The Sun. — London, England, 1871-01-12 00:00:00

MOSES and ON'S V INTER OVERCOATS, 19s, to R 5, B OY'S OVERCOATS, is. 6d. to 455. 1,1 MOSES and SON beg to remind the public that the chearness of an article depends entirely on its An,i'itv. and they ventl:re to sly that their prices will compare favourably with-Close. a any other .:,) in En►glandt 141, MUSES and SON'S OXFORD COKrS, 17s. to 50s. CAMBRIDGE COATS, Ns. to 503. KERTOII JACKETS, 15s. to 425. SUTHERLAND JA.OKETS, 19s. 6d. to 60s. BUSINESS SUITS, 28s. to 60s. 1 4 1 MOSES and SON'S easy and accurate system • of self-measure enables theta to execute orders by post with tho guarantee of a faultless At. KL. , .. W_,-ES and SON'S _R. - L . F ROCK COTS, 245. to 635. - DRESS COATS, 25b. to 60s. A i MINIM:1 TROUSERS, lls. 6d. to 21s. DRESS TROUSERS, 12s. 6d. to 265. MOURNING SUITS, 28s, to £5. EMOSES and SON invite •special attention . to their large stock of GEN fLEMEN'S DRESSING ROBES, at 18s. to 20 Guineas ; the assortment is unequalled for variety of materials and designs, and neatness and elegance of finish. *EI MOSES and SON'S J. B°Y2' cf.OTHING : KNICKERBOCKER SUI IS, 9s. 61. to 40s. ETON SUITS, 13s. to 40s. BRiGIIToN SUITS, 18s. to 48s. DRESS SUITS, 255. to 635. "fil MOSES and SON supply every description of 12a. clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, add aii classes : also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. An Goods marked hi Plain Figures. Any tide exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ess is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON : LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-BTREET, CORNER OF HAILT-STREET. CORNRR of MWTENIIKM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNIRV MARCH. .Al* D, ITALIAN OPERA_ BUFFA COMPANY, (LIMITED).—LYCBUM THEATRE. This , Evening (Thursday), January 12th, Rossini's Opera, L'ltaliana in Algeri. Isabella, lidlle. Veralli ; Elvira, Brun Zulma, Mille. 31onari ; Lindoro, Signor Fabbri Mustapha, Signor Rocca ; Hall, Signor Fallar ; and Taddeo, Signor Borella. To-Morrow (Friday), January 13th, the Theatre will be closed for Full Band Rehearsal of the Now Opera, Ali Baba. Boxes on the grand tier, £3 35.; stall tier, £2 12s. 6d.; upper circle, £llls. 6d.; orchestra stalls, 10s. 6d.; grand tier dress seats, 75.; upper circle seats, 48.; pit tickets, 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.—THlS EVENING, (Thursday), will be produced the Drury Lane Grand Comic CHRISTAIAS ANNUAL, written by E. L. Blanchard, entitled the DRAGON OF WANTLEY ! and Harlequin Old Mother Shipton ! with New and Characteristic Scenery by William Beverly, whose personal services are now exclusively devoted to illustrating the produc tions of this Theatre. The general action of the Pantomime arranged by, and the whole produced under, the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling. Characters in the opening by Messrs. Fred. Yokes, IL Moreland, Charles Steyne Fawdon Vokes, H. Naylor, Seymour, Firth, Meade, Webber, F. Wright, Master Russsll ; Misses Victoria Yokes, Jessie Yokes, Rosina Vokes, H arr iet Coveney, M. A. Basquerville, 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 tomiinists, forming a Double Company, F. Evans, and W. H. Harvey, Clowns ; Paul Herring and J. Mor ;s, Pantaloons ; W. Fawdon Vokes and Stonette, Harlequins ; the Misses Rosina and Jessie Vokes, Columbines ; Miss Lizzie Grosvenor, Har lequina. B. Showman, Imitator of Birds, &c. Mr. H. Collard, the Pocket Sims Reeves. Master Dassie, the Chickaleary Boy. E. D. Lyon, the Short Footman. Lawson and Garton, the French Pierrots. Master H. Rawlings, Clog Dancer. La Patrie, the Baby Velocipedist. The Masks and Costumes from Designs by Vandyke Brown. The Music Composed and Selected by Mr. W. C. Levey. The Dances and Action of the Ballet, and the general business of the Children's Scenes, Invented and Arranged by Mr. John Cormack. The Comic Scenes and Tricks, &c., arranged by Mr. John Cormaek and Messrs. Evans and Harvey. Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. Private Boxes, 1, 2, 3, 4 , and 5 Guineas. Stalls, Vs. Dress Circle, 6s. First Circle, 4s. Balcony, 35. Pit, 4.5. Lower Gallery, 19, Upper Gallery, 6d. THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY ; or, Harlequin Old Mother Shipton, will be produced To-night (Thursday) January 12, 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. VI - ORNING PERFORMANCES of the Grand V-1- 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, THEA Dres sTRER Circle, and OYAL DRURY LANE. Stalls. Box office open from 10 till 5 daily.-- rIHEATRE HAYMARKET.— Forty -1 ROYAL, F ty seventh Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDY. —rills EVENING (Thursday) at Seven, O'Keefe's Musical Piece, 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. Characters by Mr. Buckstone, Messrs. Kendal, Everill, , Clark, Braid, Rogers, Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. Hill, Fanny Wright, and Fanny Gwynne. Act I. Garden of King Phanor s Country House. Act 11. Interior of the Palace of Truth. Act 111. The Avenue of Palms. Followed by UNCLE'S WILL. Mr. Kendal and Miss Robertson. with the Farce of THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. Box oitce Concluding open daily from 10 tills. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee, Ben i jamin Webster. Managers, B. Webster and F. B. Chund at terton.—THlS EVENING, at seven , P EEP 0' DAY, by Falconer, terminating with the celebrated Quarry Scene. At 8.30 an entirely new grand spectacular extravaganza, entitled LITTLE GIL ELAS ; and How he Played the Spanish D(j)euce. By H. B. Farnie. The music by Frank Musgrave ; the ballet, groupings, tic., by J. Milano ; the new and magnificent scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds and assistants ; the costumes after drawings by Gustave Dore. To conclude with HE'S A LUNATIC. Mr. J. Clayton.—Box Office open from Ten till Five. A DELPHI THEATRE ROYAL.—SoIe Pro prietor, Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER ; Managers, Mr. B. WEBSTER and Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.