The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-02 00:00:00

ONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC JII A EVANS' RO afteWS for Gentlemen. Rem em b er, we wa i t for you at r the Coventgarden Opera slid the Theatres. KINAHAN'SEX LL DUBLIN This celebrated OLD , 1865. IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize M e d a l . It som e. is Pure, Mild, M e ll ow, Delicious, and very Whole- Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; wholesale by the a mtsAg in the Principal t owns i n E ng l an d ; or 8. GREAT WIN DMILL -STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and C or k b ran d e d "Kinaha n ' s LL Whisky." UTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION .Y.E. Incirpor tted by A ct of Parliament, tiUSSE r-LSTRE ET , COVENT-G ARDEN. LONDOY. A.NCES 3 10NEY on Personal Security, Bills of Sale, Freehold or beneficial Leasehold Property, without Inquiry fee, or any deduction whatever, for periods of one, two, or three years, repayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Rills discounted. The greatest secrecy observed. 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(The hon. gentleman was loudly cheered.) Mr. POTTER, M.P. for the borough, afterwards addressed the assemblage, and the proceedings at the stone terminated with cheers for the Mayor. Afterwards there was a luncheon at the Public hall, attended by about 250 gentlemen, the Mayor again presiding. A marble bust of the late Mr. Cobden, by Mr. Burnard, sculptor, of London, W hi c h is an excellent likeness, had been lent by Mr. Bri g h t for the occasion, and was placed at the end of the room, facing the platform where the principal guests were seated. Mr. BRI GHT, in response to the toast of his health, proposed in very laudatory terms, said,—Mr. Mayor and fellow-townsmen,—lt is a very difficult task to rise to speak in answer to such a speech as that which my friend Mr. Alderman Ashworth has just made, and for the kind reception which you have given to me. If I - could possibly believe that not one-half, but one tithe of wbat he said was true it must-inevitably be my - . rum: (Laughter and .cheers.) But thenl can attribute it all to a certain partiality, which .I shall not contend against, and a great kindness on your part which, even if it be in any degree exaggerated, I am willing with all thank fulness to receive. The ceremony of this morning has been very simple, but, as 1 then said, there is a -significance about it, and I have been struck be yond what I can easily express with the apparently almost- universal sympathy of the whole population of the borough. Those of us who have lived here for 20 or 30 years have witnessed a great change, from which, if we may not learn a great lesson, at any rate we may derive confirmation for what I think at any rate is a wise and just opinion. Yea rs ago our town was governed by a body who went by the name of Commissioners of Police. I don't re collect very well how they were appointed, but I think at one time they appointed themselves— (laughter) —that is, under a clause of an Act of Parliament every man who was rated to a certain amount of £2O or £3O, might offer himself and take up his position as commissioner. After that there was som e change, and the governing body was elected, if I am not mistaken, upon the principal of what is termed Sturges Bourne's Act—that is, that one man give one vote, and a man who was not a bit bigger, but was a little richer, gave two, and another richer still gave three, and so on, and until at last some body who got up to the perfection of the possession of wealth gave six votes. And that is a principle which some people have recommended for Parliamentary elections of late years. (A. laugh.) However, the Commissioners of Police were so elected, and under that authority exercised power in this borough. Now I put it to all the population of the town, and ask them whether that body had great respect or great influence, or whether it would have been allowed by any possibility to have levied the taxes, and incurred the expenditure, and done the works which have distinguished the career of our corporation ? (Ap plause.) I venture to say that all these things are done, and have been done, only because you have had during the last 10 or 11 years a municipal go vernment in which the town has had perfect con fidence, and which is in point of fact the direct creation of all the householders and ratepayers in the town. Five years hence—probably less—we shall have the Mayor, instead of being shut up where you can hardly find him,. in that place in Smith-street--(laughter)—seated on what may be fairly called his municipal throne in this great building that is about to be reared. You will have him surrounded by dignified aldermen (" Hear," from an alderman, and much laughter), and, if in any degree they are less dignified, still by very ho nourable councillors—(applause)—and, instead of taking to the present practice of the constitution of the country, in which we have two Houses of Par liament, one which they call the Lower and the I other the Upper House, though I don't exactly know for what special reason those words are used— (laughter and applause)—the mayor of Rochdale, no doubt, will revert to the ancient practice of the con stitution, when lords and commons sat in one House, and we shall have one House for those dignified aldermen and these honourable councillors, and the Mayor may save the expense of the woolsack in the one House, and the Speaker in the other, and will preside in person over an united Parliament. I have heard persons joke about mayors and aldermen and councillors, but in my opinion there is scarcely anything more import ant in a country than an honest municipal govern ment. That is the government which we feel every day, which preserves the peace among us, which im partially administers justice, which makes our towns and districts comfortable and safe to live in ; and I feel always great gratitude to the men who devote so much of their time to the service of the town and the public as do the members of our municipal go vernments. But I said that I thought this power of our corporation, by which so many good things have been done and were promised us, was a power that arose in this manner —that it was based upon the will of the whole people. I don't think the expe rience of our town ought to make reasonable men afraid of a large number of votes. It