The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-22 00:00:00

THE
__SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1870.

THE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE
MAN."

BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES
BEST WORKMANSHIP, and LOWEST
PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S.

Every description of Clothing ready-made
or made to measure, flr all ages, all occa-
sions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and
OUN'B.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
Tins EvENnto, at 7, THE HEIR AT LAW: Mr Clarke, Mr
James, Miss Bufton, &c. With THE TOODLES. Concluding
with INO.

WOODIN'S CARPET - BAG AND SKETCH BOOK,
Egyptian Hall. Piccadilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at
9; Saturday Mornings at 3. Admission, Is, 2s, 3s.

Ari immense assortment of WINTER
CLOTHING, in all the newest designs and
materials, at E. MOSES and BOWS,
OVERCOATS from 19d. to L 5.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and S all the year round.

ZOOLOGICAL 0 ,kRDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex-
cept Sundays). Admission, 1L; on Mondays' 6d. Children
tinder twelve, 6d,

SOY'S OVERCOATS from lOs. 6d. to 455.
For the convenience of Ladies accom-
panying their Eons there is a separate de-
partment for Boys' Clothing, and it is fur-
bished with a splendid assortment of Suits,
Overcoats, and Clothing for all occasions,
including all the favourite designs ar.d the
most fashionable materials.

ROYAL AL HAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS
Promenade Concert. Band of 80. Begin at 8. le. Box-office
o pen from 11 to 4.

Orders by Post are attended to with care
and punctuality, and the easy and accurate
system of self-measure introduced by E.
0‘.3 ES cud SON enables them to guarantee
a faultless fit.

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Any article not worn or injured will be
Pxciianged, or, if desired, the money will
be returned.

All Goods are marked in Plain Figuren,
from which no abatement can be made.

The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats
Ina Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un-
squalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap-
ness.

A very large assortment of BLANKETS,
from ss. 4d. the pair.

Complete Outfits for all Climates, with
every requisite for the voyage.
List of Prices, with Rules for Self-men
sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and
post-free.

E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments
are closed every Friday evening at sunset till
Saturday evening at sunset, when business
is resumed until eleven o'clock.
E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be-
spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers,
Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac-
turers, and General Outfitter for all
Classes.

Tile following aro the only addresses of E. 110SES
and SON:—

LONDOY.
CORNER OF 3IINORIES AND ALDGATE.
NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART STREET.
CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON-
ROAD.

Country Branch

BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE.

TEIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. L. Ohattsrton.

THIS EVENING. at THE WIFEf: Julian St. Pierre, Mr
T. C. King; Messrs Barrett, Howard, M Intyre, Moreland, and
C. Moore ; Misses Edith Stuart and Hudspeth.
After which, at 9, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST; or, OLD
MOTHER. BUN 0 i t : Misses Jessie Vokes, Victoria Vokes, and
Mosina Yokes, Messrs. Fred. Vokes, W. F. Yokes, Brittain
Wright, and Harry Boleno.

THEA'T'RE ROYAL, HA YMARKET.
Sole Lessee. Mr. Backstone.
THIS EVENING, at 7, POPPING THE QUESTION.
After which, at 20 minutes to 8, 4 ;UR AMERICAN COUSIN;
Characters by Mr Sothern, Mar Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr
Braid, Mr Hogers; Mrs Chippendale, Miss F. Wright, Miss F.
Owynne, Miss C. Hill, &c.
Concluding with DE 4.F AS A. POST: Mr Compton and Mrs
F.. Fitzwilliam.
Box-office open daily from Ten till Five.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER

THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock. OPEN TO CONVICTION.
Messrs. G. Bohnore, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, Miss
L. Grey, and Mrs. Leigh Murray.
At 15 to 8, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr. H.
J. Byron; Mersrs J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, Georeg
Be!more. Miss Lavis, Mrs Leigh Murray. and Miss M. Hearts.
And TEL NIGHTINGAL . Mr Benjamin Webster; Messrs
Arthur Stirling, J. D. Beveridge, Skinner, lliss Furtado, Mrs
Alfred Mellon, 3liss Eliza Johnstone, Mrs Caulfield, &c.
Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking.
Boxes can be secured a fortnight in advance.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
Lessee and Manager—Mr. Benjamin 'Wester.
T FIN EVENING, at 7. FORMOSA : Messrs. J. Rouse, Rig-
nold, Ashley, Taylor, Lin Rayne, Phillips, Leeson, Eburne,
Romer, &e.: Mesdames Billington, K. Rodgers, M. Brennan, E.
Barnett, L Grey, &e

With A F TF,fl: DARK; 3lessrs Bignold, Ashley, Rouse, Lee-
son, Phillips, Rayne; M;sses it. Leclercq and Barnett.

LYCEUM THEATRE (under the mananment
of Messrs Mansell (elegantly redecorated by MacTilh!osh):

TEAS EVENING at 9.3O'..TVENTY MINUTES WITH A.
TIGER: Messrs Cogli!itn, Odell, and Wilmott; Mesdames Rig-
nold and Morgan.

Aft r waich, CITILPr.RIC, by nerve: Messrs M. Marius, G.
Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Coghlan. and 11. Nerve: Mesdames
Dolaro, Rtzlmna.n, Romanelli, Nel.ie Nesbit, and Miss Emily
Muir.

pI 0 YAL STE. AN I) 'T lIE ATR E.
L, Sole I.essee and Manageress, Mrs Swenberough.
THIS EVENING. at 7. THE Man T LAW: l'esrs. J.
S. Clarke, D. Janie Crouch; Mesdames Button and Claire.
Followed by TIT E TO( )0 ES: Mr Clarke.
After which, I? O; Messrs Thorne. James, Fenton, Turner ;
3lestlarnes Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, Lte.

issue.

LOIVDOiV, TUESDAY, FEB. 22, 1870.

WE are at last promised a reform of the remark-
able system of judicial procedure between natives and
foreigners which prevails in Egypt. An International
Commission has been sitting at Cairo, and has
decided to recommend the abolition of the Consular
Courts and the establishment of a different system of
tribunals in their place. The change has long been
grievously heeded. Tile judicature which at
present exits was founded on the self-satisfied
notion that " barbarians " were not fitted
to arrange disputes in which Europeans were
concerned, and accordingly an agreement was ex-
torted from Egypt, in virtue of which a foreigner
was empowered to bring all his legal business
before a consular tribunal of his own nation.
No doubt this measuring out to Egyptians treat-
ment which would never be offered to the most in-
significant European State has been highly beneficial
to " whites;" but it has proved very disastrous to the
Egyptians. Nothing, in fact, has done so
much 'to restrain the development of commerce
in the land of the PHAROAUS. No prudent Egyp-
tian will accept the surety of a European, or make
any compact with him; for even if he survive the
adverse chances of a Consular Court, it is in the power
of his adversary to appeal to his home government, and
carry the suit to a distant land. If a foreizuer be in