—THIS EVENING, at 7; a new Drama, in One Act, SMOKE. Mr. Billington, Mr. Ashley, Mr. C. H. Stephenson, Mrs. Billington, and Miss Fartado. At 8.15 ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Mr. B. Webster and Miss Furtado. To conclude with THE MISTLETOE BOUGH. Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Elise liolt, Mademoiselle Debreaux, Mdlle. Camilla Dubois, Miss , ellew, Miss M. Cooper, and Miss Bella Moore, Mt. Brittain Wright, Mr. John Rouse, and Mr. Odell ROYAL STRAND THEATRE, Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH. This Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE. Messrs. Crouch, Turner; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Bufton, and F. Hughes. C(EUR-DE-LION, Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E, Buf ton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c. ROYALTY THEATRE.--T 0-NIGHT, JANUARY 11.— First time of an original Comedietta, in Two Acts, entitled DORA'S DEVICE. At 7.30, DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND ; at 8 . 15, DORA'S DEVICE ; concluding with WHIT TINGTON JUNIOR and 1113 SENSATION CAT. HE StliN, LONDON THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1871. when two correspondents, who ought to know what they are about, cannot agree as to what an army only looked like. Chanzy's men undoubtedly fought well during the retreat, however miserable they looked when it was finished. A long winter march is not calculated to improve the appearance of soldiers, and p ssibly the troops, who cut a wretched figure immediately upon their arrival, may have soon recovered with a little rest. But the difference between these two observers goes further, for one declares that the new levies at Le Mans were virtually useless, whilst the other tells quite a different tale. 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 (191st night), by James Albery. Conclude with ELIZABETH. Supported by Messrs. J. Montague, David James, and T. Thorne, &c. ; Mesdames Amy Fawsitt, A. Newton, and Nelly Power, &c. A STLEY'S PANTOMIME. - TOM TITTLE _tx. MOUSE and the ELEVEN DANCING PRINCESSES; or. DEEDLE DEEDLE• DUMPLIN and the SILVER FROG. Scenery by Grieve and Son. Morning Performances every Wednesday and Saturday at 2. Characters in the Opening by Messrs. Atkins, Beckett, Barrett, Russell, Misses Armstrong ; Hodson and Braham. Tramways from Brixton, Clapham, Ken nington, and Stockwell pass t he door. Best pantomime in London. ADAME EXHIBITTON, Baker 171_ street.—On view Portrait Models of the ec-Emperor and Empress of the French, and Prince Imperial. Also, Marshal Bazaine, Marshal Canrobert, General Trochu, &.. dcc.— Admission, is. ; Children under Ten Years of age, 6d. Extra Rooms, 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. tilllo p.m. MADAME TUSSA LID'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view Portrait Models of the King and Crown Prince of Prussia, Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern. Also Count von Bismarck anti Count von Moltke.—Admission ls. ; children under ten years of age, 6d. Extra rooms, tkl. extra. — Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. pARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.O ). PUBLIO SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND JARItIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 2011 Per ream. e.d. 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LIFEBOAT SERVICES.uring the Storms of the past year the National Lifeboat Institution contributed to the saving of 781 lives from various ship wrecks and 21 vessels from destruction. It has also expended £25,956 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £2,394 for rewards. The Institution has now 225 Lifeboat Stations under its management. Contributions are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by the London and Country bankers, and by the Secre tary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-strect, Adelphi, London. THEATRES. AND AMUSEMENTS. LYCEUM—ltalian Opera Buffa. L'ltaliana in Algeri. DRURY LAND--Rule Britannia. Dragon of Wantley. COVENT GARDEN —Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty. ADELPHI—Smoke. One Touch of Nature. Mistletoe Bough. HAvmARKET—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Truth. Uncle's Will. The Spectre Bridegroom. VAuDEviLLE—Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the Invisible Armada. STRAND--On and Off. Living at Ease. C.ceur-tio- Lion. ST. JAMEs's—To Oblige Benson. leernande. Bombastes Furioso. OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur lesque) Paul and Virginia. ROYALTY—Dora's Device, Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat, and Diamond Cut Diamond.' GAlETY—Operetta. A Christmas Story. Alladin 11. QUEEN'S—Charles 11. Merchant of Venice. r t e; GLoßE—Rights of Woman. Delicate Ground. White Cat. Rely on my Discretion. OPERA COMIQUE Blue Devils. Found Drowned. Nothing to Nurse. HOLDORN—The Married Bachelor. It Breach of Promise. Jezabel. PRINCE or WALES'S. Queen Stork, Ours, Locked In. PRINCESS'S—Peep o' Day. a Lunatic. ASTLEY'S—Englishmen in Paris. Little Tom Tittlemouse. SURREY—Farce. My Son Jack. NATIONAL STANDARD—Farce. Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross. SADLER'S WELLS—William Tell. Sinbad the Sailor. EGYPTIAN HALL—Poole and Young's Panorama of the Franco-Prussian War. AMPHITMEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn) —Scenes in the Arena. Little Gil Bias. The He's ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. ALHAMBRA — New Musical Entertainment, " Superba." POLYTECHNIC — Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After noon and Evening. PALMS ROYAL—Performing Gorilla. MADAME TUBSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. ls. ; extra rooms, 6d. NOTICE. The SUN will in future be published solely at 8 a.m., and the Evening Editions will be discontinued from this date. January 7, 1871. f*4 e, tijit I/ CD LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1871 THE BOMBARDMENT. The cannonade upon the Paris forts has been several days in progrers ; and reports from the German lines furnish material for an estimate of the result. So far the fire of the German batteries has not done the French much harm. It has neither damaged Paris nor caused any fright to its population. A. few men must have been hit, perhaps a gun or two knocked over, and divers houses and light buildings must have come to grief. This, however, is all. •The telegrams from German head quarters report that this or that fort has been " silenced ;" but the obstinate works always com mence firing again. We shall see if a longer can nonnade produces any effect. 