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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-22

HORNE'S DEATH OF MARLOWE.

The admirers of " Orion" and " Cosmo de Medici " will
welcome the reappearance of " The Death of Marlowe,"
which has been long out of print. The tragedy is very
brief, even though it has been extended since its first
appearance. The plot is extremely simple, the characters
are few. Three figures in fact monopolise the scene, the
others being mere accessories. Yet out of these slender
materials Mr. Horne has constructed a veritable

,ragedy, such a tragedy, one of his literary

friends not inaptly observes, "as Kit Marlowe
himself might have written of the violent death
of some other rgreat and wayward genius, had the
idea struck him." The dramatist leaves his tragedy to
tell its own moral, contenting himself with sketching in
sternly simple outlines the story of a life full of promise
suddenly cut short in an unseemly riot, of
great talents whose work is left half done,
and high aspirations degraded by unworthy associates.
The history told in the " Death of Marlowe" is one that
meets us at every page of the chronicles of genius, and
one of which, in spite of all warnings and examples,
the world will probably yet see many versions.
Mr. Horne has proved his dramatic power more than once.
He possesses those elements which our modern play writers
generally so sadly lack, concentration, vigour, and vitality.
It has been one of the charges against him that his lan-
guage bore too great a resemblance to the old dramatists,
but if these were wanting in some qualities indispensable
to success in the nineteenth century, at least their audiences
did not have to complain of feebleness, tedium, or want of
purpose. In the play before us we have, like Marlowe

himself, a little too much of the company
of Jacconot, which is oppressive ; yet the author,
by the perpetual presence of the unwelcome
Jack o' Night, shews us vividly the depths
into which the poet's misguided fancy leads him.
The slight outline of Cecilia, the unhappy heroine, and
cause of the disaster, is sufficient to prove that Mr.
Horne in a more ambitious work would well
supply those softer touches which are not always
within the reach of him who paints the darker shades of
humanity. The favourable reception of " The death of
Marlowe " will, we hope, encourage its author, now
that he has concluded his wanderings in the antipodes, to
try his skill on a work of a more elaborate character.
London, England, 1870-02-22

iIER MAJESTI

WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 21.
Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Louise, walked and drove in the
grounds this morning.
Prince Leopold also went out.

The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday.

LATEST INT= IGEN CE

(REV"ER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.

PARIS, Feb. 22.

The Imperial decree of i 1.869, referring to the
rotation of the Court of Justice, has been abo-
rshed.

The report of M. Chevondicr de Valdrome, Mi-
nister of the Interior, is published this morning on
the subject of decentralisation, and on the compo-
sition of the committee appointed to report on the
question. M. Odillon Barrot is the president, and
among the members are M. M. Dupont, White,
Guillaume, Guizot, and Prevost Paradel.

Nothing is officially known in confirmation o
,he rumoured loss of the frigate Sybille.

It is said that the Prefect of the Seine yesterday
made a report to the Municipal Council, wherein
he proposes to raise a loan of 250,000,000 f.
BOURSE, Feb. 21.—Three o'clock—The marks
closed as follows
per Cent.
3 per Cent
E.,1 of thou tit Ts Co2l
Credit Alobilier 205
Transatlantic 215
Crodit Poncier 1770
Paris Ga 5,....... 1740
Suez Canal ........ . 340
RAILWA

Bank Shares 2900
Eta Fan wives 55 60
Austrian Fives
Ottoman Loan 323
Do. Debt. 45 20
Spanish Threes 26 50
Rome Debt..
Deferred .
.YS,

Orleans .....
Western
630
Northern 630
Strasburg
00
Lyons and Mediterranean
. 1000
Southern..... 6171
Sardinian
Austrian b4
Lombard 770
North of Spain boo64li
65
Saragossa
46
Roman

AMERICA.
(Per French Atlantic Cable.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.
The Texas Legislature has ratified the Negro
Suffrage Amendment.

