, that the Act proposed to the Home Government should be permissive, and should allow of other colonies joining the first union from time to time. When the report was adopted in the Vic torian Legislature it was transmitted to the leading politicians in the other colonies, with a request that that they would consider the question and ex2ress their views. Most of them have expresSed them selves as very favourable to the - scheme, and the Victorian Commission has therefore drafted a Permissive Bill under the direction of the Attorney-General. Should this pass the Legislature, and be accepted by one or more of the other colonies it will be transmitted to the Imperial Government, which has already approved the Federation scheme. The longer it is deferred the greater grow the fiscal difficulties and the stronger marked the local jealousies and provincial feeling. The actual circumstances of the Australian colonies, says one of the leading organs, qualify them for federation. Without reckoning New ,Zea land or Western Australia, they contain a million and three-quarters of inhabitants, with an aggregate revenue exceeding that of any of the six minor kingdoms of Europe, while the varieties of the soil and climate place at the command of their inhabi tants the products of the tropics and of a region as temperate as England. 888 MAJESTY. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, walked and drove out yesterday afternoon and this morning . . Mu. BRIGHT.—A correspondent of the Daily News says :—" Mr. Bright writes that he is unable to attend the public meeting of his constituents. There is, how ever, said to be no ground for fearing that his health will not permit him to take his place in the House of Com mons at an early date. He is, however, willing to resign his seat, and offers to do so. It is hardly" necessary to say that a strong resolution will be proposed at the meet ing refusing to entertain such a proposal, and expressive of sympathy with the right hon. gentleman." THE APPROACHING MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS LOUISE.—At a meeting of the officers of the Labour Re presentation League, the president, Mr. Robert M. Latham, with unanimous approval, gave notice of a motion condemning, as uncalled for, the offensive references to the dowry of the Princess Louise, and expressing his firm conviction that the working men of England would not permit their attention to be drawn away from the great question affecting their own and the country's welfare by paltry and vexatious attempts to excite unworthy preju dices in a matter which in its liberal and exceptional character commends itself to the hearty approval of the nation. My DEAREST LITTLE MOTHER, — must at once tell you all the details of my last visit a, Buckingham Palace. I know it will amuse you, dear mother, and me too. It is, as G. says, the one really pleasant and thoroughly comfortable English house, where one feel a son wise. Prince Albert had asked me to go to him on Saturday at two o'clock, so that I might try his organ before I left England; I found him alone, and as we were talking the Queen came in, also alone. She said she was obliged to leave for Claremont in an hour, and then suddenly interrupting herself, exclaimed, "But goodness, what a confusion !" for the wind had littered the whole room, and even the pedals of the organ, with leaves of music from a large portfolio that lay open. As she spoke she knelt down and began picking up the music ; Prince Albert helped, and I too was not idle. Then Prince Albert proceeded to explain the stops to me, and she said that she would meanwhile put things straight. I begged that the Prince would first play me something, so that, as I said, I might boast about it in Germany ; and he played a Chorale, by heart, with the pedals, so charm ingly and clearly and correctly that it would have done credit to any professional, and the Queen, having finished her work, came and sat by him and listened and . looked pleased. Then it was my turn, and I began my chorus from " St. Paul"—" How lovely are the messengers." Be fore I got to the end of the first verse they both joined in the chorus, and all the time Prince Albert managed the stops for me so cleverly that I was really quite enchanted. Then the young Prince of Gotha came in, and there was more chatting; and the Queen asked if I had written any new songs, and said she was very fond of singing my published ones. " You should sing one to him," said Prince Albert ; and, after a little begging, she said she would try the `• Fralingslied" in B flat—" If it is still here," she added, " for all my music is packed up for Claremont." Prince Albert went to look for it, but came back saying it was already packed. "But one might perhaps unpack it," said I. "We must send for Lady —," she said. So the bell was rung, and the servants were sent after it, but without success ; and at last the Queen weat herself, and while she was gone Prince Albert said to me, " She begs you will accept this present as a remembrance," and gave me a little case with a beautiful ring, on which is engraved " V.R. 1842." Then the Queen came back and said, "Lady is gone, and has taken all my things with her. It is really most annoying." I then begged that I might not be made t 6 suffer for the accident, and hoped she would sing another song. After some consultation with her husband, he said, " She will sing you something of Gluck's." Meantime the Princess of Gotha had come in, and we five proceeded through various corridors and rooms to the Queen's sitting-room, where there was a gigantic rocking-horse standing near the sofa, and two big bird cages, and pictures on the walls, and splendidly-bound books on the table, and music on the piano. The Duchess of Kent came in too, and while they were all talking I rum maged about among the music, and soon discovered my first set of songs. So, of course, I begged her rather to sing one of these than the Gluck, to which she very kindly consented ; and which did she choose ?