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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-23

RAILWAY DESPOTISM.

Two cases have recently been brought forward, one
in the Court of Chancery, and the other in the Guild-
-- hall, which exhibit our despots of the iron highway in
an unfavourable light. In both cases the judicial
authorities, though occupying the very diffe.
rent positions of Lord Chancellor and City
alderman, agreed in denouncing the arbitrary
conduct of the companies. In the first case the
right to a small piece of meadow land was the matter
in dispute. The Great Western and Brentford
Railway Company wanted, in 1856, to run its line
through a ten-acre meadow, part of which be-
longed to a Miss Fawell. The company had
secured the rest of the land, but Miss Fawell, owing to
certain legal difficulties, declined to sell her title.
The company, therefore, dispensed with her per-
mission, and went on constructing their railway
without buying the disputed acre and four perches
of land. The remonstrances of the owner pro-
duced no effect, and so matters went on until the
lady's death. Her successor, Mr. Stretton, was less
complaisant, and brought an action of ejection against
the company as trespassers. Vice-Chancellor Malins
declared the action was inequitable, but the Lord
Chancellor and Lord Justice James commented
with great severity upon the conduct of the com-
pany, whom they condemned in all the costs of the

litigation, deciding that they must pay for the
ground according to the improved value,
as well as making compensation for the
past use of it. In the other case the Great Eastern
Railway Company having bought the freehold of the
complainant's premises, proceeded deliberately to
block up one of his windows, and on his re-
monstrating with their workman, the man pushed his
ladder through the window in question, wounding
the plaintiff. As this happened to be a little beyond
the law, the man, or rather his employers, was
heavily fined and severely reprimanded.

FINE ARTS AND THE LABOURING CLASSES.

Mr. Potter makes a very wise and kindly sugges-
tion for the benefit of the labouring classes.
nere is, he says, in London an Annual
Art Exhibition which is only opened by
a silver key, and from which the artisans
of the metropolis are consequently excluded. The
Royal Academy makes a small annual fortune of its

shilling admission fee and the sale of its catalogue,
and therefore could well afford, in the opinion
of Mr. Potter, to give a few evenings' gratuitous
exhibition of its beautiful collection to the working
classes of the country after working hours. Any
expense attending the scheme would, he feels
sure, be willingly borne by those interested
in the refinement and elevation of the
masses, who could hardly fail to be benefitted
by the influence of such a spectacle. Tickets might
be issued for the first night or two to prevent over-
crowding, but it is not the sort of • exhibition which
would attract Gotlis and Vandals, and therefore
there would be little risk in a totally unrestricted
admission, proper order being, of course, main-
tained.
London, England, 1870-07-23

REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

EXCURSION TO SOUTH WALES AND SOUTH OF IRELAND.
On Friday, July 20th, an Excursion Train will leave Padding-
ton at 7.40 a.m., and Reading at 8.50 a.m., for Cirencester,
Stroud, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Sydney, Chepstow, Newport,
Cardiff, Bridgend, Port Talbot, Neath, Landore, Swansea,
Llanely, Fenyside, Carmarthen Junction, at. Clears, Whitland,
Narbeth Road, Haverfordwest, Johnston, Milford, New Winford,
Tenby via Whitland, Waterford, Kilkenny, Maryborough,
Clonmel, Tipperary, Cahin, and Limerick.
A Special Traiu will leave Whitland for Tenby on arrival of
the Excursion
Passengers to stations on South Wales line return on Friday,
August sth.
Passengers to Ireland can return by the 8.35 a.m. train from
New Milford, any day up to August 12th inclusive.

EXCURSION TO BATH AND BRISTOL.
On Saturday, July.3o, an Excursion Train will leave Padding-
ton at 3.25 and Reading at 4.35 p.m. for Bath and Bristol, and
will return on Tuesday, August 2.
London, England, 1870-07-23

TRE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1870.

in Prussian territory somewhere between Metz and
Mannheim." Now, as Metz is in France, and
Mannheim in Baden, a distance of about a hundred
miles separating the two places, there is a wide
margin left to the readers of the "largest newspaper
in the world." The weather has evidently been too
much for the Standard, and its study of geography
had better be postponed until a more favourable
period. It may be as well to inform our contempo-
rary, however, that Forbach, where the skirmish took
place, is on the French frontier.

PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE BATTLE FIELD.

If the Abyssinian Expedition did not, as a cam-
paign, reflect undying fame upon England and
Englishmen, it served to demonstrate clearly the vast
advances which skill in engineering and other pro-
fessional pursuits has made in late years, as well as
to introduce new fields for the operations of science,
never before approached. One of the most valuable
scientific experiments which was practised
on the march to Magdala, and which was
found to lead to many important advantages,
was the application of photography to mili-
tary purposes. In registering patterns, in record-
ing experimental results, and in imparting military
instruction, the system was proved to be most effec-
tive. One fact bore striking evidence in support of
this view. Several thousands of pack-saddles were
required before the army of supply could set out from
Annesley Bay. These complicated receptacles for
war materiel were sent direct from England, and
the troops coming from Bombay were consequently
quite ignorant of their construction or of the method
in which they were to have been packed. Ignorance
on these points in the hurry of affairs would
have led to most disastrous results. There were
intelligent men at Woolwich, however, who thought
of the idea of photographing a mule harnessed and
packed, and of also photographing the position in
which the pack-saddles were, at different stages of
the furnishing process. Copies of the photographs
were sent with the supplies to Annesley Bay, and
everything was accomplished with the greatest pos-
sible expedition. The plan of pourtraying the dif-
ferent positions of the soldier when undergoing in-
struction in difficult igunnery practice, of exhibiting
the effect of shots on iron plates of certain
thickness, of recording the manner in which troops in
a body surmounted such a steep declivity, or obtained
passage over such a river or pass, were also found to
be things worthy of the aid of the camera, and which
by being photographed would lead to incalculable
benefits afterwards. Since 1868 establishments have
been formed at Woolwich, Chatham, and SouthaMpton
for the instruction of the troops in photography, and
for the fuller development of the system first
adopted in the Abyssinian campaign, and there is no
doubt whatever that the War Department of Photo-
graphy in any future war England may be em-
broiled in, will be one of the most important of the
army sections.
London, England, 1870-07-23

had gone to London by the six train. He said, " Yes ;
by the half-past five."
'Charlotte Bollam—l keep a lodging-house at Uxbridge,
and before May last I had known the prisoner. I re-
member his coming for lodgings on the 21st of May. On
the Saturday night, when I was looking round for money,
he said, " You won't have any of me to-night, mother,
because lam goinc, to my brother's." I said it was very
strange to take lodgings and then not to stay. He went
away. I saw him again at a quarter-past nine on the
Sunday morning. He came to the door and said, " Good
morning." He was dressed in dark striped trousers, black
coat, light waistcoat, and had a clean shirt on. He was
,respectably dressed. He had a carpet bag with him.
I looked surprised at him. He said, " What was I
looking at ?" I said, " Well I may look at you with sur-
prise, seeing you with a new suit on." He said, " I told
you I was going to see .my brother, and he gave
them to me." He was wearing a straw, hat. That
was in my house till the Tuesday morning when
he was going away just before seven. As he was going,
I said " Here is your straw hat." He said, " Oh, burn the
old thing." I said you had better let me have it
to put on when I hang out the clothes. He said, " Oh,
burn the old thing," and lie put it on the fire.
He gave me the carpet bag, and I put it in the place
where we put the travellers' things. That was on the
' Sunday. I heard of the murder 'on the Monday night.
I told the prisoner that a man had killed himself, his
wife, and all the children. I said, " What a shocking
thing !" He went out on Sunday night with the carpet
bag. When he came back on Monday he had not the
carpet bag.
Miss Lyons stated that she gave up to the superinten-
dent the coat which she bought of the prisoner.
Harriet Wilks, a very old and curious-looking woman,
said she cleaned up the traveller's room (tramps' kit-
chen), at the Oxford Arms. She remembered finding
in the cupboard a key with a patch of white paint
upon it.
Other confirmatory evidence was given, and Mr.
O'Malley addressed the jury for the prosecution.
Mr. Abdy, for the prisoner, argued that there was no
evidence that the prisoner was near the place of the mur-
der, and denied that the witeesses had fully identified
him.
London, England, 1870-07-23

THE EMPEROR'S DEPARTURE.