is to me the most curious thing going, probably, about that matter, that there should be a class of men in this country who believe that it would be extremely benefi cial to have more voters, and there should be another class of men, whom you cannot distinguish from the first, as they walk the streets or you see them in their houses—(laughter) —who somehow or other come to the exactly opposite opinion, and a line is drawn between them which neither will pass, and there remain two parties divided upon this question. In our Borough we have about 1,440 electors. I shall not say a word,:it would be foolish and stupid for me to say anything against the mode in which the 1,440 electors of Rochdale exercise their Parliamentary franchise. If I look to the mem bers who have sat for this borough, taking the whole time from the period of our enfranchisement, now 34 years ago, Ithink we may hold up our heads alongside any constituency in the kingdom. (Cheers.) Whether I point to Mr. Fenton, who was our first member —(applause)—a neighbour in high esteem, faithful always to his convictions, and retaining, so long as he chose to sit, the confi dence of the constituency, or come down from him to Mr. Sharman Crawford, who came to this town —I can hardly say as a candidate, because he was no candidate of his own offering, but who came to be elected at a time when I believe there was not a single person in the town but myself that had ever seen him, and I was one of those who did not vote for his candidature when he was first proposed, though, of course, I voted for him at the election. (Cheers.) After him was MrMiall—(cheers)—a man who has made for himself a great position, and a name in connexion with great principles, for which it may be this country is not yet prepared, but which perhaps will live long after all those who deride and oppose them are most of them forgotten. (Cheers.) Well, after him we elected another man. (Here some of the audience began to laugh ironically, while others anxiously checked the demonstration ; apparently the one party imagining the speaker was about to name the Conservative member, Sir A. Ramsay, who displaced Mr. Miall, while those who observed Mr. Bright's expression of counte nance more closely perceived the mistake. Ifear to speak now of one who this time 12 was months yet living, but the anniversary of the day of whose death will be only to. morrow. You see there in marble (the reference was to the bust at the end of the room) a representation of his outward form, so good, I think, as you will rarely see of any man that has passed from among U 3. But marble itself is but „, 77,2 t. PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. of a transient duration compared with the perma nency of that fame which his services to his country have conferred upon his name. (Cheers.) We have elected since then another re presentative ; but I will not speak of the present member for this borough. He has said of the Par liament that it was a new Parliament, and that it had not been for a very long time tried, and there fore I might say the same of him. (Laughter.) I have no doubt that when the time shall come that his connection with the borough shall cease, and I wish that time to be remote—(applause)--we shall be able to add him to the list of our representatives who have done credit to the choice of our consti tuency, and who by their consistency in support of all great principles of public freedom have done something to aid the advancing in terests and liberties of this country. But that is altogether a digreSsion. What I wanted to show was this—that although our 1,440 electors for the Parliamentary representation have done wisely in the main in the exercise of their right, they cannot pretend at all to have been wiser than the 5,000 of our municipal electors. (Hear, hear.) The muni cipal body, the 5,000, I believe have cliosen a town council which a s well represents the true opinion and true interests of this town as any that could possibly be elected, if the choice rested i n th e 1,440 Parliamentary electors. And‘if it were to be assumed that the 5,000 were no more wise than the 1,440; let it be granted that they ammo more foolish, and is it not infinitely better that your corporation should be based upon the support of the 5,000 than on the support of 1,440 ? (Applause.) And if you turn back to any election which has taken place, when there has been a contest, since the enfranchise= ment of the borough, notwithstanding that we boast euselvesio be Probably One of the very best boroughs in the kingdom in regard to the absence of an offen sive interference with voters' rights, and in regard to corruption of any kind, yet let any man here of moral sense and of self-respect look back to the pro ceedings of our contests, and he will see that there is not a little which he would rather have wished had been absent. And I understand that your municipal elections when the 5,000 come to vote, there is infi nitely less of everything that is unpleasant and that ought to be condemned, than there is when the 1,440 find themselves plunged into, an electoral contest. If this be so, then if there be any gentlemen here—and I have no doubt there are some—who are alarmed, it may be, at the present proposition of the Government, let them look at the influence of their own town, at the conduct of their own people, and let them believe this, which I believe to be as true as anything in the world, that where you trust men, give them votes, appeal to their intelligence, and to their higher sympathies, show them the re sponsibility of their position, the grandeur it may be even of the act of giving a vote, you will find that there is nothing whatever in propositions now be fore Parliament, or in propositions more extensive, that might possibly be offered, which ought to create the slightest apprehension in the mind of any man who is acquainted with the genius and cha racter of his countrymen. I therefore draw an argument from this town in favour of what is now about to be discussed in Parliament. I say that our municipal Government becomes incomparably stronger, because it is based on a wider foundation say that it can do things for the public of our town of essential advantage to the town, which it dares not have contemplated or attempted if it had been based, as it was some few years ago, on the unstable foundation of self-election, or of that miserable and odious system of