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MOSES and SO LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. EW OXFORD-STREET. CORNER of HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT - ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. BR A DM D, YORKSHIRE ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA COMPANY (LIMITED) -LYCEUM THEATRE. - - THIS EVENING (MONDAY), January 23, will be produced (for the fifth time in any country), the New Opera, ALI B4BA (written expressly for this Company). Boxes on the grand tier, £3 35.; stall tier, £2 12s. 6d.; woper circle, £1 7s. 6d.; orchestra stalls, Its 6d.; grand tier dress seats, 7s. ; upper circle seats, 45.: pit tickets, 2s. 6d. ; amphi theatre, ls. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, F. B. Chatterton.—Morning Performances every Wednesday and Saturday, until Saturday, February 25th, inclusive. THIS EVENING (Monday), 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. Moreland, Charles Steyne, Fawdon Yokes, H. Naylor, Seymour, Firth, Meade, Webber, F. Wright, Master Russell ; Misses Victoria Vokes, Jessie Vokes, Rosina Vokes Harriet CoveneY, M. A. Basquerville, A. Hamilton, Hall, Florence HarVey, De Grey, Ross, 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. H arv ey, clowns ; Paul Herring and J. 3(orris, Pantaloons ; W, Fawdon Yokes and Stonette, Harlequins ; the Misses Rosina and Jessie Yokes, Columbines ; Miss Lizzie Grosvenor, 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 GartLaon, theFren thche Pi err ots. Master H. Rawlings, Clog Dancer. Patrie, 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 S cenes, Invented and Arranged by by Mr. John Cormack. The Comic S cenes and Tricks, &c., arranged Mr. John Cormack and Mess rs. 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, 7s. Dress Circle, ss. First Circle, 4s. Balcony, 3s. Pit, 2s. Lower Gallery, ls. Upper Gallery, 6d. TOE DRAGON OF WANTLEY ; or, Harlequin Old Mother Shipten, will be produced To-night (Monday), January 23, 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. IVIORNING PERFORMANCE of the Grand Pantomime, entitled the DRAGON OF WANTLEY, every Wednesday and Saturday. Children and Schools at re duced prices to the following parts of the Theatre :—First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. - THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. AMY ROBSART.—In answer to numerous ap plications, it is respectfully announced this Drama will be daily.— reviv THEATRE-ROYAL on Monday, AL DRURY LABox-officeNE. open from 10 till 5 THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET F ift y -fifth Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDY.—THIS EVE NING (Monday), at Sev en s O'Keefe's Musical Piece, THE POOR SOLDIER, with selections from the original music. P a trick, Miss Fanny Wright ; Norah, Miss Fanny Gwynne After which, at a qu arter to Eight o'clock, a new Fairy Comedy: in Three Acts, entitled THE PALACE OF TRUTH. Characters by Mr. Buckstone, Messrs. Kendal, Everil, Clark, Braid, Rogers, Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. Hill, Fanny Wright, and 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 Robertn. Concludin with the Farce of THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM so . Box Office open daily from 10 till 5, PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee, Ben jamin Webster. Managers, B. Webster and F. B. Chat terton.—THlS EVENING, at 7, THE MAN OF THE WORLD : Sir Pertinax Macsycophant, Mr. Phelps. After which, the en tirely new, grand. spectacular extravaganza, entitled LITTLE GIL BLAS, and How he Played the Spanish D(Deuce.—Box office open from Ten till Five. ADELPHI THEATRE ROYAL. Sole Pro prietor, Mr. Benjamin Webster ; Managers, Mr. B. Webster and Mr. F. B. Chatterton.—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 58.15 ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Mr. B. Webster and Miss Furtado. To conclu4.e 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.--THIS EVENING, at 7, CHISELLING, Mr. David James ; after which TWO ROSES (.200th night), by James Albery. Conclude with (68th night) ELIZABETH, Supporbed by Messrs. H.J. Montague, David James, and T. Thorne, (Ste.; Mesdames ,Amy Fawsitt, A. Newton, and Nelly Power, &c. ROYAL S TRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, ON AND OFF. LIVING AT EASE Messrs. Crouch, Turner Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E . Button, and F. Hughes. CCEUR-DE-LION, Messrs. Terry . Paulton, Fenton, and. Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, i. Eaton, Sant Y, Lee, Goodall, dce. LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1870. THE CAMPAIGN. The defeat of Faidherbe is important for the Germans, inasmuch as it shews that Von Goeben is pretty safe from his dangerous opponent, and that no reinforcements will for the present be required in the norht. In every part of France, indeed, the state of affairs is about as bad as it well can be for the French. Chanzy has been driven completely away from the proper theatre of operations, whilst Bourbaki, after his repulse, has entered upon a dangerous retreat. He will of course be followed up by Von Werder, and it is very likely that Prince Frederick Charles will detach some of his large force towards the south-east, thus placing Bourbaki between two fires. LORD RUSSELL ON THE NATIONAL DEFENCES. Earl Russell, in a long and able letter on the national defences, says that three, if not four, objects ought to be secured by our fleets and armies. The kingdom ought to be defended, the colonies and dependencies protected, the engagements of the Crown with foreign Powers fulfilled, and