44 INTELLIGENCE." The difficulties of newspaper e Mord in obtaining correct narratives of what goes on at the seat of war deserve the sympathy of every well-regulated mind. In the middle of December General Cbanzy's army, after its admirable retreat down the Loire, entered Le Mans to rest and recruit. Only two Englishmen had the good fortune to see this arrival. Both are newspaper correspondents. Both under stand military matters. Yet they are carrying on a fierce controversy respecting the mere appearance of Chanzy's men. One says they looked well enough. The other declares that they reminded him of the retreat from Moscow. " The horses were mere skin and bone, and the men were footsore and in rags, and were utterly unfit to take the field again for many weeks. As to the re inforcements waiting at Le Mans, they were partly recently raised Mobiles and partly Gardes Nationales, or S&lentaires, armed with muzzle loaders. Many of the latter battalions were without boots, and did their drill in sabots." Great, indeed, are the difficulties of writing history HORSES FOR THE BELLIGERENTS. The horse trade is profitable just now. So great is the demand caused by the war, so eager are the French. Government agents to lay their hands on all the suitable horses they can find, that no private purchaser stands a chance in the competition. It is estimated that since the commencement of the war upwards of 15,000 horses have been shipped from Southampton for the use of the French. Agents attend at the principal horse marts throughout the kingdom, Manchester and Liverpool being largely patronised, while many animals have also been shipped from Ireland. It is stated in a German paper that many horses are bought in England for Germany ; and there can be no doubt that large purchases are made in Austria for the Prussian Government. It may reasonably be questioned whether there is any real difference in point of principle between the exportation of arms and of horses. A cannon is of no use without the horses to drag it, and it avails little to import carbines for cavalry unless they have also the means of mounting. Horses, like arms, are of direct assist ance to the belligerents, though there may be a difference of degree. GENEEAL VINOY. General Vinoy, who is second in command of the Army of Paris, was, it seems, a warm friend of Sir Colin Campbell (Lord Clyde). The two soldiers fought side by side in the Crimea, and the friendship existing between them was so well known that portraits of General Vinoy and Lord Clyde were hung up together in the Royal writing closet at Windsor. When the Indian commander-in-chief died in 1863 the following passage was found inscribed in his will I give and bequeath to Lieutenant-General Vinoy, commanding a division in the French army, and my old and beloved com rade in the Crimea, the sum of £5OO as a token of my especial esteem and regard." General Vinoy is in far more favour with the troops within the besiege•] city than either Ducrot or the Governor himself. M. JULES FAVRE. Should M. Jule€ Favre arrive to take part in the Conference, the Loni!on Democrats intend to give him a reception worthy of the occasion. It is hoped to get the sailors who formed the crews of the ships sunk in the Seine, and incorporate them in a procession which is to accompany M. Favre from Charing Cross to Hyde Park. A British ensign, surmounted by the words " Trodden on by King William and Bismarck," and flanked at either side by the inscriptions " The Flag that Braved a Thousand Years," and "Britannia Rules the Waves," will be carried by sailors. Sailors from the vessels in the London docks are to accompany "the outraged flag." It seems, then, that there is every probability of the emblematical becoming an important element of future political strife. When British working men obtain seats in the House of Commons, we may expect that they will follow the example of an M.P. in the last century, who, in order to illustrate the wretched condition of the poor in his district, came into the House dressed in a most fantastic Costume, and bearing a piece of bread as hard as a brick. And if the future working men M.P.'s can by any contrivance (but it is to be !eared they cannot) get up some imitations of Whitechapel or Wapping habitations, they may produce a good effect. The, pictorial representations contemplated on the occasion of M. Favre's arrival are, however, ' out of place. There is no proof that the Germans did any wrong in sinking the ships, and if they did, they have professed their willingness to make reparation. . A PAGE OF SECRET HISTORY. Quevedo's question, " Who Js she P" which he asked in connection with every catastrophe, large and small, firmly believing that a woman must have a hand in it, has just been answered in regard to the European war by the Washington Patriot. Under the title of "A Page of Secret History," this journal publishes an account of the early negotiations with Don Fernando of Portugal, respecting the Spanish Crown. The husband of Maria da Gloria married as his 'second wife, a brilliant and, ambitious young American actress, Mss Hensler, on whom he has since bestowed the title of Countess d'Edla. Accordingto the American version of the story, it was the refusal of the Spanish Ministers to recognise this lady as Queen of Spain, which prevented Dom Fernando from accepting the crown. The ambassa dor who had the charge of conducting the negotia tions informed the countess that she might be