election which was established by Sturges Bourne's Act. (Cheers.) Now, Ave are here to congratulate ourselves on the foundation of this Town-hall. If it does afford a shelter—if you like a magnificent shelter—for the Parliament of this town,—for its authorities, for its magistracy in the dispensation of what our ancestors used to call in different, but what we call impartial justice ; if it affords room for all the various departments of busi ness which the Corporation is to manage ; and if it builds for us that grand hall which the possession of this small place only makes us long for the more, then I think, perhaps, we may forgive them even ( fr a t u h g e h t e e x r p o en t r h e rweghcairdh tte.hetyhaatregraebaotuhtincur (Laughter.) With regard to that great h ail I be lieve there is nothing that tends so much to improv e every town, and every country, as an innumerable, almost, supply of places for public meeting. Why this country for the last 40 years would have been in darkness still if it had not been for its power and practice of holding public meetings ; your great Reform Bill of 1832 must have fallen dead if there had been any power that could have forbidden the people from the holding of a public meeting. Your agitation for the great mea sure of free trade must have been an agitation without result, if it were not for the hundreds of public meetings that were held. And now, in the discussion of another great question, what could be done with the tardy reluctance of Parliament if it were not for the expression of public feeling through the means of public meetings ? Then, if this, and if all other great measures that are to come —measures some of which we do not now dream of, measures many of which may be called for out of the exigencies of times and circumstances which we know not—if all this must owe its progress, its advancement, its success, to the discussion of a free people in public meetings, I rejoice as much for that as for anything else that the Corporation in putting up a building for its own service and accommodation has included within it a magnificent hall for the service of the town. And I hope there are—l believe there are in this room, and there are many in this town—young men who, from their education, their habit of intel ligent thought, will be able in after times, when some of our tongues are silent, to instruct their fellow townsmen, to stimulate to good, and to lead them to further achievements on behalf of freedom. For myself I have only to say that I thank you with a heartiness and a feeling which I cannot put into words for the kindness which you have shown me to-day among the thousands that were assembled at the site of the new building, and which you have shown me in this hall. I know how little, after all, any one man can do, in the country or in the world, but all that has been done by man, of course, is doneby the little that individual men can do added together. I hope, therefore, that if my labours have met with your approbation (enthusiastic cheers), I can feel that wherever I am, and in what soever cause I am working, consistent with the past, I shall have, so far as it may fairly be given, the sympathy and support of my townsmen, which I value far more and far above all the sympathy and support I can obtain from any other body of I my countrymen. (Loud cheers.) A number of other toasts were given, and the proceedings terminated about 6 o'clock. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. nRNAMENTS for the Drawi ng - room , Lib rary , N.. 7 an Dining-room, consisting of a new ana e.egant assort meat of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink •tanda. eautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &0., in Italian, Alrhaet-z, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c Imuorted and manufactured by JAMES TENN ANT. Mine raloeist to her tsjesty, 149, Strand, W.C.. London. 11r. Pennant arranges elementary ooliectionc of ROCKS, &I RALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly facilitat, the intereating study of MINIMA LOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2. o, 10, 20, 50, to 500 gable/La 2auli. - - PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in tiii , ol,ooY and MINX- R Loi4 Y Riven by IVEr.,TICNNAN f.P.G.S.. 0 149. Strand. DEFRIES and SONS beg to call the special tff • attention of Merchant 4 and the Trade to their NEW r•ATENT AS TRA BURNEu, With Circular Wick, whi.,ll for simplicity of construction, great brilliancy of light, perfect combustion. and Its entire freedom from heat, sur passes everything that has yet been introduced. A STRA LAMPS can be obtained from the METROPOLITAN LTGIIT Co RP NY, 447, Strand, and from all fr.nmongers and Lamp Warthouses in Town and Country; and the Patentee, 16 and 17. Commercial street, Whitechapel. ASTRA, PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE LAMPS on SHOW. .New Designs.) A STRA (Patent) ( i,e!l - P, for MINERAL AS TR A LAM P.—Five Hundred NEW PATTERNS for the Season n^w on show. TABLE GLASS. Eva-RAVED AND CUT. D E IE S and SONS, 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-ST •f EET. J. TAVERN. AND . HOTEL GLASS. _ • Newest Patterns, durrdet Measure EFRIES and S . ONS, t) • 16 and 17, COlt ftRCIAL-STREET. ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES, For 12 Persona, sl'Bs. 6d. BREA.KF A.ST and TEA. •ERVICES in great variety. £1 la. DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-oTREET. CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Drawing-room. either ior Gas or Candle. T DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL CHANDKLIERS, In the Grecian and Venetian Dcaiens. T DEFRIES and SONS, Pi • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET. BRONZE , ) AND ORMOLU CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Dining-room. DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL -STREET. CRYSTAL LAMPS AND WALL LIGHTS (Registered) for India. DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET. CLUB, MESS, AND FURNISHING ORDERS for the above Goods promptly executed. Works LONDON snit BIRMINGHAM. t.J• DEFRI ES and SONS, 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. DEFIES and SUNS tr • Supply :►lerchants with Pattern Books Free. JDEFRIES an d SO NS' • TEMPORARY SHOW ROOMS. 