The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, INIAY 11, 1865.

COUNT MAFFEI'S NEW WORK.

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vole., Bvo,
BRIGAND LIFE IN ITALY.
By COUNT LTAFFEL
Burst and Blackett, Publitthers, 13, Great Marlborough-
street.

DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO THE RT. HON. W. E.

GLADSTONE, CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.

Now ready. Vol. 1., Evo., with Portrait and upwards of IGO
Illustrations, price 215., elegantly. bound (the work will
be completed in one incite volume),
THE LIFE OF JOSIAH WEDGWOOD.
From his Private Correspondence and Family Papers
in the t ossession of Joseph Mayer, Esq.. F.S.A., Francis
Wedgwood, Esq., C. Darwin, EKI., M.A., F.R.S.' Miss Wedg-
wood, and other original sourc-a ; with an Introductory
Sketch of the Art of Pottery in England. By ELIZA
METnYARD.

"This la the Life of Wedgwood, to the expected appear-
ance of which I rderred at Burslem."—Extract from a letter
to the author by the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
"A very beautiful and valuable book."—Examiner.
Hurst and Blackett. 13, Great Marlborough-street.

MR. BAILLIE COCHRANE'S NEW WORK.
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215..

HISTORIC PICTURES.
By A. BAILLIE COCHRANE, M.P.

From the Times, April 2-I.—" Mr. Baillie Cochrane has
published two entertaining, volumes of studies from history.
rtfyltre lively reading. 'My aim,' he says, has been to de-
pict, events generally known in a light and. if possible, a
picturesqac manner.' Mr. Cochrane has been quite success-
ful in carrying out his intention. The work is a study of the
more interesting moments of history—what, indeed, the
author himself calls it, Historic Pictures.' "
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

ONLY A CLOD.—On May 10, at all Libraries,
in 3 vols., "ONLY A CLOD," the new Novel, by the
Author of "Lady Audley's Secret,'' &c.
John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street.

NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET," &C.
On May 10, at all Libraries, in 3 vols.,

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Just ready,

THE ANTI-TEAPOT REVIEW. No." 5.
Price Sixpence. The Back Numbers have been Re-
printed, and may be obtained through all respectable book-
sellers.
London : lloulston and Wright, 65, Paternoster-row.
Oxford: Wheeler and Day, BP, High-street.
Reading: Golder, London-road, West.

The BOOK of the DAY and EVERY MAN'S BOOM
Just published, pri3e Is. Gd , by post, free, ls. Bd.,

REVELATION of QUACKS and QUACKERY.
By DETECTOR.

For notices of this starting work see the "Saturday Re-
view" of April 1, entitled "Quacks and Quackery ;" the
"Weekly D.apatch" of April is. "The Quacks and their
Crimes ;" "The Sun" of April 12, "'Detector's' Broadside
on Quacks and Quackery."
GUIDE TO THE QUACKS OF LONDON.
A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in
the " Medical Cit cuter," with the• signature of "Detector,"
has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. The
realer of " Punch" should read this pamphlet also. Ile has
of ten read, in the pages of "Punch," of cc rtain Quacks, frau-
dulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences,
and more money by menaces and extortion, from green
young men. For their names, which "Punch" would not
advertise, he has referred his readers to the lower corner of
the advertising columns of low newspapers, amongst which
too mairy of Mr." Punch's" contemporai ies, especially in the
country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to pub-
lish the information that a nominal list of these miscreants,
with copies of their puffs and other particulars concerning
them, n-_edfut to be hnown, will be found in the pamphl t
above referred to, which is entitled " Revelatkns of Quacks
and Quackery," and is to be had at the "Medic ii Circular"
Office, 20, King William-street, Strand, W.C.
The vile practices, the monstrous impudence, the cruel
rapacity, and the enormous g ins of the obscene tribe of
Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they work, even to
the causation of suicide, are Hilly set forth in " Revelations
of Quacks and Qackery." And mark especially that, as
afork said, the names of the Quacks arc publishes. The
pamphlet ia question thus constitutes a regular Quack Di-
rectory. by consulting which every young man may know
where be may go if he wishes to get plundered and destroyed.
Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy " evelations of
Quacks and Quackery." Its contents will astonish and amuse
you, whi e they invoke you, indignation and disgust. 01
course you do not want it on account of its warnings for you-
own sake, but you doubtless do for that of the many simple-
tons with whom you must be acquainted, if your acquaint.-
ance is large. " Who are the Quacks that 'Punch' means ?"
Consider what it is to he ab'e to answer t',ls question of the
young and inexperienced, and, for charity's sake, if for no
other, go and provide yourself with "Revelations of Quacks
and Q tackery, ' by Detector.—Punch, April 12.