possession of any article claimed by a native, justice
can readily be defeated should it be on the side of
of the latter. If one Consular Court decides against
the foreigeier, he hands over the property in
dispute to a confederate of a different nationality.
The same court will not do in this case; the native
must sue the swindler before the tribunal of the lattefe
own nation. i nus the process may possibly go on through
some sixteen courts. "Foreigner's and foreign capita)
s.re kept from Egypt by such a state of the law, or
rather by the want of justice, except those who are
tempted to come to Egypt by the distraction of the
law and the difficulty of punishing the guilty." Still
more hurtful, perhaps, is the tendency of Europeans
to refer all their disputes, of whatever kind,
to their consuls, and thus converting the most trivial
legal question into a case for diplomatic interven-
tion. In fine, the evils of the system are so serious
as to entirely blOck the course of progress in
country which is capable of rapid development.
It is beside the question to inquire under what
circumstances a Government is so barbarous that it
..r tree present rate or re-election, the entire cannot be permitted to administer its own laws, and
personnel of the House of Commons will be changed : when it becomes sufficiently enlightened to be
before the expiration of its natural life, as the body spared the insult of foreign tribunals forcibly planted
of man is supposed to be replaced once in every on its territory. It is clear that Consular
seven years. Thirty-three new members were Courts are from their nature unsatisfactory; they are
elected during 1869, and since the new year an extreme remedy only to be applied in cases of the
the work of reconstruction has advanced direst necessity. It is also clear that between such a sys-
at the rate of a dozen a month. These tern and perfect independence in a State where law and
changes are sufficiently numerous to admit of the order are unsettled, there are various measures which
most important results. Mr. GLADSTONE'S majority i may be adopted. Such a mean the International
might have been seriously affected ; the Opposition Commission has found. It has overcome the diffi-
might have risen to hopeful proportions; the Censer- culty by recommending mixed tribunals with native and
vative reaction might have set in at last. The fact is, foreign judges. There is to be a competent court to
however, that we have been troubled with the maximum administer justice to natives and foreigners alike.
of political disturbance with the minimum of results. From this there is to be a right of appeal
Seldom have so many elections occurred at once; to one High Court, and the judgments are to
and more seldom still has so much battling borne be executed without any interference on the part of
so little fruit. The relations of parties remain in the Egyptian Government. The first tribunal will
precisely the same state, and nobody of any conse- consist of three European and two native judges ;
quence has entered Parliament by means of these the second of four Europeans and three natives.
vacancies. In Southwark the return of 'Colonel BERES- Thus the " civilised " interests will command a ma-
FORD in place of Mr. LAYARD won the Conservatives
a seat; but at Bridgnorth the Tory, Mr. WarrmonE, I ority. There will be no fain- viii,juotku Lu Durorcana,
whilst the natives have such confidence in
retired, and no candidate was opposed to the Liberal, European magistrates as to be willing to go before
Mr. FOSTER. Mr. DAVID WILLIAMS slept with his tribunals where numbers are against them. What they
fathers, and after a faint Conservative protest Mr. do object to is the intolerable oscillation between the
HOLLAND reigns in Merionethshire in his stead. Even I different consular tribunals, and the monstrous appeals
the contest at Nottingham, lively as that borough I to the home Governments. The new system will of
usually becomes at election time, can decide only the course put an end to these suits. The administration
interesting question whether the lambs really will I will be uniform and final.
choose such a representative as Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR,
as they nearly did a few months ago, when that
gentleman opposed Mr. SEELEY. The numerous
Irish elections have been remarkable for nothing
beyond an exceptional amount of riot. When
the ATTORNEY - GENERAL became a judge,
the Mallow electors very properly selected
a Liberal, Mr. MUNSTER, in preference to the
many-sided Major Kxox. A real Conservative is an
intelligible choice ; but a candidate who lays himself
out for both Tory and Nationalist votes, as
Major KNOX did, is a political phenomenon
with which reasonable people cannot sympathise.
Two of the last batch of Liberal peers have been re-
placed by two Liberal commoners, who were con-
strained to swallow fixity of tenure and divers other
extreme doses in order to win their seats. At