It was believed that the Emperor would leave last even.
jug for the army. His head-quarters are fixed at Nancy.
Gen. Lebceuf left od Thursday.

OPERATIONS OF THE FRENCH ARMY.

General Lad:nirault, the commander of the Fourth
Army Corps, has arrived at Metz. Accord-

mg to letters from the frontier, operations will
not perhaps commence immediately upon the Emperor's
arrival, but will be undertaken in conjunction with the
Movements of the corps to be disembarked on the enemy's
territory under General Montauban. Admiral Mautac
has been appointed to survey thenorthern coasts. His
head-quarters are to be at Dunkirk.
London, England, 1870-07-23

IIIE EUROPEAN WAR. - TELEGRAPHIC
NEWS.
All important events telegraphed DAILY, from 8 a.m. to
6 p.m., to Newspapers, Clubs, Exchanges, and Reading Rooms,
for THIRTY-NINE SHILLINGS per QUARTER prepaid. Two or
more telegrams sent every day.
Commercial News and Markets on moderate terms.
CENTRAL PRESS, 112, Strand, W.C., and 2, Telegraph-St., E.C.

OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden.—L'Etolle du Nord. 8.3
p.m.
ITALIAN OPERA, Drury Lane.—The Flying Dutchman. 8.30.
ADELPIII—At Seven, The Robust Invalid. Free Labour.
PRINCE OF WALES'S—A 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearesi
Mamma.

QUEEN'S—At Seven, &Ey Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown.
VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos.
ST. J.LnEs's—At 7.31, An Unhappy Pair. Paul Pry. The Bonny
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WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BIC K. Egyptian Hall, Pic
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CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed-
nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.
ZO LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily (except Sun-
days). Admission, ls. ; on Mondays, 6d. Children under
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MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till
3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, la; extra
6d.
London, England, 1870-07-23

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament. e
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For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantef Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chief Office-17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
Annual Income, £300,000.
Capital, subscribed by more than 1,600 Shareholders, nearly
£BOO,OOO.
DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—GeneraI Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H.,
The Rev. A. Alston, D.D. 11. M. Carter, Esq.., M.P.
E. Hamilton Anson, Esq. Edmund Heeley, Esq.
A. R. Bristow, Esq. I Reginald Read, Esq.
This Society are now ISSUING COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES.
The peculiar features of these Policies are as follow :-
1. The Payments Cease after Ten or Twenty Years.
2. The Policy is not forfeited by the non-payment of renewal
premium during the ten or twenty years.
3. The Assurer is entitled for each yearly payment he has
made to a paid-up Policy for one-tenth or one-twentieth of the
sum Assured.

HENRY 13. PARMINTER, Manager.
London, England, 1870-07-23

CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS.

The gallant conduct of the Canadian Volunteers
during the recent Fenian raid calls for some recog-
nition, and it is satisfactory to find that the sugges-

tion of the Lord Mayor that the citizens of London
should present the Rifle Volunteers of Canada with
a challenge cup has been adopted. A. committee has
been formed to put this plan into effect. The Duke
of Cambridge is president, and the Lord Mayor
chairman and treasurer. The Canadians are
gratified at the announcement of the
scheme, and it is to be hoped that the
exciting events now passing around us will not 'divert
attention from this affair. Under the special circum-
stances of the case it is important that the Canadians
should not feel themselves slighted or neglected.
The Lord Mayor's proposal affords an opportunity
for the recognition of Canadian loyalty, which it
would be well not to disregard. The recognition of

the services of the Canadian volunteers is to include
the defence of the Canadian frontier in 1866. Should

there be any surplus funds at the disposal of the
Committee, it is proposed that they shall be invested
in securities of the Dominion, to be applied to volun-
teer purposes in Canada.
London, England, 1870-07-23

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BIRTHS.

