The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-11 00:00:00

11,
RE SUIN, LONDoN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

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 (190th nighi, by James
Albeiy. Conclude with ELIZABETH. Supported by Messrs.
H. J. Montague, David James, and T. Thorne, &c. ; Mesdames
Amy Fawsitt, A. Newton, and NeLly Power, &c.

ROYALTY THEATRE.—TO-NIGHT,
JANUARY n.— 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 his SENSATION CAT.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-
street.—On view Portrait Models of the etc-Emperor and
Empress of the French, and Prince Imperial. Also, Marshal
Bazaine, Marshal Canrobert, General Trochu, &c., tte.
Admission, is. ; Children under Ten Years of age, 6d. Extra
Rooms, od. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m.

THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

DnunY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley.
COVENT GARDEN—Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty.
ADELERI—Smoke. One Touch of Nature. Mistletoe
Bough.
HAYMARKET—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Truth.
Uncle's Will. The Spectre Bridegroom.
VADDEvlLLE—Chiselling. Two Buses. Elizabeth, or
the Invisible Armada.
STaAND—On and Off.

Living at Ease. Cceur-de-

Lion.
ST. JAMPB'S—To Oblige Benson. Fernande, Bombastes
Furioso.
OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur-
lesque) Paul and Virginia.
ROYALTY—Dora's Device, Whittington Junior and his
Sensation Cat, and Diamcnd Cut Diamond.
Gnirry—Tartuffe. A Christmas Story. Alladin 11.
QUEEN'S—Charles 11. Richelieu.
GLonu—Rights of Woman. Delicate Ground.
White Cat. Rely on my Discretion.
OPERA COMIQUE Blue Devils. Found Drowned,
Nothing to Nurse.
HOLBORN—The Married Bachelor, A Broach of Promise,
Jezabel.
• PRINCE OF WALES'S. Queen Stork.

The

Ours • Locked

In.
PRINCEM7B--Peep o' Day.

Little Gil Bias. He's

a Lunatic.
Asmsy's—Englishmen in Paris. Little Tom Tittlemons°.
Suansy—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.
AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes In the
Arena.
ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening.
ALHAMBRA—New Musical Entertainment, " Superba."
PoLvirmoric--Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After-
noon and Evening.
PALAU! Roiat,--Performing GNARL'.
MADAME TIISSADD'S (Baker-street)—From 10 a.m. till 10
p.m. 1.5.; extra rooms, 6d.

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his constituents at Stroud. One of those
impertinent artisans asked him what ben.3fit the
w. rking classes derived from Royalty. " I'll tell you
ono benefit," responded Mr. Winterbottom. "We
aro saved having what France has had—about five
revolutions in one generation." "Every schoolboy,' '
as Macaulay would say, knows, first, that five French
revolutions have not happened in one generation'
or in two, and, secondly, that all the revolutions
in France have had for their object the sweeping
away of some form of royalty or other. No doubt
royalty is a very good thing, and Mr. Winterbottom
can probably find excellent benefits which attend it ;
but the prevention of revolutions is not one of them.
➢lr. Winterbottom is a highly respectable member of
the House of Commons, and superior to most of his
kind. It would be interesting to submit the ruck of
the illustrious 658 to an examination in political
knowledge.

THE TRADE OF 1870.

The trade report of 187 - is especially interesting,
as chewing the commercial consequences of the war
The cotton trade was one of those most considerably
affected, though it preserved its early improvement
throughout the year. The first news of the war
created a panic; but the German successes
soon rallied the market. The varying news
from the scene of conflict produced cor-
responding variations; yet the cotton trade
as a whole has been in a steadily satisfactory
state, notwithstanding the European struggle. The
extensive demand from China is thought to have
something to do with this. Silk, sugar, and shipping
come next, and all these are especially open to the
influence of Continental war, but, for-
tunately, - the consequences have not been
at all ao disastrous as might have been
expected. The silk trade suffered for a time, but the
fluctuations of China silk have been immaterial, and
a fair range of prices has been maintained. The
sugar trade has only just begun to feel the effect of
the war, for in spite of the abstraction of labour in
France and Germany, the European sugar crop will
be the largest ever known. In s'aipping, the
opening of the Suez Canal and the conse-
quent building of steamships, have produced
more effect than the war on English trade.
The restriction of commerce and the suspension
of the German mercantile marine, have counter-
balanced each other, so that commercially the
" plethora of steam tonnage " is more immediately
important than the issue of the war.. In other
branches of trade, such as wine, brandy, and linseed,
complications which were anticipated have not arisen.
This encouraging fact adds another proof of the elas-
ticity and vitality of a free and extended commerce,
which can compensate in one direction for temporary
depression in another.

RAILWAY PROPERTY•

The capital invested in railways at the present
time, notwithstanding its fabulous amount, is round to
realise a profit of about 4i per cent., and the business of
the lines is constantly on the increase. To a
great extent, therefore, the railway enterprise
of the country must be regarded as hav-
ing met with most favourable results. It is true
that the expenditure upon railway property—up-
wards of five millions, it is calculated—has been
excessive, but the inexhaustible resources of the
traffic make up for all. Our reason for drawing at-
tention to the subject is because in the past year the
extraordinary increase of two millions in the receipts
over those of 1869 took place. Unfortunately
there is a limit to be got out of the lines, or else
railway property might be even still more remune-
rative. Viewing the startling increase of profits,
however, and remembering that in the late months
of the year some terrible railway accidents occurred,
one is almost forced to believe that the work-
ing capacities of the lines have been strained to
the utmost. The great problem of railway
success in the future must be, not to project new
railways, as there are enough, but to enable old
railways to perform the wort: they undertake with-
out the destruction of life which the traffic that has
grown upon them renders, under present circum-
stances, apparently unpreventible.