NEW YORK, Feb. 21.
The Guion steamship Idaho arrived here at 6

a.m. yesterday.
The extra Cunard steamer Aleppo arrived out at

a.m. yesterday.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 1186, ; the highest quotation dur-
ing the clay was 119. ; the lowest, 1183.
Sterling Exchange on London loBk.
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll5l.
" 1885 1143.
tt "
1867 ll3l.
10-40 46
112 g.
Illinois 1441.
Erie
Cotton—Mid. upland 24kc.
Petroleum—Standard White 29lc.
4
Flour, extra state, ss.oc. to $5.60c. Corn, old
mixed, sl.4c.

PORTLAND, Feb. 21.
The Allan steamship Peruvian arrived out

yesterday.

To morrow, being Washington's birthday, will
be a general holiday throughout the United
States.
London, England, 1870-02-22

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
160 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges. 19, Broad-street, and Ealing;
870 children.

£l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank
M 4, High Holborn, sad 41. Lothbnry, 8.C.; and by
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-flelds.
London, England, 1870-08-25

ARREST OF MAZZINI.

Mazzini's arrest has taken everyone by surprise at
last. After the wonderful escapes he has met
with, it seems strange that his fortune should have
deserted him. For many years past he has wandered
about through France, Switzerland, and Italy, and
yet contrived to elude the vigilance of tho authori-
ties. He was arrested on a steam packet between
Naples and Palermo. He was in the character
and costume of an English clergyman, and had been
staying for some days at Naples without interruption.
Mazzini has always been a conspirator. Ile
has shunned rest all his life, and contrived to render
his schemes so obnoxious that for many years almost
every European country was prepared to outlaw him,
bad he made his appearance there. The French
Government have made a pis oiler of his name when-
ever it was advisable to get up a conspiracy, real or
imaginary. He may be said to have finished his
career as an agitator, and must reconcile himself as
he best may to the now conditions of existence which
will await him within the walls of 'a State prison.
London, England, 1870-08-25

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the Deposit Depatttnents, the privilege of withdrawal being ex-
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charge.

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Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand.

THE WAR—TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. All im-
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to Newspapers, Clubs, Exchanges, and Reading Rooms, for
THIRTY-NINE SHILLINGS per QUARTER prepaid. Two or more
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Commercial News and Markets on moderate terms.

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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

EXCURSION TO SOUTH WALES AND IRELAND.
On Saturday, August 27th, an Excursion Train will leave Pad-
dington at 8.45 a.m., and Reading at 10.25 a.m., for Cirencester,
Stroud, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Lydney, Chepstow, Newport,
Cardiff, Bridgend, Port Talbot, Neath, Landore, Swansea,
Llanelly, Fenyside, Carmarthen Junction, Et. Clears, Whitland,
Narberth Road, Haverfordwest, Johnston, Milford, New Milford,
Tenby via Whitland, Waterford, Kilkenny, Maryborough, Clon-
mel, Tipperary, Cahir, and Limerick.
Passengers to stations on South Wales line return on Saturday,
September 3rd.
Passengers to Ireland can return by the 8.85 a.m. train from
New Milford, any day up to Saturday, September 10th, In-
clusive.
London, England, 1870-08-25

MOVEMENTS OF MA.CMAHON.

The movenient of MacMahon on Rheims just reported
seems an obvious piece of strategy. The Crown Prince
could not go on beyond Chalons with 100,000 Men near his
flank. He must stop altogether, or turn aside to attack
them on their own ground. MacMahon, in fact, would
revive the day of Valmy. But Von Moltke is no
Brunswick, and the Crown Prince's army is but one of
three. A report reaches us, from a source which fur-
nishes at least an authoritative French view of the situa-
tion, that MacMahon with two divisions of the army just
concentrated at Rheims has started by train for
Montmedy via M4zieres, there to join a portion of Bazaine's
troops escaped from Metz. Their object would then be
to place themselves on the west of the Prussian
position, while the guns of Metz opened on the enemy
from the other, probably with the aid of a sortie. A hope
seems to be entertained that one result of these tactics
might be to afford the remaining body of Bazaine's troops
an opportunity of getting. away from Metz. No intention,
we gather, is entertained of attacking the Crown
Prince, who will be allowed to make his way to the
capital if he chooses, on the assumption, apparently, that
if the French win a victory at Metz they can deal with
the 3rd Prussian Army as it comes back, which it would
soon be forced to do, while if they again fail matters can
hardly be worse than they are now.—Pall Mall Gazette.
London, England, 1870-08-25

THE NAVY AND THE FORTS.