made a duchess or grandee, or have any other title, but could never he received as Queen. This was conclusive, and all previous arrangements were useless. It is said that Prim and his colleagues bad hoped the marriage of the ex-King would help them rather than hinder them, as his wife, whom he only married 18 months since, was coldly received in Lisbon, and they thought the oiler of high honours to her at Madrid would relieve him of all social embarrassment. The ambition of the lady proved , however to be too strong for the diplomatists, and thus, says the Washington Patriot, "a groat Euro pean war with all.its vast consequences, is to_be attri buted to the unsatisfied ambition of a Boston girl." failed to pass through Parliament, in consequence, the - Archbishop thinks, of not having been suffi cently discussed by the public. He touches upon the chief points which demand attention, such as the various alterations or modifications to be allowed by the recommendations of the Ritual Commission, the influence of the laity on the parochial services, the restraint of the sale of next presentations, the abuses attendant on the sequestration of be►:efices, an 1 the reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts. The Archbishoi) does not think we shall have done our duty to the Church and nation till all these questions have been finally nettled. He considers the heads of the Church should at oi.oo consult with her Majesty's Government as to the best means of carrying out these important reforms; and he thinks it also de irable that joint committees of the two Convoca tions of Canterbury and York should be appointed to discuss the proposals, and communicate with the Government respecting them. " TRucK!' At a recent sitting of the Royal Commission on I " Truck," the working of the system in the Welsh I mines came under consideration. It was proved to I be most prejudicial to the interests of the working-- classes. It was shown that the payment of wages at intervals of eight or nine weeks led to drinking, and necessitated draws and help at the shop. Archdeacon Stanton said that in Wiltshire the rate of wages was low amongst agricultural labourers, and they were paid monthly, which was productive of much inconvenience. The people were always in debt to the little shopkeepers, and could not go to market and lay out their money to advantage. The men were not paid in kind, with the exception of some small articles. He thought that the payment of weekly wages would decrease drunkenness, b4cause when the men obtained a month's earnings they felt com paratively rich, and made free accorlingly. He was constantly met with the excuse that it was "pay day" when he spoke to the men about getting drunk. Another great evil was that the men were often paid in public-houses. The hawkers caused great mischief by getting the women into debt, and by summoning them to the County Court, thus increasing the cost of the goods. Some evidence was given by a Bavarian, who was Sub- Inspector of Factories in Warwickshire, Berks, and Herts. He said that in some parts of his district no payment in money was given to the women end children engaged in different trades. H 3 considered it a very injurious practice, and one that made it impossible for the people to raise them selves. The Sub-Inspector of Factories for Hampshire gave the result of his inquiries among the women who worked at home. The people of Ringwood, who knitted gloves, were in a wretched state, as no money was paid to the workers. Their employer kept a grocery store, in which they were compelled to take out their wages. If they wanted money, and not goods, they had to allow twopence in the shilling for the convenience. The employers stated that the system was for the " convenience of the workpeople." CHELSEA HOSPITAL. Sir C. Trevelyau takes up the cause of the Chelsea pensioners, whose interests, he thinks, are not safe in the hands of the War Office. The principle that old men are better with their families and friends than in colleges has been firmly established and carried out with great success at Greenwich. But instead of the Secretary •of State settling the matter at Chel ea himself; lie refereed it to a committee of the old school, who reported that the minimum age of admission should be raised from 50 to 60, and some reduction made in the administrative staff of the hospital. The monastic character of the in stitution is admitted to be a drawback, but the committee think it may be mitigated by an arrangement allowing a proportion of married pen sioners to be accommodated in the hospital with their wives. Sir C. Trevelyan is especially indig . mint with the remark of the committee that the appointments of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor are coveted rewards in the army, and thinks the "rich cluster of comfortable places " lies had a great deal to do with the prevail ing desire to keep Chelsea Hospital to its present use. He thinks it would be far better to con ' vert the ranges of public buildings at Chelsea and Greenwich into places where the whole of the house hold troops might be quartered under the immediate personal command of their officers. This would avert many evils now complained of, and the valuable sites at present occupied for military pur poses, in London might be turned to other accounts. ECCLESIASTICAL LEGISLATION. The Bishop of London has received a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury respecting . the ecclev siastical legislation proposed for next session. Many measures of ecclesiastical reform have, he says, been unaccountably thwarted in their passage through the Legislature. Last session the proposals to sanc tion a new Table of Lessons in the Prayer-book, to improve the law of ecclesiastical delapidations, to reform the Ecclesiastical Courts, and other Important measures acceptable both to clergy and laity, all HERSCHEL ON ECLIPSES. Professor Herschel has been delivering an interest ing lecture on a phase of astronomical science, which is just now exciting a good deal of attention. It would be many