On the 20th inst., at 42, Tregunter-road, West Brompton,
the Hon. Mrs. Francis Byng, of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., at 51, Palace-gardens-terrace, the wife
of Arthur Wood, Esq., of a son.

MARRIAGES.
On the 20th inst., at Witham Essex, Harry Barnard,
third son of the late William Block, of Peasenhall, Suf-
folk, to Louisa, youngest daughter of the late Alfred
Dunsdon, of Witham.
On the 20th inst., at Edinburgh, George Ramsay, Esq.,
Manager of the Scottish Union Insuiance Company, to
Beatrice Ambrosia youngest daughter of the late Sir
Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart., of Grange, and Fountain
Hall.

DEATHS
On the 18th inst., at Dover, Lumsden Mackeson, Esq.,
aged 54.
On the 20th inst., at Dundee, John Wedderburn, Esq., of
Pearsie, Forfarshire, aged 84.

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London, England, 1870-07-23

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1806.

Napoleon the Great in 1806 established his head-
quarters at Bamberg, in Bavaria, and united his army on
the Regnitz. The King of Prussia thought that by
marching on the Mein he would be able to interrupt the
Emperor's line of operations on Mayence and stop his
movements, and he accordingly sent forward the divisions
of Blucher and the Duke of Weimar. The line of opera-
tions of the French army, however, was no longer through
Mayence, but extended from the fortress of Kronach, situ-
ated at the entrance to the mountains of Saxony, to Forcheim,
a strong place on the Regnitz, and from thence to Strasburg.
Having nothing to fear from the offensive march of the
Prussians, Napoleon proceeded in three columns—the
Left by Coburg, under the Dukes of Montebello and
Castiglione, this force consisting of the fifth and seventh
corps d'armee ; the Centre, where the Emperor himself
was as Commander-in-Chief, proceeded by Kronach and
Zettliz, this force being composed of the first and third
corps d'arm6e, under the Prince of Eckmiihl and Marshal
Bernadotte, being accompanied also by the Imperial Guard
and the cavalry reserves ; the Third, advancing through
the district of Bayreuth, marched by Hoff, and was com-
posed of the 4th and 6th corps d'arm6e, under the Prince
of Moskowa and the Duke of Dalmatia. The Prussian
army between Weimar and Neuchatel, already in motion
towards the Mein to support its advanced guard, was
stopped! Cut off from the Elbe and Berlin, all its maga-
zines taken, it only became fully sensible of its danger
when its situation was already desperate. Thereupon,
although so near Magdeburg, and in the very heart of

its own country, and only two days march from the Elbe,
it was completely beaten, cut off, and unable to effect a
retreat. Not a man of that old army of Frederick escaped
except the King and a few squadrons of cavalry, who
succeeded with difficulty in reaching the right bank of the
Oder. The trophies of that day were the capture of more
than 100,000 men, with hundreds of gans, and stands of
colours. This was the great victory of Jena, fought in
1806, on the 14th of October. Meanwhile, upon that very
same day, the Prussians were being defeated in another
direction by the French, under Marshal Davoust, on the
battle field of Auerstadt. During the night
which followed those two disastrous defeats the
remnants of the Prussian forces retreated in great
disorder— meeting at last in' this flight, which
they continued in more and more chaotic con-
fusion. The King, in the midst of this appalling rout,
narrowly escaped being taken prisoner. The Prussian
monarch, on that astounding day, was prostrated in the
London, England, 1870-07-23

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HELP TO THE WOUNDED.