—" Schaller and sch Oner schmiickt sich !" sang it quite charmingly, in strict time and tune, and with very good execution. Only in the line " Der Prosa Lasten andNM," where it goes down to D, and then comes up again chromatically, she sang D sharp each time, and as I gave her the note both times, the last time she sang D, and there it ought to have been D sharp. But with the exception of this little mis take it was really charming, and the last long G I have never heard better, or purer, or more natural from any amateur. Then I was obliged to confess that Fanny had written the song (which I found very hard, but pride must have a fall) and beg her to sing one of my own also. If I would give her plenty of help she would gladly try, she said, and then she sang the Pilgerspruch " Lass dial mur," really quite faultlessly, and with charming feeling and expression. I thought to myself, one must not pay too many compliments on such an occasion, so I merely thanked her a great many times ; upon which she said, "Oh, if only I had not been so frightened ; generally, I have such long breath." Then I praised her heartily, and with the best conscience in the world ; far just that part with the long (1 At the close she had done so well, taking the three following and con necting notes in the same breath, as one, seldom hears it done, and therefore it amused me doubly that she herself should have begun about it. After this Prince Albert sang the Aerndte-lied, " Es ist ein Schnitter " ; and then he said I must play him something before I went, and gave me as themes the chorale which he had played qn th e organ and the song he had just sung. If everything had gone as usual, I ought to have improvised most dreadfully badly, for it is almost always like that with me when I want it to go well, and then I should have gone away vexed with the whole morning. But, just as if I was to keep nothing but the pleasantest, most charming recollection of it, I never improvised better; I was in the best mood for it, and played a long time, and enjoyed it myself so that besides the two themes I brought in the songs that the Queen had sung, naturally enough ; and it all went off so easily that I would gladly not have stopped ; and they followed me with so much intelligence and attention that I felt more at my ease than I ever did in improvising to an audience. She said several times she hoped I would soon come to England agai n and pay them a visit, and then I took leave, and down below I saw the beautiful carriages waiting, with their scarlet outriders, and in a quarter of an hour the flag was lowered, and the Court Circular announced, " Her Ma jesty left the palace at twenty minutes past three," and I went off in the raint out o the Klingemans, news to them my and had the and doubto le pleasure of pouring all C6cile. • • • OSBORNE, JANUARY 24 . I The Right lion. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., and Viscountess Beaconsfield are expected in town on the 6th proximo, from Hughenden Manor, Bucks. A. dinner is to be given to the Rev. Professor Jowett, on his elevation to the Mastership of Balliol Col lege, Oxford, on Friday, the 24th of February. Sir Roderick Murchison is progressing favourably. At the meeting of the Geographical Society last even ing, Sir H. stated that Sir Roderick bad been able on the p revpious day to discuss the subject of Green land exploration. THE NEW M.P.—The llcn. Francis Charles Needham (commonly called Viscount Newry and Morne), who has just been returned to Parliament in the Conser vative interest as M.P. for the borough of Newry, is the eldest son of Francis Jack, Viscount Newry and Morne (who sat as M.P. for the same constituency frnm 1841 down to his death in 1851), by Anne Amelia, eldest (laughter of the late General the Hon. Sir Charles Col ville, G.C.8., and grandson of Francis, second and present Earl of Kilmorey, in the peerage of Ireland, who himself also represented Newry for some years half a century ago. His lordship, who was born in London in August, 1842, was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his Bachelor's degree in 1864, and proceeded M.A. in 1867. He is a magistrate for Down shire, and also for the county of Armagh. STATE OF IRELAND. Notwithstanding occasional outrages in Meath, it cannot be doubted that the cutting down of the Upas Tree has been attended with beneficial effect. Testimony to the prosperity of the island comes from all quarters. The farmers especially are doing well ; and if they thrive, the whole nation cannot be in bad straits, for agriculture is the general and staple branch of industry. The Irish Times makes no doubt that much of this general progress is to be attributed to the Land