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

FEARFUL SCENE AT A FIRE.

Great excitement was caused on Saturday morn-
ing in the Camberwell-road, owing to a fire breaking out
about ten minute: before four o'clock, in the wholesale
and retail oil, colour, and Italian warehouse, numbered
71, in the above named great thoroughfare, the property of
Mr. G. Judge. At that time the inmates were asleep, and
they having been aroused, Mr. Judge made an attempt to
rush through the fire, but the turpentine and essential
oils kept in stock on the premises having become ignited,
the bottles and carboys burst, and the flames rolled
round each room in the place like a whirlwind, and un-
fortunately Mr. Judge became encircled in flames, and
was unable to get away before ho was so terribly burned
about the arms legs, and thighs, that it was necessary to
remove him to the hospital. Ann Judge, as her husband had
just reached the street, made her appearance at the first
floor window, and cried loudly for help. The police in-
formed her that the escape, which was standing just across
the road, was coining to her rescue; but in her fright she
jumped out and fell upon the stone flags beneath, by
which she was severely injured. The shopman and others
were more fortunate, for they escaped uninjured. The
tire was not extinguished until the premises were nearly
destroyed.

THE NEW METROPOLITAN EDUCATION BOARD.—
We have reason to believe that Mr. Blanchard
Jerrold will present himself for a seat at the new
Metropolitan Education Board, for the division of
the Tower Hamlets. His earnest endeavours during
so many years past, to help,
and, more than that to
elevate the poor, deserves at least this recognition. We
cannot for a moment conceive that there can be any doubt
as to his election to a seat at a board where his advice will
be simply invaluable.
The Prince of Wales will visit Edinburgh next
week in order to lay the foundation stone of the new
Royal Infirmary. The Edinburgh courant states that the
Grand Lodge of Scotland have settled the programme of
the proceedings, and that the Prince and Princess of
Wales will leave Edinburgh for London on Thursday
evening by the limited mail at 6.5.

1 he Secretary of State lbr India (according to the
London Scotsman) has just appointed Mr. Robertson,
C.E.' Edinburghh, to visit India and report
what improvement can be effected on several of the har-
bours of that country. Mr. Robertson will start upon
his mission almost immediately.
OUTRAGE IN IRALAND.—Mr. John Elliott, eldest
son of the owner of some property at Torbert, county
Kerry, has been fired at and severely beaten. He was
returning home about nine o'clock in the evening, and
was near his house, when a man fired at him, but the
shot missed. The man then struck him repeatedly about
the head. A man named M'Mahon, who was with him,
came between him and his assailant, and warded off the
last blow aimed at him, or he would have been killed.
The property had been for many years in Chancery and
underlet. An increased rent was claimed, and some
tenants were threatened with eviction.

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WILLS AND BEQUESTS.— ilie will Of the Right
Hon. Alberic Drummond, Baron Willoughby d'Eresby,
was proved in London on the 28th ult. under £70,000
personalty. The will of Sir George Philip Lee, late
Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the Guard, of Bryan-
stone-square, and Windlesham Court, Surrey, was proved
in London on the 26th ult., under £60,000 personalty.
The will of Mr. John Ivatt Briscoe, M.P., of Fox Hills,
Chertsey, Surrey, and 60, Eaton-place, Knightsbridgeovas
proved in London on the 27th ult., under £lBO,OOO
personalty. The following are this gentleman's
charitable bequests :—To the National School So-
ciety, £5,000 ; Victoria Hospital, Surrey County
Hospital Surrey Dispensary, King's College Hospital,
London Fever Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, St. Mark's
Hospital, Cancer Hospital, and the London Missionary
Society, each £1,000; Middlesex Hospital, Consumption
Hospital (Brompton). Convalescent Hospital (Weybridge),
Cripples' Home for Boys and Girls, City Orthopaedic Hos-
pital, and Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond-
street, each £5OO. The will of Mr. Isaac Nind Hopkins,
merchant, late of Ashley House, Edghaston, was proved
at Birnainghani, under £120,000. The will of Henry James
Lynch, her IVajesty's Inspector of Schools, was proved
under £3,ooo.—lllustrated London, News.

