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MOSES and SO LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. EW OXFORD-ST iIEET. CORNER of HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTEISHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BR A DFOD D, YORKSHIRE ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA COMPANY (LIMITED)—LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING (Saturday), January 21, will be produced (for the fourth time in any&country), the New Opera, ALI BABA (written expressly for this Company). Boxes on the grand tier, £3 3s. • stall tier, £2 12s. 6d.; uorer circle, £1 7s. Od.; orchestra stalls, it s 6d.; grand tier dress seats, 7s, ; upper circle seats, 45.: pit tickets, 2s. 6cl. ; 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.—THlS EVENING (Saturday), 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 ! with New and Characteristic Scenery by William Beverley, whose personal services are now exclusively devoted to illustrating the produc tions of this Theatre. The general action of the Pantomime arranged by, and the whole produced under, the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling. Characters in the opening by Messrs. Fred. Yokes, H. M oreland, Charles Steyne, Fawdon Yokes, H. Naylor, Seymour, Firth, Meade, Webber, F. Wright, Master Russell ; Misses Victoria Yokes, Jessie Vokes, Rosina Yokes, H arr iet Coveney, M. A. Bas q uerville, A. Hamilton, Hall, Florence Harvey, De Grey, Ross, Timbrell. Elphinstone, Har court, Lee, Leslie, Mills, White, Burpitt, Rivers, Russell, Hastings. The Harlequinade will include those popular Pan tomimists, forming a Double Company, F. Evans and W. H. Harvey, Clowns ; Paul Herring and J. Morris, Pantaloons ; W. Fawdon Yokes and Stonette, Harlequins ; the Misses Rosiva and Jessie Yokes, Columbines Lizzie GM liar 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 Cormack and M essrs. 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 Gui . neas. Stalls, 7s. Dress Circle, ss. First Circle, 4s. Balcony, 3s. Pit, 25. Lower Gallery, Is. Upper Gallery, 6d. ruHE DRAGON OF WANTLEY; or, Harlequin j_ Old Mother Shipten, will be produced To-night (Saturday), January 20, 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. MORNING PERFORMANCE of the Grand Pantomime, entitled the DRAGON OF WANTLEY, every Wednesday and Saturday. Children and Schools at re duced prices to the following parts of the Theatre :—First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. - THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY - LANE. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET Fifty-fonrth Night of a'jNEW FAIRY COMEDY —TH . IS EVENING (Saturday.), at Severi, O'Keefe's Musical Piec . e, THE POOR SOLDIER, with selections . from the original music. Patrick, Miss Fanny Wright ; Norah, Miss Fanny Gwynn: . After which, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new Fairy Comedy,. in Three Acts, entitled THE PALACE OF TRUTH. Character by Mr. Buckstone, Messrs. Kendal, Everil, Clark, Braid, Rogers s , Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. Hill, Fanny Wright, and Fanny Gwynne. Act I. Garden of King Phanor's Country House. Act 11. Interior of the Palace of Truth. Act 111. The Avenue of Palms. Followed by 'UNCLE'S WILL. Mr. Kendal and Miss Robertson. Concluding with . the Farce of THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. Box Office 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 extravaganza, entitled LITTLE GIL BLAS ; and How he Played the Spanish D(j)euce. By H. B. Farnie. The music by Frank Musgrave ; the ballet y , gr oupings, &c., by J. Milano ; the new and magnificent scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds and assistants ; the costumes after drawings by Gustave t Dore. To conclude with HE'S A LUNATIC. Mr. J. Clayton.—Box Office open from Ten till Five. A DELPHI THEATRE ROYAL. Sole Pro prietor, Mr. Benjamin Webster ; Managers, Mr. B. Webster and Mr. F. B. Chatterton.—THlS 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 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. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7, CHISELLING, Mr. David James ; after which TWO ROSES (199th night), by James Albery. Conclude with (57th night) ELIZABETH. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, David Jmes, and T. Thorne, &c.; Mesdames A.: y Fawsitt, A. Newton a , and Nelly Power, &c. ROYAL 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. Bufton, and F. Hughes. CCEUR-DE-LION, Messrs. Terry, Faulton, Leenand Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Button, Santley, , Goodall, 4.tc. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1871. but it required the most skilful management. It was necessary for its success that Chanzy should not be forced into a decisive battle against the concen trated forces of Prince Frederick Charles, and that Bourbaki's advance should be effected secretly and rapidly before the bulk of the German reinforcements could come up. Neither of these conditions was fulfilled: Chanzy was forced into disastrous fighting. Bour baki did not confront Werder until the latter had been so strongly supported that, in an entrenched position, he was able to resist the large force brought against him. So the scheme failed. THE AMERICAN MISSION. Genera] Schenck is really to be the new Ameri can representative at St. James's. He has resigned his seat in the House of Representatives, and his departure for England is now fixed for the 25th. This is a week later than the date originally men tioned, and the delay is said to be caused by the State Department being unable to prepare his instructions earlier. No doubt it is a difficult task, especially if, as General Schenck himself states in a letter to an