our honour or interests firmly maintained when they are involved. It would be a sad epilogue to Lord Granville's famous despatch to Prince Gort9chakoff if our Foreign Minister were to declare the abolition of all treaties of guarantee, and announce that henceforth France might annex Belgium, or Rus sia Turkey, without disturbance from England. Sir William Mansfield and Sir John Burgoyne both agree in their estimate of our present military con dition. The latter says emphatically that the army is a profession which needs attention and practice, and three years of constant service are needed to make a good soldier. In saying this, observes Lord Russell, Sir John dis2oses of 128,000 dis embodied Militia, and 136,000 Volunteers. He himself suggests that 200,000 men of regular army and embodied militia should be kept up in the United Kingdom, that the system of purchase should be abolished, the field artillery largely increased, the recruiting of privates for the artillery stimulated by bounty, a sufficient store of powder provided for artillery and infantry, that the term of service for infantry and cavalry should be for seven years, and for artillery ten, and that the militia should be raised by ballot for service in the United Kingdom only. Men should be allowed at stated times to volunteer from the Militia into the army, and all the higher commissions of Militia should be granted by the Commander-in -Chief. Every volunteer who claims a grant of any kind from the Treasury must s'gn an engagement to attend his corps a certain number of days in the year. In conclusion a good system of army a dministration and "an able watchful, painstaking, well-informed, indefatigable man to preside over it," are indispensable to improve ment. Lord Russell thinks scant justice ha 3 been done to Mr. Cardwell, who was put into office to retrench, and has retrenched ; while the Duke of Cambridge he believes to be the right man in the right place.. THE DITHE OF MANCHESTER'S VIEW. The Duke of Manchester has drawn up a memo randum on the subject of military organization. He THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1871. ROYALTY T HEATRE.-TO-NIGHT, January 23.—Eleventh 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. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view, Portrait Models of the ex-Emperor and Empress of the French, and Prince Imperial. Also, Marshal Bazaine, Marshal Canrobert, General Trochu, &c., &C., &c.— Admission, ls. ; Children under Ten Years of age, 6d. Extra Rooms, 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view, Portrait Models of the Kin and Crown Prince of Prussia, Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern. Also Count von Bismarck and Count von Moltke.—Admission, is. ; Children under Ten Years of age, 6d. Extra Rooms, 6d. extra. — Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER. MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON, E.C. THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS O re ER 20s. Per am. s. d. 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ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA, LYCEUM—AIi Baba. DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley. COVENT GARDEN—Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty. ADELPHI—Smoke. One Touch of Nature. Mistletoe Bough. HAYMARBET—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Truth. 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. Lion. ST. JAmEs's—To Oblige Benson. War. Bombastes Living at Ease. Coeur-de Furioso. OLYMPIC —Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur lesque) Paul and Virginia. ROYALTY— Dora's Device. Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat. Diamond Cut Diamond. GAlETY—Operetta. A Christmas Story. QUEEN'S —A Day After the Wedding. Crown. Ailadin 11. 'Twixt Axe and HOLBORN—Ticket-of-Leave Man. Jezabel. PRINCE OF WALES'S—Queen Stork. Ours. Locked 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. MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street)—From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. ls. ; extra rooms, 6d. ekr 4 "4., • J.J 4 thinksthat all youngmen on a ttainingtheirfullgrowth credit of their market to know that it has had to' ought to be incorporated in the military service of ask for time to complete its payments. Another the country, and thoroughly drilled. He would signal of a scanty Treasury is found in the allow three years for this c ,mpulsory service, so that at Government decision to retain the caution money two or three and twenty it would be completed, and of the newspapers until January next, giving the military education the citizen had received would interest for it. It will be remembered that the obli make him in many ways a more valuable member gation to deposit this caution money, strictly enforced of the State. Some youths intended for especially under the empire, was abolished by the Republic, scholastic professions might be allowed one but it has not been convenient to the Treasury to year's service instead of three. The country should reimburse the proprietors, so they retain it as a loan. be divided into regimental d istricts re g ardless of PRUSSIA AND THE POPE. The ir°l counties, so that the youths cou ld g o throu g h their Nord D eutsche between e All i gel netn e Zeitu a t ngplb nd thelislies term in the neighbourhood o f their own homes. thecorrespondence weeiCount Bismarck Ambassadors in Rome and Florence on the question Each district should furnis h a battalion of twelve of the occ u pati o n of Rome. On the 7th companies, four of whom sho uld form a de p ot re maining in the district, and a militia battalion and a of last October