16 and 17. COMMEKCIAL-STREET. WHITECITAPEL, Five Minutes' walk from the Late Establishment 147..HOUNDSDITCH. .AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN EFFECUAL REM EY, without confinin the o or a ff ecting t h e head, truly D efficacious and pleas g ant, b is ad' wels witted to be the best medicine ior immediately relieving coughs, colds, onfirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty , ronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared oniy and sold by , W. LAMBERT , Chemist. 8, Ding-Wiliam-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles. 130., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d each. Be particular. and ask for La.bert's Asthmatic Balsam. The nameand address are engraved on the at ,n2P T HE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to din 12 now youngation. Last year no fewer ban 455 poor. friendless,females were rejected from want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few of the most recent cases: F. aged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father. M. A. F., aged '3, homeled both parents dead . 11. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother t. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead. C. 8., aged i 5, fallen, mother dead, A 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead. H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents. M. H.. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead. E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both par, nts dead. Ili. A. W., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, from the age of a to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, 'r. Daniel l'ooper, Q 5, Queen •street. Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co., Lombard-street ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. !Patron—Her most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice- Patron—H is Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, H.G President—His tyrace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. K.G. This Hospital, loundel in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without he delay and di ffi culty of Go vernors ' orders. is wholly de pendent for support oti voluntary contributions and t ,acres. It aff,rds relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the lestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 1,000 and 4,000 weekly. 'the Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of eo ,, tainlivg several hundred more beds, had the Committrct the requisite fluids to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas • erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Myn and Har Co.; • r. les and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith , Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Biomes, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co, Berners-street ; I. Barned and Ce., Liverpool 3 and at the Hospital. from 10 till 6. BTANSYMD BILITu s Boaftaryt MR. W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-BADEN and UP Iv TILE AIR, an entirely New Entert.in moot, written by T W. Robertson. Esq., will be produced at the POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King William-street, Char ing-cross, on THURSDAY EVENING next, March U. Doors open at Half-past Seven; commence at Eight. Luxurious spring sofa sails, its ; balcony stalls, 35.; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, is. A Firat 's RAND MORNING PERFORMANCE next SATCROAY, March 31, at Three. Doors or en at half-past Two. A plan of stalls may be seen and seats secured at the tall from Eleven to Five. MRiARTHUR E oo T w C v : H A L T Y iit A rrt ß a; HO ME ' Al\ e ' lV D AB ti.c)A t., EVERY k V ' Nll.lO at Eight 'except Saturday ; figturday Afternoon at Three. Et yption Hall, Piccadilly. Tickets at the Box-office; Mr. Mitchell's; and all music seihrs. TODARE.—On EASTER MONDAY, with w.. 7 New Wonders, the 382 d Performance of STODARE'S celebrated MA it V ELS of MAGIC and VENTRI , QUIS a performed by him, by command, at Windsor Castle, before H.M. the Queen, Nov. 21, 1t65, and twice before ..R.H. the Prince of Wales, June 6, 1865, and March 10, 1 866. Stall► may be secured in advance at the Box-office, Egyp tian Hall, open daily from 10 till 6; and at Mitchell's, Old B hd-'street.--Admission, Is., 25.; stalls, 31. "Almost miraculous."—Vide the Times. C.HRISTY MINSTRELS, 'AT. JAMES'S 111*LL. EVERT EVENING at Eight, WEDNESDAYS and SATs, RDAYS, at Three and Eight, The or g nal and veri tably legimate CHRISTY 111iiVsTRELS. First Seastin in. London the-e five years The Only company in existence . Which possesses a legal Chihli to the title, from the fact of its being the only one whion retains all- the marked specialities and distinguished favourites who originally 'gained the re putation of the company•first in the United Stat. s , and sub 'sequently in this country, in 1857. • No other , company as suming the title'of Christy Minstrels. posses ses a s i ng l e in dividual member of the least distinction who belonged to the 0' iginal troupe. The Christys (after an absence of five years) return to Londo- with their band strengthened and im proved in eVer'y respect, their entertainment being unani mously pron'ounced b t the metropolitan press to be the most sparkling- in London. Yrices of Admission—N'ew and luxurious fauteuils, ss. ; stalls, 3s. ' • area. 25.; gallery, ls. ; juveniles, un d er twelve. half price to stalls and area only. Fauteuils and stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street ;- or at Mr. Austin's, 23, Piccadilly. Manager. Mr. Fredetiok Burgess. TE OXFOR D '- 6, OXFORD-STREET, W. The (Word and Canterbury Hall Company (T imited‘, IF I W* RE KING, Comic Opera, by ADOLPIIE ADAM, havin been enthusiastically received, will be performed by the whole of the talented Operatic Company i: EitY EVEN NG in addition to the other novelties of the estab ineluding the ce*brated HUNGARIANS in their new entertainment, Mr. MARSHALL, the, S'rONIcTTES , steasra. Davies and Sk-rrett, and Miss Er LEN TR ACY, ,he Australia., Ballad Vocalist, who will introduce for the first time in Engl.nd her novel rendering of the Ballads of Irel nd. Admission—Area, M ; stalls and balcony, is ; priv a t e boxts, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d. iurADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET, EASTER HOLIDAYS, NEW ADDITIONS.