Londonderry a vigorous attempt to oppose the
re-election of the Irish Attorney-General ended only
in a little more Irish uproar. At Dublin University
one Conservative lawyer has been followed by
another. The real Fenian M.P. for Tipperary is pre-
vented from taking his seat by circumstances over
which he has no control, and the "sham Fenian "is
exceedingly likely to take his place. Nothing could
be more ordinary than the sum total of these exciting
battles. The same may be said of the elections
during 1869. Well nigh fifty new members effect
no important alteration in the Lower House.
By far the most important and interesting con-
, test was that in Southwark. The exciting three-
cornered struggle between the Liberal alderman, the
Conservative wharfinger, and the Radical artisan has
occupied a large, but not disproportionate share of
public attention. And yet its real significance., was
appreciated by few t the time. By most
writers the contest was regarded as a
simple case of very bad management- in tlle.
Liberal camp, a foolish dir!siou of strength until it
was too late to rectify the blunder. Tt ia
11u such interpretation can be put upon the
It is certain that the middle class Liberals—
the tradesmen and the like—voted for Sir SYDNEY
WATE [mow until his case was hopeless, and then trans-
ferred their favour to the Conservative. ColonelßEßES-,
FORD won his seat by a coalition of Conservatives and
moderate Liberals against Radical artisans. The
natural inference that the working class, irritated at
this arrogant exclusive spirit, will in future fight
their own battles, is borne out by the candidature of
Mr. APPLEGARTH at Maidstone, in opposition
to Sir Jolter Lunnoere—one of the most thoroughly
competent and appropriate representatives that the
Liberals could have chosen. That another three-
cornered contest will lead to another Conservative
victory is pretty certain. Parties in Maidstone are
balanced much more evenly than in Southwark.
Nor will such an issue in itself be deplorable; for
a little more strength to the Opposition would do
good. But it will indeed be a national cala-
mity if party divisions are hereafter regulated
by industrial grades, if politicians range themselves
only in the two opposite camps of employers and
employed. Yet to such an end are we apparently
tending. Surely there could have been no harm in
letting Mr. ODGER win the Southwark seat.
There could be no reason to fear that working men
would be shovelled wholesale into the Lower House.
All experience is against such a conclusion. Working
men have neither the opportunity nor the training
to enable them to figure in large numbers
as active politicians. None of the French revolu-
tionary leaders, MIRABEAU, DANTON, VERGNIAUD,
ROBESPIERRE—Were working men. None of the
representatives of universal suffrage in France at
the present time are artisans. The masses must have
their leaders, and in France they find the ablest
men in the country ready to do their work
much better than they can do it themselves.
Mr. ODGER'S candidature can be regarded as little
more than an attempt to break the spell, to reform
the rich man's club, to prove that wealth is not the
only condition of entrance to the Legislature. As a
protest of this kind it was both laudable and reason-
able. The shopocracy have chosen to disre-
gard it; and they are free to follow their
opinions or prejudices. But it must not be forgotten
that the "-residuum" is now a power, and it may
be a dangerous one. Working men have now votes;
they are in a majority in more than half the consti-
tuencies of the kingdom. To contemptuously disre-
gard them as if 1870 were the age of ten-pounders is
ignorant and foolish.

FOREIGN NOTES.

PRUSSIA AND BAVARIA.

The resistance which the Bavarian Parliament has made
to the policy of King Louis, and which has hithertoproved
so successful in forcing Prince Hohenlohe to resign, has
caused great irritation at Berlin . The Prussian journals have
expressed themselves in the most indignant terms on the
subject, and have even gone so far as to threaten the
Bavarians. They declare that if they persist in their ob-
stinate course, they must be excluded from the Zollverein,
which would bring about a famine.

MIi,SVELLANEOU,• IVE TVS.

TILE "PALL MALL GAZETTE" AND MP,. DOUCICAULT

The charge of libel brought by Mr. Dion
Boucicault against the publisher of the Pall Mall
Gazette need never have troubled Mr. Knox at his
police court. The quarrel-has been made up to the
entire satisfaction- of both parties: Mr. Boucicault
Said he would be perfectly satisfied if it well_
asserted that the letter complained of was
not written with any intent to damage his character.
The publisher declares that this is the very point he
wished to express, and so the combatants have shaken
hands and made it up. The Pall Mall Gazdts yes-
terday supplemented its previous concessions by ex-
pressing its regret at having caused any annoyance,
thougliunintentionally, to kr. Boucicault.