the Pope addressed, through volunteerbattalion,the three bat talions bein g under th Count Armin in command of one colonel, an d the officers interchange- quiry to Armin, the Ambassador, an Versailles as to whether the able between the three. The next thin g would be King's Government would use its influence at Flo to instruct our officers by i nde p endent manoeuvres, rence, so that in the event of the Pope leaving Rome not on cut-and-dried Aldershott field-days, but left he might do so with full honours. Count Bismarck to the individual inclination of the officers, and at once replied in the affirmative, and stated that an criticised only by the general in command. intervening telegram had been sent to Flo- THE CIViL SERVICE COMMISSION. recce at the same time that his message The Home Civil Service is at last, it seems, to be was forwarded to Rome. The Count thrown open to the public in earnest, and thirty intimated to Count Brassier, the Ambassador second-class assistantships of excise are to be com- at Florence, that his Majesty King William peted for next month. The successful candi- was convinced that Vie Italian Government would dates will become outdoor officers of Inland Revenue respect the freedom and dignity of the Pope, even with the proJpect of rising to be supervisors should be be compelled to change his resi and collectors. There are besides some technical dence, and desired his Excellency to ex clerkships under the Board of Works, with a salary press these views. He considered it due rising from £l5O to £3O O , to be competed for, and to the North German Catholics to maintain the also a clerkship in the Board of Works Office, and dignity and independence of the Head of the Catho writerships in other departments. It is su g. lie Church. The Italian Government responded to Bested that to make the reform at all this appeal by declaring that there was no doubt of its intention to maintain the dignity and indepen comprehensive or satisfactory, there must be a thorough readjustment of the rates of pay, and the dence of the Pope. terms of service in the several departments. With- THE BELGIAN CATHOLICS. out this, candidates will not know what they are The clerical journals of Belgium have announced trying to get, and the value of the open that a great manifestation in favour of the temporal competition will be materially diminished by its power of the Pope will take place at Brussels on the capricious results. As the standard of examination 2nd of February, to which all Belgian Catholics are is uniform, so should also be the terms of service, invited. The ceremony will include, among .other and this Parliament must see to. things, a procession to the church df St. Gudule, and a public meeting. A. communication from Brussels to the Petrie of Bruges, declares that all faithful Catholics will make it a point of honour to take part in the affair. Time indignation which honest minds feel at the serious spoliations of the King of Italy has, it is added, increased of late, and it is generally wished that some opportunity should be afforded for its display.. This manifesta tion is to be called a " national pilgrimage." The Independence Beige remarks on this affair that the course pursued, by the clerical journals, which pro fess neutrality, is very inconsistent, and asks what they would say if the Belgian Government were to permit a similar manifestation to take place in favour of Germany or France. ASPHALTE. The asphalte pavement has answered so well in Cheapside that some of the leading London Clubs decide to have asphalte laid down, if possible, before their palaces. These clubs have in vited the vestry of their parish to hold a conference on the subject, and, strange to say, the local authori ties have accepted the invitation, and nominated a committee. So there is a shadow of a hope that asphalte, which has been employed in Paris for years, will actually be laid down in more than one London street. But it would be too sanguine to expect that this unlooked for progress will go further. Every London vestry decides upon the pavement within its own district; and the idea of many vestries adopting a great improvement is too idle to be entertained fur a moment. The system of dividing the government of London amongst numerous local boards, each one of which has to be consulted in turn, has the simple re sult of utter stagnation. FORCES OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. According to a correspon lent of the l imes, Turkey can now rank as one of the leading naval Powers of Europe, at least as far as regards the number of her ships. The Turks are first-rate sailors, though the Turkish navy has not acquired sufficient practice. Both officers and men would be the better for seeing more active service. Efforts towards improvement have been made, and English instructors are engaged for the naval school at Halki. It is the general opinion that the Turkish fleet-would prove formidable in war if it were pro perly officered ; but in this important respect it is so deficient that the Government would i❑ all proba bility be compelled to engage foreign officers in the event of a war. Steps, too, have been taken to increase the efficiercy of the army. The Alin ster of War has prepared a new scheme for re-organising the forces. The number of the active army is fixed at a strength of 150,000 i❑ time of peace and in war can be raised immediately to 210,000. These joined to the reserve forces would form a total of 700,000 availaLle for war, The Turkish infantry, if well led, might reckon amon t ; tlle finest troops in the world. They are armed for the most part with con verted Snider% The Government are