The declaration of war has excited the interest of
those who strive to mitigate its inevitable sufferings,
and both in England and Germany efforts are being
made to organise schemes for the succour of the
wounded. A Berlin Ladies Committee under the
patronage of the Crown Princess, has made an
address to the German ladies to declare that while
their armies are in the field it is their duty to
prepare for healing the wounds and relieving the
sorrows attending on war. They request the co-
operation of the German ladies to carry out these
desirable ends. Committees on behalf of the
wounded have also been formed in Hamburg,
Cologne, and other cities. Colonel Loyd Lindsay
writes to the limes to say that there is ready orga-
nised a " Society for aiding in ameliorating the con-
dition of the sick and wounded of armies in time of
war," and that he has placed a sum of £l,OOO at its
disposal, feeling certain that its services
will be required in the ensuing contest. In
the meantime he considers we should form a corn-
mittee over which the Minister of War should
preside, and place ourselves in communication with
the other committees already formed over Europe,
in order that what we do may be done fairly and
impartially between the belligerents.

IT IS 4N ILL WIND WHICH BLOWS NOBODY GOOD."

War, which pauperises millionaires, and makes

nations bankrupt; occasionally is a profitable friend,
and so Mr. Scudamore has proved. His return of
the number of postal telegrams sent through the
United Kingdom durimr the last few weeks exhibits
a marvellous increase in the messages sent during
the first week of the war. In the seven days ending
on the 9th of July the number was 192,048; in the
subsequent week it was 214,419, au increase
of 22,371 on the week, and 29,899 on the fortnight!

It is of course evident that the sudden and unlooked-for
outbreak of a European war would call for an imme-
diate increase in the number of messages, conveying
orders, summonses of recall to travellers, and other
directions that could mot wait for the tardier post
office, but which would only refer to the opening of

the campaign. Moreover, the eemand for news
in time of war always greatly increases.
Commercial men will need to be con-
stantly informed of the fluctuations of the
day and hour ; private families will anxiously
demand intelligence of the movements of the rival
forces ; men of every degree will naturally want to
know the " latest news "of the war. They will all
have good reason to rejoice that the long talked of
transfer should have been fairly accomplished, and
the new system got into thorough working order,
ready to play its not insignificant part in the mo-
mentous European drama just opening.
London, England, 1870-07-23

THE MUSICAL ART UNlON.—Under the
sanction and Control of her Majesty's Privy Council.
The PRIZES at the approaching Distribution will consist of
valuable PIANOFORTES and other Musical Instruments,
BOOKS, &c. Tickets, One Shilling each, and prospectuses can
be had of any of the Agents, or direct from the Offices, 22,
Buckingham-street, Strand. W.C., on sending stamps or Post
Office Order to the amount.

N. 8.- Liberal Terms to Agents.
London, England, 1870-07-23

FRENCH MEROHANDISE IN GERMAN PORTS.

An official notification of considerable importance
to merchants has been transmitted to our Govern-
ment by the English Ambassador at Berlin. It is
addressed by the Minister of Commerce to the
Presidents-in-Chief atKonigsberg, Stettin, Hanover,
and Kiel, and announces that in case of the outbreak
of war with France, French merchant vessels,
whirli may be in German ports, or may
enter such ports without knowing of the
war, shall be allowed to remain in the ports where
they may be, till the expiration of six weeks from the
outbreak of hostilities. They are also to be allowed to
take in their cargoes or to unload them within
the given time, and the authorities of the pro-
vince are to receive immediate instructigns to this
effect.
London, England, 1870-07-23

HACKNEY CARRIAGE DUTY.

Mr. SALT asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whether it was necessary, under the present law, that a
coachmaker, Who lent (as a matter of courtesy, not of
profit), a carriage to a customer for a few days, during the
repairs of another carriage (upon which duty has been
paid), should take out a fresh licence for the carriage so
lent.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that the
rule was that a license must be taken out for a carriage
used by the person who kept it. The coachmaker kept
the carriage and used it by lending it to another person.
London, England, 1870-07-23

THE WAR IN EUROPE.

