The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-15 00:00:00

T.HE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1870.

THEATRE ROYALMAYMARKET.—Twenty-
third Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDY. PHIS
EVENING (Thursday), to commence at Seven, with the WOLF
AND THE LAMB. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, W. Gordon,
Madame E. Fitzwilllam • after which, at a quarter to
Eight o'clock, a new Fairy Comedy, in Three Acts,
entitled THE PALACE OF TRUTH. Characters by
Mr. Buckstone, Messrs. Kendal, Everill, Clark, Rogers,
Braid, Mesdames Robertson, Chippendle, C. Hill, Penny
Wright, and Fanny Gwynne. After which UNCLE'S WILL—
Mr. Kendal and Miss Robertson. Concluding with BLUE
DEVILS. Box office open daily from 10 till 5.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC. Professor Pepper
" ON THE WAR, AND THE DESTRUCTIVE IMPLE-
MENTS USED THEREAT," daily at quarter to 3 and quarter to
8, with Elaborate Pictorial Illustrations, which have been sup-
plied by the War Correspondents of the Polytechnic, ttc. Mr.
Suchet Champion will sing the German, French, and English
Patriotic Songs.—The Explanation of the Ghost as usual.—THE
PRAEGER FAMILY give their CONCERTS daily at quarter past
4 and quarter past 9.

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POOLE and YOUNG, the Proprietors and Exhibitors of the
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task of their compilation has been entrusted—only a
very few years afterwards to be torn up and
thrown aside as worthy of not one instant's further

serious consideration.

The plea upon which Count BrsmAncii intimates
that he feels justified in rapudiating the Treaty of
London, whereby Prussia, France, Holland, Russia,
and Austria, in concert with England, solemnly
guaranteed—only three years ago !—the perpetual
neutrality of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg,
would be amusing, if it were not at the same time
also veryflagrantly discreditable. It is the old story of
the wolf and the lamb—the lamb (so much lower down
the stream) has muddied the rivulet from whose
current, the wolf (so much higher up the stream)
has been slaking his thirst. Luxemburg, forsooth,
has been the first to break the Treaty of London,
says Count nismAncx.. It has done so by
active breaches of the stipulated neutrality.
If so—Europe has learnt the fact, for the first time,
from Couut BISMARCK himself. It is a truth that
has . been hitherto invisible. - • And now that we
do hear of it from Count Borsknotz all we

find him saying is this, that the inhabitants of
Luxemburg have expressed sympathy . with
France, and that through the Grand Duchy cer-
tain French prisoners have, someho7 or another,
contrived to effect their escape back into their own
country from their place of duress in Germany.
And for this the whole of the Treaty of 1867 is to
be, three years after the' signing of it, perempto-
rily and disdainfully repudiated by one of the
signatories ! Assuredly whenever the next great
European Congress or Conference shall be holden,

it will be well for the repres3ntatives of the various
Powers then assembled together to come, for once
and for all, to a very clear and a very distinct
understanding as to the exact nature of the value
henceforth to be attached to any treaty that may
in the future be negotiated.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

resist the judgment as a duty, which sentiment
was enthusiastically applauded, and others recom-
mended counter prosecutions for the violation of the
Rubrics. This pugnacious advice was also vehe-
mently cheered, but happily the general sense of the
meeting expressed itself in the sentiment " We have
had prosecutions enough." An address to Mr.
Mackonochie was proposed by the chairman,
the Hon. C. L. Wood, and seconded by Mr.
Layman, churchwarden' at St. Alban's. • The
address was agreed to, but a resolution
moved by the Rev. Orby Shipley, recommending
that the judgment should not be obeyed, and pledg-
ing Mr. Mackononhie to support him in refusing to do
so, was also rejected. The revision of the Scriptures
was also brought into consideration, and the partici-
pation of Jews, Unitarians, and others in the work
was objected to.