The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-14 00:00:00

LONDON SCHOOL BOARD.

MARYLEBONE

To THE RATEPAYERS OF TTIE DIVISION

•
ELECTORS,
At the request of Inhabitant Ratepayers of each of
the four Parishes, 1 submit myself as a Candidate for a seat at
the London School Board.
I desire that every child in England be educated, and that the
education be as complete as may be consistent. ith the age at
which he must enter upon the business of life.
I cannot deem any education complete which does not include
religious subjects, 1 desire that the Bible be not only read but
taught : and am convinced that the Education Act may be
loyally and honestly carried out without any violation of the
rights of conscience.
I can devote to your service abundant leisure ; and if, in the
course of events, I return to parliamentary life, I trust that your
interestaxill not suffer from the opportunity thus afforded of
defending the Education Act against unwise attack, while advo-
cating, every reform which experience may hereafter recom-
mend.

I am, your obedient Servant,
FRANCIS SHARP POWELL
1, Cambrictge-square, Hyde Park,
7th November, 1870.

rDHE CONSERVATIVE BENEFIT BUILDING
SOCIETY, co-operating with the UNITED LAND
COMPANY (Limited). Offices : 33, Norfolk-street, Strand,
London, W.C.— INVESTMENTS for capital and savings for all
classes of the community. Five per cent. interest per annum
paid on shares, and four percent. per annum on deposit depart-
ment, with power of withdrawal at fixed periods.
The United Land Company (Limited), co-operating with the
Conservative Benefit Society. Plots of Freehold Land on sale in
thirty counties. The cost of the land payable in monthly or
other easy instalments, with or without building advances.
CHARLES LEWIS GRUN EISEN, Secretary. .
Prospectuses explanatory of investment, land, and building
departments free of charge,

HEATHEJTS T T RUS.—Under the Management
of the CLOTHWORKERS' COMPANY.

At a Court to be holden on the 7th December next this Com-
pany will DISTRIBUTE to Six Poor Widows of Decayed
Housekeepers the AMOUNT divisible under the above Trust
being about IS to each.
Printed Forms of Application may be obtained at the Com-
pany's Offices, Clothworkers' Hall, Mincing-lane, London.
The applicant must insert therein Particulars relative to her
condition and circumstances, and name References from whom
Information may be obtained for verifying the same.
The Application, with Certificate of her Marriage and a certi-
ficate or other proper proof of the death of her husband, must
be left at the Company's Hall previously to the 23rd November
instant, addressed to
Clothworkers' Hall, Nov., 1870

OWEN ROBERTS, Clerk.

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In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial.- Per-
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may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared
only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, King William-street,
Charing-eross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 1:44d., and
three quantities in one, 2s. Od. each. Be particular, and ask for
Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and addrt as are engraved
on the stamp.

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE STAGE.
The Earl of Desart is preparing a comedy for the
stage.
Miss Maitland will be the lessee of the Opera Comique
at the conclusion of the French campaign. The style of
entertainment is to be burlesque, farce, and comedy.
The candidates for the editorship of the Morning
Advertiser numbered eighty. The list has now been re-
duced to a leet of five, in which are included Mr. Horace
Mayhew, Mr. Walter Wood, of the Standard, Mr.
Cameron, war correspondent of the North British Daily
Mail, Mr. Barnett, and a sub-editor of one of the
Glasgow dailies. It is understood that the last men-
tioned gentleman has a very good chance of the ap-
pointment.
Mr. John Clarke is engaged at the Olymyic Theatre,
and will appear as Quilp in Mr. Andrew Halliday's drama
of "Nell, or the Old Curiosity Shop," on Saturday next,
the 19th inst.
The comedy of -the Two Roses," at the Vaudeville
Theatre, has nwo reached its 140th night of representa-
tion, and yet Londoners patronise it as much as they did
'fifteen weeks since. On Thursday Mr. Bur nand's new
historical burlesque, entitled " Elizabeth." will replace
"Don Carlos." A young actress of considerable personal
attrActions—Miss Hetty Tracey—will make her first ap-
pearanCe.
The Athencewn says :—Mr. F. H. Cowen's new cantata,
" The Rose Maiden, ' will be produced in the course of
this month at the St. James's Hall.—The Princess Louise,
with the express consent of her Majesty the Queen, has
accepted the dedication of Mr. Robert Buchanan's work
on the Highlands, and the book will appear immediately,
under the title of " Hebrides and the Land of L orne."—
Mr. Planche is writing a poem on the Siege of Calais by
Edward lII.—In addition to the Knight Commandership
of the order of Charles 111. of Spain conferred upon our
correspondent, Mi. F. W. Cosens, by the Regent Serrano,
the same gentlernan, by a. unanimous vote of the Royal
Spanish Academy of History, has been elected a corre-
sponding member of that learned body for the United
Kingdom.