The Athenceum says :—" Another edition Of Mr. Paley's
well-known ./Eschylus ' is nearly ready.—Yale College,
"U.S., has purchased the library of Prof. Rau, the cele-
brated political economist.—One of the queens of song, an
artiste, who in almost all European languages has sung on
the lyric stages of Italy, Spain, England, France, Ger-
many, Russia, ete., Pauline Viardot Garcia, is about
to visit London, to resume her professional career.—
We hear that `Rome and the Campagna,' a work by the
Rev. R. Burn, Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge' the publication of which has been promised for
some time, will soon appear: Since Mr. Howlett wrote
his paper lately read before the British Associa-
tion, another synodal revolution of the sun
has again manifested a marvellous display of
spots in the same regions of the northern hemisphere.—
We learn from the Canada Bookseller that a ( anadian
reprint of Professor Huxley's " Lay Sermons "
has appeared.—Mr. Bayard Taylor's translation of
" Fatist " will be published in a few days.
Both the parts aka included in Mr. Taylor's version.—
The death is announced of Mr. N. Pridharn, one of the
four original projectors and proprietors of the Plymouth
Herald, a weekly journal started in 1820. me
Herald was for many years a flourishing
journal, but it was already losing ground when
the compulsory newspaper stamp was abolished.
The penny daily journals killed the Herald.—
The foreign journals announce the death of Princess
Amalia of Saxony—an amiable and gifted lady, who be-
guiled the tedium of German court life by writing
comedies, which made their way on the German stage for
a while, and the best of which, for their purity and"quiet
humour, deserve to be remembered. A translated
selection from -them, ; with a prefatory memoir,
was some years ago published by Mrs. Jameson,
and cordially received in England. The Princess
wrote under the pseudonyth df Airialia Hefter:—
The opening of the Italian Opera season in St. Peters-
burg is announced for the 19th of October. The corn'
pany will comprise Madame Adelina, Patti, Madame
Volpini, Madame Sasse (of the Grand Opera, Paris), the
sisters Marchisio, Signora Perelli, Madame Dall' Anese,
Signori Calzolari, Mongini and A. 3. Corsi (tenors), Sig-
nori Graziani, Steller, Everardi Bagagiold, Cappcin,
Zucchini, Fortuna, and Baccolini (baritones and basses).
Signor Vianesi is the conductor. The repertoire will be
the familiar works of Mozart, Meyerbeer, Cimarosa, Ros-
sini, 13ellini, Donizetti, Auber, •Flotow, Gounod, Verdi,
Weber, &c. No new opera is promised.
The "Life of Lord Palmerston," by Sir H. Lytton
Bulwer, M,P., will be published immediately by Mr.
Bentley.—M. Gustave Dort has arrived in London.
On dit that Mr. Dion Boucieatilt is about to secure
a lease of the Lyceum Theatre.—The Hiatt&
Standard says that Madame Adelina Patti (the
Marquise de Catni) will shortly leave London for St.
Petersburg, where she is expeCted next month.=
The St. James's Theatre will re-open next Saturday, with
(for the first time in England) Sardou's play' "Fernando,"
revised by Mr. Sutherland Edwards, in which Mrs.
Herman Vezin, Mrs. John Wood, Miss Fannie Brough
(daughter of the late Robert Brough), Mr. William Farren,
Mr. Dan Leeson, Mr. Lin Rayne, and Mr. Lionel
Brough will appear.—Mr. Ben Webstet and Mr. F. B.
Chatterton, of Drury Lane, have formed a part-
nership by which the Adelphi and Princess's
Theatres are placed under their joint management.—
Mr. Henry J. Byron has just written two new plays.
One is a drama, in four acts, entitled " The Last Shil-
ling ;" and the other an original play, the title of which is
not yet fixed. He has also a comedy, entitled " Tom's
Thumb,"is in a forward State of preparation. —Mr. Charles
Millward is writing the Christmas burlesque for St.
James's Theatre.—lt is arranged that Mr. Farnie
Will write a new burlesque for the Adelphi Theatre.—
The death is announced of Mr. Henry Wallack a distin-
guished American actor. The last time Henry Wallack
appeared in England was at Drury Lane, under Mr. E.
T. Smith's management, in 1853, when he appeared as
Robinson, the thief, in Charles Reade's drama of ' Gold,"
the first form of the afterwards celebrated novel, "Never
Too Late to Mend."—Mr. Buckstone and the Haymarket
company are having a most successful season in Dublin.—
Mr. W. S. Gilbert's blank-verse, fairy-piece, called the
"Temple of Truth," will be produced at the Haymarket on
October 24. Mr. Buckstone plays the principal character.—
Mdlle. Bertha Brousil, the violinst, has settled in Belfast.