Act : The direct and marked effect of that act has been to make every occupant of an Irish farm feel that d allit thee industry, the economy, t he enterprise, provide b judiciously directed, which he puts forth will redound to the benefit, not of a stranger, but of himself and his family. He feels no longer any temptation to live from hand to mouth, but is inspired b y an obvious and assured reward to labour for the future. The magic of property is already exhibiting - its effect on the Irish race, so long held up to the world, by its detractors, as incurably lazy and improvident. THE RIGHTS OF CONQUERORS. Colonel Hamley thinks it is more than time some limitation should be placed on the rights claimed by military conquerors. The laws of war, as put for ward by the Prussians, may e conlensed into the axiom that the populbation of an in vaded country lose all their rights of property and of personal security, while the persons and effects of the invaders become absolutely sacred. Practically this takes two forms—the law of requisi tion and the law of penalty for resistance. Every species of moveable property is subject to the de mands of the troops ; the penalty for tardy com pliance is a pecuniary fine, and the chief inhabitants are seized as hostages for its payment. The town or village whose inhabitants protect their property are to be burnt, as is the town or village in which in vading troops are surprised. The district in which bridges, roads, or railways are damaged is to be a n g o e t w p o u a t ri t l o lg d a ea r t e l o L E ognise v a er t y i n o i n fo e taken r lu towbiethp put t m to s fi r ed or devastated, and the persons who did the damage put to death. Everyone taken with arms and death. The consequence of these "laws of war" is that a t i l h d a e n r n t e o s s f r w m h i a c h s e t i t t e w m i l e l n tb in e a m s o a r v e ag d e iffi co c u u n it tr t y o , great part of the most productive territory of France r is est a ore w while the French themselves are rendered desperate and embittered. As the British in the Peninsula, France and Austria in Italy, and Prussia Herself in Bohemia, waged successful wars without resorting to such measures, they can hardly be justified by the plea of necessity. The change exhibited in the character of the quiet home-loving Germans themselves is not the least startling part of the affair. Colonel Hamley calls upon the neutral powers to arrest their progress by declaring that an ineffaceable stigma attaches to an army which practices such a system of warfare, and to the nation which sanctions it, and that the " honourable peace" which the Prussian Monarch desires is hardly possible, with Paris burn ing at his feet, and France ruined behind him. THE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE. The particulars of the arrest, and finally the ex. pulsion from France, of the Prince da Joinville, have only recently been brought to light. The Prince, who went to France for the purpose of offering his services to General d'Aurelle des Paladines, was informed by the General that he dared not accept his services without the consent of the Government. Nothing daunted, the Prince remained with the army as a spectator until the defeat of the French at Orleans. He then applies} to General Chanzy, but met with no better success than before. Still he stayed about the camp until one morning he was arrested by eighteen French officials, who had been sent especially from Bordeaux for that purpose. For a week he was kept in secret confinement, and was then, through the intercession of M. Thiers, liberated by M. Gambetta, but only on condition that he would return at once to England. Under the protection of a couple of gendarmes he was taken to St. Malo, where he was placed on board an Eng lish vessel, and sent back to Claremont. No wonder that, after the treatment he received, the Prince is said to have remarked, "I did not expect such treatment from M. Gambetta. I remember the time, and it is not very long ago, when be dined with us at Clare mont. How office alters manners. Tell him that I shall expect him soon in England." Setting aside all questions of expediency, or of jea lousy, it does seem rather hard that Prince de Join vine should not be allowed to wield his sword in the defence of France. Good officers do not just now appear to be so plentiful in that unhappy country that their services can be rudely and unceremoniously - dispensed with. THE SORTIE. From the profuse accounts of the last great sortie which reach us from all quarters, it appears that the French have only one cause for satisfaction. The mobilised National Guards fought fairly well. Some of them gave way; bnt many battalions stuck to their ground bravely for such inexperienced troops, and their conduct, we are told, had a very good effect on the Line and the Mobiles, who did not like to do all the fighting whilst the Mobiles remained behind "in reserve." But the result of the contest was simply utter failure. The populattion—not disposed to make the worst of things--immediately recognised it as such, and fell into a state of deplorable despondency. It is not very likely that any fresh effort will be made until some commander is found in place of Trochu. The troops have so thoroughly lost confidence in him that any new attempt under the same guidance would be mere massacre. THE