Ohio newspaper, all questions at issue between Eng land and the States are to be placed in his hands for negotiation. All sorts of rumours are current re specting his instructions, and the horror and apprehen sion with which the Americans regard English dinners, and the attendant speeches, is absolutely amusing. The President is said to have directed General 1 Schenck to accept no invitations to public dinners and to make no speeches, and the new Envoy has rehearsed his part by declining all invitations prior to leaving his own country. Mr. Motley has written a long ex planation to the Government about his mission, which is said to have incensed the President, but it has not been male public. The Alabama claimants are agitating for their money, and propose that the . . Government should assume the claims, compensate the claimants, and prosecute the claims at its leisure. A SAFE TURRET SHIP. Mr. Frank Haddam, of the Admiralty, has pre pared a design for a turret ship, which he thinks will provide for the safety of a low freeboard ship like the Captain. He proposes that the hurricane deck should be extended laterally to the full width of the vessel, as the insufficiency of the Captain's deck area caused great inconvenience. The sides of the hurricane deck are to be made to push back under the central portion, but when drawn out, they will receive the upper part of the moving bulwarks, which are to be hinged to the fighting deck. These bul warks will give a freeboard of 17ft., instead of one of Oft., and an angle of immersion of the upper deck of 35 degrees, instead of 14 degrees, thus greatly increasing the st,lbility of the ship when under sail. The guns of this new ship are to be worked on It different method from those of the Captain. The proposed plan will compensate for the increased weight of the expanding hurricane deck, by decreas ing the height of the turrets above the fighting level. The turrets are to be loaded with muzzle-pivoting guns on the Moncrieff system, 'se • constructed that they can be lowered when necessary, and prevent the necessity of using ballast for cruising under sail. This system affords protection to the guns both in firing and loading. The mobility of the bulwarks is the chief characteristic of Mr. Haddan's design. THE QUEENSLAND SLAVE TRADE. The Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs has again had his attention directed to the Queensland slave trade. He has received a memorial on the subject bearing the names of Lord Allred Churchill, Sir Fowell Buxton, and others. It appears that the Colony of Queensland presents the anomaly of a slave state, or one that is virtually so, in the British Empire. The slaves who are taken to the colony are inhabitants of the South Sea Islands, brought there by force. An Act of the Queensland Legislature regulates the trade carried on in respect to these unfortunate natives, and attempts to provide for their partial independence in the matter of making the engagement. These rules are of no use, however, as is proved by the increase that has taken place in the slave traffic. Mr. Monsen considers they fail in consequence of the omission of some important particulars, among which is the want of an emigration agent on board the vessels. It is, however, almost impossible to regulate such a trade. The islanders are tempted on board, in many instances, by false representations, and at other times are kidnapped, When they reach Queens land they are hired to the planters, and are sent to work in the fields. The case of the Queens land slave trade calls for the interference .of Parlia ment. ROYALTY T REATRE.-TO-NIGHT, JANUARY 21.—Tenth 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. AbAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view, Portrait Models of the ex-Emperor and Empress of the French, and Prince Imperial. 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Uncle's Will. The Spectre 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. Bombastes JAMEs's—To Oblige Benson. THE BOMBARDMENT OF Rms. The editor of the Havre Journal writes on the subject of the Paris bombardment, and in the name of humanity suggests a course of action to the English nation which will reflect lasting credit upon it. y He thinks that this country, which holds the first rank among civilised nations, should not permit the Prussians to make war upon women and children, the aged and the sick, and yet this is constantly taking place. England should protest, if needs be, by means of an active intervention against such a scandal, which is a disgrace to Europe. At the time of the bombardment Strasburg the little Helvetian Republic sent a small deputation which obtained permission for the women, children, and sick and old persons to quit the city. The Havre journalist thinks that England has a similar duty to perform as regards. the population of Paris, and one which will be quite distinct from assisting in the defence. He urges that all nations have an equal interest in opposing acts of barbarity which lower the tone of political morality and interfere with the pro gress of justice and humanity. " PUNCH " Iv PARIS. The residents i❑ besieged Paris are by no means overwhelmed or annihilated by the shot and shells falling about their ears. If the assailants hoped to bring about capitulation through terror they have been grievously disappointed. What is the use of the bombardment ? ask the Parisians. It serves no end, beyond wanton destruction, and every man killed by a shell-must have cost the Prussians more than his weight in gold, reckoning the number of shells they have fired. The moral effect is nil. Punch still goes round in the threatened streets, and children gather and laugh as of old. In one respect, alas ! Punch is changed. Toby is no more. A scene