well supplied with modern instruments of war, and are adding to their stock. CURE FOR LIBERALITY. The Board of Guardians in Bethnal-green has been far too liberal lately in its treatment of the poor. Happily, the ratepayers have a remedy within their power. The Guardians depend upon the Vestry for supplies, and the Vestry is faithful to the ratepayers. It has therefore decided. to impose a rate of such a low amount that anything like an adequate scale of outdoor relief will beco me impossible. In fact the supplies are well nigh stopped : the Board will scarcely be able to meet its engagements. It seems, then, that the number of wretches who drop down dead in the streets, the number of "death by starvation " verdicts, are not large enough _ _ . in Bethnal-green, or the supply of these incidents is so great in other parishes that the Bethnal greenery are getting envious. However this may be, it is clear that we must be cautious in condemning boards of guardians for stinginess to the poor. If they display any inclination to be liberal, the rate payers and their representatives soon set matters right. If a workhouse master ill uses paupers an enlightened jury backs him up; and if a board of guardians hopes to prevent death in the streets an equally enlightened vestry bids it go on in old style. A HOPEFUL URCHIN. The difficulties of dealing with London street Arabs were forcibly illustrated by a ragged little fellow of six years old, who was placed before Mr. Flowers, at Bow-street, charged with begging. He had to stand on a chair in the dock, but treated the whole affair as a good joke. When asked his name, he anwswered, " Charley," and put on his cap. He was told to take it off, when the gaoler explained that he wanted to hide a wound on his head. It seemed that several gentlemen had spoken to a police-constable about him, us he had been asking them for money, catching hold of their coats. When in custody he said he was sent out by his father, and if he did not take back sixpence he would be flogged. Before the magistrate he admitted his father sent him out, but said he didn't "pay" him, and that he had never told the officer so. His bro ther is in a reformatory, and the magistrate asked if he would like to go there too, but the little fellow returned an emphatic " No." The gaoler said he was in a very bad condition, and had no shoes nor stockings, but the boy, interrupting, said, " But I've got a shirt." The magistrate, who was a little perplexed what to do with him, sent him to the workhouse for a week, and directed that some inquiry should be made respecting his parents. DESTITUTION. A. sickly-looking woman was apprehended in North London the other evening for begging. She had one child in her arms and two shivering by her side. The officer who took her into custody inspected her lodging, and " there he found her husband, who had been a soldier, suffering from lung disease, and a child on a bed almost without any .covering in a dying state. The place was poor but clean." The family of six persons were in fact in a state of starvation. He purchased some milk and brea 1 for the dying child, and it partook of it most ravenously." It appears that the woman was not a professional beggar ; but, rather naturally, not wish ing to see her children starved to death, she hai gpne into the streets to sell some fusees. And what did our magnificent system of administration do for her? The magistrate remanded her for a week, and she was taken away to the cells, whilst her children are to go to the workhouse. This sort of thing appears to be about as much as we can gene rally manage in the way of "assistance." The mother spends a wsekin prison. The family is broken up and the children carted off to a workhouse, where any help that may be needed to make them professional beggars will speedily be supplied. As for the husband, there appears reason to expect, or to hope, that his lung disease will speedily remove him from the sphere of parochial assistance. FRENCH FINANCIAL EMBARRASSMENTS. A. correspondent at Havre says that recent inci dents confirm the impression there are serious embarrassments in the French Treasury. A few days since it proposed to pay for large quantities of grain, purchased from Marseilles dealers, half in cash and half in bills. The dealers, however, insisted on being paid entirely in cash, because they were under engagements to pay the foreign dealers in coin, and, if they did not strictly fulfil them, further supplies might be stopped. The Government yielded, and after some trouble paid the full amount in coin ; but the Mar seilles dealers are still uneasy, lest the delay should damage their credit. The Government must be, for some time to come s their principal customer, and it will not improve the HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, JANUARY 22. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Princess Beatrice, attended Divine service at Osborne this morning. The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the Royal family. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is still prevented from attending to his official duties owing to an attack of gout. The death is announced of Sir George Hayter, principal painter in ordinary to her Majesty, at the age of seventy-eights The success of Mr. John Martin at the recent Meath election is to be celebrated by a national banquet, to be given on the 6th of February. Her Majesty, it is expected, will return to Windsor about the 3rd of next month. Prepara tions for her Majesty's reception are being made at the Castle. Mr. Gladstone forwarded on Friday a hand some donation to Mr. W. T. Vincent, the secretary, in aid of the funds of the Plumpstead Soup Society, who are distributing 500 quarts of soup twice a week. The Law Journal says it understands that the rumour that Sir James Duke Coleridge will be proposed as candidate for the office of Speaker on the resignation of the Right Hon, Evelyn Denison is unfounded. Apropos of the rumours respecting Sir William Mansfield and the Cabinet, the Broad Arrow says :—Sir William has been for some time past, and still is in con stant consultation with the Secretary of State for War, relative to the reorganisation of the army, but we do not hear that his views have been found very ac ceptable in Pall-mall, or are at all likely to be adopted. It is true Sir William was closeted for a long time with Mr. Cardwell, on the day preceding his appearance in Westminster Hall ; but, so far from inferring from that incident that he gave expression to the policy of the Government in his address to the volunteers, we are in clined to draw the opposite conclusion—viz., that he felt at liberty to speak freely because his views were no t adopted. THE REPORTED DEATH OF D,R. Mr. A. J. Mott, of Liverpool, says :—" A paragraph is quoted with the above heading from the /V atal Friend. This paper has arrived, no doubt, by the mail which left the Cape December 4th. If so, it gives no new informa tion. The report is said to have come from Zanzibar, via Quilimane, a distance of two or three thousand miles. Tho date of the news could not, therefore, be later than October, and is more likely to be several -months earlier. But the Teazer left Zanzibar on the 13th December, and has reported from Galle that provisions were then being forwarded to the Livingstone depot. The Natal report, therefore, has no sort of authority, and the grounds on which the hopes of Dr. Livingstone's safety have hitherto rested remain unchanged. THE NEW LAW COURTS.—The following, the Builder has reason to believe, are the chief alterati3ns that have been made in the form of contract for the new law courts :—" The time for completion of the first con tract is extended from seven months to twelve months. The penalty for delay is not to be enforced should unforeseen circumstances arise beyond the contractor's control. The contractor is not to be bound to execute anything unless it is obviously shewn on the drawings or described in the specification, or unless he be paid for it as an extra. The contractor is not to be bound by the certificate of the architect if he shall consider him self unjustly dealt with. The certificate of the architect is not to be under all circumstances a condition precedent to the contractor having the power to obtain paynrnt." In the original form of contract the word not was omitted from the aboye-u2entioned condition, „ 4.1 v " 4 ' ht y. tglUrt - Ltthu N LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE STAGE PROFESSOR TYNDALL ON WATER SUPPLY. At the Royal Institution on Friday evening, Professor -ndall delivered a lecture upon the " Scattering of .ht," which was, in point of fact, a discourse upon domestic water supply. Though the water of the metro polis only was considered, there was much in the lecture of general interest. The learned Professor commenced by exhibiting the impurities of London air, the motes of a sunbeam, by the light of the electric lamp, and explained to his audience that what they saw was not air, but sus pended particles, capable of being dissipated or removed, and that, when so removed, the track of the beam through the air itself would be invisible. He next related that he had accompanied the eclipse expedition to Oran, and that on his return, having been disappointed as regards the special object of his journey, he had sought to turn his opportunities to account by investigating the causes of the varying tints presented by sea water. After paying a warm tribute to the zeal and kindliness with which his wishes had been furthered by the captain and officers of her Majesty's ship Urgent, he described the way in which a series of nineteen bottles had been filled between Gibraltar and Spithead, and the results of an examination of them by the electric light. The bottles were themselves on the table, but were not placed in the beam before the audience, since the original differences among them had been diminished by subsidence. The general tendency of the examination was to shew that the yellowish water of coasts and harbours held in suspension a large quantity of particles ; that the particles in the green water were less abundant and in finer division ; and that the blue water of the deep ocean was comparatively free. Professor Tyndall explained the blue or even blue black of the depths, by displaying the prismatic spectrum on the screen, and by quenching it, at first partially and with regard to certain colours, and afterwards absolutely, by a succession of cells of increasing thickness, containing a solution of permanganate of potash or of sulphate of copper. He said that when a beam of light entered the sea, the heat rays were absorbed by the surface, the red rays by a very superficial layer of water, the green rays next, and ultimately the blue. If, however, the light encountered particles, these would reflect the green rays to an observer; while, in the ab sence of particles the green rays would continue their course till they were wholly quenched. Water of great depth and absolute purity would thus appear entirely black, like a sea of ink, and would reflect no light beyond a glimmer from it surfaca. The Professor exhibited a white dinner plate, to which a rope was attached, and which he was in the habit of having cast overboard and towed from the Urgent, and which always appeared