The general deduction from the apercu of facts in
Europe is plainly that should all Germanygo with Prussia,
and the other powers stand aloof, France, even if aidedby
Austria, would have" to make up by discipline, enthusiasm,
and gallantry for a heavy discrepancy of numbers.
Should she, however, rival in these days the, wild energy
of the revolutionary directory, which hurled fourteen
armies against the invading strangers and then hunted
them back to their own capitals, she might still
reap fresh triumphs. Her terrible Chassepots and
rifled revolving steel cannon are quite equal if not
superior to anything that Prussia has, and she possesses
shallow iron-clad gunboats for river service that might
scour the navigable Rhine and its tributaries. Again, on
the other hand, should Russia, Italy, and Scandinavia,
too be forced against her, then, indeed, the odds would be
alarming. Such, then, are the military aspects of the case,
so far as mere numerical array is concerned without con-
sidering the revolUtionary effervescence now rife all over
Western Europe, the great trades union movement,
the general drought in France and Spain, and the
peculiar condition of finances. Each of these elements
must be carefully and separately weighed, but in the
meanwhile the spectacle at this moment presented to the
world is another convincing proof of the folly, wicked-
ness, and continual danger of maintaining enormous stand-
ing armies in the very centre of Christendom.—New
'York Herald.
London, England, 1870-07-23

THIS HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE PRESS,

Mr. Henley's manoeuvre, in again excluding the
representatives of the press from the Lower House
on Thursday evening, was only undertaken with a
view of bringing the question to a crisis, and of draw-
ing forth a promise from the Premier that a removal
of the objectionable privilege of members in the
matter shall be considered at an early date. At the
present moment the people outside the walls of St.
Stephen's are perhaps more interested in what is
taking place at the Rhine than in what is taking
place when Mr. Craufurd and other despots of pru-
dery are in their seats in the House of Commons.
Nevertheless there is a section who feel that
matters have been conducted in a barbarous fashion
at the Houses of Parliament recently. When news-
paper men are excluded before the opening of debates
on the commonest subjects, and when Mr. Cardwell
replies to questions on important matters " in a tone
so inaudible as not to be heard by the reporters,"
this sectionof anindignantand discerning public can-
not but regret that affairs undertaken for a country's
weal are not allowed to be discussed with all the
openness and honesty, and with all that reliance upon
outside wisdom and discrimination which was for-
merly shewn.
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LOOKING UP GEOGRAPHY.

One effect of the war between France and Prussia
will be to cause a general rubbing up of whatever
geographical knowledge one may possess. Old
atlases will be furbished up, and there will be a great
run on the map sellers. As yet, however, there are
symptoms of crudeness in the effortsmade to enlighten
the British subject, and some of the London papers
are at loggerheads as to the position of For.
bath, where a skirmish has taken place
between some Prussians and Frenchmen.
The telegram was published in the Times,
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Exception was taken to this by the Standard, who
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London, England, 1870-07-23

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WHO PAYS FOR WAR.

The Telegraph avers it is the working class that has
to pay, with blood, with tears, with suffering, and house-
hold agonies which find no separate record though, their
mass is terrible, for the sin and the insanity of international
war. Most obviously must this be the case on the
Prussian side in the impending contest ; for there
the carrying of arms is not a special profession.
All Fatherland obeys a law which makes her sons soldiers
of the first, the second, or the third line of defence ; and
when the mandate summons them it turns the entire
land into a barrack, and puts an absolute end to the arts
of peace, in favour of the arts of war. Happy is the
poor family which, at a distance from the cruel scene
has as yet no worse tribute to pay than
a pinched meal and the sight of hungry little
faces at the breakfast table. In Germany or in
France the trumpet of war fills all the land with the
misery of farewells, sad, but stern and resolute ; the
fathers, the boys, the brothers, lovers, and husbands are
called away, many to be mangled by the needle-gun or the
Chassep3t, many to die miserably ; the survivors even all
to return poorer by the cost and damage of the conflict.
War has been often described ; but who has described
the face of a busy land suddenly smitten by this
King's evil of " glory " and the " balance of power "
the workshops silent, the tools rusting, and
fields unploughed, the homes unguarded, the lonely wives,
the weeping, frightened children, the stinted meals, and'
the dreadful expectation of battle news which is all the
talk by day, all the dream by night? This is whn+
lies in the rear of war—more mournful, more pitifi..
almost than the frightful storm of death raging in its
van.
London, England, 1870-07-23

CHARLES DICKENS'S WILL.

