The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECLAIM-It 16, 1564

D EMEMBER ! WE WAI U SUPPER for you
alley the Covent Garden Opera, at EVANS'. Fa i I
not.

(10 PERSONS SEEKING LANDED
1,4: ATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY EX 3IDENCES,
FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND
PROPER TIES GENERALLY—
To BE lIAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls
throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices,
No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's
"FREE PROPERTY nEGIWYER," containing a varied selection
of landed and house properties now in the market, from
the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the
cottage with its few acres.
OWNERS OnPROPERTIEs wishing to Sell or Let can em-
brace the oppoi sanity that the medium of this Register
affords, by sending the particu!ars of their properties to the
Estate Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs.
Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers
where the property is of an eligible chara ter, thereby avoid-
ing the disadvantages of delay and its attenaant incon-
veniences.

THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur-
chaser is introduced through Messrs. Lumley's Agency,
tad then only the usual moderate commission.
Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London.

VURNI FURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and
FLOORCLOTH, CARRIAG E-FREE to any house in
the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First. class
goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to
Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select
from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground.
Every article warranted.
hGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR-
NISH are respectfully informed-that Messrs. Cobbett and
Co. are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un-
equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by 410
aim -able engravings of every description of Furniture and
tfeasteads, with
_prices attached. A copy sent g: atis and
post-free on application. This costly work also contains
complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised
s :

A Six-roomed Parsonage £74 8 0
An Eight-roomed ditto
A Ten-roomed ditto
A. Twelve-roomed ditto 'l9l 11 0
Together with a Trice List of purified Bedding, and a MUSS
of valuable informationto all requiring' househ3id furniture,
•arpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy-
men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton,
Chichester, Bury, Ety, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth,
Wells, Oxford. Brighton, Gainsborouet, Margate. Kidder-
minster, Wellington, Croydon, Cambridge, Staines, Dorking,
St. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, l'eterborough, St. David's,
Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Groat
Brit a

COiIIETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford.
bridge. London. B.E.

TARIS.---THE GRAND HOTEL, Boulevard
des Capuginea, Place de Nouvel7e Opera, opposite the
nue de la Paix, and near the Theatres.
Has been o; ened slims July, 1362. It contains 701 bed-
roo ns, prices from 4fr. to 25fr. ; 70 drawing-rooms, f. om Mr.
to 10fr. ; a magnificent salon, capable of dining more than
300 persons, and where there is a table d'hate at six oVock.
Dinners and breakfasts are served k la carte in the coffee-
rooms, as we 1 as in the apartments. There is a reading-
, corn with the best English and foreign papers and publica-
tions, a music-room and a drawing-room for the use of tra-
vellers without any additional charge. There are also baths,
billiard-rooms, smoking divans, post-office ; cabs, carriages,
and omnibuses going to the railway stath,n,. The servants
spe ,k all languages. This superb Hotel, possessing all tha‘,
modern luxury lard comfort can combine, and situ ited in the
most fashionable part of Paris, is recommended to the atten-
tion of travellers.

Independently of their Two Hotels, the Compagnid Immo-
biliere has est.bl !shed an exten tive Private Furnished House
on the Boulevard des Capucines, opposite the Rotunda of the
GI and Hotel, where Families can reside as in their own
private residences, and where they may rely upon finding
the utmost comfort.

Westminster Working-Men's Club and
Reading Room.