has been added to the old traditional tragedy, and Toby has disappeared in a ragout or a haricot. Some French Punches have a feline in stead of a canine attendant, but it is needless to add Puss has fared no better than Toby, and the Prussians can boast that if they have not put down the French Charivari, they have at least modified the character of the performance. A PERILOUS VOYAGE. Some aeronauts who left Paris last Monday had a narrow escape of drowning. They quitted Paris in charge of despatches at seven in the morning. As they were starting they were told by the chief aeronaut who arranged their departure that, from the state of the atmosphere and the direction of the wind he thought they would progress at the rate of five leagues an hour. These calculations proved to be incorrect, however, as in two hours' time they passed over Brussels ; but, relying upon their infor mant, they pursued their course, thinking they were still near Paris, and being fearful of falling into the bands of the Germans. An hour later, never dreaming of the speed with which they were proceeding, they beheld the sea. They were then at the height of 4,000 metres, but in the dangerous position they were in they did not hesitate as to what course they should pursue, and ripped up the balloon. The descent was a fearful one. They passed over the 4,000 metres in four minutes, struck the gr-und with volence, and the travellers were pre cipitated witl their despatches on the ooast of Thi shook was so great that they were picked up irsensible, but they were not injured. They were informed by some fishermen who came to their assistance that their balloon had risen again alter they were thrown out, and had fallen into the sea. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. A writer on the subject of Contagious Diseases says that reports are frequently coming before the public which chew the carelessness that prevails with respect to the conveyance of those who are afflicted with an infectious disease. They are ' constantly taken in cabs from place to place, and as the hospitals are often full they are oblige 1 to return whence they came, or start off in new quest of a shelter. He asks very truly why some inquiry is not made at the hospitals before the patients are sent there as to their possibility of receiving a patient, or why can not the telegraph be employed for such a pur pose. The other day a sick child was sent round by Hampstead and Highgate, and as the hospitals at both those places were full she was taken to the town and left at a workhouse. Had due inquiries been made she might have been spared the fatigue of six hours' journeying, which must have aggravated her illness. The subject is one which might well engage the attention of the Poor Law Board. The Board of Guardians of St. Pancras have conferred with Dr. Bridges with respect to the prevalence of smallpox in the metropolis. The Guardians agreed to erect a build ing for the reception of those cases which could not be received by the hospital. It was also resolved that the vaccination clerk should seek out and report unvaccinated cases, as during last half year there had been more than two thousand of the kind in the parish in which the law was not complied with. A PAINFUL STORY. A very painful case has just occurred at a colliery village in Durham. A child named Amelia Walton, nine years old, died early on the morning of January Ist, from alleged illusage by her parents. It seems she was systemetically starved and beaten, and the neighbours had repeatedly heard the inhuman mother threaten her life. Whenever she got outside the house, which was not often, she wopld pick up scraps in the road and eat them. Late on the night of December 31st she was seen outside, with no particular traces of ill usage, but in the night a woman and boy, passing on a journey, heard her crying loudly and some one beating her. They knocked at the door, when the cries left off. In the morning the father went into a neigh bour's and said the child was nearly dead. The neighbours soon after went in and found her dead, bearing marks of burns and bruises all over her body. The doctor said the child had been starved, and he believed the immediate cause of death was her being held against the fire. The parents said she had fallen against it. Both parents have been committed for trial for wilful murder. The most painful part of the story is that the mother, two years since, was sentenced to four months' hard labour for ill-treating the child, and during her imprison ment the poror little thing was thken charge of at the district workhouse, where she soon changed from being thin and dull to being plump and lively. When her mother came out of prison she was sent back to live with her, or rather to be murdered by inches. A. CURIOUS CASE. When plaintiffs conduct their o n cases in courts of law we generally hear some strange tales, and this was certainly exemplified by Mr. Davis, in the Court of Queen's Bench. The tale he told was pitiful and dramatic, though unhappily it failed to move the feelings of the Court, Some time, ago he took shares in a Joint-Stock Company; but for some unexplained reason, refused t.) pay calls or recognise his liability in any way. The affair got into the Bankruptcy Court, and an order was made for his arrest. The officer, he says, laid in wait for him with seven picked men. As he was driving along the road in Southwark the officer called out to him to halt, which he did, being unaware of the ambush, and thinking Emile thing was wrong with the harness. Thereupon the officer gave the signal to his men, who rushed for wards and dragged him from his phaeton. The mob thought he was a Fenian, and came to the rescue, but he "held up his hand and entreated them to be calm." He was carried