—SeveraI life-size Portrait Models of the most distinguished Personages of the day (including those of the late LORD PALMERSTON and Me TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last Holidays ; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies, taken from life, of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the norious CHARLOTTE WINSOR. Open during the first three days in Easter week from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. - Admittance, ls.; children, under ten, half price ; Extra Rooms, 6d. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly, - • GRAND EXTRA NIGHT THIS EVENING. Dancing at fen. Open until One o'clock. Admission, irentlemen, ss. . • ladies, 29. 6d. D oor open at half-past Nine. Chef irohestra, Signor L. Curti. N. B.—Du ing the evening th" eminent IL Levy will per form some 01 his favourite solos on the cornet. Manager, M. GRENET. SP ANIS H FLY is the acti ng i ngredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OlL,„which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair, 3s. 6d, ; sent tree for 64 st .mps.— AL MX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. Essay on Hair, ld. A LEX. ROSS'S BLOOM of ROSES, 3s. 6d., /11 or 51 stamps. PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the akin are imroved by one dose e.y ot A. 141 re 42E.- ROSY" VEGE CARLE SK I N PILLS. Th remove dness, sal lowneas, &u. 28. 9d.; by pest for 40 stamps.—ALEX'. VOSS, 248, Hl h Holborn, London. ALEX. ROSS'S FACE POWDER, l s ., or 14 stamps. LIFIAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London..—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID mill,- adles' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is app Lied. Sold at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 5t stamps. Boss's Toilet Magazine, is. 6d., or 20 stamps. LIQUID ROUGE, ls., or 18 stamps. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— - ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour Immediately it is used. It Is permanent, and perfectly na tural in effect. Price 3s. rd. ; sent by post for 54 stamps. LADIES HAIR DYED, from 1 guinea; Gentle men's, from 10s. 6d. PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C. Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass th© nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches. At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that they are homeless and starving. The Manager, &c., receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each night numbers of young women, children, and orphans are, for want accommodation ' refusedadmittance, andhave to spend night after ni g ht in the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the work a sum of at least 5,1,000 more will be required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome, and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT, D.D., No. 22, Finsbury-circus, E.C. DONORS AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THE REFUGE. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G. His Royal Highness the Duke D'Aumale. His Excellency the Count D'Apponyi. His Excellency the Count Lavradio. The Earl of Abergavenny. The Earl of Desert. The Earl of Denbigh. The Earl Grey. K.G. The Earl of Harewood. The Earl of Eglinton. The Earl of Kenmaro. The Earl of Durham. The Countess of Albemarle. The Lady Ellen Browne. The Lady Camilla E. For tescue. The Viscount Gage. Field-Marshal Lord Gough, K.P. The Lord Dormer. The Lord Petre. The Lord Leigh. The Lord Chelmsford. The Lord Cranworth. Baron de Rothschild, M.P. The Hon. C. Langdale. The Hon. W. Browne. The Hon. H. G. Ci.tupbell. Sir . Charles Price, Bart. Sir Robert Gerard, Bart. Sir Pyers Mostyn, Bart. Hon. Rustomjee Jamsetjee J eejeebhoy The Governors of the Bank of England. The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Braziers. The Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers. The Worshipful Company of Drapers. The Worshipful Company of Grocers. The Worshipful Company of Saddlers. The Worshipful Company of Salters. The Worshipful Company of Merchant Tailors. The Directors of the Bank of Australia. The Directors of the Bank of Australasia. The Directors of the Colo nial Bank. The Directors of the National Bank of Ireland. The Directors of the Provin cial Bank of Ireland. The Directors of the Char tered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China. The Directors of the Impe rial Ottoman Bank. The Directors of the London and County Bank. The Directors of the Union Bank. Messrs. Coutts and Co Messrs. Dimsdale, Drewett, Fowler, and Barnard. Messrs. Hanbury and Lloyds. Messrs. Prescott, Grote, Cave and Co. London Assurance Corpora tion. Royal Exchange Insurance Company. Sun Fire Office. R. W. Barclay, Esq. J. Bethel], Esq. Mrs. Barnswall. Miss Burton. Mrs. Curling. J. Henry Challis, Esq. Dr. Carvalho. R. Crawford, Esq., M.P. H. Cazenne, Esq. Mrs. Chesterton. A. H. Campbell, Esq. Miss Douglas. Messrs. Durant & Co. Messrs. Dawson & Sons. Miss Dobson Cursetjee Furdonjee, Esq. Miss Franklin Dr. Gull. C. Gould, Esq. H. E. Gurney, Esq. Messrs. Hills & Underwood. Capt. Hogg. Miss Kaye. J. Kynaston, Esq. J. Knight, Esq. L. Lloyd, Esq. J. Lewis Mieville, Esq. Miss Mllahon. C. Manning, Esq. Miss Martin Breton Martine; Esq. Messrs. Ponsforel and Sou thall. F. X. Pereira, Esq. Mrs. Palmer. H. W. Prescott, Esq. F. Philips, Esq. N. H. E. Prowett, Esq. M. R. De Quadros, Esq. G. A. Shee, Esq. Riddell, Esq. T. Riddell Esq. Messrs. Ralli Bros. Messrs. De la Rue and Co. Miss Rombold. Mrs. Simpson. Mrs. Scott. Mrs. Southby. Messrs. Tucker and New. F. Ward, Esq. G. Basil Wcod, Esq. Miss Young. J. Young, Esq. Messrs. Zuluta and Co. &O. &O &c. ROYAL NAVAL, MILITARY, ail( GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY (Meta. blished A.D. ISi7 . under Royal Patronage), 17, Waterloo , pace, London, z3.W. ARTHUR R. HAMILTON. Secretary. Agents wanted in towns not yet represented. riIEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.— A_ The fear of pain and drzad of ope - ation inherent to all det, r very many to whom AtiTIFICIAL TEN:TII are of vital importance from availing themselves of the services of a dentist. In a practice founded in 1830, and now ex ending over greater part of the kingdom, an experience unequalled has been obtained, enabling us to offer even the most sensi tive sufferer a system or dentistry perfect in its absolute freedom from pain, a specialite enabling* only to our prac tice, and for which her Majesty has granted her royal letters p , terit. Tilts system emb, aces the non-interference with all stunips, however decayed, the support ng instead of extrac tion of loose teeth mini they become firm and useful in mas tication, and the utter absence of all and every operatio n , sn that the most nervous per son can be supplied without tear of pain or inconvenience. These teeth are cheaper, more dur able, neural, and comtortablc than any yet produced. Consultation tree. Teeth from ss, bets from oto 25 gs., warranted. For the efficacy, utility, and success of this system, vide " Lancet." Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and SONS, 30, Bcrners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand, Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station. Deily attendance at 13, Whitefriargate, Hull ; 10, Norfolk street, Sheffield ; 4, East-parade, Leed s ; 14, St. Nicholas street, Scarbro' ; .Zll,l 3:, Coney-street . , York Esfiiblistted 1830. No connection wil l h any one of the same name. - _ _ _ MR. BRIGHT AT ROCHDALE. On Saturday afternoon Mr. Bright laid the corner stone of a new Town-hall at Rochdale. The borough was incorporated about (JeVen years ago, and has hitherto been 'without any better - accommodation for its municipal departments, than is afforded by some inconvenient offices erected for the use of the commissioners who previously governed the town. The new erection is to be one of considerable archi tectural pretension, and is estimated to cost £60,000, including the land, of which the area covered is more than 16,000 square yards. The building will be in the English style prevalent towards the end of the 14th century, free use being made of the mul lioned windows of many lights, square-headed, for such offices as may be called domestic. At one of the angles a clock tower will rise to the height of 150 ft. Besides a great hall for public meetings or other as semblies, there will be accommodation for a commer cial exchange, for the magistrates' court, the borough police, the town council, and the whole executive of the borough Corporation. The architect is Mr. Crosland, of Leeds. The site faces the River Roach, which intersects the town, and it has a background planted with shrubs, and sloping upwards to the parish church and vicarage. As appeared from the remarks made by several of the gentlemen who took part in the ceremonies of the day, the occasion had been seized by the local authorities and inhabitants to offer their distin guished townsman, Mr. Bright, a proof of their neighbourly regard and esteem. The day was ob served as a close holiday, and notwithstanding the weather was wet in the forenoon, an immense ga thering of people accompanied Mr. Bright from his residence in a lengthy procession, comprising the local magistrates, aldermen, councillors, officials, deputations from co-operative societies, and friendly societies with their banners. Every spot near the site which could possibly afford a view of the congregation of persons assisting at the ceremonial was covered with spectators, and so urgent was the desire to have the scene photographed, with the mayor in a sufficiently pictorial attitude as he opened the proceedings with a speeckh that he was made to pause in , the nritht of his ren`itlcw - heii 'the artist had got his apparatus adjusted, in order that the worshipful figure might be taken without distor tion. Mr. Bright was received with great cheering on his arrival at the site. After introductory speeches from the mayor (Mr. S. Stott)„ and the town clerk (Mr. _Z. Mellor), Mr. Bright went through the usual formalitie s with a silver trowel, presented to him by Mr. Alderman G. L. Ashworth, on behalf of the Corporation. Mr. BRIGHT said—Mr. Mayor, members of the Corporation, and fellow-townsmen,--I feel it, I hardly need tell you, a great honour that your Cor poration, representing, as I have reason to believe the Corporation does, the general sentiments of the town, that I have been invited to take so prominent a part in the interesting event and transaction of the day. I am—we all are—in this unfortunate pre dicament, that I believe, however costly and grand the structure, it is scarcely possible to make of the laying of the foundation or corner-stone anything like a very impressive ceremony. But there must be something in the whole matter or it would not have been possible to have called together so many thousands of the industrious and intelligent popula tion of the town. The event of this day is one which will be marked in the history of our town, because we shall, as it were, lay, I was going to say we shall be gin the beginning, but that does not appear a very happy phrase—(laughter)—of a building which in every respect, I believe, will be to the credit of the population. The site of the building is fortunate, for it is within a few yards of the very centre of the borough. The objects of the building, as you know, are for the transaction of the business of the borough, for the seat.of the corporation, of our mu nicipal authorities, for the impartial administration of justice, for the holding of an exchange, for ad ministering the affairs of your gasworks and your waterworks, which are soon to be in the possession of the town ; and last, but not least, for the pur pose of providingfor thetown a grand hall, in which the free men in Rochdale, in all time to come, may discuss those great questions which belong specially to national freedom. I believe the building itself, of its style, will be one of thefinest erected in England during our time, andit will be a monument to future ages—to many ages I hope it may be--of the libe rality of the inhabitants of Rochdale in 1866, and of the courage of your corporate authorities, and a proof of your faith in the future of your town, and of its great and growing industry. I hope, we all hope —I speak but the sentiments of every heart here— I hope that when the building is completed, it may do credit to the architect, that it may have been profitable to the contractors, and that it may have been reared without serious accident to the industri ous and skilful men under whose hands it w ill grow And we h o p e f ur th er t h at as years pass over it, it ma y more an d more from andg day ener t a o t d o a n y o . be an object, not of interest only, but of loving affection on the part of the population of this borough ; and that they may regard it—as the na tion and all who visit your town will regard it—as a proof that there was some greatness in the popu lation which Iseb assembled before me to-day. Well, it is long sinie I attempted to speak