Since the increase of work in Chatham Dockyard com-
menced, at the outbreak of the war, about 350 additional
hands have been entered, and a notice has been issued
stating that there are now no vacancies except for black-
smiths. Numerous entries of artisans and labourers have
recently been made at the Devonport Dockyard and Key-
ham Steam Reserve, but these have now ceased, as the
numbers required ii.the various departments are complete.
Up to the present time upwards of 500 men, including all
classes of mechanics, &c., have been entered at Portsniouth
Dockyard under the Admiralty minute for increasing the
labour strength of the principal yards, and with this large
addition the work in hand is being rapidly advanced.
tTuhrreevtemssoenlsitcoornsDtruevcastintagtioant, P 4,0
screw frigate Blonde, 4,031 tons ; and the Comet and
4rto6sm tonsouth;
tahree
utnhare
md oouubrleed-
Blazer, two gun-vessels of 212 tons each. The masonry
cweniltlrabeetersoffiien iatlhlye
of the three forts at Spithead is rapidly approaching
handed
overcompletion,
taon
the
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Governmentexpected
y they
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course of a couple of months. There still remains, how-
ever, the important addition of the metal facing with
which each of the three forts is to be protected before
they can be said to be in fighting order. The forts were
begun in 1859, and form a large item in the £7,000,000
granted that year for the defence of our harbours,
arsenals, &e. The Dover Chronicle has ascertained
that there is not a single gun mounted on any fort
in that garrison that would penetrate even a
third - rate ironclad. The best gun mounted
is a 7-inch breech-loading Armstrong, only firing
shell shots. The next best gun is an old smooth-bore 42-
pounder of an obsolete pattern, which was never more
than provisionally adopted into the service. The citadel
is armed exclusively with 64-pounder Widge guns, also of
an obsolute pattern. There are several other guns of a
heavier nature, such as 12-ton and 7-ton guns, but, by
the orders of a Liberal Government, they are at the pre-
, sent time lying on skidding at Archcliffe Fort and Guild-
; ford Battery.

The Archbishop of York has left Bishoptborpe
for Scotland, where he will remain until the end of
September.
London, England, 1870-08-25

RAILWAY TRAVELLING..

An inquiry into the circumstances touching the
death of James Brown, a youth residing at Totten--

ham, who met his death by falling from one of the
carriages of the Great Eastern Railway, has once
more directed attention to the insecurity of railway
travelling, apart from all questions of break-down or
collision. The question which the jury had to de-
termine was whether the door of the carriage in

which the lad had travelled had been properly
closed by the company's officials. The deceased,
it appeared, on arriving at Barham, committed that
commonest indiscretion of passengers, namely, leaning
against the door of the carriage. He fell out, and
was killed. Evidence was forthcoming which went

to prove that the unfortunate lad did not open
the door, and on the part of the railway company it
was urged that in consequence of the peculiar
construction of the platform, and the incline at the
curve of the platform at Ipswich, whence the train
started, the doors would fly open. The jury, by a
personal inspection, seem to have convinced them-
selves that there was truth and force in this ex-
tenuating plea, and whilst they were satisfied that

deceased did not open the door of the carriage, a
verdict of accidental death was recorded. The
simplest means of preventing similar accidents is to
lock the doors of the carriages ; but we can readily
imagine the reluctance of railway companies to adopt
such an unpopular course. If passengers, however,
will not have doors locked, they must be very
careful.
London, England, 1870-08-25

EAMEN'S HOSPITAL (late Dreadnought).—
Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE-
iIOVED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green-
wich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will
be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without in-
tro duction or recommendation. The Society's offices are re-
moved from the City to the same building.
KEMBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary.
London, England, 1870-08-25

V • k
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OZOKERIT (PATEN TED).

COMIC PAPERS

(From Punch.)