off to prison and passed two years in Horsemonger-lane Gaol. When he emerged from that dismal retreat he brought an action for illegal arrest, but failed. lle has now moved for a rule to set aside the verdict, and failed again, s that the sheriff's officer a i nd his seven picked men are held blameless. A SAILOR, IN A STORM AT SEA. Admiral Ommanney is highly indignant with the landsmen who repreient the gale whieh H.M.S. Urgent encountered, while conveying the eclipse expedition to Oran, as exceptionally severe. There was nothing, says the old sailor, in any way unusual about the gale ; in fact, the passenger who gets the clerk of the weather to insure him so favourable a voyage to Gibraltar in the winter season must think himself very fortunate. There was a strong gale after rounding Cape Finisterre for some hours, and in • the middle of the night the tiller rope, which had stretched, required to be set up taut. For this reason the engines were stopped, and the. ship's broadside being brought on to the swell, made her roll. Things not properly secured fetched away, some water shipped, and other small casualties occurred, which the experienced admiral treats with supreme contempt, though probably they were sufficiently alarming to novices. " The case was," he says, "that our scientific expedition was composed of about thirty gentlemen who were strangers to the freaks of Father Neptune." Every thing was marvellous in their eyes, and the Admiral hints that Jack found this out, and played them a few tricks with tales of hurricanes, heavy seas, &c. He forgets, however, that the general public is. more likely to sympathise in the wonder of the landsman than in the indifference of the practised sailor. .%-.., „,_::' • f• 4 wt dint .1 / 4 'r. - •cii -- '6llllaltar. 45,-. ,-- - : - - - i PI I r o - 7 4 -,.. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, JANUARY 20, The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with her Royal Highness. Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold also went out. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Churchill have left Osborne. LYCEUM THEATRE. The repertoire of the Italian Opera Buffa Company has been exceptionally good during the present week, every night having been occupied. On Monday last was per formed Donizetti's opera, " d'Amore," which was repeated on Thursday last, with Mdlle. Colombo as Adnia. This lady has, we are pleased to be able to state, made a wonderfully favourable impression on the public; her singing on Thursday last was really charming, and throughout the performance drew forth loudly-expressed marks of approbation. On Tuesday the new opera of " Ali Baba," by Signor Bottesiui, was produced, and met with marked success, so much so that it was repeated on Wednesday, again last night, and is announced for this evening; the singing of Mdlle. Calisto as Delia and Faullo as Margiana being all that could be wished, while the Ali Baba of Signor Borella was most efficiently rendered. It is extremely gratifying to be able to note the success that has attended the present venture in Italian Opera Buffa, and with the resources at the com mand of the directors, we hope to see many novelties produced ere the season closes. It s understood that though the Queen will open Parliament in person it will be only in semi-State. War. Furioso. OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicament. lesque) Paul and Virginia. ROYALTY— Dora's Device. Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat. Diamond Cut Diamond. GAIETY —Operetta, A Christmas Story. Alladin IL QuEEN'E—Farce. 'Twixt Axe and Crown. GLOBE—Checkmate. Delicate Ground. The White Cat. Rely on my Discretion. HOLBORN—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—Farce. Ride a Cock Horse- to Banbury Cross. SADLER'S WELLS—Sinbad the Sailor. EGYPTIAN HALL—Poole and Young's Panorama of the Franco-Prussian -War. AMPHITHEARE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the Arena. ST. JAMES'S HALL— Christy Ministrels. Every evening. ALHAMBRA—NeW Musical Entertainment, " Superba." PoLYTEcHNic—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After noon and evening. PALA'S ROYAL —Performing Gorilla. MADAME TussAup's (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. ls. ; extra rooms, 6d. Nell and (Bur- Locked 1::;$ . gitt ei s ' LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1870. THE CONFERENCE. The Daily Telegraph states that the representa tives of the Powers assembled at the first meeting signed a declaration touching the inviolability of treaties. "By way of preliminary to the discussion of Russia's grievances, the Plenipotentiaries have agreed, on behalf of their respective Governments, that no Power which has attached its signature to a collective Treaty can release itself from the obligations incurred without the consent of its co-signataries. That Russia should have accepted such a principle, after having apparently acted in the teeth of it, is at once a tribute to the wisdom of Lord Granville's diplomacy and a proof of good faith on the part of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg." It is extraordinary, indeed, if Russia has accepted such a principle. She can only have done so on the full understanding that her demands respecting the Black Sea would be granted, and thus the whole proceeding partakes very much of the character of a farce. To induce a Power to with draw an arbitrary request by a promise that the re quest shall be courteously conceded is so absurd that it would have been well if this protocol had been left undeveloped. The formula that a treaty cannot be broken at the will of any individual signatory Power is merely a solemn statement that black is white. THE ORIGIN OF THE WAR. Mr. Otway's explanation of the