green, and he also described the appearances seen on looking down the screw-well of the ship, so that the water was seen by turns green—with the screw blades as a background—and then dark blue, with the ocean depths for a background. The white plate, which appeared as a green object when towed under water, would, he said, if ground to powder and scattered cause the portion in which this powder was suspended to return a general green reflection. Having in this way established that the visibility of the track of a beam through water depended upon particles by which the light was reflected, Professor Tyndall next placed before the electric lamp a succession of nine bottles, containing samples of the water supplied to their customers by the various London Water Companies. The turbidity revealed was in every case sufficient to make the audience regard water as a very undesirable beverage. That of the Lambeth Company displayed pre-eminence of a bad kind; that of the Kent Company was by far the clearest; the West Middlesex Company stood second in order of merit, and among the rest there was little to choose. With a reticence more eloquent than words, the lecturer avoided expressing opinions about the dirt that he exhi bited ; and he also expressly mentioned that pellucidity was no proof of the absence of soluble impurities. He also shewed that to cleanse water from suspended dirt was a very difficult matter; and exhibited four specimens of distilled water, a specimen once filtered by Mr. Lips combe, a specimen that had gone through a silicated carbon filter, and a specimen four times filtered through bibulous paper in the Royal Institution Laboratory. These were clear when compared with the water of the companies, but the track of the beam was plainly visible in all. A specimen of water from the Lake of Geneva was then exhibited in illustration of great natural purity, and here a faint blue line only could be seen. This brought Professor Tyndall to the practical conclu sion at which he had been aiming—namely, to an account of the water supply yielded by the English chalk forma tions. He characterised this as being of the greatest attainable purity, inexhaustible in quantity, and easily accessible for the supply of the metropolis, He described its natural hardness as being suoh as to render it unfit for domestic use, but explained that by Clark's process this hardness could be entirely removed at the central works, and that the water might be delivered in London at an uniform temperature, free from organic impurity or suspended particles, and so soft as to be perfectly adapted for all household purposes. He described Clark's process, and illustrated it before the audience, and finally shewed active results by producing a bottle of water from Canterbury, derived from the chalk, and softened in the manner described. By the side of this was a similar bottle containing the water supplied to the Institution, and the two were illuminated together by way of contrast. The difference was like that between peasoup and crystal. Professor Tyndall then read a portion of the report made some years ago by the late Professors Graham and Miller and by Profes sor Hoffman, upon the admirable qualities of this chalk water, when artificially softened, upon its fitness for the supply of the metropolis, and upon the impolicy of allow ing it to pass into private ha nds, and concluded by saying that every word that he had read he desired fully and cordially to endorse. Ac is usual when Professor Tyndall lectures, the theatre and galleiry were densely crowded, and many distingnished personages (among others the Chancellor of the Exchequer) were to be seen among the audience. The John Bull understands that on the meeting of Parliament the Scotch supporters of Mr. Gladstone, will demand an explanation of his letter Aunt the Pope's spiritual authority, llerapath hears that the oldest railway in Eng land, the Stockton and Darlington, now part of the North Eastern system, has never killed a passenger, except one, and he had jumped while drunk from a train. SCARCITY OF SHIPPING AT CALCUTTA.—It may be worth directing the attention of shipowners —espe cially owners of steamers—to the fact that there was, at last advices, an extraordinary scarcity of tonnage at Cal cutta—jute to Dundee commanding by steamer £4 10s., and by iron ship, £4 to £4 ss. In the port there were only 4,000 tons disengaged, being not more than two days' supply ; while of 62 vessels expected to arrive, 46 had been chartered beforehand, and charterers were too anxious to secure vessels to oare much about their class. All the vessels chartered for Dundee during the week ending 21st December, were still at sea. There are at present forty five large ships either on their passage or loading at Calcutta for Dundee, and the number seems only limited by the difficulty of procuring tonnage.