years, said the Professor, before we could again concern ourselves about a European eclipse, but oar knowled;et in that direction is making rapid progress. The ancients were very observant of eclipses. Six or seven hundred eclipses of the sun and moon were recorded in the Chinese annals prior to the Christian era, and 500 or 000 were to be counted in the Theban and Egyptian records. • The first eclipse defined by astro nomers was the eclipse of Males, 010 8.c., but the eclipse of Agathocles of Syracuse 310 B.C. was observed at the very spot our expedition went to this year. Professor Herschel gave spine interesting information respecting the red prominences in the sun, and the great service which the spectro , scope now rendered to astronomers. By the aid of this instrument it has been ascertained that the height of these protuberances is something wonderful -92,000 miles, or one-third of the distance of the moon from the earth. Before the eclipse the spectroscope was turned to the gun, and the prominences were traced upon it, so that the observers knew in the eclipse at once where to look for them. The corona surrounding the sun was now the great puzzle to astronomers, but there was a probability of our im proving our knowledge. TWEEDLEDITM AND TWEEDLEDEE. The vague wis lom of Mr. Albert Darley's justice in finding a decision in favour of the Middleton Hunt, in Yorkshire, a few days since, has been con sPered as worthy of more than ordinary notice. The magistrate in question, who himself was accus tomed to ride with foxhounds, having listened at tentively to the allegations of cruelty to the two horses of the Hunt who, were unfortunate enough to die before they got home, thus delivered his opinion on the case: — It is cruel to ride a horse to death. If you ride a horse till it is so far exhausted as to die of it, it is not, in my opinion, an act of cruelty. If he dies there and then it is an act of cruelty. I do not consider it an act of cruelty unless he drops under you. Suppose a poor coster monger drove a horse until it died, if it died there and then it would be cruel. If a horse were exhausted and died a quarter of an hour after, I should say it 'was not cruelty. The essence of this reasoning has puzzled the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and no doubt will engage the thoughts of any one deeply interested in the question of hunting. It is enough for • ordinary outsiders to remember henceforth that the old injunction in the Scripture, that a merciful man will be merciful to his beast, is only to hold good while a huntsman has his feet in the stirrups. If the sportsman rides the animal to the point of death, he should therefore get quickly rid of the saddle (which probably for personal reasons might also be advantageous) if ho wants to be accounted guiltless of the poor horse's death. by the Ist of January, 1872. The South A ustralian Government have underl,aken the responsibility of constructing the overland line, which constitutes the chief difficulty in connection with the scheme. The tenour of the last reports encourages one to think that several hundreds of miles of the• hue must haV9' been laid by those . who constructed the extreme sections from Port Darwin southwards, and Port Augusta northwards. Good accounts have been receive 1 from the ex plorers who were sent out to examine and report as to the best route for the line through the heart of the Continent. The explorers had, it was reported, reached a point within eight hundred miles of Port Darwin, and as the contractors of the north section would have covered a large portion of that distance, no difficulty was expected in connecting the norto and central portions of the work. ( 1 1/1111 " -r 1,111LAILY1) HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 11. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Christian, and attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty went out this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and the Marquis of Lorne. Prince Arthur and Princess Beatrice also went out. THE ROYAL MARRIAGE. It is stated in high circles that the Bishops of London and Oxford, following the example of the Archbishop of Canterbury, have expostulated with those in authority against the marriage of the Princess Louise taking place during Lent. Archbishop Tait is reported to have informed the Queen before he left England that such an innovation, repeated again, would cause deep pain to every sober, devout, and old-fashioned member of the Established Church.—Church Herald. MR. MONSELL AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. The Post master-General having paid a visit to Rath keale on Tuesday, a demonstration of popular satisfaction at his promotion was made. The town commissioners presented him with an address in which they stated that his appointment gave them great hope that the day is not far distant when the Emancipation Act will be carried out in its entireity by admitting Catholics to the highest offices in the State ; they also regarded it as an indication that the policy of the government would not be hostile to the Holy Father. Mr. Monsell in reply, spoke at con siderable length on Irish politics, expressing satisfaction with the results of the Legislation of the last two sessions. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. An important divisional order has been issued by the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief. For the future, after a regiment has been out route marching or practising outpost duty, subalterns and officers commanding picquet or outpost duty are to draw up reports and sketches of the operations performed. This is with a view of testing the ability of the officers concerned, for those whose productions are ap proved, will be excused from furnishing them for the future ; but those who shew a want of ability will be recommended to apply to garrison instructors for im provement. An order has been received at Wcolwich from the War. Office directing that recruiting should be re-opened for the Royal Engineers, and a notice has been posted at the Barrack-gate, setting forth the peculiar advantages of the corps to young men of intelligence and respectability, and urging candidates to embrace the present opportunity without delay. The standard height is 5 feet 6 inches, and recruits must know a trade, those most in request being carpenters, cabinet-makers, sawyers, coopers, wheelers, masons, bricklayers, plasterers, slaters, black smiths, tinmen, plumbers, painters, glaziers, and tailors. The notice also states that there are also required " a few architects, land-surveyors, draughtsmen, printers, photographers, collar-makers, and miners," and as a new troop of engineer-drivers is to be formed for the field tele graph train, a few young men of 5 feet 4 inches, and with out trades, will be accepted. It is supposed at Chatham that the general depot batta lion stationed there will be abolished at the end of the present financial year, and that a new plan of providing for the depot companies of regiments serving abroad will be adopted, doing away with the system now in operation in many cases of attaching depots to regiments stationed at home. The Turkish officers attached to the Channel Fleet were, at the request of the Turkish Ambassador, dis charged from the several ships before the vessels left the anchorages where they have been lying during the Christ mas holidays. The Dublin Artillery Regiment of Militia within ten days after it received orders to recruit enrolled 140 men, and the strength of the regiment is now fully up to the standard required. A newly-erected Sailors' Home and reading-room at Kingstown was opened on Tuesday by Admiral Sir Burton M`Namara, in presence of a numerous assem bl'e. The first stone of the building was laid by the Earl and Countess of Spencer on the 4th of May last. MARRIAGE OF A DAUGHTER OF THE DUKE DE GUAMONT.—The marriage of Le Comte de Bregonne with Mdlle. de Gramont (daughter of the ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs for France) was celebrated on Saturday at the Oratory, Brompton, among a large circle of illustrious personages now residing in this country. The bride wes magnificently attired in white satin and Brussels lace, and the Due de Gramont gave her away. The bride groom will return to Bordeaux in the course of a few days. THE ECLIPSE EXPEDITIONS.—News has been received from Mr. Brothers, who was stationed at Syra cuse, that five photographs of the eclipse were obtained during totality. One of these, number 4, shews the corona "as it was never seen on glass before." The eclipse was well seen at this station. At Catania, where Mr. Lockyer's party was stationed, nothing was seen ; at Augusta (farther south) very little ; but at Syracuse, the southernmost station of all, the clouds which concealed the earlier stages of the eclipse, passed away from the s'in about five minutes before totality, "disclosing," writes Mr. Brothers, "a scene I shall never forget." STRANGE ROBBERY. —Two men, attired in the garb of Catholic priests, appear to have entered into a clever conspiracy, with the object of robbing a Rochdale hotel-keeper. They paid occasional visits on Sunday evenings, about service time, undoubtedly to seek out chances of robbery. Last Sunday they went, ordered brandy, and then entered into apparently friendly altercation as to which should pay. The cash-box was taken out by the barmaid, thus affordinff the men the opportunity of seeing its whereabouts. 'Shortly after their departure the barmaid heard a noise, which aroused her suspicions, and she again saw the " priests " leaving. S u bsequently, the discovery was made that the drawer in which the cash-box was kept had been broken open, and the box itsel f carried off. The amount in it at hat time was fortunately only small, £260 having been removed about half an hour before. • TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH A.USTRA LIA.—There seems every probability of telegraphic com munication being established before the end of the present year between London and Adelaide, South Australia. The great difficulty in the scheme is the construction of the direct line across the continent from Port Augusta, at the head of Spencer's Gulf, in Southern Australia, to Port Darwin, on the Northern coast. But the South Australian Government have undertaken the sole responsibility of constructing the overland line —about 1,600 miles of wire—at a minimum estimated cost of 2120,000. The explorers, who have penetrated to a point just within the tropics, report that they have found " splendidly grassed land, well watered, with abundance of timber, and more than one deep and wide flowing river." " HIGHLAND CouslNs."—A. good deal has been written of late about the ancestors of Lord Lorne and the Princess Louise. We have not, however, seen any notice taken of one who was not only a citizen of Glasgow, but a common ancestor of both, viz. John Stuart, Earl of Lennox, who died about 370 years ago. He had his country residence at Crocstoun Castle, in Renfrewshire, and his town residence in the High-street of Glasgow. The exact site of the house cannot now be pointed out, but the city records slew that his garden or orchard now fc,rms part of the Glasgow Gasworks. He married Margaret Montgomerie, a daughter of Lord Eglinton, and had nine children. Matthew, the eldest, is now re , presented (through Henry Lord Darnley) by her Majesty: Robert is represented by the Earl of Darnley ; William died unmarried ; John is represented by a per son in the humble ranks of life ; and Allan by Lord Blantyre; Elizabeth, the eldest daughter (married John Earl of Argyle), is represented by the Duke of Argyle ; Marion (married Lord Crichton) is represented by the Marquis of Bute ; Janet (married Lord Ross) is repre sented by the Earl of Glasgow • and Margaret (married Colquhoun of Luss) is represented by Sir James Coiqu houn. It would thus appear that Lord Lorne and the Princess Louise are not only descended from a Glasgow citizen, but are what people north of the Tweed call Highland cousins. If Her Majesty has not yet fixed on a title for Lord Lorne, we would respectfully suggest " The Duke of St. M ungo.