attitude assumed by the Prussian Government just previously to the declaration of war is very unfortunate indeed for the rapidly decreasing body of German sympa thisers. The Hohenzollern candidature was withdrawn by the father of the Prince without instance from any quarter. The British Ministry advised the Prussian Government to recom- mend the withdrawal; but not only was this advice not taken, but Count Bismarck declined even to lay it before the King. Such a course was not flattering to British statesmanship, nor did it display any desire for peace. The declaration of war by Napoleon was wrong all the same; but Count Bismarck deserves credit for his share in the busi ness. He took care that no possible means of retreat from a warlike policy should be allowed his adversary. Indeed, there is the best reason for thinking that the Prussian statesman, knowing how advantageous to his design of German unity a successful war would be, rather liked the prospect of hostilities. At any rate between him and Napoleon there was not a pin to choose. Bo ITRB AKI'S ADVENTURE. General Bourbaki's reports o n th e campaign in the East are clear and candid, considering that he is the losing party ; and they point to another serious reverse for the French arms, It does not appear that Bourbaki is suffering demoralising losses in the shape of prisoners or gulls, or that his repulse is crushing ; but he has failed, and hie failure at a time when Chanzy has been beaten is a serious disaster. The march to the East was not objectionable in itself, MR. CHILDERS. We regret that we are unable to give so favourable an 1 account of the health of the First Lord of the Admiralty as on some former occasions. It appears that Mr. Childers is suffering from a great depression of nerve-power, rendering any exertion, either of mind or body, disproportionately exhausting to him. This has supervened upon two con se cl tive attacks of a vertiginous charaCter, the effect 'of over-anxious and long-continuea work. At the beginning of the past year the right honoiira,ble gentleman suffered from a temporary renal affection, with much attendant disorder of health. The heavy pressure of public duties might alone have prostrated a stronger con stitution, but when to these is added the grievous domestic trial involved in the loss of the Captain, his condition is very fully explained. His present state is one imperatively demanding repose and freedom from all the petty vexations which have been too frequent at the Ad- , miralty. His medical attendant, Mr. Robert Ellis, has, we understand, assigned a period of three months as essential for the restoration of health. An over-ardent zeal in the public service, and an insatiable appetite for brain work cannot be indulged in for long without paying the penalty of deteriorated and enfeebled health in such a constitution as that of Mr. Childers. — The Lancet. MILITARY DISCIPLINE AND THE VOLUNTEERS. The volunteers, if they have no sense of what is due to discipline, and decline to obey the regulation forbidding them to join public processions without leave from head quarters, seem to have at all events a very keen sense of the necessity of discipline as regards the regular army, if we may judge by the case of Sergeant Dirkan, of the Royal Marines, who has just been tried by a court-martial in consequence of a complaint made by Captain Whitlock, adjutant of the Bth Administrative Battalion Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, that the sergeant, who belonged to a recruiting party at Manchester, had on the 26th of November pabsed him (Captain Whitlock) in the streets of Blackburn without saluting him. It seems that when, after this terrible offence had been committed in broad day light, Captain Whitlock met Sergeant Dirkan at the railway station, and taxed him with its commission, the miserable man replied that "he neither saw nor knew " Captain Whitlock and begged his pardon for having unintentionally omitted to salute him. This, however, did not satisfy that gallant officer, who wrote to the Commandant of Marines on the subject, the result being the trial by court-martial of Sergeant Dirkan. The sergeant has been acquitted, and, really, taking into consideration that the day on which the lamentable occurrence took place is stated to have been " very gloomy," and that the uniform of volunteers is so designed that they are supposed to be invisible at a short distance, it is quite possible Sergeant Dirkan failed to observe Captain Whitlock.—Pale Mall Gazette. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Right Hon. Beaumont Baron Hotham, of South Dalton Hall, Beverley, Yorkshire, was proved in London, on the 10th instant, under £5OO 000 personalty, by his lordship's cousin, Francis Hart Dyke, Esq., her Majesty's Procurator General, the sole executor, to whom his lordship has left a legacy of £lO,OOO (free). His lord ship was a peer of Ireland and an English baronet, son of Beaumont Hotham, Esq., and Philadelphia, eldest daughter of Sir John Dixon Dyke, Bart. He was a general in her Majesty's army, and had served with distinction in the Peninsula and at :Waterloo. He was Deputy Lieutenant for the East Riding of Yorkshire, and held a seat in Parliament from 1832 to 1868. He died, a bachelor, at the age of seventy-six, and is succeeded by his nephew, now the Right Hon. Charles, fourth Baron Hotham, son of his lordship's late brother, Rear-Admiral Hotham. The first Baron was the distinguished Admiral created Lord Hotham in 1797. The will bears date June 25, 1868, with three codieits. The trustees, in conjunction with Mr. Dyke, are his Lordship's cousins, the Rev. Henry John Hotham, M.A., and the Rev, Frederick Harry Hotham M. A. His lordship directs that all his estates in Yorkshire, as well as the settled