The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-03 00:00:00

SIR H. L. BULWER ON TILE WAR.

:Sir. Henry Lytton Bulwer has a third letter in the
Tim'es on the policy which England ought to pursue in the '
war, and he explains what he should desire to see done as
follows :—" I have already spoken of a concert
with other Powers to discover the • best means
for giving a just security to Germany with the
least injury :to the susceptibilities and interests of
France. The question is large enough, is general enough
to justify one of these exceptional. assemblies :which
bring the Great Powers of Europe together on exceptional
occasions. What would such an assembly offer to
France? A mode of having her position fairly discussed.
What would it offer to Prussia? A universal sanction
to any result that Was adOpted. Why should England
not suggest a congress ? If this expedient is not
adopted, and no other general mode of action is found
practicable, there remains, I admit, but one last course
open—that of sicking the position •of a neutral
between two combatants into that of a friend to both, and
urging on one party and the other, with all the earnest-
ness of argument which befits a conscientious desire to
peform a good action,: such conditions as, with all the
knowledge of the circumstances that her Majesty's
Government possesses, appear to it to offer the
basis of a fair and honourable peace. 1f... at this
moment there is duty to perform, diffiCult or easy, we
ought to perform it. There are some, hoWever, who -say it
would be a great humiliation to speak to Prussia and for
Prussia not to attend to us. If anything is passing before
our eyes concerning which we are indifferent, or sup-
posed to be indifferent, there is nothing- humiliating
in silence ; but if the something to which I allude
if interesting to us, and known to be so interesting
that we must desire to prevent it—there is less
humiliation to my mind, because less pusillani-
mity, in endeavouring to interfere, though only by
speech, than in standing by silent, when it must be felt
we can have no motive but fear for being silent. The
Cabinet scattered, no Cabinet Councils held, the universal
belief that our Government meant to do nothing
unless asked to do so by the two belli-
gerents—which seemed an impossibility—all these
circumstances made me apprehensive that we meant
to he silent and passive spectators of events. For a
moment theimpression left me. I hailed the fact that
Lord Lyons had brought M. Favre and Count Bismarck
together as a happy omen, and took that opportunity
of addressing my first letter to you. But NI. Favre
and Count Bismarck parted and there seemed no evi-
dence that Lord Lyons had urged or endeavoured
to urge either to come to an accommodation. I then
again arldresed you. If Lord Granville has done, or will
do, anything in these affairs, I am sure he had done and
will do it well. All lam afraid of is ' waiting for good
i opportunities for I never found a timid rider find a
good opportunity for trying his horse at a stiff fence ; and
it is said ' the more he looks at it the less he likes it.' At
all events, my correspondence here ceases. A Cabinet is
at last summoned. May good angels direct and animate
its counsels ! "

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, LEEDS.—The winter
session of this society, will be inaugurated by Mr. W.
Hepworth Dixon, on Tuesday, October 18th., when he
will deliver a lecture on " The Great Weed, the Feeding
Ground of the Anglo-Saxon Race."
THE IRISH LAND BILL.—We learn from Dublin
that the machinery for giving effect to the new Irish Land
Act has been put together, and merely awaits the final
revision of the judges. It is confidently expected, says a
writer in the Times, that the rules "will secure substantial
justice and give general satisfaction."
MURDER IN IRELAND.—A murder is reported
from Limerick. A man named Enright, driver of a
porter and soda-water van, was called on by several per-
sons on the high road to distribute the liquor among them
from his cart. On his refusing he was assailed with
stones and kicked. He was found by the wayside bleed-
ing and senseless, and died in an hour or two after being
conveyed to the hospital. A publican named O'Neill is
under arrest.
Friday night's Gazette announces that the Prince of
Wales has appointed Herbert William Fisher, of the
Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, to be Vice-Warden of the
Stannaries, in the place of Sir R. Smirke, resigned. His
Royal Highness has also appointed Francis Knollys to be
his private secretary, in the place of Herbert W. Fisher,
resigned. The Princess of Wales has appointed Maurice
Holzmann, German secretary and librarian to the Prince
of Wales, to be private secretary to her Royal Highness,
in the place of Herbert W. Fisher, resigned.
The Anglo-Braziliah Illustrated News, under the
editorship of Mr. C. F. Vivaldi, of London, a new illus-
trated high-class paper, printed in the English metropolis,
in English and Portuguese, has been started. The pro-
prietors of the new paper—a company—guarantee a cir-
culation of 15,000 copies in the principal Brazilian cities,
and in their prospectus they impress upon English vendors
the fact that there are no better fields in the world for
English manufacturers or for superior and enlightening
publications than those to be found in the rich empire of
South America. The first number of the periodical cer-
tainly is entitled to a warm welcome and fair criticism, not
only on account of its literary merits, but also for the high
class of illustrations, chiefly on this occasion, representing
views in Rio Janeiro, and for the excellent quality of the
tinted paper on which the whole is printed. .
THE COAL TRADE.—An important conferonce has
been held at Barnsley during the past week, for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration the award of Sir J.
Karslake in reference to the present position of the South
Yorkshire coal field and the London coal trade. Sir E.
W. Watkin, who presided, mentioned that owing to the
decision of Sir J. Karslake, the Great Northern Railway
Company was prevented from lowering its rates for carry-
ing coal to London, and on that account it was con-
sidered desirable that they should adopt some
other means of conveyance. He suggested that the coal-
owners of South Yorkshire should raise an independent
line of steamers to run from Grimsby to London, and he
had no doubt the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Company would soon offer them such rates to Grimsby
as would enable them to compete with the coal-masters of
Derbyshire and the North of England. A deputation
was appointed to wait on the directors of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, with a view to elicit
information on the subject, and the conference was then
adjourned.