in the open air. I have no right to do it now. I suppose that about 4 o'clock some of us will be expected to say something in:the public hall. lam only sorry that that hall is so small that but few can be there to hear whatever may be said, but I must ask you, notwithstanding, to pardon me if I do not proceed with observations my heart at this momen t i s f u ll , if m w with h wl physicaliichmy force would permit me to give utter ance to them. But, in conclusion, I must say this, that from the bottom of my heart I think the autho rities of this town and the people,—certainly if they are not all here those who are here must represent the whole population of this town,—l say I thank you that you have permitted me in any way to be associated with the great event of to-day. I trust that henceforth our 'children and our children's chil dren may look with pride upon the grand building which' is about to grow beneath your eyes, and that they may never have occasion to think that we pasced the bounds of our duty or of a reason able expenditure in the great act of municipal power which we are met to-day to commence. Ac-. cept, then, briefly and in a word; my thanks for your kindness. Although, as ray friend 2lr. Ash- Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton April 19 Ditto, via Marseilles April 13 Brazil and Cape Verde. by Bri tish packet '3 April 6 Ditto, by French pack et ........ April 2 I Cape of Good Hope , 5 A s cension, and St. Helena A China. Penang. and Sinvpure. via Southampton Ap p r r i ll t : Ditto, via Pdarse illes ..... . 1 ................... 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' ')1 '-' cs: ---- At 4 :4 FASHIONS FOR - , __,/ s (From Le Follet.) The law of fashion with regard to-the make of dress seems now estabilished in a very decided manner. It is quite inadmissible for any dress to be made with plaits all round the waist ; the front and sides, at any rate, must be plain. There are, however, two styles in vogue, the Pzincesse and the fourreau. For most figures we give the prefeence to the former, which has one large plait at the back; while the second is entirely on the bias, like a. long casassue, and is certainly less graceful, there being nothing to mark the waist, the fourreau is, therefore, less beconling than the Princes Be. For both .1 - -1-s the long train is necessary. The size of the crinoline is very sen sibly dimihished, but it cannot be altogether dispensed with whilst the dresses are so very long. Nothing can sustain them so well as the cage, though that may be of very small i dimensions. The fashion, also, of looping - dresses up over the petticoats, out of doors, which will certainly continue through the summer, renders the crino line indispensable, in order to sustain them gracefully. Woollen fancy materials are making their appearance for the spring season shut that which still as always meets with the greatest success in the foulard. There is no doubt it will be the favourite, being at once so firm and yet so light, and the patterns in such variety; it is suitable for visiting and soiree dress, as well as for robes de chambre. The foulard double-chain is especially charming. Of such solidity of texture it equals taffetas, and in one sense is preferable, being more durable. The white foulard double -chain is beautiful, of such a pearly white. A four reau made of this without any ornament but a white silk cord round the bottom, and trimming the body and sleeves, forms a simple yet charming dress. Cashmere foulard of patterns of bouquets—Watteau style—or stripes of violet, red or black, are reserved for robes de chambre, which are made with loose flowing skirt, lined with the same colour as the stripes. • The simple spring dresses will not be much trimmed-- patths, or lozenges, or silk pipings, will be all the ornament —but for riehersmaterials the various kinds of passemen terie will be in requisition. By passementerie our readers must not understand the gimp of former days merely, but silk cords mixed with gold, cameos, fringes, crystal, jet, and mether-of-pearl pendants in endless variety. The rage for Cluny lace has produced many pretty white batiste and muslin bodies trimmed with it, and for small reunions they are much spoken of ; but it must be said that black lace is preferable for evening wear, except ing, perhaps, fot quite young ladies. They are made with basquines of wide lace, and, if desired, a sash or band may be worn over them ; but they are always high, and some times made open a little way down the front. As to sleeves, when worn at all, they are quite small and straight, with an -insertion up the seam, but these casaques areas frequently made without as with sleeves. Of Course this depends upon the taste of the wearer. We commence our list of dresses this month with some full toilets for out-of-doors wear. A robe of eel grey poplin, with a b an d o f green taffetas round th! bottom, rounded and carried up the front, with arow of green button s on each side. Fitting paletot of the same material, with a bias of green taffetas up every seam. Pamela bonnet of green tulle, worked with crystal beads. . A dress of violet faille; atthe bottom oftheskirt a flounce put on in groups of three plaits, and headed by a band of velvet of the same shade, with jet ornaments upon i t similar band up every seam. Casaque of the same material as the dress, quite tight, short, and basquines slashed and trimmed to match velvet ceinture. Panama bonnet of violet crape, with a jet chain trimming it. A Princesse dress of violet poult de soie. Round the bottom a flounce of black guipure, wide in the front, but gradually narrowing towards the back, so that round the train it is quite narrow. Casaque to match the dress, with barques slashed up so as to make five different ends, com pletely separated and trimmed round with guipure. Pamela bonnet, entirely composed of shaded violets. Benoiton chain of jet. A morning toilet of knickerbocker, pale violet : dress, short paletot, and under skirt, all of the same material. At the bottom of the lower skirt a plaiting of violet taffetas Upon the dress, at each seam, a patte rather wide at the waist, and ending in three points with tassels, which fall over the bottom skirt. Paletot trimmed with revers of taf fetas. Fanchon bonnet of violet tulle. Three bouillons, separated by cordons of violets. A dark grey dress of taffetas, worked all over with small crystal beads, and round the bottom