—Dundee Advertiser. MUST A CORONER'S JURY . SEE THE BODY ? Rather a nice question has arisen before Mr. Serjeant Payne on the body of a hawker, named Hannah Wells, who had frequented Farringdon Market, London, for nearly thirty years. She was returning home on Saturday night with her basket of wares, when she slipped her footing and fell on her knees, and was so much injured that she had to be assisted home. She died in bed half au hour after being taken home. The medical evidence proved that death was caused by apoplexy. The foreman of the jury, on behalf of his brethren, intimated that they declined to go to Smith's-court, Barbican, and view the body, as they believed that cases both of fever and small pox were in the court. The coroner said as there were not to be any proceedings in smother• court, he did not think it would be necessary for them to go and view the body. If the case had been one of murder or manslaughter, he would have compelled them to go, even at the risk of smells, or infectious diseases. That case was purely " Natural causes." THE TOWER SUBWAY. —We learn from the English Mechanic that this undertaking has not hitherto proved a commercial success. As our readers will remem ber, this tunnel runs under the Thames from Tower-hill to Tooley-street. When first opened passengers were carried through in an omnibus running on rails and drawn by a wire-rope, and were raised or lowered at either end by means of steam lifts. However, as the expenses of this method of working the concern consider ably exceeded the receipts, it was determined to allow the public to walk through at the charge of a halfpenny. For this purpose the square shafts at each end have been made circular by a lining of matchboard, and spiral staircases constructed—the one at Tower-hill containing 96 steps, and that at Tooley-street 94. The tunnel is dry and warm and lighted at intervals of 40 feet by gas jets. At present the average traffic is 2,500 persons a day. On Boxing-day the sum of £3 2s. 6d. was taken. No flooring has yet been laid, and the engines used for working the car are at present boxed up with brickwork, and will so remain till the financial result of the present experiment_ is fully tested., The Atheneum says :—Mr. Swinburne's new poem is ready for the press. It is said he has written a novel also.—We understand that the article in the Westminster RerieW on " The Social Condition of England under Henry the Eighth," which differs so strikingly from Mr. Froude's view, is by Mr. J. Meadows Cooper, of Faversham, the editor of several of the rare tracts in the Early English Text Society's series on the " Condition of Tudor Eng land."- The first part of Professor Seeley's edition of Livy will appear shortly, with a preface and long dissertation. — A third edition of Dr. Nicholas's " Pedigree of the English People " is in preparation, containing consider able additions on the influence of the Norman Conquest, and on the opinions of writers, continental and English, as to the physical characteristics of races. We learn that the portions of the work interdicted by Vice-Chancellor James, whose judgment was reversed by the Lord Chan cellor and Chief Justice Giffard, are to remain intact.— It is a curions but significant fact that Mr. Herbert Spencers's writings can be bought at St. Petersburg in a Russian version, although none of them have appeared in a French or German translation. Mr. Mill's " Subjection of Woman " has also found a translator in Russia, and not, we believe, in France or Germany.—The first two numbers have appeared of a new German novel, entitled " Ham and Sedan "—an illustrated historical romance of the past and the present, by Michael Burger. The novel, which is: published by A. Wenedikt, in Vienna, will be completed in about 18 numbers, at 20 kreutzers each. — Mr. Marks will probably contribute to the Royal Aca demy Exhibition a picture styled " A Bookworm," and representing one of the scientific variety of that genus pursuing osteological studies with characteristic fervour. This artist will probably send other pictures.—A work by M. Gounod will be produced during the present season of the Oratorio Concerts. THE TEACHING OF MUSIC AND DRILL IN RATE-AIDED SCHOOLS. Two deputations from the Society of Arts have waited upon the Right Hon. W. E. Forster to suggest considera tions for the adoption of a system of drill and musical in struction in Government schools. Sir James Lindsay attended from the War Office, but took no part in the proceedings. The subject of drill was first spoken of, the Rev. Canon Cromwell urging the general advantages resulting from a system of drill in training schools. Sir John Pakington said he appeared to represent, in accordance with a resolution passed by the Society of Arts, the importance of having singing made compulsory on the part of the teachers in all primary schools. He observed that both the deputations contemplated the laudable object of giving Mr. Forster some assistance in carry ing out the great national object of successfully bringing into action that great national measure of education which he was successful in passing last year ; and he ventured to congratulate Mr. Forster very sin cerely upon the progress that great measure was malting. Mr. Forster said he was very glad ;ndeed to have met the deputation upon both the subjects which had been the topic of conversation. Any subject npon which the Society of Arts had waited upon Lord Grey or himself with regard to education would receive, as it would deserve, the greatest possible attention. He was very well aware of the great help to the cause of education given by their society in the public mind, and of its extent in the national measure which had recently been passed. But most of all he was conscious of the obligation due to gentle men who might be said to have had as much to do with the measure almost as he himself, and to whom it would be both foolish and ungrateful not to pay the greatest possible deference to what they said. There was no doubt whatever of the advantage of teaching both drill and music in the schools. No . one would deny that, and the advantages which would result therefrom, especially from drill. There was one way in which drill was used which had not been alluded to by any speaker, and that was the drill of infants in infant schools. They must have all seen that it would be impossible for the mistress to get on at all, with instruction without drill ; and there was no