lEETE—No Fancy Names or Advertising
Chicanery. Fixed Prices, and all completed for the
charges named-3s. 61, 5s 7s. 6d , and the very best that can
be made, on floe gold, at 10 e'ich. A full set at £3, as good
as those advertised at L: and £5 ; an f the very beat that can
be made, on fine gold, at £.O the e.g. P.irtial sets in propor-
tion. Stopping, .2s 61.; extractions, ls. Repairs effected
whilst waiting. Teeth remodelled, and every case attended
to at fair but moderate chirges, by Mr. ALIIIMT, Old-
estaAshed Dentist, 31, Great Russell-street, W.o. on.
sul'atlons free. •

HAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls
Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold
at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 51 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine,
is. 6d., or 20 stamps.

GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.—
ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma-
nently- Ladies' Hair from 78. 6d. ; Gentlemen's from ss.
The Dye is sold at .3s. 6d, or sent free for 54 stamps. It is
most easy of um

HAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALliX. ROSS'S DEPILA VORY removes,
without effect to the sk;n, superfluous hair from the face,
neck, and arms. 3s. 6d.; sent the same darns ordered by post
for 5 t stamps.

SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in
ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which rpeedily
produces whiskers and thickens hair. 35. 6d.; sent free for 54
stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248 ,High Holborn, London. Essay
NI Hair, id.

PThIPLE REMOVER—AII diseases of the skin
are improved by one dose of. ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE-
TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness
post for 40 stAmps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High
Holborn, London.

ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, ls. ; sent for
14 stamps; Eye Colour, 3s. ed., or 54 stamps. Skin
tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or CO stamps.
Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps.—ALhX. ROSS, 248,
High Holborn, London.

DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A N EVER FAILING RENIEDY.—Pre-
Jared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, .Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
offer from bilious and Liver nomplaints, inilgesticn, wind.
ipasms, giddiness, dizziner,s of the eyes, Am For habitual
ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
4 the blood, they Are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and trrateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Soott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine arc a square
green package. with " William Lambert," engraved on the
stamp.

SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and
HO AB, Hampstead. Offices, 77, Cornhill.
l'A.rnow—The QUEEN.
TRUSTEES. _

Capt. the Hon. Francis Mande, I The .1/
R.N. Canon Champneys
Triv. •aortas Baring, Es 4., M _

R. C. L. Bevan, v •
This Instity4, Robert Hanbury, Esq.
want, VI? -"ion* is designed to supply a great national
—, an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in
the
..oyal Navy and Merchants Service and of Marines.
It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic
service, and provides a home free of expense for former
inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the
temptations they might otherwise be exposed to.
The Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU-
TIONS to meet the increasing applications through the
recent storms and loss (1 life at sea, and to enable them
eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the
necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
sa'.lors annually by casualties alone, without including those
who may perish by war.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the bankers, Messrs.
Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre-
tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill.
R. SWEETTNG, lion, Soo,
CHARLES NASH, Sec,

"TOME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N.,
for the Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, of
Outcast and Destitute Boys, and those verging on crime,
under 10 years of age.

President—ROßEßT HANDURY, Esq., 31.1,,
VICE-PRESIDENTS,
Stephen Cave, Esq., M;P. I Sir S. M. Peto, Bart.,
Henry E. Gurney, Esq. I Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.
Samuel Morley, Esq.

COMMITTEE.
Mr Alex. Anderson. I Rev. FL M`Sorley.
Mr. E. H. Burrows. Mr. W. J. Maxwell.
Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Alfred Short.
Mr. E. F. Gedge. Mr. Robert Sinclair.
Mr. George Moore. Mr. E.. 7. Tabrum.
Mr. Francis Lycett. Mr. It. T. Turnbull.
Treasurer—W. H. WillanP, Esq., 78, Baslnghall-street. E.C.
Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. tharles, 26, Suffolk-street,
Pall-Mall East, B.IV
Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard..

street,

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The mode of admission to the House is twofold,
Ist. By election of the subscribers. Bays thus admitted
are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till
they are 11 years of age.
With the view lo s cure the electron of the most deserving
cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas-
sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers.
The voting papers contain a description of each ease, as care-
ful y investigated by the Committee, and with this informa-
tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to
those most eligible for free admission.
2d. By payment of ss. a week, made qnarterly in advance.
All children must be under 10 years of age at the time of
admission. Those received on payment are admitted at any
time as soon as approved by the Committee,
Elections of c'd idren to be admitted free will take place as
frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will
admit, till the Home is fell; they will then be held periodi-
cally
Forme of aPPiloatiOnJor_tha,

