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h AMUSEMENTS IN TIME OF WAR. Lord Derby, secretary of war in the British labile-;, in a public speech at Queens Hall, Leadaa, • iid: "The nation rejoices. :lUd it has a right to rejoice, and 1 certainly am one of those who wish that as long as i; is aeeaaMrj — a*J it is necessary at the present moment — to advance our cause, that the people* amusements, whether they Ik- in the open air or in the theater, should go on as long as the public docs ted suffer. Let than who come home be nut with cheerful faces, and let them feel that the time which they spend imuy from the trenches i- a lime for amusement, which will distract them lroiu all the anxieties and the dangers they have undergone, and fit them fur further exertion with lt-ucwed vigor."
