The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-15 00:00:00

TIIE VOLUNTEER FORCE.

A letter addressed by Lord Elcho to the chairman f
the metropolitan volunteer officers' meeting on Thursday
has been published. His lordship after expressing his
dissatisfaction with the proposal of Mr. Cardwell
on the subject of the increase of the capitation
grant, says :—" The question now is, what ought the
volunteers to do in the present Eurppean crisis ? To me
our course is plain. Make no further appeals to the War
Office for increased aid. Let that question be dealt with,
as I am confident it will be, liberally by the nation and
by Parliament when it reassembles ; but let us meantime
do our duty to our country. Let us strive by
all possible means to increase our efficiency and add
to our numbers by appealing to those who have left
us to return to our ranks, and by holding up to those who
have hitherto held aloof from us the examples of foreign
patriotic fervour and love of country of which every post
brings such marvellous examples. One thing, however
(his lordship adds), there is on which we should insist as
an immediate condition of continued service, and
that is that we shall at once be armed with breech-
loaders. We are told that there are upwards of 300,000 in
store. We say their proper place is in the hands of the
reserve force, and that every militiaman and efficient
volunteer should without an hour's delay be placed in
possession of a Snider rifle. Then, if a further supply is
required for store, let our muzzle loaders when returned
be forthwith converted."

Mr. Sothern is to appear this week at Brighton
in a new comedy, entitled "A 3d. bit."

Mr, Compton, released from the Haymarket, will
fill a character in Mr. Tom Taylor's new comedy to be
brought out at the Olympic on the 3rd September.

The death is announced of Joseph Strauss, the un-
fortunate chef d'orchestre, who was so brutally assaulted
by half intoxicated savages belonging to the Russian army
a short time since.

• It is generally expected that Lieutenant-General
the Hon. James Lindsay will return home from Canada
and resume his duties at the War Office at the close of the
year.

Colonel Layard, who accompanied his Highness
the Nawab Nazim of Bengal to this country, will return
India in October, to fill the office of Agent Governor-
General at Moorshedabad in place of Mr. Buckle.

The statement which has appeared in most of our
contemporaries, that Mr. John Stuart Mill is about to
publish a new and cheap edition of his " Logic," is incor-
rect.—South London Press.

Nothing has yet been settled as to the way in
which the regiments at home will be augmented, but the
Brood Arrow has reason to believe, however, that the
augmentation will not at present extend to cavalry.
Some fishing boats brought ashore at Glasgow
last week, from off Tyree, a large quantity of what ap-
peared to be the cabin fittings of a large vessel ; also a
lalder and a door, the frame of which was of the finest
mahogany.

Mr. Robert LandelLs, whose sketches of the
Crimean, Danish, and Austro-Prussian wars are familiar
to the readers of the Illustrated News, now represents that
journal at the Prussian head-quarters.

A party of about twelve men proceeded on Thurs-
day to the house of Captain Houston, near Westport,
county Mayo, and searched for arms. They found a gun,
which they took with them, They used violent threats.
This is the only agrarian outrage in Ireland reported for
three months.

11IE _BM Frt ESS OF THE PEENCE.—Letters ironl
Paris from persons about the Empress describe her Ma-
jesty as painfully changed and worn. She has scarcely
slept for two hours at a time, but is unremitting
in her attention to public affairs. Her attendants have
the strictest orders to wake her on the receipt of every
telegram.—Post.

THE ARTILLERY VOLD NTEERS. —The Artillery
Volunteers encamped at Shoeburyness commence their
annual competitions to-day. An interesting week mar
be expected, and the principal events will probably
attract large and distinguished companies of visitors.
THE WAR.—We understand that a pamphlet from
the pen of an eminent writer, and expressing more than his
individual opinions, will presently be published in England,
in which, in the event of the final victory of the Germans,
the ce3sion of Alsace by France to Prussia will be
advocated as the basis of a Treaty of Peace.—Daily
News.

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—WO aro
informed that the Royal Horticultural Society will hold
It great show of Gladioli, Hollyocks, &c., on Wednesday
text, August 17th, and prizes amounting to about £BO
will be comp .ted for—amongst the names of the exhibitors
who have signified their intention of competing are
Messrs. Kelway and Son (Somerset), Mr. W. Chater
(Essex), Messrs. Draycott and Sons (Leicester), Mr. W.
Micti in (Oxford), Rev. H. H. Dombrain (Kent.)
Rol Mint AT TIVICKENHAM.—On Saturday morn-
ing, at an early hour, a robbery was found to have been
committed at the station of the London and South-
Western Railway at Twickenham. The thieves succeeded
in carrying off the donation box for receiving subscrip-
tions for the Richmond Infirmary, with its contents. The
box was strongly affixed to some woodwork in the
booking office, and the mai, with some portion of the
back 01 the box, which was made of metal, were left be-
hind. It is not known what amount of m( ney was in the
box, but there is no doubt it consisted cl iefly of coppers.
So frequent have robberies been at Twickenham recently
that the train which leaves that station at 5.40 a.m. is
called the " Burglars Train."

ROBBERY ON A FATHER. —A young Spaniard, 20
years of age, named Antonio B. Agacio, was arrested on
Vriday, at Lytham, on a charge of robbing his own
father of a sum of £2,300. He absconded in May last
with a young woman, whom he subsequently married, and
has been since chased by detectives through Fr —lce and
Spain, back to England, from London to Wi,• ere, to
Preston, and finally to Lytham, where he was • otured.
When seized he struggled violently to get hold of two
loaded revolvers, which his wife was going to hand to him.
£2,000 was found in his possession. He was brought up
on Saturday before the Liverpool magistrates, but the
father refused to make any further charge than saying
tint his son did not deny his guilt, and had given no ex-
plv.nation.

A TRADE UNION OUTRAGE.—In the Crown Court,
at Leeds, on Saturday, Thomas Shaw, a collier, was
charged with having committed a murderous assault on
Willam Taylor. On the morning of the 28th of June
the prosecutor was met at a place called Parkin Wood,
near Ecclesfield, by five men, including the prisoner,
who came up to him and said, " You work at the
Folly Colliery ?" and, without waiting for a reply, the,
prosecutor being in the act of explaining that such was
not the case, knocked him down into a ditch, and
while there kicked him savagely about the body and head.
The other men came up and joined in the attack, some of
them throwing stones at the prosecutor, whom they called
a "black sheep." He identified the prisoner positively.
Another man, who had been apprehended, was discharged
by the magistrate. Thejury found the prisoner guilty, and
Mr. Justice Brett sentenced him to seven years' penal
servitude. There was a large number of colliers in the
gallery, and the sentence appeared to strike them with
surprise.

THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.—A. telegram from Mets
states that the Prince Imperial is still at headquarters.
This is very natural. No such danger menaces him that
parental anxiety need yet send him back to Paris. Our
evening contemporaries still, however, maintain that he is
in London. This story is very silly, and quite unworthy
of the papers who put it forward. They can easily verify
the fact, and they should in common decency abstain—
in the presence of the heroic attitude of the French
' army and Emperor—from publishing false news which
would attribute cowardice to a family that, in the per-
son of the Emperor, has often shown a courage only
equalled by that of his Consort. The Empress boldly
risked contagion when she nursed the cholera patients
at Amiens and in the Paris hospitals, and both mother
and father would sacrifice the Child of France than send
him to a foreign shore, when the traditions of his name,
and the act of every ploughboy, point to the example
required of the Heir of the Empire.—Morning Post.
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