Yesterday evening the fourth annual meeting of
the patrons, friends, end members of this institu-
tion was held at the rcomq, Duck-lane, Westmin-
ster. The establishment was opened in D,cember,
1860, was eelarged in the following year, and rea
enlarged at the end of 1883. It has been.placed io
anion with the Society of Arts and the Metropoli-
tan Association for Promoting the Education of
Adults. It is open every evening, Sundays in-
clusive, and comprises a social club room for coffee,
smoking, &c., a penny bank, an enrolled Friends
of Labour Loan Society, a temperance society with
a sick fund for members, a barrow club for caster.
mongers, a cricket club, reading, writing, and
ciphering classes, a Bible class, a singing class, a
labour registry, I(ctures on interesting subjects, and
facilities for draughts and chess. A large number
of periodicals are supplied for the use of members.
A weekly subscription of one halfpenny only is
required of members. Numerous regulations are
laid down for the preservation of order, and the
ordinary details of the club are managed by a com-
mittee of 12 members. No less than 1050 members
had been enrolled on the books, but the number
actually existing is about 700, the average attend.
ance weekly being about 240. The follosving is the
balance sheet for the year 1864:—" Penny Bank
deposits, £Bl 4s 1d; withdrawn, £B2 17i SJ; since
the commencement, January, 1861—deposits, £232
is 9d; withdrawn, £215 IS 3d. Labour Loan So.
ciety, 75 members. Amount of stock, £ll2 14s
2id ; loans granted during the year, £228; amount
in circulation since commencement, £748 18a id.
Temperance Society Fund (ld a weeks Re-
ceived £7 5s ; paid in sickness, £5 lls
31d ; balance in hand, £7 93 80. Barrow
Club (for costermongers). Fifteen members have
become proprietors of their barrows since October,
1862, cost 50s each, instead of going on all their

lives paying is 3d and is 6d a week for the hire of
one. Oa the present occasion the meeting was largely
attended ty members, who appeared principally in
their working dresses; conspicuous in a place set
3part for them were a number of representative

members of temperance societies, who wore ribands
and badges distinctive of their order. The chair
was taken by Sir R. W. Carden, who was supported
by the Rev. J. B. Owen, M.A. ; the Rev. W. CGII.
way, Rector of St. Margaret's ; Rev. J. Wright,
M A.; J. G. Gent, Esq., Secretary of the Ragged

School Union; Mrs Cooper, Miss Adeline Cooper,
the foundress of the institution, and several other
ladies and gentlemen. The proceeding commenced

by the singing by the assembly of the 67th Psalm,
followed by prayer delivered by the Rev. Mr 0 wen.

The secretary, Mr E. Stephens, a member of the
club, read the report, Which stated the continued
success of the institution both in regard to the
carrying out of its objects—that of affording means
of recreation to working men, and promoting good
feeling and kindly intercourse amongst that body
in the district, and in the advancement of each of
the special advantages offered in the penny bank,
temperance, and labour loan societies, the lectures,
&c., while the utmost order had been preserved,
As an instance of which not a single work or perios

dical had been lost from the ctub•room. Theread-
ing and writing classes had been found to be of
great benefit to members. Regret was expressed
that, in consequence of the improvements which
were in contemplation, the building in which the

club was located was about to be pulled down, and
there was a difficulty in obtaining a new site for
the election of another. Special thanks were given
to Miss Adeline Cooper, the foundress and steady
bcnefActresa of the institution.-I'he Chairman, in
his opening remarks, dwelt strongly on the bene.
ti's whch had been conferred on the institution
by Miss Cooper, expressing his great regret at the

prospect of the club-room being swept away in
,he march of the so-called improvements in
the district, and urged the necessity of

providing lodgments at the most moderate rent for
the working classes, an object which Was much

overlooked and neglected, a want which was by no

means supplied by the establishment of what were

called model lodging-houses, and he enlarged on the
manifest advantages which were presented to the

body for whom it was established by this club, the
best test of which was to be found in its success in
its every department. Addresses were also delivered
by the Rev. I. 11 Owen, the Rev. W. Conway, the
Rev. J. Wright, Mr J. Payne, and others; after
which a vote of thanks to the chairman and gentle-
men who had attended was moved by Mr E. Bay..
ass, a blind member of the club, who was followed
by other members. "Rule Britannia" was then
sung by the meeting, and the proceedings were
concluded with the benediction.