—Glavow Herald. The Westminster Review, No. 77.—A horribly realistic dissertation on the " Literature of Diabolism and Witch craft " leads off the January number of the Westminster. Its compiler puts under contribution Dr. Glanvil and Dr. Webster, and Dr. Bekker, and Sir Thomas Brown in his " Religio Medici," and King James VI. in his "Demonologie," and Jean Bodin in his 1580 treatise on "La Demonomanie des Sorciers," but he passes sub silentio Sir Walter Scott and his popular chap ters of antiquarian gossip about the marvels told in regard to the black art of " Demono logy." The literature of diabolism and witchcraft certainly furnishes ample store of facts for one of the darkest, gloomiest, miserablest chapters in that " History of Human Error" dreamt of by Mr. Caxton, but never achieved as his opus magnum. By way of compensation, the readers of the Westminster, after they have quaffed to the dregs this cup of hell-broth anent Diabolism, are refreshed in palate and flavour, in heart and soul and imagination, by a charming criticism oh the " Poetical Writings of Mr. Dante Gabriel Rossetti." The reviewer has a thorough appreciation of his theme. High as the praise he awards to the artist-poet is, through out, it is in no way at all extravagant. It is justified in every particular by the quotations. Even the two first ex cerpts would suffice of themselves in that way—that is, in justification. A delicious sonnet on January, from Folgone da, San Geminiano, and a perfectly exquisite rendering of a most lovely piece by Franco Sacchetti, descriptive of a group of girls gathering flowers in a wood land scene, and caught and scattered by a thunderstorm. Fragmentary passages, too, mere phrases, broken lines, casual similes, here cited in abundance with brilliant effect, serve to convince the reader that the critic is writing within the mark in his most cordial panegyrics. What can be finer than Rossetti's saying of Dante : " Like flame within the naked hand His body bore his burning heart ;" or of the sea's listless chime— "Time's self it is, made audible, The murmur of the earth's own shell ;" or of dawn— " The wind-stirred robe of roseate grey, The rose-crown of the hour that leads the days ;" or of that night , glimpse in a couplet— " Outside 'tis merry in the wind's wake In the shaken trees the chill stars shake." As varied themes occupy the rest of the number, as Sir Henry Bulwer's " Life of Lord Palmerston," and the Social Condition of England in the Reign of Henry VIII., and "Professor Grote and the Utilitarian Philosophy," and the inevitable political disquisition of the quarter on France and Germany. Closing a very goodly instalment, come the usual notices of contemporary literature, theology, and philosophy, Politics and Sociology, Voyages and Travels, Science, but not Art, History and Biography, and the Belles Lettres. AN AMERIOAN QUARREL. The hostility which has so long smouldered betweezi President Grant and Mr. Sumner found vent in the Senate on December 21 in a bitter attack on the Presi dent by Mr. Sumner. The Patriot, a Washington Demo cratic paper, published on that day an account of an attempt alleged to have been made by a distinguished New Eng land Senator to bring about a reconciliation between the Chief Magistrate and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in which it was stated that the President utterly refused to be reconciled. He accused Mr. Sumner of having spoken evil of him in public ;on veyances, of having grossly abused him both in Boston and in the West, and of having attacked him in Execu tive Session of the Senate, and attributed dis honest motives to him. For all these offences, he said, were he not President of the United States, he should hold Mr. Sumner personally responsible, and should demand satisfaction from him. As soon •as the Senate met, Mr. Sumner asked leave to make a personal explanation, and, after having the article from the Patriot read, denied having ever accused the President of dis honesty, or having' attacked him in a manner unbecoming a Senator. Shortly afterwards a resolution, proposed by Mr. Morton, for the appointment of a commission to - visit San Domingo, and report on its resources, came up for debate. Mr. Sumner rose to oppose it. He condemned in unsparing terms the assumption by General Babcock of the title of " Aide-de-camp to the President " in his negotiations with Baez, and no less bitterly the President's conduct in the matter, accusing him of usurping the war-making power by threatening Hayti with the navy if she lent aid to Baez's enemies. The President, ho said, could send commissioners without permission from Congress, and, therefore, he characterized Mr. Morton's resolution us a scheme to commit Congress to the principle of annexation. On his senatorial respon sibility he asserted that Baez was kept in power by the United States navy, which, in fact, was being used to coerce the people of both Hayti and San Domingo, and he challenged anyone to deny the fact. He attacked the President's Message so intemperately that he was called to order, and spoke bitterly of the attempt, which he ascribed to the President, to oust himself from the chair manship of the Foreign Relations Committee. Mr. Morton replied to this attack, which he characterised as most unprovoked and unjustifiable, and as clearly proving that Mr. Sumner, as an avowed enemy of the Administration, ought not to be left at the head of the most important of the Congressional Committees. He concluded by asserting that the annexation of San Domingo was more desirable than that of Canada, for which Mr. Sumner was so eager. The discussion was continued amid the greatest excitement, and the indul gence of bitter personalities. Mr. Conklin; said Mr. Sumner had stabbed the President like an assassin, and that he ought to be summarily displaced from the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr• Chandler described Mr. Sumner's attack as the most brutal attack ever made in the Senate Chamber. The President, however, has