GERMAN EMPIRE. The passing, in the Lower House of the Bavarian Parliament, of the treaty by which Bavaria enters the German Confederation, is a great triumph for Prussia. The majority was a very narrow one, and great pressure was needful to obtain it. The Bavarian deputies were bullied, cajoled, and—if we may believe current accounts — bribed directly or indirectly. But the treaty pasied, and at Berlin everybody thought that a dissolution of the Bavarian Parliament would be necessary. The course now seems pretty clear. MR. MOTLEY AND SECRETARY FISH. The New York 7imes thinks, after reading the cor respondence between Mr. Motley and Secretary one can only say it is a gr e at pity the quarrel was not avoided. As a fencer in words the rather warm tempered historian is hardly a match for the cool secretary. lie had a perfect right to make a full state ment of the facts attending his dismissal, but he hadno right to suggest dishonourable motives to the President. Still the correspondence reveals a treatment of the eminent historian by the Secretary of State, which was not perfectly fair and open from the beginning. The " memoir " which Mr. Motley presented to the President before his departure was too hot tempered and r hetorical to suit the calm judgment of his principals, and they were always haunted by the ghosts of that memoir, and of Sumner's violent speech. This feeling should have been made known to Mr. Motley. Almost on his arrival the Minister made another mistake. He conveyed to Lord Clarendon the Presidents views on a delicate point from memory of a conversa , Hon, instead of waiting for written instruc tions. The President was for peace, the Minister is charged with being for war. The President's view, says the Times, is the one which has always been held by this journal, and THE SIEGE OF PERONNE. Al correspondent writing to the Standard calls attention to an extraordinary act of barbarity alleged to have been perpetrated by some Prussian officers who wore stationed at Clery, a village near Peronne, during the siege of the latter place, which if true deserves instant and condign punishment. According to the story supplied our contemporary, it appears that on the night of the 28th of December two or three officers who were quartered in the how() of Ni. Legrand, the father-in-law of the mayor of the district, bribed one of the domestics to promise that he would bring some women to the house. The fellow ran to the nearest neighbours, and the women, little dreaming of the trap that was laid for them, hastened to comply. On arriving at M. Legrand's, the Prussian officers 'soon led them to understand the infamous purpose for which they were required. Finding that they proved obstinate, threats were used, and at length force was resorted to. M. Legrand, hearing the shrieks of the poor creatures, hurried into the room, and upon ascertaining the cause of the conversation, esclaimed "No honest man's house shall be used for such a purpose, so I beg you to let the women depart." Baffled of their prey, the officers turned on their host, who, seizing a knife, threatened to stab one of them. Ile was imitantly secured by the officers, who, with the assistance of some soldiers, dragged him to the residence of M. Flon, a distance of about 500 metres, placed his back to the gate, and shot him with their revolvers. It is also asserted that M. Legrand died stripped of all his clothing, a cord at tached to his tongue supported the body : his left arm was tied up to the top of his head, and in his right hand was a sabre. We earnestly hope the story will be refuted, for anything more brutal, even among the horrors of war, it is hardly possible to conceive. PROFESSIONAL BEGGARS. The trade of habitual mendicity is not by any means unprofitable, -bnly, like other trades and pro fessions, it requires study and- practice. Profes sional beggars have a recognised code of signals, as well as soldiers, sailors, or dip lomatists. A stone placed on a gate, a wisp of straw by the wayside, a bunch of grass in a hole in the wall, these serve to indicate the nature of the reception which tramps and beggars may expect at the neighbouring houses. Happily, a plan has been devised in Dorsetshire which effectually defeats I , all these elaborate calculations, and sends the discomfited beggar elsewhere. The piteous tales of want of food are familiar to hospitable country housekeepers, but as a rule bread is the very last thing these worthies wish to get. Consequently a bread ticket supplied by the Mendicity Society is a very unwelcome gift. They like best of all to get money, and next to that cider, but thanks to the exertions of the Chief Constable of War. Bombastes Nell and (Bur. Furioso. OLYMPIC —Poppleton's Predicament. lesque) Paul and Virginia. ROYALTY— Dora's Device. Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat. Diamond Gut Diamond. GAIETY—A Christmas Story. Alladin 11. QUEEN'S —A Day After the Wedding. 'Twixt Axe and - Crown. HoLßowt—Ticket-of-Leave Man. Jezabel. PRINCE of WALES'S—Queen Stork. Ours. In. PRINCESS'S—Man of the World. Little Gil Blas. He's a Lunatic. ASTLEY'S —Englishmen in Paris. Little Tom Tittlemouse. SURREY—Farce. My Son Jack. NATIONAL STANDARD—Faroe. Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross. SADLER'S WELLS—Sinbad the Sailor. 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