an embroidery of beads, forming a grecque. Long casaque of the same, trimmed to match. A Pamela bonnet of pink crape ; the back formed with a feather, which falls over the chignon. The feather is fastened by a triple row of crystal beads, which is joined at the sides, and falls over the strings in three rows, a la, Benoiton. A robe of black plush; long train, quite plain. Paletot of the same, trimmed with jet buttons, and piped with maize-coloured satin. Pamela bonnet of maize velvet. A cress of taffetas, Princesse make ; wide stripes of two shades of green. Up each seam a trimming of Cluny gni-, pure, laid flat. Two rows of Cluny up the front and round the throat. Sash tied in a bow behind, and with long ends, trimmed round with wide Cluny. Tight sleeves, with Cluny trimming. A Princesse robe of green moire. At the bottom of the skirt seven :small rouleaux of green velvet of a deepei shade, crossed every here and there by - a strap of green velvet, trimmed with a crystal fringe. Casaque of the' same trimmed to match, and with a band of velvet, and a bow trimmed with crystal fringe. Fanchon bonnet of• green tulle, spotted with crystal beads, and Benoiton chain' of crystal. _ A "light brown taffetas dress, with double skirt—the under skirt having round the bottom a velvet flounce of a deeper shade, plaited in groups of three plaits. The upper skirt is caught up by pattes of velvet and large mother-of idt s buttons.n e n r a e d a s a t prufiatrerht: fringe , ou Pockets conakasnre.hq sleevesuoef wgtoohleiantmeotniatrutecll pheasanthre pvw trimmedealimtvheetiamousque-taire feathers. bonnet, withw it Ban deau of feathers, and white strings. Dinner dress of silver-grey satin—Princesse make_ trimmed all up the front with a double row of white satin puffs let in the material, and edged round with black lace. Similar trimmings, on a smaller scale, up the seams of the sleeves, and fancy buttons of silver. SAMUEL WILDERSPIN, THE FOUNDER OF INFANT SCHOOLS, who died on the 10th inst., aged 74, was born at Hornsey, in Middlesex, not in poverty, as in one place stated, but in lowly rank He obtained only an elementary school education, and was placed to learn a common trade ; but his sympathies led him to become a teacher of poor children, ho began whore we in work houses and low neighbourhood ought to begin, namely, with the " precious infants," using a term which he de lighted to employ ; and the honest, truthful, little man suc ceeded as he deserved. His first school, we believe, was in Quaker-street, Spitalfields, London. As " Temple Bar" in 1861 said, "ho was at home in the midst of babies." What a fine touch of nature he displayed when he subdued tc quietude a school full of crying, yelling, kicking, little rebels, who had risen in boisterous panic to go to their mothers, by marching among them with his wife's gaily ribboned cap stuck on a clothes prop ! He used to be proud of this feat, and it illustrates the principle on which he acted. Mr. Wilderspin was married twico, and he had before throe daughters. Two of th ese h ave gone ' him. One was unmarried, and sh e li es i n Thorne's churchyard, where also his earthly remains, attended by friends, were placed last Wednesday morning. The other was the wife of Mr. Young, a fellow -worker of Mr. Wilderspin's, now principal of the Infant d epartment of the Irish Model Schoolsin Dublin, who was present at the funeral ; as also was his st.n, the Rev. Samuel Wilderspin Young, by whom part of the service was read, Mr. Jones officiating at the grave. Mrs. Ten ington is the remaining daughter. Her husband Was known to and respected by many here, he having, on some of his visits several years ago, lectured at our Mecha nics' Institution. Her son, too, was present at the funeral. [ADVERTISEMENT.]--HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Fusc rioN AL liv an er a DisoßDEits. —Who would be well must s ee ro t . h so a i t li e n v g er t y o organ of the body does its duty fully and fairly, which everyone may certainly insure by ece ybo les t7 .h i ln i nrl purifying Stomach, rtehefmroamhrdelinr gnitutraill. these Pills, or by taking a course of order and regularity re kip r i d n n t: y d s ',d and i r e c directions bowels fol dedall round reachedeach corrective powers; and any a st c o t r io e n d. is sHtreeanituhoursnlayyreasiivrstcaysd,ts. V 'adiree.!9 ll o s and by using his preserved by attentive obrdience to HolleeveY medi cine ,as advised by them. All means be removed, theblood will be purified, and its f ree and faultless circ ulation establ ished. ref) [A DVEnTisEMENT.] —Da: Barry's deliciousan d h valenta Arabica Fo od , ealth. restoring Re which contains three tines the nourishment of the best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, func tional regularity, and enemy to the most disordered or en feebled, removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dys peps'a), habitual Constipation, diarrhoea, hemorrhoids, liver comp Lints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises I the .. n head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neu ralgia, irritatality, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitat:en, heart burn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, na.rses, and sickness, sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, inci pient consumption. scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, &c. Certi ficate No. 29,410. We find it the safest remedy. Andrew Ure, M.D., F.R.S. ; Dr Harvey; Dr Wurzer ; Dr Shorland ; Dr Campbe:l. We quote a few out of the 62,0 0 cures r —Cure No. 5",314. Tittenson - I cannot express my gratitude for the benefit I have deriv,d from Du Barry's food. My ap. petite is perfectly restored, the pains in my leg, back, and chest are quite gone, and I am fast grefidng strength and flesh. Mrs A. Owen.—Cure No. 55,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of consumption, after her medical advisers abandoned all hopes of recovery.-Cure No. 49,g32. Of fifty years' ,ndescribable agony trem dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, liatulenCy, spasms, sickness at the stomach, a .d vomiting. Maria Joly, Virortham, Ling, near Dies, Norfolk. —Cure No 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazin g Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme nervous ness, Indig est i on , gather Inge, low spirits, and n , rvous fancies. 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