A NEUTRAL QUESTION.—Could not our valiant but
vain neighbours be brought to agree to a modus vivendi
with the Germans on reasonable terms ? It is odd that
.they prefer a modus moriendi on unequal terms. As the
poor Irishwomen at a " wake " cry in deaf ears, we ma,
also demand of the fallen French soldiers—" Why did
ye die ? "
QUESTIONABLE.—In one of Edmond About's letter to
the Soir, he says :—" But Providence or chance put me
to bed on Sunday night in the same chamber where Mar-
shal MacMahon slept the evening before, and General
Baron Gersdorf two days after. I found in it a . packet
of telegraphic despatches, forgotten by the Marshal.
These papers did not belong to me, so I gave them up.
They belonged to history. I took a copy of them." Quite
right to give these papers up, M. About, but quite wrong,
as we think, to copy them. Who can now be surprised
at Ministers of War and Commanders-in-Chief not• re-
ceiving newspaper. correspondents with open arms?

NEWS, NEWS, NEWS !
The war and nothing but the war—
Crambe repetita
Very bad at such a time
To have to be a fighter.
But worse to be a reader,
And, worst of all, a writer !

(From Fun.)
GOOD IN EvlL.—The Money Market Review describes
the state of business—which it afterwards speaks of as an
indisposition—in the Stock Exchange as a " partial
paralysis." We trust it only attacks the "legs," in which
case the constitution generally will be benefited.
THE SAME WITH A DIFFERENCE.—The renian General
O'Neil, now in Burlington Gaol for his absurd attempt to
invade Canada has been "interviewed" by that irrepres-
sible
sible being the Yankee newspaper correspondent :—" The
reporter asked him to explain candidly to what his failure
was to be attributed. The general replied that it was
owing ' entirely and solely to lack of men.' " We quite
agree with this—"entirely and solely," we should say,
"to lack of men," especially generals.
London, England, 1870-08-25

GERMAN MEDICAL STUDENTS.

A gallant set of fellows, about whose work on the
battle fields of the Continent little is being said, are
doing noble execution in an effective and extensive
way. We allude to the German medical students,
who follow the army, and assist in binding up the
wounds of the injured, and in tending to the best of
their knowledge and power the sick and the
dying. As ministering spirits, these young
men, to whom many thanks are breathed, and
for whom many pious prayers are uttered,
knowing full well that the skilled surgeons are small
in number compared with the numbers of mutilated
men left alter the respective battles, have
boldly endeavoured to supply in some way the
deficiency, and slight medical knowledge has been
found only of too high service in the work they
started upon. Confirmation of this is given in the'
statement of one student, who writes to the German
newspapers to say that he had 28 poor fellows
on his hands the day after the battle of
I,Voerth. This same young gentleman declares
that his life in the field, though painful, is an
interesting one. He has, for instance, learned the
mysteries of many loving hearts having had to
peruse numberless letters belonging to the dying as
well as to the dead. Love played an important part
in moat of the documents he was obliged to read,
and he said he could compromise famously some of
the Saargemund ladies, if he was not naturally of a
discreet turn of mind.
London, England, 1870-08-25

RUPTURES-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT

WHITE'S MOC-M AIN LEVER TRUSS
(Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of
1851 and 182), is allowed by upwards of Five ,Hundred ,Medical
men to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment
of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its
effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-
Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and cicse
ness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep.
A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can-
not fail to fit, f3rwarded by post, on the circumference of the
body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manu-
facturer,

Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. A
Double Truss, 315. 6d.,4?5., and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. Bd. An Um-
bilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post
office, Piccadilly.
London, England, 1870-08-25

THE ISTHMUS OF DARIEN CANAL.

The advantages of a ship canal which shall con-
nect the two great oceans, and provide for the tran-
sit of merchandise without the cost and delay of
removal or the tedium of the journey round Cape
Horn, are too manifest to be readily abandoned. It
is only wonderful that the enterprising dwellers in
the United States should have so long been deterred
from carrying out the scheme by the natural
obstacles of the route. Having so far resolved
upon it,however, and once set the expedition on foot,
they are naturally unwilling to abandon the idea,
notwithstanding. the unfavourable result of the sur-
vey. Congress at its late session voted thirty thou-
sand dollars for a new survey of the routes of
Nicaragua and Tehuantepec. The expedition, which
is to leave next month, will be commanded by
Captain Shufeldt, while Commander Selfridge, who
has superintended the last exploration, will return to
the Isthmus of Darien and examine Tuyra and Atrato
routes. During the late expedition Commander
Selfridge examined three routes which are now no
longer thought of, and there only remain the
Atrato and Tuyra, the Aspinwall and Panama, and
the Nicaragua and Tehuantepec routes. There are
various estimates of the relative merits •of these
roads. Mr. Body, President of the Central Ameri-
can Transit Company, considers the Nicaragua route
the best from its inexhaustible supply of water at
the summit level, and its requiring no tunnels. Lake
Nicaragua is the great reservoir of water in Central
America, and this of course greatly facilitates the
task. The Tehuantepec route, on the other hand,
London, England, 1870-08-25

THE MARQUIS OF BUTE.