—Dr. Jeremie, the Dean of Lincoln, has taken the oppor-
tunity of his retirement from the Regius Professorship
of Divinity to offer the sum of £l,OOO for the establish-
ment of two Greek Septuagint prizes in the University.—
After a fortnight's serious illness, the Rev. H. W.
Wagner the Vicar of Brighton, died on Friday after-
noon. He was presented to the vicarage in 1824 by the
Duke of Wellington.—The American Register, a paper
highly esteemed by Americans in Europe, and heretofore
published in Paris, is henceforth to be issued in
L London, from the angham Hotel.—Mr.Rebow, M.P.
for Colchester, is now so ill that his life is despaired of.—
The forms of entry for the Cambridge Local Examina-
tions are to besent by candidates to the local secretaries on
or before the 10th of October. The examinations corn
mence on Monday, the 12th of December, and will be
held at 38 centres, of which the following are new :
Manchester (hitherto a centre for girls' examination only),
Malvern, Harrogate, Weston-super-Mare, Blackheath,
Donington, and Middlesbrough.—Mrs. Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, the widow of the author of "The Scarlet Letter,"
together with her two daughters, has taken up her resi-
dence in Kensington, where she is likely to live for the
next year or two.—lt is intended to present an address
and give an entertainment in London to the President of
the Coloured Republic of Liberia. The committee in-
chides several members of Parliament —The prize of 100
Friedrichsd'or, for the best essay on voluntary assistance
for the wounded in naval war, which was offered by the
central committee of the Society for the Aid of the Sick
and Wounded, during the International Conference at
Berlin, has been awarded to Jan Helenus Ferguson, of
Aruba, in the Dutch West Indies, for an English treatise
on the subject.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Important experiments with torpedoes recently invented
will be made at Chatham on Tuesday next, under the
direction of the Royal Engineer authorities. Two new
torpedoes are to be tested, one invented by Professor
Abel, the Government chemist, the other by Quarter-
master-Sergeant Matthieson, an instructor in the telegraph
school at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham.
The Duke of Cambridge and Mr. Cardwell, the Secretary
of State for War, with other distinguished persons, are to
witness the experiments, which will be made in the Med-
way and on the Great Lines. The torpedoes will be fired
through several miles of electric cable.
Her Majesty's Indian troopship Euphrates left Bombay
with troops from Suez and Portsmouth on the 2nd of
October. The Jumna arrived at Port Said on the mor-
ning of the 6th of October.
The Earl of Carnarvon visited the Royal Arsenal, Wool-
wich, on Friday, and mode a minute and lengtened in-
spection of the Royal Gun Factories, attended by Colonel
F. A. Campbell, R.A., the Superintendent, and other
officers of the department, and accompanied by Brigadier-
General J. M. Adye, C. 8., R.A., Director of Artillery
and Stores, and Col. T. W. Milward, C. 8., R.A., Superin-
tendent of the Royal Laboratory Department, Royal
Arsenal. Two Batteries of the Royal Artillery, fully
equipped for active service, are to be prepared at the
Grand Depot for the Earl of Carnarvon's inspection, on
Monday next.
Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett,
G.C.8., will relinquish the command of the Aldershott
Division on the Ist of November, and will be succeeded
by Lieut.-General Sir J. Hope Grant, G.C.8., Quarter-
master-General of the Forces. _ _

The Prince and Princess Christian visited Newcastle
on Friday, and inspected the ordnance works of
Sir W. Armstrong. Among the visitors were the Duke
and Duchess of Northumberland, Earl Percy, and Sir
George Grey.
Lieutenant-Colonel Viscount Hinchinbrooke, Grena-
dier Guards, is about to proceed to Calcutta about the
beginning of November, on a visit to the Earl of Mayo at
Calcutta.
H.M.S. Thalia at Sheerness is about to proceed to the
Cape of Good Hope with a new crew for H.M.S. Rattle-
snake, which vessel will be paid off and recommissioned
at Simon's Bay, the Thalia returning with the Rattle-
snake's present officers and ship's company.
The head-quarters of the cavalry brigade in Ireland
(Major-General Wardlaw, C. 8.) moved from the Curragh
to Dublin on the 7th inst.
The United Service Gazette says we regret to learn
that there has bean a robbery of money at the Royal
Army Clothing Depot at Pimlico of a very serious
character.
We believe there is little doubt that Captain Robert
Hall will shortly succeed Sir Spencer Robinson in his late
post of Controller of the Navy.
Two captains' commissions have been placed at the dis-
posal of Mr. Childers by the untimely deaths of Captain
Cowper Coles, C. 8., and Captain Hugh Burgoyne, V.C.,
and the vacancies will probably be filled up very soon
after the return of the First Lord of the Admiralty to
Whitehall.