doubt that drill in schools where older scholars re ceived instruction was equally valuable. He attended a Quaker school, where drill was taught, and the master came in the wicked uniform, and gave the words of com mand in military form. Still it did not altogether do away with all their boyish energies, and left plenty of room for indulging in mischief. The ques tion was hardly whether the teaching of these things was good, but what they should do in enforcing their being learnt, for they must draw a line between enforcing them and giving facilities for their being taught. There was, to begin with, a great dif ference between the manner in which the questions would. be received. Drill was scarcely a matter upon which there would be a difference of opinion ; but it was not so* with music, They were in a similar position to the Chan cellor of the Exchequer when he had no surplus, and e great many people wanted taxes taken off, In the primary schools there was scarcely any surplus of time after devoting a portion to reading, writing, and ciphering. He did not mean to say these subjects were better learnt if combined with others, but the giving of facility for them was quite different. In those school% to which Mr, Tufnel had referred, the full time of the poor children was at the service of the schoolmasters. That was some compensa tion for their being paupers. The suggestion made by Canon Cromwell with regard to training schools was most practical, and he should take care that it was fully considered. He had no objection to state that they ware considering how far it would be pos sible to give facilities, or to enable drill to be practised. in the schools. He did not think that in this they could run much in advance of public opinion, and he did not think it would be very wise to rely much on the purely military aspect, of the question. The advantages which would accrue in other respects ought not to be lost sight of or treated lightly. He had never been taught music--and he much regretted it—or poste sibly he would have had more harmony in his soul. There, again, a serious difficulty arose. A very influential depu tation had waited upon them to urge the teaching of science in schools, and possibly others would want draw ing taught, but then they had no surplus of time at present with which to deal with these subjects. He would be glad to have any practical suggestion on the question of music ; there was no discussion upon the mode of drill, but there was with regard to music, 0 0 that as soon as any programme was drawn up it would be sure to meet with opposition from those who adopted some other system. However, they would be glad to have any practical suggestion made to them, and he thanked the deputation for waiting upon him. The interview then terminated. It is stated that four of the notes stolen, front 0 11 ° of Messrs. Barnetts' clerks, in February, last year, bay° been received from the Continent. They represent a soul of £2,400, two notes being for £l,OOO each, one for £3O O, and one for £lOO. They had been sent to Liverpool as 9 ° remittance in the usual way of business. RAILWAYS OPENED IN 1870.—During the Pas t year there were thirty-five new lines, junctions, and e'c; tensions inspected by the officers of the Board of Trade and opened for public traffic. The mileag e of the whole was VI miles.. Twenty-three of the new works were in England, and embraced 1 4 ,.. ° miles of the whole ; two were cDnnected w ith Wales, the two embracing only three miles of ne° / , line. The remaining ten new lines are in Scotland, all' include 133 miles. The new Scottish lines of the longe st mileage were—the Dingwall and Skye, 53i miles long' the Dundee and Forfar (Caledonian), 17i miles ; the Ca l ; lender and Oban, first section, Callandar to Killin, 17 * miles ; the Duke of Sutherland's railway, extending the northern route to Caithness, 16i miles ; t he Ayr and Mauchline (Glasgow and North W es : ern), 11 miles ; the Glasgow and Coatbridge (Nor th British), 8i miles ; and the Carmyllie branch of the Cal e l, donian, 5i miles. ' The City of Glasgow Union line h 7., also been opened, and some others of lesser imP °l ; ante. Among the new English lines are the Vr and Askern (North Eastern), 26 miles ; the Chester field to Sheffield (Midland), 13 miles ; the Silverdale: Madeley, and Drayton line (North Staffordsh ir " .1.2 miles ; last portion of the Solway Junction; Bowness to Kixtlebridge, 11 miles ; Chedder to W ell . (Bristol and Exeter) ; Rotherham to Mexboroug h chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire), 6 /rake; Winef er t , branch (Cheshire Lines), 6 miles ; Garstang and 1; 1 : 1° s . end, 6i miles. The Midland Company had t hree othe portions opened, including the Kentish-town jonet i°l ; with the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction. The I ' o B l don and North Western completed the widened tuoe, between Saddleworth and Marsden, at t and opened the new line from the North Delo. Liverpool, to Eclgehill and Bootle, 5f lel,oo The Great Eastern completed the Waltharno t, branch, 24 miles ; the London and South - W/ 6 , 0 , , ern the Aldershott branch of seven and a half la:ot and a Hammersmith and Chiswick Junction. The London added a mile to its system st the southern ° tile and the London and Blackwell a mile of extension in t he Isle of Dogs. One of the most impo rtant openings ~°!sret'- ' year was that of the Metropolitan District from A's minster to Blaekfriars, about eleven miles.—lferer" THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGHT O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This Edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events.