The Marquis of Bute has lately attracted no incon-
siderable degree of attention, and the curiosity of the
public as to his lordship's wealth and his lordship's
religion has been largely stimulated by the novel of the
season and the comments thereupon. But long
as the list of titles which the Marquis now
enjoys (for he is also the Earl of Windsor,
Viscount Mountjoy, Baron Mountstuart, Baron Cardiff,
Earl of Dumfries, Viscount Air, Lord Crichton, Earl
of Bute, Viscount Kingarth, Lord Mountstuart,
Cwmra, and Inchmarnock), there is one, more an-
cient than any, of which he has hitherto been
unjustly deprived. Lord Bute has just been
proved heir to the earldom of March, theorigin of
which dignity is a little obscure, but which is referred
with much probability to the eleventh century. For five
generations the Dunbars, Earls of March, occupied a high
position in Scotland, superior even to that of the
Douglasses, and almost equal to that of the
Cumins. George, seventh Earl of March, having
been affronted by the Scottish monarch, threw off his
allegiance and fought upon the side of Henry IV.
at the battle of Shrewsbury. The result of this
act was that in 1434 King James L revenged
himself by procuring the attainder of the earl's
son and the forfeiture of his estates. The exiled peer
and his beggared family took refuge in England,
and soon sunk into such obscurity that the date and
manner of the earl's death are alike unknown. Mr. A. Sin-
clair has discovered evidence to prove that the eventual heir
of the Dunbars married, in the 16th century, William
Macdowall of Dowalstoun. The descent of the Marquis
of Bute from that marriage is clear enough, as also is the
fact that inheritance of the earldom of March, is, like most
ancient Scotch dignities, open to female heirs. Whether the
Marquis will care to encumber himself by any fresh addi-
tion to his numerous dignities is more doubtful.
London, England, 1870-08-25

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EXTENSIVE FIRE AT BRIX roN.

A serious fire also happened in the premises belonging
to Mr J. Kemp, a carpenter and dealer in hardware,
situate in Cold Harbour-lane, East Brixton. The fire
commenced from some unknown cause in the carpenters'
workshop, and before an engine had time to arrive the
building was in one mass of flames, and it quickly fell to
the ground with a loud crash. The fire could not be
conquered until some thousand pounds worth of property
had been destroyed, there being three houses in Maria-
place and two others in Cold Harbour-lane more or less
damaged.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
EARL DERBY IN LIVERPOOL

Yesterday the foundation stone of a new hospital at
Bootle, near Liverpool, was laid by the Earl of Derby,
who had given the site for the building. His lordship,
while expressing the interest he took in promoting the
prosperity of an institution of such general public utility
as an hospital, strongly urged upon his hearers the neces-
sity of constantly improving and increasing all arrange-
ments and requirements calculated to lessen sickness and
improve the public health.
London, England, 1870-08-25

THE SIEGE OF METZ.

The following is from the Times correspondent at
Berlin :—" General Werder, commanding the troops
before Strasburg, has announced that he will hold
the French General, Ulrich, personally responsible
for bombarding the open town of Kehl. The Stras-
burg Deputy de Baissieres has been arrested by Ger-
mans in Alsace on the charge of espionage. Formid-
able preparations have been made for the siege of
Metz. Five thousand maps ofthe fortifications of Paris
are being sent to the army. The Queen of Prussia
has formed a society for relieving Germans expelled
from France. The Crown Prince, who remained
stationary while Bazaine was being surrounded by
Prince Frederick Charles and General Steinmetz,
has resumed his advance on Chalons. The Prussians
at Metz are entrenching themselves, preparatory to a
siege.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
FLORENCE, AUG. 24 (Evening.)

