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

ENGLAND'S PREPARATIONS.

A Chatham correspondent writes that a number of the
large naval 400-pounder and other guns have arrived at
the ordnance establishment, Chatham, from the Royal
Gun Factory, Woolwich, during the last few days, for
being supplied to the iron-clad ships which are nowfitting
at Chatham. The batteries which have been
several years building at Folly Point and Bishop's
Marsh, at the entrance to Chatham harbour
for the protection of Chatham dockyard and
arsenal, are ready for the reception of their 600-pounder
and other guns, which will be mounted in the batteries as
soon as they have been received from Woolwich. The
supply of all kinds of war material at Chatham is now
very large, a quantity of the Snidei breech-load-
ing rifles having been recently received from the Govern-
ment manufactory for distribution among the troops of
the line and the Royal Marines Light Infantry. A Wool-
wich correspondent states that the large-gun now in course of
manufacture at the Royal Gun Factories, Woolwich, is
expected to prove the most powerful piece of ordnance
ever produced, and to settle definitely the long and
hitherto even contest between guns and armour. It will
weigh 35 tons, and will hurl a projectile of 5501 b. with a
charge of 1001 b. o f powder, thereby imparting
an initial velocity which will enable it to
pierce an armour plate of iron fifteen inches in thickness,
beyond which no ship meant to float can surely go.
The barrel is of steel, strengthened at the breech by a
strong iron jacket, and the calibre of the bore -is about
114 inches, but this point has not been definitely settled.
Indeed, the gun is at present altogether experimental, but
if it answers expectation it is easy to guess what a for-
midable foe it will be to ironclads.—Pall Mall Gazette.

An unpublished four act opera of Verdi's is to be
brought forward at Cairo, the libretto entitled " Aida"
having been sketched by the Khedive himself.

On Friday Sir William Heathcote, Bart., and
Lord Justice Sir George Mellish were, by her Majesty's
command, sworn of Her Majesty's Most Honourable
Privy Council, and took their places at the Board
accordingly.

The Brighton Daily News states that the inhabi-
tants of Crawley have determined to perpetuate among
them the memory of the late Mr. Mark Lemon, who was
for many years a resident of that village, by erecting a
drinking fountain to his memory.

The Correspondence of Berlin enumrates the Ger-
man troops now in the field as follows :—Confederation
of the North, infantry, 550,000; cavalry, 53,000; artil.
1ery,1,200 guns; infantry recruits, 187,000 ; cavalry,lB,ooo ;
artillery, 234 ; landwehr infantry, 205,000 ; cavalry,
10,000 ; total for the Confederation of the North, 994,000
men, 1,680 pieces of artillery, and 193,000 horses. Adding
to these the troops of Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Baden,
there is a force of 1,124,000.

THE LOYALTY OF THE GERMANS IN SOUTHWALES.
—At Cargo Spelter Works, near Swansea, in South
Wales, where besween sixty and seventy Germans are
employed, by the orders of the proprietor, a few days ago,
the whole of the German hands were mustered, and they
were told that if any or all of them chose V) go home and
fight for Fatherland, they could do so, and that no
obstacle would be thrown in the way. They all declined,
to a man, to leave England.

LONDON GENERAL OMNIDI7S COMPANY.—At the
general meeting of shareholders to be held in September
next a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum
free of income-tax will be declared. This is the largest
dividend the company have ever declared. It
compares against 6t for the corresponding pe-
riod Jost year. The present dividend is there-
fore an increased rate of 3 per cent. per
annum, an increase which is quite a dividend in itself.
The excellent rate of dividend now paid by our Omnibus
Company is the result in a large measure, no doubt, of
the cheap provender prices which have prevailed in the
past six months, and it is also due in no small degree to
management. It is well known that the company have
in recent times changed their system of serving the public.
High fares have been reduced to low fares by charging
small fares for short distances,—Herapath's Journal,

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members, with particulars of the invested fund, may be had on
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From interest on investments ...........
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CONSUMMATE generalship on the one side,
wretched generalship, or no generalship at all on
the other, bring at this moment into very startling
contrast the results of the military systems of France
and Germany. Before little more than a week is over
after the commencement of the campaign Marshal
LEBEUF is dismissed and disgraced, his name becom-
ing a byeword of opprobrium among the Parisians.
Within a few hours Marshal BAZAINE will have to
give evidence of his capacity for better things than
those accomplished by his predecessor. Mean-
while the principal leaders and organizers
of the great host of the German invaders now already
far advanced in the northern province of France, has
been affording the world new and signal evidence of
the justice of his claim to the high, and amongst
living captains, the almost unrivalled reputation he
has enjoyed as a military strategist ever since the
rapid and daring campaign finished with a crash
upon the field of Koniggratz. From the very com-
mencement of the present war until now it has been
sufficiently apparent at every step which of the two
great belligerent Powers was prepared, and which was
not, for the emergency. In each instance it was the
Minister of War who was virtually and actually the
Commander-in-Chief. At the head-quarters of the
confronting armies there have been all the while,
there still are, as nominal commanders-in-chief the
two Sovereigns. But upon lIELmuTH MOLTKE
in the one instance, and upon ACHILLE
BAZAINE in the other, devolves the re-
sponsibility of directing practically the warlike
operations.

Between the belligerents as we have said,
in point of generalship, no comparison whatever
can be fairly instituted. Until now, the French have
blundered, nay, more than that, have bungled
throughout. With regard to the Germans it has
been exactly the reverse.- There has not been, from
first to last, one perceptible flaw in the whole of their
arrangements. Swarming towards the southern
frontier from so many different parts of
the North German Confederation, they have
been gathered together and have been since then
handled in huge masses with the precision of machi-
nery. And in the Royal Princes the great guiding
and directing intellect of MOLTKE has found the
genius, the daring, and the dash, most desirable in
co-operation, to the right hand and to the left, here
in the advance southwards parallel with the eastern
frontier line of Luxembourg, but more especially in the
advance with a rush beyond the southern borders of
the Palatinate of Rhenish Bavaria. At Saar-
briick Prince FREDERICK CHARLES, the CROWN
PRINCE at Worth or, as the French,
for some occult reason of their own,
prefer to call it Reichschofen, just as they always
prefer to call Waterloo Mont St. Jean—have proved
themselves worthy hitherto of a military chief who
as a warlike genius has no other rival, among living
men, than the famous Commander-in-Chief of the
army of the American Confederates. It is with this
immense advantage arising from the prestige thus
acquired, to the right hand and to the left, by
his attendant Princes, that General MOLTKE is
now going to deliver battle against the Imperial
forces of France when those forces have been
gathered together, and are standing in a manner at
bay in front (f Metz, marshalled by the baton of
ACHILLE BAZAINE under the eyes of the Emperor
NAPOLEON. Upon the issue of the momentous
battle now impending rests the future of
the Imperial dynasty. The position of the
EMPEROR is desperate. It is an alterna-
tive for him of utter ruin, or of possible
extrication from that dilemma by rolling back the
enormous forces of Germany from the banks of the
Moselle, across the Sarre, Rhinewards.

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Bombay. At the present time there are 4,628 miles
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