The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-08 00:00:00

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HAUDLY FAIR.—The metropolitan theatres, with one or
two exceptions, are said to be having rather a bad time of
it just now. In the provinces, however, they are doing
better. One theatre, especially, is doing business on an
unprecedently large scale. This is the theatre of war.
Perhaps, though, in this case, the sooner the season is
over the better.

(Font Fun. )

As WE HOPEi. TO FIND.—The Modern Judgment of
Paris,—" Discretion is the better part of valour."
PAPIER MACHE.—Bread is, happily, far from being at
war prices, yet thousands may daily be seen--Food Jour-
nal note the fact ! devouring the newspapers.
CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.—Farmer Bramble :
" Awful scourge this war ! Corn is sure to go up and I've
sold all mine a week before it broke out." Farmer
Thorn : "Oh ! let the beggarly Mounseers fight it out.
Corn is sure to go up, but I've nearly all mine on hand."
HALF-PRICE.—We read that half-a-crown is in future
to be charged for admission to the Tower. In former
times the , desire even to possess a crown obtained for
those who indulged in it not only admission but lodging
there'. Considering that the regalia is there, it is not an
exorbitant demand to ask half-a-crown for shewing a
whole one.

Mr. Forster, Vice-President of the Council, has
returned to town from the Highlands.
Mr. Arthur Hardinge has been appointed a page
of honour to her Majesty, vice the Hon. .W. Stopford,
resigned.

The Pall Mall Gazette is anthorized to contradict
the assertion of the Independance Beige in regard to an
armistice having been proposed by Lord Granville.

The body of the gentleman who was supposed to
have been burned to death in the fire at Cecil-street,
Strand, London, on Sunday night has been found in
the ddbris of the building.

The Hon. George Charles Broderick, who contested
Woodstock at the last general election in the Libtlral
interest, has declined to come forward in the same interest
for the vacancy in Mid-Surry. Sir Richard Baggallay,
the Conservative candidate, has begun an active canvass.

The Times yesterday published a long letter in leader
type, signed " Spectator," complaining of the absence of the
Sovereign and her Ministers from London at the present
critical period. If the country (the writer says) had not
the utmost confidence in the Ministry, it would be
alarmed at their apparent indifference.

The Post says :—" A. well-deserved compliment
has just been paid to Mr. Robert Rawlinson, C. 8., who,
it will be recollected, 'acted .as commissioner in Lanca-
shire at the time of the distress caused by the cotton
famine; and to whose wise counsels the profitable use of
the public money was mainly due. The services of Mr.
Rawlinson, which were purely honorary, have within
the last • few days been substantinlly recognised by the
Government by a cheque for £l,OOO.

Shortly after four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon a
severe thunderstorm passed over Bolton and the neigh-
bourhood. Vivid flashes of lightning and the most
deafening peals of thunder followed each other in quick
succession, while the rain fell in torrents for about twenty
minutes. At Little Lever a travelling pedlar, named
John Morris, was struck down by the electric fluid, and
killed upon the spot.

THE LONDON ARABS.--On Monday morning 1,140
of the newspaper and fusee boys and girls who frequent
the General Post-office, the Mansion-house, and the city
railway stations left the Broad-street Station of the North
London Railway for Hampstead-heath. They were
accompanied by Mr. J. M. Cook, son of the well-known
excursion agent, of Fleet-street, Mr. Orman, of the
Golden-lane Mission Schools, and several other gentlemen
who take an interest in the ragged school movement. An
extensive programme of amusements was prepared for
the delectation of the excursionists, but, owing to the
heavy rain that prevailed during the whole day, it could
not be carried out, and a very great difiappointment was
the consequence.
MODEL LODGING-ROUSES FOR BIRMINGHAM—
Model lodging-houses are about to be opened for the ac-
commodation of the working men of Birmingham, who are
obliged to resort at present to common lodging-house pre-
mises, at 376, Summer Lane, formerly the Sydenham Medi-
cal College, having been fitted up with great care for the
health and,comfort of the occupants. There are 13 first-
class, 33 second-class, and 24 third-class beds, the first each
in a small room to itself, the second in open rooms, and
the third in open rooms ; two persons to sleep in a bed.
The charges are to be the same as in common lodging-
houses-4d. a night for the second-class, or 2s. per
week ; 3d. a night for the third-class, or is. Gd.
per week. The first-class beds aro to be Gd. a
night, or 3s. per week. Each of the latter
has its own washing place, and in the other •classes
there are lavatories. A large kitchen is available
for cooking to be done by the lodgers themselves, and
each lodger is provided with a separate locker for his food.
The kitchen serves also as a common sitting-room, where
smoking will be allowed, and there is a superior sitting-
room provided with papers and books. The rooms are,
clean, lofty, and well ventilated, and heated with hot-
'Water pilx3s. They are licensed for 93 beds, but only 70
are placed in them, to prevent overcrowding.