In to-day's sitting of the Senate, the proposal to grant
a supplementary military credit of 40 millions of lire came
on for discussion.

Signor Visconti-Venosta made a statement analagous
to that recently made in the Chamber of Deputies.
After explanations from Signors Lanza and Sella the
Senate adopted by 105 against 2 a vote to pass to the
order of the day. the senate accepting the explanations of
the Ministry and confirming the previous votes on the
Roman question.

ROME, AUG. 22.

The Frenchmen in the Pontifical Army have placarded
a notice at the office of the Osservatore Romano, announc-
ing their intention to give that journal a severe lesson
if it continues to speak of the War in a Prussian partizan
spirit.

ATHENS, AUG. 23.

The Italian Government has demanded that two
Italian lawyers shall be present together with the two
English barristers at the trial of the brigands.

CONSTANTINOPLE, AUGUST 24.

The Levant Herald announces that the localisation of
the war being now almost certain, the Porte has decided
to arm only half the number of reserves which it was at
first proposed to call out.

CALCUTTA, AUGUST 25.
The Government will probably not return to Calcutta
from Simla before the Ist of October.
It is expected that the Government will make a state-
ment relative to the present financial position of India in
September.

MADRID, AUG. 24, Evening.
The Epoca states that Don Carlos has left Switzerland,
and that an armed band has made its appearance in the
province of Huesca this morning.
London, England, 1870-08-25

IlEa

On the 21st inst., at Sunbury, Middlesex, Saml. Childs,
Esq., late of Earl's-court, Kenshigton, aged 84.
On the 20th inst., Richard Welbank, Esq., M.R.C. S.,
formerly of Chancery-lane, aged 74.

London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of
No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by him at
THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the
Savoy, in the County of Middlesex.
Thursday, August 25, 1870.
London, England, 1870-08-25

MARRIAGES.

On the 20th inst., at Bromley Church, John N. M. Dra-
per, the eldest son of John Draper, Esq., of Wormley
Lodge, Herts, to Harriette Sophia, daughter of George
Clark, Esq., of Widmore-hill, Bromley.
On the 17th inst., at Moneydie, Perthshire, Andrew
Fyfe, Esq., M.D., 42, Montpelier-square, London, to
Louisa Stewart, daughter of the late Thos. Richmond,
Esq., of Balhaldie, Perthshire.
London, England, 1870-08-25

AID FOR THE WOUNDED.

A meeting was held yesterday afternoon at the Guild-
hall, Plymouth, presided over by the Mayor, at which
a committee was formed, as a basis of an auxiliary to the
society for giving aid to the sick and wounded in war.
The meeting was of a very influential character, and
was addressed, among others, by the Earl of Mount
Edgcumbe and the Town Clerk of Devonport. Nearly
thirty clergymen and Dissenting ministers were pre-
sent, and resolutions were passed, asking them to press
the subject on their congregations. Ladies and gentle
men's committees were formed. General! Staveley, com-
mander-in-chief of the South-Western District, and
Captain Blake, of the Loudon Society, were present, and
a vigorous organization is set on foot.

IRISH YOUTHS ASSAULTING A PRUSSIAN
London, England, 1870-08-25

SEIZURE OF ARMS.

An important seizure of arms has just taken place in
Sligo. A gentleman named Livyd, who was proceeding
from that town to Dublin, had in his possession two
rifles and a box of ammunition, which were retained by
the police. The gentleman alleges he is a magistrate of
Limerick.

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE'S BANKRUPTCY.—The
case of the Duke of Newcastle was before the Bankruptcy
Court again yesterday, and, after some discussion, it was
adjourned until the 24th of October.
London, England, 1870-08-25

THE LATE SIR F. POLLOCK.

It is said that every French soldier carries a
Marshal's baton in his pocket, and many examples
are pointed out of privates having attained high
rank. The career of Sir Frederick Pollock, whose
death has just been announced at the ripe age of
eighty-seven, is a remarkable illustration of the free
passage open to aspirants to honours in the legal pro-
fession. The father of the deceased baronet was Mr.
David Pollock, who was believed to be of Scotch
London, England, 1870-08-25

SAILOR.