There is a shop on one of the Paris boulevards wla re
cats and dogs are exposed for sale, adorned with wreaths.
The Mobiles buy a gocd many of them for dinner.
THE REviSEHs OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.—The
Revisers of the New Testament Company have just
finished their fourth session. We are assured that the
interest in the work is increasing with each meeting, and
the progress such that there is now every reason to believe
it will be completed within a reasonable time. There is,
however, a clear intention on the part of the Revisers to
do their work thoroughly, and to subject it when done
to a careful reconsideration. No attention therefore
ought to be paid to reports of what they may have been
understood to have been decided on. Nothing will be
really settled till the second and final revision. The
attendance of members is good, there having been twenty-
two members present on most of the days. The Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol presided. The Archbishop of
Canterbury paid a visit to the Company on Friday.
PERSONIFYING Mn. ROEBUCK. --- M. Cl6ment
Laurier, who came to London to conclude the ten million
loan on behalf of the Tours Government, met with an odd
adventure, which he describes in a letter to a French
paper. He narrowly escaped being swindled by some
person Tit ho offered to supply arms, and who pretended to
be Mr. Roebuck, " the member of Parliament," as M.
Laurier mistakenly calls him. M. Laurier says :" I
must inform you that a Frenchman in London, unknown
to us, came to us one day to request an inter-
view on the part of Mr. Roebuck, member of Parliament.
We knew Mr. Roebuck by name as a politician and
orator of great talent. To pay him greater attention,
Count Germiny and I went to the Westminster Palace
Hotels where he resided in sumptuous apartments. We were
received by the pretended Mr. Roebuck, and by a strange
baroness who served as his interpreter. It was no question
of a loan but of arms, to 'which we replied that we must
refer to the Government. But our opinion had already
been formed. On leaving they offered to take Treasury
bonds at three months on 6 per cent. interest, and 2 per
cent. commission. Not a word was said about a loan, and
we took leave, vowing that we would not be taken in
again. We learned afterwards that the Mr. Roebuck we
had seen was not the member of Parliament, but a man
of the same name who represented himself as such. After
that we declined to see him. Therefore I confess that I
was erroneously led to visit a false Mr. Roebuck, but at
the same time I declare that I never wished to have any •
thing to do with any Mr. Roebuck, true or false."
PEACE.—The representative of a German paper
has made a journey,into the Vosges district in order to
ascertain the feeling of the people in that region. He
says :—" The people are greatly rejoicing at the idea •of
an impending armistice ; in fact, the date of its com-
mencement and termination are distinctly stated,
and I should never forgive myself for being
absent from the triumphal entry into Paris. Indeed,
even to-day the angel of peace is spreading the rumour
of peace through the cold winter's air. The hoar
frost now lying upon fields and meadows speaks of peace
and quietude ; the sere and yellow leaf, chased by the
wind o'er path and road ; the flames which devour the
damp wood in the stove or bivouac fire—everything seems
to whisper of peace. Upon the graves of the beloved
dead the leaves of the flowers and the twigs of the shrubs
which had been planted as last tributes of affection by
the hands of their comrades are now withered and
gone. The snow will soon cover these graves
as with a winding-sheet, and hide the traces of the
footsteps of our victorious armies. The warrior 1
who up to the present time has only thought of
the glory and brilliant reputation of his proud flag and of
his fatherland feels himself occupied with sentimental ideas,
and fancies in his day dreams that he is once more seated
by. his own warm and cosy fireside, seeing in his mind's
eye his children on Christmas Eve around the Christmas
tree, and he seems to hear their little, childish voices
calling ' Father !' and regrets that such joy and pleasure
disappear before the stern reality. Everyone and every-
thing seems Wslesire peace, and now, in spite of all, they
eagerly demand it in Paris, the more so as the last bul-
wark has fallen upon which so many delusive hopes were
centred."