Mr, Cardwell, who has been engaged for some
days past in a visit of inspection to the fortifications round
the coast, will go down to Aldershot to-day to witness
part of a trial by which it is hoped to determine definitely
and for ever the rival pretensions of muzzle-loading and
breech-loading field guns. The following committee of
officers, whose names are well-known in connection with
the science oLartillery, has been appointed to conduct the
experimetits and report on the result :—Major-General Sir
John St. George, the late head of the Ordnance Select
Committee, president : Major-General Gambier, C. 8.,
Deputy Adjutant-General Artillery ; Major-General F%
M. Eardley Wilmot, R.A. ; Colonel Wray, C.B. ; Colonel
Milward, C. 8., Superintendent of the Royal Laborato-
ries ; Colonel C. S. Henry, C.B. ; Colonel
J. E. Michell, C. 8., R.H.A. ; Colonel W. E.
M. Reilly, C. 8., R.A. ; Captain H. Thornhill, It. A. ;
Captain W. M. S. Wolfe, Brigade Major at Shoebury-
i ness ; and Captain H. J. Alderson, RA„ Assistant
Superintendent of Experiments. Lieutenant-Colonel
Heyman, of the Director of Artillery's department at
I Woolwich, is appointed secretary to the committee.

Army. -
A vacancy has occurred in the Hon... Corps of the
Gentlemen at Arms by the death of S. L. A. B. Messiter,
Esq., late captain 28th Regiment.
Captain R. C. Martin, half pay, late 19th Regiment,
has been appointed to succeed Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. L. W. Mlles as Superintending Officer of Recruiting
of the Peterborough District.
Lieutenant J. F. Hopkins, 2nd West India Regiment,
has been appointed Fort Adjutant of the Gold Coast
Settlements, vice Ensign Bell, Ist West India Regiment,
who has proceeded with his regiment to Jamaica.
In a little .more than two months, Sandhurst, as a
military college, will have ceased to exist, from the simple
fact that all the cadets now remaining there will have com-
pleted their course, and that no arrangements have been.
made for filling up their places.
_The _Brawl ..4,r_rom says,:—Dctubts having arisen as to
the power of administrative officers of the Control De-
partment under the Royal Warrants of 12th November,
1869, to command the Army Service Corps, a new War-
rant directs that Article 5 of the Royal Warrant for the
Control Department be cancelled, and that the following
article be substituted in lieu thereof :—" Officers of the
Control Department and •of the Supply and Transport
Sub-Department shall officer and command the Army
Service Corps."
The Committee of the Marine Society have placed ten
admissions to their training-ship Warspite at the disposal
of the Captain Relief Fund Committee, for the children
of seamen who perished.
The crews of the ships belonging to the Channel Squa-
dron recently returned to England, have been granted
four days' leave "in watches."
It may not be uninteresting to know that the British
sailor is not backward in responding to the appeal of the
sufferers by the loss of the Captain, as the sum of £l,lBO
contributed as follows will shew : —2302 by the officers
and crew of the Minotaur £256, Agincourt ; £220,
Warrior ' • £213 Hercules ; and £lBO Northumberland.
Major W. J. Stuart, R.E., took up the appointment of
Professor of Fortification at the Royal Military Academy
Woolwich, on Saturday, in succession to Lieutenant-
Colonel J. Wilson, R.E.
The United Sennce Gazette says :—" We have every rea-
son for stating that the present senior Naval Lord of - the
Admiralty, Admiral Sir Sydney C. Dacres, K.C.8., is
likely shortly to vacate the post he at present occupies in
favour of Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.8., late
Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Squadron.—
Lieut.-Colonel C. S. S. E. Gordon, half-pay 23rd Foot, was
gazetted on Friday night as Governor and Commandant
of the Royal Victoria Hospital,. Netley. The drill
season at the Curragh having terminated, theme-Amp will
be broken up this week, the troovs going winter
quarters, and the extra staff returning to Dublin. We
are informed that at a late examination at the Royal
Naval College, Portsmouth, eight sub-lieutenants out of
sixteen were " turned back." This does not speak well
for the present system of naval education.—A. slight alte-
ration is about to be made in the uniform of the Army
Service Corps. The kepi is to give place to the infantry
shako, the officers wearing two rows of braid at the bottom
and one at the top. The shakos of field officers will have
a band of gold lace at the top instead of braid.