estates shallbe held and enjoyed as one property by the person holding the title and barony of Ilotham, granted to his great uncle, William, first Lord Hotham, by letters patent ; and that there should be set apart an accumulative fund, ex tending over a period of twenty-one years, to be produced from the interest of moneys, securities, and arrears of rent carrying compound interest, which shall be laid out in the purchase of land at the discretion of the trustees. His lordship has devised his estates in Surrey to his cousin, the said Rev. Henry J. Hotham, and to his issue male, and has left legacies to his relatives and friends ; also annuities to a son and daughter of his late brother, George Frederick Hotham. To his cousin, the said Rev. Frederick H. Hotham, £7,000; and £l,OOO to each of his friends undernamed—viz., Admiral the Hon. A. Duncombe, Admiral W. Hotham, Rear-Admiral W. Edmonstone, James Chapman. Esq., of St. Paul's, Cray-hill; Jemes Hall, Esq., of Scorboro' ; the Rev. E. R. Benyon, M.A., and his Lordship's two chap lains, the Revs. T. F. Simmons and R. F. Lefevre, Blunt. Also legacies to a few other friends and to his servants. To the Hull Infirmary, £l,OOO. All legacies to be free of duty. By a codicil, dated July 2fith, 1870, his Lordship directs that in case the church then being built at Beswick shall not bp completely finished at the time of his decease, all expenses attending the completion, as well as the consecration, shall be defrayed out of his personal estate.—The will of the Hon. Charles Bertie- Percy, formerly M.P. for Newport son of the first Earl of Beverley was proved at Bir mingham under £lOO,OOO personalty. He was deputy lieutenant for the county of Warwick, and assumed the name of Bertie soon after his marriage with Anne Caro line, granddaughter and heiress of B. Bertie Greatheed, Esq.—The will of S. Bla ir, Esq., which was proved at Manchester under £160,000 personalty, contains a be quest of £20,000 to establish an hospital.—The will of Miss Louisa Elizabeth Meynell-Ingram, of Hoar- Cross, near Rugeley, Staffordshire, and of 66, Hill street, Berkeley-square, dated February 10th, 1868, was proved in London, on the 7th instant, under £lOO,OOO. The testatrix has left the following charitable bequests, namely :—To the National Lifeboat Institution and the Governesses' Institution, each £300; to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Pall-mall) and the Leeds branch of ditto, the Cancer Hospital, and the Derby Infirmary, each MO.—lllustrated London News. Mr. Wyon has had conferred upon him the Order of the Medjidie of the fourth class, as a mark of the Sultan's approbation of the medal which was struck to commemorate his visit to the City. LOCOMOTIVES ON RAILWAYS.—The following railway companies each owned more than 100 locomotives at the close of 1869 :—Great Eastern, 413 ; Great Northern 493 Great Western, 003 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 477 ; London and North-Western, 1,549: London and South- Western, 280; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 256; London, Chatham, and Dover, 112 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 270; Midland, 736.; North-Eastern, 899; South-Eastern, 243 ; Caledonian, 514 ; North British, 396; Glasgow and South-Western,. 184 ; Great Southem and Westbrn of Ireland, 121. • TRAMWAYS FOR THE METROPOLIS.—The chief surveyor of St, Pancras, in a report which he has just presented to the vestry of that district, draws attention to the fact that although the Metropolitan Board of Works, as the local authority for London, are empowered to raise £300,000 for the construction of tramways in various parts of the metropolis, at present they have taken no action in the matter, but are allowing the various tramways which are proposed to be taken in hand and carried out by pri vate speculators, contrary to the interests of the public. He urges that if the Board would construct one uniform and comprehensive system of tramways for London, and lease the right of using and working the several routes to fit and proper persons, they might secure a clear net annual income equal to the produce of a 6d., rate over the whole metropolis. He also states that before long, from the objections to private companies exercising authority over different routes, all sorts of difficulties and complica tions will arise, and that in consequence it will be found dvisable, if not positively neces sary, for the Board to purchase the tramways and centralise them, much as the Government has lately done with the telegraphs. Fortunately a clause was inserted in the Tramways Act passed last Session, entitled the Purchase Clause, under which ther local au thority is entitled, within 21 years, to buy the tramways, land, buildings, and plant at their actual value, instead of their prospective value. By this clause it is calculated that the p,ublic, at a not very distant day, will be saved upwards of £lOO,OOO for every mile of tramway that they may desire to purchase. All the authorities on medical galvanism unite in recommending the use of Pulvermacher's chain-bands in cases of neuralgic and rheumatic affections. No matter where the seat of pairi may be, no matter how it may have baffled other attempts at its removal, the application of the galvanic chain-bands results in prompt and continuous success. In a recently published medical work by G.: D. Powell, M.D., L.R.C.5.1., &c., several cases are quoted which illustrate this success. The author says : —"Miss P. was a great martyr for five weeks to this painful affection of ' face and `temples. A Pulvermacher's battery was 'applied for 10 minutes at each place on the face, 'half-au-hour altogether each time. The pain entirely left her, and she slept well that night, and has had no return. Mr. C. travelled up six weeks ago from Cork to Dublin by night mail, and was imprudent in not guarding his face from draughts of wind through the railway carriage. He had been suffering intolerable agony all this time, and the seine treatment as in the former case proved eminently successful without any relapse. Another equally remarkable case is that of a well-known architect in Dublin, who, while travelling ' from Qalway in the same way, was suffering for several weeks, and was cured by one application of Pulvermacher's chain battery," obtained of the inventor and patentee, Mr. Pulvermaoher, 200, Regent-street, London, from whom a pamphlet may be had, containing hundreds of letters from ladies and gentlemen who have been cured by self-apVication. LAW AND POLICE. AN OCTOGENARIAN'S WILL DISPUTED.