Three Irish youths were yesterday charged before the
Mayor and Magistrates of Newport (Monmouthshire)
with assaulting a Prussian sailor named Henrich Welt,
by flinging stones at him. So severe were the injuries
that it is expected Welt will lose the sight of his right
eye. It was stated that large numbers congregated round
Newport Docks, and it was perilous for a Prussianto
shew himself. The Mayor said it was hard and strange
that foreigners could not pass unmolested, and sentenced
the prisoners to pay a fine of 405., or two months' hard
labour.
London, England, 1870-08-25

CITY of LONDON HOSPITAL for DISEASES
of tht CHEST, Victoria Park.
Special APPEAL for the NEW WING.
Amount still required, £4,000.
Number of beds now occupied, 120.
Number t,f beds available with proposed addition, 164.
The Hospital is entirely dependent on voluntary support.
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QUEEN'S—At Seven,- bly Wife's Dentist.
VAUDEVILLE —Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos,

'Twist Axe and Crown,

CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every'fight, at 8; Red•
neslays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily r except Sun-
days). Admission, Is. on Mondays, 6d. Children under
twelve, 6d.

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30 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra
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London, England, 1870-08-25

For fares, &c., see hand-bills.

EXCURSION TO BATH AND BRISTOL.
On Saturday, August 27, a cheap Excursion Train will leave
Paddington at 3.25 and Reading at 4.35 p.m. for Chippenham
(fares there and back—lst class, 155., eovered carriages, 7s. 6d.) ;
Bath (17s. and Bs. 6d.) ; Bristol (20s. and 10s.) ; returning on
Wednesday, August 31.

EXCURSION TO READING, OXFORD, &C.
On Sunday, August 28th, an Excursion Train will leave Pad-
dington at 8.40 a.m. for Taplow (Fares there and back, Ist class,
58.; covered carriages, 2s. 6d) ; Twyford, Henley, and Reading
(6s. and 35.) ; Pangborne and Goring (7s. and 3s. 6d.);
Moulsford and Didcot, (Bs. and 45.) ; Abingdon and Oxford
(10s. and 55.); returning thesame day.
For further particulars see handbills.
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Paddington, August, 1870.
London, England, 1870-08-25

CULTURE BY STEAM POWER.

Mr. William Smith, of Woolston, writes to the
Times to oompere his position, as the advocate of
steam power culture, with Mr. Sanderson's report
on "The Harvest and the Crops." Mr. Sanderson
considers the wheat area this year to be under
average, and, consequently, the total produce of
wheat will fall short of an average. Mr. Smith has
now harvested the best crop of wheat that has ever
grown upon some fields under steam culture ; and
while Mr. Sanderson estimates the average acreage
to be thirty bushels, he thinks his produce will.he
over forty bushels per acre. The aver-
age produce on these fields under horse-culture was
twenty bushels per acre on an average of years.
Mr. Sanderson estimates barley 20 per cent. below
average. Mr. Smith has just harvested the fourth
white crop in succession, and the last is the best of
the lot. He takes it that the land, in character, is
very much like the land in Rutlandshire that Mr.
Sanderson says will not yield two quarters per acre.
Beans are grown on newly-purchased land which has
had only one operation of steam power, they will give
a produce of thirty bushels per acre. Mr. Sanderson
says," Of all farm crops, beans are by far the worst."
Mr. Smith arrives at the conclusion that his position,
for his fifteenth crop under steam culture, compares
well against horse culture, especially so the corn
crop; and when it is understood that he leaves no
(allows on heavy clay land, the evidence is conclu-
sive on the side of steam culture.
London, England, 1870-08-25

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THE BATTLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH.
REZONVILLE.