HEELING THE " MONARCH. "—Mr. J. B. Crossland, one
of the assistants in the Constructor's Department at the
Admiralty, arrived at Portsmouth on Tuesday last for
the purpose of superintending the heeling experiments
with her Majesty's iron screw armour-plated turret ship
Monarch, Captain John E. Commerell, V.C., C.B. The
experiment took place in the steam basin iu the dockyard,
alongside the steam factory, and commenced about half-
past one, in the presence of Admiral Sir James Hope,
G.C.8., Rear-Admiral W. Loring- (Admiral Superinten-
dent), Mr, W. B. Robinson (Master Shipwright), and
several naval officers and dockyard officials. A large
number of dockyard labourers were in attendance, and
under the directions of the leading men, who took their
instructions from Mr. Crossland, 100 tons of ballast, in
pigs weighing nearly one hundred-weight each,
were taken on board, and this weight was distributed at
first by placing fifty tons on either side the upper deck.
After this the whole weight was placed on the starboard
side, and then on the port side. The general result was
an inclination of about eight degrees ; but until the calcu-
lations have been made it is impossible to speak with any
degree of accuracy as to the result of the experiment.

The Saturday Review thinks that the preparations for the
attack Upon Paris are said to be completed, and it can
hardly be donlited that if this is the case, the blockade
will immediately niakti way for more active measurer. It
seems to be now ascertained that the German guns already
command a large part of Pari4i se that a bombardment
may perhaps be tried even before an assault has been
made on the forts.- The French aresanenine that the terri-
ble destruction which this might .intail would so disgust
Europe with the Germans that the long-desired intervention
would at last take place. We imagine that Europe will
not be more moved by the destruction of manuscript* and
pictures than by the destruction of human life, and it
would certainly be an inconvenient precedent if the pos-
session of a given amount of this kind of property were
held to exempt a city froth bombardment, when it hap-
pens to be a strong fortress: When peace is restored, it
linty be hoped that some effort will be made to discourage,
the fortification of cities containing a large civil popula-
tion. But until scone understanding of the kind has been
arrived at, these composite places must expect to have
their military character exclusively considered whenever
there is any conflict between that and their civil character.
The reversal in the case of Paris of the usual proportion
between the numbers of the garrison and those of
.the inhabitants points, it is to be feared, to an
unusually early resort to bombardment. The
Germans . have not shewn themselves cruel without
purpose, but there is no reason to suppose that they
would hesitate about being cruel with a purpose. The
burning of Paris may be postponed indefinitely if the
army of the Loire is soon incapacitated from rendering
any aid to the besieged ; but any genuine prospect of an
attack from that quarter might lead the Germans to push
matters to extremities at the earliest possible moment.
Count Bismaiek's anxiety to skew that the cession of ter-
ritory which he demands for- the security of Germany
Would not materially lessen the area and resources of
France is perhaps significant of a dawning desire to make
peace before the winter.

The Economist compassionates the position, but repro-
bates the policy, of the Provisional Government. Why
are they no` defending Paris ? What is their public ob-
ject, and what is their hope of attaining it? Is there any
rational probability that Paris can be relieved ? But it
may be said, though it be true that there is no real chance
Of relief. though Paris must certainly fall, yet that the
delay Will be good for France, and she will have peace on
better terms. Ent will she not have peace on worse terms ?
The Prussians will then have won every game. France
will have played her last card. The Germans will be elated
with the gain of Paris and angry at the loss of German
lives by which that gain has been won. Will these feel-
ings make them less harsh conquerors ? Which of them
-Will save to France even an acre of Alsace or Lorraine?
As then there is no chance of relief for Paris, and no us©
in defending Paris without a prospect of relief, why
should it be defended? M. Favre will say,—" Because
its inhabitants.are Frenchmen," and Frenchmen cannot
with honour cede territory or surrender their capital.
But the French, like other nations, cannot help doing
*hat they must. In fact they have within the century
twice ceded territory and twice surrendered Paris. At
least this is to be said for the French Emperor that
he did not hold out an untenable post—that he did
not cause a needless battle for his own glory—
that he did not waste human life—that he capitulated
lehen it was right that he should capitulate. As yet the
Provisidnal Government are not imitating him. Their
position is painftl, but their errors make it worse. M.
Favre told Count Bisinatek that there was no longer a
" populace " at Paris ready for outbreak, that there WAR
only an "intelligent and devoted population," which
would aid the defence of the city, not impede it. But
surely he ought at least to tell that population the truth—
he ought first to tell himself, what at heart he must know,
that the defence is useless, and then to tell it to the
people, even though they stone him.