not rested satisfied with his friends' defence of him. He asserts that previous to bringing forward officially the San Domingo proposal, he visited Mr. Sumner to consult him about it. That he left the senator with the conviction that he would support it. General Babcock also visited him, and after a con versation of several hours, left him with the same impres sion as the President had. In this General Babcock fullY confirms the President's assertion. Another Eldoralo of coal and ironstone will soon be worked in Derbyshire. The Glendon Iron Com pany have leased the minerals under the Ma,pperleY estate, and two shafts are already being sunk. It is ex pected that the field will produce between eight and nine million tons of coal. It is proposed to erect in con' nection with the works furnaces for the manufacture of iron. WRECK OF THE STEAMER ARIES AND LOSS OF SEVEN LIVES. —On Friday intelligence was received in Liverpool to the effect that the steamship Aries, Captai n Peyton, had been totally lost, and that the chief office r and a portion of the crew perished. A Philadelphia de s- patch, dated Christmas Day, states that the steamer rail ashore on the morning of the 23rd, about seven o'clock, on the bar, near Henford, the sea at the tune being exceedingly high. The moment the s teamer struck, one of the boats, manned by the chief officer an ti six men, was sent off to take soundings. The boat, hos' ever, was upset before getting any great distance frail the steamer, and the chief officer and four of the seame n were drowned. The two others succeeded in getting: O the bottom of the boat, where, after a few hours' suffer° l "l they were frozen to death, and were afterwa rds washed ashore near Cape May. The Aries, after being ashor e for several hours, was got off the bar , bu t the -damages sustained are so extensive that the vessel will become 5 complete wreck. hiS A MENDM ENT OF THE PATENT L AWS.--?-.- important question, which has formed a topic for pr e ; traded discussion at several successive meetings o f th British Association, and which the manufacturing c° lll , munity has long felt to be one ripe for legislative inter rence, was the subject of a judicial utterance by 1- , ° r ( Romilly, Master of the Rolls, yesterday. A suit 113 been instituted by one London firm against anothe r fer 0 injunction to restrain an alleged infringement of a Pat ee ir for the construction of window shutters the Pee„d liarity of which was that they were w°lllie up by means of a spring coil. That t defendant bad made shutters of a similar kind was not denied, but his lordship was of opinion t hat he had S i °t, 0 . been guilty of an infraction of the law, and therefore _ missed the case with costs , remarking t hat half the I,* dactions which emanated from i nventors in this emnie ought not to be patented at all. The law could not til considered to be established on a satisfactory basis 111 A, one great existing deficiency was removed —and that_ ciency was the absence of such powers as .would enforce the filing of specifications which would explicitly dese;r;he every peculiarity of the invention. The vagueness 010'0'6 specifications at present involved interminable Cha n suits. THEATRICAL SCANDAL.—At the BOW-Street police Court on Tuesday, Miss Alleyne, manageress of f t . ll :o ' Globe 'Theatre, was charged with having assaulted IN-ii-t Varcoe, an actress, on Boxing-night. It seemed tlit,', on Madame Colonna, the dancer, obtaining an e rl69l oli Miss Alleyne requested the complainant to • go s t the stage again, and that to enforce her reglisto she pushed complainant and stuck her nail s ' ll O her neck, which was bare at the time. In addiqvie to this, Miss Alleyne, it was said, used very unbeeeplaWs language.—For the defence, it was urged that . o ' o , Alleyne, acting for the ballet master, who wag abs e t be had a right to insist on the complainant going 01 u se stage again, and was justified in pushing her. The At. of her nails by defendant was denied, and it was e°llere to be shewn that the marks on complainant's neck sv, s . caused by bugles worn on th e sleeve of defendant's dry —The defendant was fined a and costs, KEEPING FINS. We are told that before any Paterfamilias should have the temerity to rear a hen-house on his premises, in thehope that he shall have fresh eggs every morn ing for his family, a certain amount of know ledge is necessary. In the columns of a con temporary the - question how to make hens profitable has been discussed with a spirit t at might never have been expected from a hen-puked class. One amateur fowl proprietor paints over his own hen house the words " Wring out the old, Ring in the new," an I declares the motto to be his guide of lite in the matter. If the necks of the old hens are wrung off and their places supplie l annually by young chickens, " care and food " will do the rest, and hens will be profitable to any man. Another correspondent has been experimentalising on the hens themselves. He has twelve pullets, which in one month produced 285 eggs, so we can have no hesitation in hearing this man's counsel, and tllcing it to heart. "By wa) of experiment" he ceased on the Ist of the month to give " artificial warmth " and " stimulating food " to his twelve pulleys, and the result was that the fowls far from averaging nearly ten eggs a day, reduce 1, in an apparently philosophical mood, the number of their eggs gradually to one half. On the evening of January Bth this gentleman " returned to artificial warmth and stimulating food," and so on the 9th the twelve pullets laid seven eggs, and looked as if they would enlarge the number to eight on the following day. AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAPHS. Mr. Ross expresses the belief that from the energetic manner in which the South Australian Government have taken up the matter and entered into the plans of the telegraph company, Londun will be in telegraphic communication with Adelaide THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGH r O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events.