The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-14 00:00:00

fin SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1871.

I) OYAL STRAND THEATRE.
IL Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH.
'lris Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE.
Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough,
E. Button, and F. Hughes. C(EDR-DE-LIOY, Messrs. Terry,
Psulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E.
Stilton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c.

OYALTY THEATRE.--T 0-NI G T,
IA JANUARY 14.-- Fourth tinie of an original Com edietta, by'
R. Reece, in Two Acts, entitled DORA'S DUVICE. At 7.30,
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND; at 8.15, DORA'S DEVICE ; concluding
with WIIITTINGTON JUNIOR and his SENSATION CAT.

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 (193rd night), by
James
Albery. Conclude with ELIZABETH. Supported by Messrs.
H. J. Montagrie, David James, and T. Thorne, &c. : Mesdames
Amy Fawsitt, A. Newton, and Nelly rower, etc.

.ASTLEY'S PANTOMIME. - TOM TITTLE-
MOUSE and the ELEVEN DANCING PRINCESSES
FROor,
DEEDLE DEEDLE DUMPLIN and the SILVER G.
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. Tr
pass from Brixton, Clapham, Ken-
nington, and Stockwell pass the door. Best pantomime in
London.

CRYSTAL
DAY PALACE--Extra.- AttracGREAT JUVENILE
.tions.
Admission 10 till 7.30.
Early Entertainments (D'Auban and Wards, the Brothers
Daniels, &c.), and, this (lay only, pianoforte Recital by the
Infant Agnes, and Memory Feats by Mr. Stokes's Pupil, 12.30.
Distribution of bon-bons and toys to children by Professor
Hermann, 1.0.
Fuller, the Champion Skater, on the ice on Terrace Basin, 10.
Pantomime, Gulliver, 3.0.
Gonza and Romah, 5.30.
Illumination of South Grand Basin, Ascent of the Sister Mag-
nesium Balloons, &c., 7.0 till 8.0.
Festival Organ an Palace illuminated for Promenade, finale.
Admission, Ii
the or by Guinea Season Tickets. Pre-
sent issue for the whole year at all entrances and agents.
Children under 12, Is. Reserved seats for all the amusements
(un-numbered), ls. ; children half-price. A few numbered stalls,
Bertram A large reduction when 10 and upwards are taken.
and Roberts, refreshment contractors.

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ADAME TUSSA UD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-
street.—On view Portrait Models of the King and
Crown Prince of Prussia, Prince Leopold_of Ilohefizollern. 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.
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years had rolled away pending the accomplishment
of events which have really taken place within
six months. The days when the cry " A
Berlin !" was hoard in Paris seem buried
in the remote past. Yet half a year
ago the aspect of affairs was profoundly pacific, and
foreign secretaries were congratulating themselves
on the lightness of their duties. Nay, more, when
war did take place, everybody expected that it
would be brief, and that it would be conducted in a
civilised manner. None of these hopes have been
realised. Peace has been broken, the war is long,
and the humanized mode of conducting it, which was
shown at the onset, has been entirely abandoned by
this time. The spectacle of a civilised power driving
i back at the point of the bayonet women and
children into a besieged city, and then raining down
shot and shell upon them, is one the possibility of
which could scarcely present itself to any mind.
Yet this is but a trifle of what the last six months
have brought about. A dynasty has fallen, a nation
is humbled in the dust, and one-fourth its territory has
been laid waste by fire and sword, and plundered by
troops, who, under the guise of fine names, display
many of the qualities we might have looked for in
the hordes of Attila. The semi-anniversary deserves
remembrance.

THE BOMBARDMENT,

The Parisians who get a shell into their own
houses do not like it, but the early days of the bom-
bardment have furnished some amusement to those
who are not thus unpleasantly visited by danger.
Extraordinary people t When they recovered their
first shock of surprise they regarded the fire very
much as they would an exhibition of fire-
works. They gathered to every high place

and coign of vantage where they could see the
pyrotechnical lisplay, and watched with curious
interest for every flash and every explosion.

One feature of their behaviour is most laughable,

They practice to an extravagant degree the art of
escaping shells by falling on their faces. Let a whizz
be heard in the air, and instantly men an 1 women
pick out the cleanest places ant sprawl
flat on the ground. They do this constantly and at
the slightest symptom of danger. A correspondent
says :—" The only practical result of the bombard-
ment which I can find is one jest the more for the

little boys of Paris. When they see a man or a
woman particularly well dressed—say a man glori-
ous in furs that argue an extraordinary care of his
person, they cry out, ' Flat, flat ! a shell, a shell—u
plat ventre ! Down on your faces.' The man, gor-
geous in furs, falls flat on the ground—perhaps in
the gutter—and the Parisian urchin rejoices with
exceeding great joy." It does not follow that this
amusement will remain long in fashion.

THE MINISTRY.
Mr. Hibbert is the new addition to the Govern-
ment. He gets into it by a process similar to that
described in the famous old story of the " House
that Jack Built." Mr. Bright retired ; Mr. Chiches-
ter Fortescue, Secretary for Ireland, became Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade; Lord Hartington, Post-
master-General, took the Irish Secretaryship ; Mr.
Monsell, Under-Secretary for Colonial Affairs,
was advanced to be Postmaster-General; Mr. Knatch-
bull-Hugessen, Under-Secretary for Home Affairs,
succeeds Mr. Monsell ; Mr. Shaw Lefevre• Secretary
to the Board of Trade, succeeds Mr. Knatclibull-
Hugessen ; Mr. Arthur Peel, Secretary to the Poor-
' law Board, succeeds Mr. Shaw-Lefevre ; and Mr.
Hibbert takes the place of Mr. Peel. This is the
redistribution, and we hope the gentle reader,
anxious to understand the affairs of his country, will
be able to remember it. These shiftings are of no
political importance; but really Mr. Gladstone ought
I not to bore ns by making them so complex.
LUXEMBURG.

The substance of Earl Granville's despatches on the
revived Luxemburg question reaches us from Ber-
lin. The British policy in this matter may be put in a
very few words. Earl Granville is ;lad .that Prussia
has not set aside the treaty of May, 1867, and feels
sure that if the neutrality of the little State
is interfered with, it will be only in
the way of facilitating 'military opera-
tions. The British Minister, however, urges that
even this step should not be taken without a
preliminary understanding with the Powers that
signed the Treaty of London. The correspondence
seems to have terminated on the 24th of December,
so that for the present the Luxemburg difficulty is
tided over. But most people will be very much
astonished if it does not speedily revive.