The correspondent of the Daily News had the rare for-
tune to be an eye witness of the great battle fought at
Rezonville near Metz, last Thursday. In a letter dated
the next day, he describes it thus :—From the particular
hill to which I had been directed to come by good au-
thority it was occupied by the Royal Headquarters—
the entire sweep of the Prussian and French centres could
be seen, and a considerable part of their wings. The
spot where I stood was fearful—it was amid ghastly
corpses, and burdened with the stench of dead
horses, of which there were a great many. I was standing
on the battle field of the 16th, on the Prussian side, On
the left, stretched like a silver thread the road to Verdun,
to Paris also, for the possession of which this series of
battles had begun. It was between lines of poplars which
stood against the horizon on my left, and on
as far as the eye could reach towards Metz,
with military regularity. Strung on this road like
beads were the pretty villages, each with its church
tower, which, although they have separate names,
are really only a few hundred yards apart—Mars-la-
Tour, Flavigny (a little south of the road), Vionville,
Rezonville, Malmaison, Gravelotte. On my right were
the thickly-wooded hills, behind which is the most im-
portant village of the neighbourhood, the one I had just
left—Gorze. Such was the foreground of this battle,
which should, one would say, be called the battle of
Gravelotte, for it was mainly over and beyor d that de-
voted little town that it raged. The area I have indicated
is about four miles square. Owing to having come on
foot rather than along the blocked road I was fortunate
enough to arrive just as the battle waxed warm —that is
about noon. The great representatives of Prussia were
standing on the same ground watching the conflict.
Among them the only ones I recognised were the King,
Count Bismarck, General von Moltke, Prince Carl,Prince
Friedrich Carl, Prince Adalbert, and Adjutant Kranski.
Lieut.-General Sheridan, of the United States, was also
present. At this moment the French were making a mos
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LAST FRIDAY AT BERLIN.

The enthusiasm in Berlin on Friday when the
news arrived that a victory under the personal com-
mand of the King had been wrested fromßazaine after a
fight of nine hours is described as having been most
spirited and earliest. It had been bruited that im-
portant intelligence had come to the Queen, and
thousands hurried to the Royal Palace, to find the
reports well founded and propitious. Her Majesty,
addressing the people aloud from a balcony, gave
them the purport of the King's telegram, with
tears in her eyes. When she came
to the word "victory" a shout of joy, loud hurrahs,
mingled with the cry "God save the King," rang
through the air, and for some minutes the Queen Lad
to remain silent. Subsequently the crowds sang the
German hymn beneath the palace windows, and re-
mained there for hours under the falling rain, the
cheers for the King and Queen and the soldiers being
raised now and then every few minutes. At the
Royal Opera-house, in the evening, before the play
was begun, the King's telegram was read from the
stage, and the audience received the news over
again with renewed expressions of joy and gratitude.
By Saturday morning the glad appearance of the
German faces had extended to their homes, and
almost every house in the capital showed its flag or
other decoration. In the midst of the popular grati-
fication the wounded, who were arriving in trains,
and those whose relationship with the injured soldiers
was but too plainly established, were, be it oaid, to
the honour of the Berlinese, objects of especial care
and solicitude. Compassion and sympathy were
ready at all corners, and offers i f liberal aid were
tendered from the most dignified institutions in the
town. In proof of the latter assertion it may be
mentioned that the hospitals of Berlin are now su

plied with gas from the gasworks, and water from
the waterworks gratuitously.

THE RETURN OF THE FRENCH DRAGOONS.

The return of the shattered remnants of the French
troops who fought at WeisseL'burg to Paris pre-
sented a melancholy spectacle. The men, who had
fought bravely, were unwounded indeed, but they
bore, nevertheless, traces of the terrible struggle
through which they had passed. They were dusty,
weary, jaded, and depressed. Some of them were so
exhausted that they could:hardly sit upright
in their saddles, and all were hungry, tired,
' and downhearted at the loss of their companions.
A corporal of hussars was the only survivor of
his troop. Five lancers were the only remaining
men of their squadron, and all looked pale and
ghastly as they strayed through the streets of the
capital, presenting a very different picture from tine
gay, high-spirited regiments who dashed through
Paris on their way a Berlin! some three weeks
before. The people crowded round them to gather
what details they could, and all agreed that, had it
not been for " trahison," the Prussians would have
been routed. The scene has not been inaptly compared
to the old German legendary ballads, in which the
ghosts of dead legions arise from the ancient battle-
fields to holds spectral reviews or ride ghostly
marches.
London, England, 1870-08-25

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AN AMAZONIAN CORPS.

We now learn from official documents that the intended
Amazon Corps, under the leadership of /Liss Minna
Hansel, of Berlin, was more than a joke. That spirited
lady had actually already gathered fifty-three
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