—Lord Penzance is engaged in the Probate Court in trying the cause of Treargold v. Treargold, which is a family dispute as to the validity of the will of the late William Treargold, of Portsea, who died at the age of eighty years, leaving £30,000 persOnalty, and over £4,000 realty. The plaintiff the eldest son propounds the will, and the defen dants who are children of the testator's other sons (deceased) and the daughters of the testator; opposed it on the ground that it was not executed according to the statute, and that the deceased had been unduly influenced. By a former will the defendants benefited much more than by that now set up by the plaintiff. A. large amount of testimony has already been adduced, and the case, which is hotly contested, is likely to last some time longer. EXTRAORDINARY WILL CASE. In the Probate Court, on Thursday, the case of " Cook and Goldsmith v. Goddard and others" came before the Judge Ordinary. The testator was a retired draper, and had amassed a fortune of about £30,000, of which he dis posed by a will dated the 23rd of March, 1870. He died on the Ist of April, 1870. The will was propounded by the plaintiffs as executors, and was opposed by some of the next of kin. After the counsel engaged in the case had addressed the court, the Judge Ordinary said he was of opinion that the plaintiffs had failed in establishing that the deceased was of hound and disposing mind on the day when the will was executed. He re marked that one of the plaintiffs, Goldsmith, had given his evidence in a most disgraceful way, and seemed to be quite regardless of the obligation of an oath. The testator, a small tradesman, had by thrift, not to say parsimony, accumulated £20,000. He retired from business, but the habits he had learnt did not leave him, and he lived in a very humble way, and only kept one servant. When nearly 70 years of age, as ()Hen happened to persons who did not want it, he was left £lO,OOO by a Dr. Jackson, and this money seemed to have dwelt in his mind, and he was constantly muttering to himself about it. Towards the spring of last year he was undoubtedly ill, and towards the month of March he took to walking out late and straying in the churchyard. He then became excited and weaker in ex ternal appearance and in faculties. It was about this period that an attempt—and he said "an attempt" ad visedly—was made to obtain a will from him. Up to that time nobody but Goldsmith had heard him say how he meant to dispose of his property, or that he meant to dispose of it at all. In fact in his (Lord Penzance's) judgment, the deceased was like a good many other per sons, who by frugality had made large sums of money and did not desire to dispose of them by will. Many persons like him became so enwrapt in their money that they -thought about very little else, and to mention claims of relationship only disturbed them. (Laughter). They had an idea that the making of a will accelerated their death— (renewed laughter)—and they were indifferent to others, became " selfish," and the word " give " discomposed them. Even if the words " I give £3,000 after my death " were read they would feel uncomfortable, though the money would not leave them till after they required it no longer. In fact this class of persons did not like to contem plate death at all. This testator never desired to make his will, because on the 17th of March the housekeeper's testimony, which he relied on, went to shew that Gold smith, the plaintiff, and Cook were with the testator an hour, and all he had got to say referred to the Jackson estate. After this hour he saw Mr. Alston, his solicitor, who had been waiting an hour, and the evidence of that person was very material. He said that the testator could not answer any question. This was on Thursday, and nothing further was done till the foll Owing Wednesday. On the Monday the testator went out with Cook, and would "hang about" the Angel Inn. Cook tried to get him home, but he would not go, and he dined at the Angel.. After ; that endeavours were made to get him home, but he would not go, and Cook, with assistance was compelled to take him by force, and even when at his own door he would not go in till obliged to do so. He had no sleep on the Monday, and on the Tuesday the doctor was sent for. On the morning of the 22nd, the testator was apparently going out, when a man named Puttick was sent for, and threw Goddard down on the bed, and Goldsmith—who they had evidence at the time was desirous a will should be made—had a strap in his possession, and strapped the testator's legs to gether. In that state Mr. Fenn, the surgeon, found him. Another person named Chiswell was also fetched, and for the next day he seemed to be in possession of the house. That was the 23rd—the day the will was made. As to the testator's condition in the morning there was no doubt. He had no sleep and morphia had been injected into his veins. His mind was wandering, and Mr. Fenn told the people not to restrain him ; but not to allow him to go out. The next evidence was that of the Rev. C. M. Torlesse, the rector, who said in the morning the testator was suffering from the grossest delusions, fancying that he had seen his mother who had been dead for 20 years. Mr. Torlesse, no doubt, arrived at the conclusion, which was a correct one, that at that time, at all events, the testator was as " mad as a March hare." In the middle of the day the Rev. Mr. Coyte called ; but his evidence did not amount to much. He was not interested in the testator's testamentary dispositions, and therefore did not remember them. It was often a matter of surprise how Persons not actually interested came into the witness-box and professed to remember as much as they did. (Laughter.) Notwithstanding that Chiswell was in the house that day the testator managed to give him the slip, and ran out without his hat, and he was seen by the Rev. Mr. Lightfoot, the curate, in the street, and was taken back into his house. It was then that it was alleged that he uttered a remark to prove his sanity. Even if such were the case it did not prove that he was capable of making a will. The making of it and division of his pro perty did not emanate from the testator, but from Mr. Torlesse, who had been told by Goldsmith. Whether the testator did or did not mention the names of the people, when a list of his relatives was gone through, was not very material, and they knew that when Mr. Torlesse proposed a legacy of £5OO to Cook, the testator at once exclaimed "That is too much." Lord Penzance went on to say that it was clear that to the last the testator had no desire to sign his will, though Goldsmith said the reason of his delaying to do so was because be wished to read it again. The other witnesses, however, stated that the testator did not want to sign it, and they had the evidence of a policeman, who listened through the shutters, that the clergyman had to press him to sign it. The next morning there was no disagreement as to the testator's condition—he was insane. Now as to the law on the subject. It was not because a man was not a raving maniac that he was capable of making a will. The law said, " had he a disposing mind," and the onus of spewing that he had rested on those who propounded the will. It was shewn that on the morning of making the will Goddard was insane ; was there evidence to shew that was only temporary, and that at the time the will was made there had been a return to reason? They only had the evidence of Mr, Torlesse, that he simply asked the deceased where he was born and in what parish, and did not in any other way test the testator's memory. The learned judge could not see his way to pronounce for the will, and should, therefore, pronounce against it, with costs. It was not unfair for a man not to make a will, as if he died without one, the law in an equitable manner dis posed of his property. When he did make a will, the onus of shewing that the testator was of sound mind rested with those who set it up. They had failed to do so in this case, and must pay the costs. Mr. George Howell, the working men's candidate for promises in his address to the electors to seek to diminish the present burden of pauperism by " em ploying the idle labour on the idle land." PRUSSIA AND LUXEMBURG.—The Kolnische Zeitung gives an abstract of Count Bismarck's reply to M. Serval% the Minister of State for Luxemburg, in reference to the neu trality of the Grand Duchy. The answer is dated January'G, and returns to the occurrences at Thionville , in reference to which the Chancellor still asserts they in terfered with the military operations. Count Bismarck reserves further remarks on this subject. A demand for indemnification is not specifically formulated in the dis patch. The reply also announces that, during the con , tinuance of the war, a political agent will be accredited to Luxemburg for the purpose of watching the interests of Germany. The Grand Ducal Government had itself ex pressed as wish that this step should be taken. TILE NEW AMERICAN MINISTER.—A. Bill bag passed the House of Representatives to allow General Schenck £5OO a year during his residence as American Minister in London for an amanuensis, his right hand having been disabled by wounds received in the war. W 6 desire more especially to draw attention to this, as the general never explains. and has often given offence by his seeming want of courtesy. When a high official carries his right hand across his body, with his thumb resting in his- waistcoat, and gives his left to be shaken by the visitor, a disagreeable impression may be given ; but the fact, as regards General Schenck, is this :—A bullet struck him on the wrist, and, crashing throught that in: tricate and delicate organ, paralysed its action for the resl of the general's life. He can not g ive his ri g ht hand, an his visitors should be made acquainted with the fact.-- The Anglo American Times. BREAKFAST.—EFES'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND Co FoRTING.—The very agreeable character of this preption 11_ rendered it a general favourita. The Civil Service Gazette.% marks :—" By a thorough imowledge of the natural laws nal", govern the operatio,ns of digestion and nutrition, and bY, 7 careful application of the fine properties of well-selected NO, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicate2l , fl a voured beverage which nlay save us many heavy d o ct° ; bills." Each packet is labelled—JAWS EPPS & CO., MOO pathic Chemists, London. Also, makers of Epps's Cacabine, very thin Ovcnitig beverage.—Advt. THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGHT O'CLOCK, with SOME 1 - I()URS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This Edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events.