The Daily News considers that the will of Charles
Dickens gives a conclusive refutation to the current
notions of the inherent recklessness and extravagance
of genius, not only in reference to the large amount
earned in a comparatively short life, by the pen of
the unfriended newspaper reporter, but to the tastes
and habits of the testator. Charles Dickens had
simple and natural tastes, and the ambition of a great
town house, a retinue of servants, was
a fashionable circle of acquaintances and
never his. He was too wise t( sacrifice the real
enjoyments of life to its costly pleasures, which he

might, if he willed, have had in excess. Mr. Bright
once said that he never pronounced on any man's
character until he had seen his will, and the will of
Charles Dickens is strongly marked by its dislike of
pomp and ostentation. Such a quality is only too
rare in this age, among successful men of any rank,
and it is therefore a matter of general congratulation
when a man who has filled so prominent a place in
the public interest should leave behind him so un-
usual and commendable an example.
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THE PARIS PRESS.

The Constitutionnel declares that, to the honour of the
country, it must be recorded that the vote of the Bth of
May was carried out with the most perfect order. After
some weeks of eager discussion, 8,500,000 electors recorded
their votes without causing any disturbance to the gene-
ral tranquillity. This is a great fact, which shews the
immense progress that has been made during the last
eighteen years in our political conduct. Strengthened
and renewed by the recent transformations, the Empire
may look forwar d to long years of security, during
which the liberty and prosperity of France cannot fail to
be largely increased. The small minority which the united
coalitions of legitimists, Orleanists, Republicans, and
Socialists have exhibited shows the weakness of the Irre-
concilable enemies of the Empire and imparts a force to
the Constitution of 1870 which that of 1852 had long lost.
The Plebiscite of the eighth of May strengthens the
Government and consolidates the recent Parliamentary
liberties. It is at once a pledge of security and confi-
dence for the country.
The Liberte says that the result of the Plebiscite has
surpassed all their expectations, and that the Irrecon-
cilable journals may turn and return the figures, but they
cannot deny their signification. The Reveil observed that
unless Napoleon obtained a decisive majority he would
only have gained a victory like that of Pyrrhus.
The Liberte retorts that the Irreconcilable party have
themselves gained a victory of Pyrrhus at Paris. If they
get another like it their rout will be a complete one.
Every one was surprised at the great order which prevailed
among the Parisian population while the votes were
recorded. There were no disturbances, and M. Pietri
would not furnish the lovers of reaction with the oppor-
tunity they sought for. As M. Delescluze observed, there
was the calm of force. The Liberal Empire has been
established without commotion.

The Siecle thinks that the Government ought to be
ashamed of their precautions and preparations, which
were made without the slightest cause, for there was
nothing in the attitude of the people to justify them.
Paris has crowned by its vote on the Bth of May its long
series of protestations which began in 1857, and has
morally proclaimed the free government of the future.
The large provincial towns have rivalled the democratic
firmness of the capital.
The Journal des Debats believes that the result of the
Plebiscite leaves the Empire strong enough to resist the
revolutionists so long as it maintains a liberal policy. If
ill-advised judges were to restore personal power, the con-
sequences might be serious. The appeal to the people
has so far succeeded, because it was made in the name of
progress and liberty, but the day when it shall be made in
the name of reaction and despotism, it will meet with a
total failure. It would be imprudent to risk another
crisis of this character, and it must be long before we
have another Plebiscite.
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PARLIAMENTARY ABSENTEES.

Our English emistituenoies sometimes complain of
the negligence of their parliamentary representatives,
but the malcontents seldom get further than words.
At Washington, however, this offence is
serious, and a week or two since thirty-five members
of the House of Representatives, who failed to answer
when called upon, were arrested by order of the
House, and brought to the bar for ex-
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not wanting, and illness, business, pleasure, and
manifold other arguments were brought forward.
There was some little acrimony in the discussion,
which was not surprising, as the House had settled
that the absentees were to be fined $lO each, but the
judges were not very rigorous. However, before the
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in future move daily for a call of the House, so as to
ascertain exactly what members were present.
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