IV-OW VISIT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.-
..LI Wet or Dry. I 'elightful Spring appearance of Gar-
dens and Park. Nature in fullest beauty. Refreshed by the
recent rain, the park ac d gardens truly cli•lightful. The
shrubs and plants in flower around the taxes have never been
so charmingly fresh. Alone worth a special vitit.
Performances by the Comp,ny's celebrated Orchestral
Band at 12.30 and 4.30, and on the Great Organ. Shakspe e
House, i ine Arts Courts, Picture Gallery, ( hinese Collec-
tion, Skating Hall, Chimpanzee, Archery, Bowls, Cricket,
B. ats, Sze,

linAgd.mission by New Guinea Season Tbkets, or One Shil-

,
('IRYSTAL PALACE. - SECOND. OPERA
CONUERT.--:,:ATUILDAY 13tii May.
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Principal artis:cs—Miss Laura Harris, Mdlle. Redi, Mdlle
Battelheim, Signor Sancti', Signor Boast, Signor Scalese.
and Signor Emanuele Carrion. Solo pianoforte, Adlle. Marie
NVieok. Chorus of 150 voices. Conductor, Mr. Manna.

Aernission by Guinca Season Tic' et free, or by day tickets,
if bought this day or to-morrow, Half-a-Crown ; by payment
on taturday, rive Shillings.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER
HALL. —Mr. LOSTA'S new Oratorio NAAHAN will
be performed for the first time In London. as a SUBSCRIP-
TION CONCERT, 'lO- AORROW, May It, conducted by
the Composer. Principal vocalists—Madame Rudersdoiff,
Miss E, monde, Madame Sainton-Doiby, Mr. Sims Reeves,
Mr. Cummings, and Mr. Santley. Tne Ban I and Chorus
complete in every department, the largest avai lab. e in Exeter
Hall, will consist of nearly Seven Hundred Performers. The
Oratorio will commence at Eight o'clock. Tickets at No. 6,
Exeter Hall

/[R. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.
JOHN PARRY, will appear,hi their new entertain-
ment, entitled A PECULIAR FAMILY, by William
Brough. New scenery by T. and W. Grieve. To conclude
with MRS. ROSELEAF AT THE SEASIDE, by Mr. John
Parry. Every Evening, except Saturday, at 8. Wednesday
and Saturday at ernoone, st 3. ROYAL GALLERY OF
ILLuantArioN, 14, Regent-street.

Unreserved seats, is., 2s. ; stalls, Is. ; etsll chairs, 58. May
be secured in advance, without fee, at the Gallery.

OPERA. DI CA3IEItA, every Tuesday and Thursday
at 3, and Saturday at 8.

TilE O XFORD,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury 11411 Company (limited).

ORP1110: AUX YNFMRS, LA. CIRVA.SSIENNE, and
the BROTHER AND SISTER, by Sir Henry Bishop, will
be performed during this week. Principal artistes : —Mons
Layessiere, 7 ignor- Spagnoll. M. Marini, -Mr. Green, Mieses
Ellison and Barrie. and Mdile. D'Auria, with full Band and
Chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.

MIRIAM (I'Enfante Planiste, aged 8 years) will play
"Blue Bells." par Oesten, and "La Priere d'une V.Urge,'
par Leduc, This Evening.-
Comedy, by Mr. George Hodson (the celebrated Comedian
and Mimic), Little Rob, Miss Kate Balfe, Les Freres Talliott,
the Grotesque, D'Aubans, Madame Rams den, and Les Freres
Stonette.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

Every Evening still:tit-past Seven. Admissioa—a:ea, 6d.;
stalls and balcony, Is.; private boxes, 10s. Bd.

Hall Company (limited).
nANTERBURY HALL.
(According to Act of Parliament).
kJ The Oxford
HandoCrpanGt?rEbury POD G
E,
CANTERBURY II AL L.—EVERY EVENING-
at half-past Nine o'clock.
In addition to the other attractions of this wonderful
cstab tishment. - -

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.-
Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street,
London. _

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Full-length Models of the late President LINCOLN,
basely assassinated ; also President DAVIS. of the Confe-
derate States; the late lamented RICHARD COBDEN,
Esq., and JOHN BRIGHT, Esq , may be seen at the Gallery.
NEW ADDITION.—A full length • Portrait Model of
JOHN WILKES BOOTH, the reputed assassin of the late
President Lincoln; t .ken from alikeness presented by him-
self to Mrs. Stratton, wife of General Tom Thumb.
Open from It a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS.--NOTICE.--RE-
ENGAGE WENT of J. LEVY, the celebrated Paga-
nini Corm t-a- Piston, will appear 14,VFnY EVENING at
Mae, Ten. and Eleven o'clock, and perform on Distin's
Patea Light-Valve Cornet.
Conductor—M. LUIG I CURTI.
Manager—M. GBENET.

ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN
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The COUPONS from the above Certificates i f Debenture,
due 15th May, will be PAID tit the Consolidated Bank
(Limit, d), and must b.! left two clear days at the Offices of
the Company for e, amination.
It-ream by post, a cheque,rtior the amount'will be remitteJ
In yours,
5, Westminster Chambers, Vietorin-street, Westminster ;
or 25, Throgrnorton-street, London, E.C.
May. 1565.

power to be anxious about, and was it not important
that the literature which exercised this influence
should be sound and honest and pure ? A power
was committed to the hands of the literary class
which was committed to no other, and he was bound
to say that that power tended very much to justice.
He might say, as a public man, that he believed that

the criticism to which all public men were subject
had a wholesome effect. It was not favourable to the
development of individual character, but it was
favourable to general action according to the rules
of good sense. The influence of literature, also, had
a great effect in securing us from panics. This had
been recently illustrated in the case of the Russian
epidemic, and of the assassination of President Lin-
coln. In the former case alarm might have greatly
tended to produce all the ill effects which were ap-
prehended, but by means of a few questions, and in
consequence of the facilities which men of science
now possessed for communication, alarm was dissi-
pated almost as soon as it was aroused. In the latter
case, but for the means of spreading information
which now existed, the most exaggerated ideas might
have prevailed in America as to the real character of
the crime which had been committed ; men might have
whispered words of terror into each other's ears, and
the apprehension might, and probably would, have
grown up that the murder of. Mr. Lincoln was the
result of a conspiracy including all classes of society.
Under the process of sifting which now went on by
the:help- of the world of letters, every man Contri-
buting his theory or statement, the crime would sink
to its proportions, and he trusted that it would be
found that it Was the act of one or two men, and
that the brave and generous people of the South who
had suffered so much in this war had not been in
the slightest degree implicated in it. (Loud applause.)
Passing from these general considerations to the
more immediate subject of their meeting, he could
not imagine any occupation more honourable than
an honest and independent literary man. There
must be a pleasure beyond ail other intellectual
pleasures in being able to count beforehand upon a
thousand, or ten thousand, readers, whose hearts
would beat sympathetically with yours, and whose
opinions would be formed upon yours, so that your
utterance would become part of the world's heritage,
and would last, in the common sense of mankind,
from generation to generation. Think of the little
work of Thomas a Kempis, translated into a hundred
languages, and sold by millions of copies, and which
in the inmost moments of deep thought men made
the guide of their hearts and the friends of their
closets ; or take the case of Sir W. Scott, who him-
self suffered greatly from literary toil. Surely it
must have been a great pleasure to him to think that
he had solaced many a sick bed, lightened the tedious
hours of recovery, and presented agreeable pictures
of life to-those who might be disposed to despond
or to despair. Take one of our own poets, Tennyson,
for example, whose great excellence it was that he
had poetized the life of the 19th century. Must it
not be a source of great satisfaction to him to know
that his works would be read by tens of thousands
of readers, and that the thought which struck him
as the best and truest would become the best and
truest to thousands of people who would repeat
them and love them ? (Applause.) Let them now
go to the other side of the picture. Because
the position of the literary man was so lofty there
was a reverse to the medal. Because his privileges
were so high his career was attractive, and many
persons embarked upon it who failed in their endea-
vours after success. Their wine might be very good,
but it had not the special aroma and flavour which
were necessary to secure it appreciation. They failed
to gain the sympathy of their readers, and soon
found that they had made a grand mistake as to
their avocation. More than that, a man's faculties ,
must decay, and he might become unable to work,
or one who liad worked hard all his life, and although
able to support himself had not been able to make a
provision for those whom he loved, might be taken
away. These were all cases in which this fund
would come into operation. At a meeting in
another place the other day he heard a gentleman
say that all charity was either useless or positively
mischievous ; if it went in aid of the parish rates it
was useless, and if it did not it was altogether mis-
chievous. Having had considerable experience of
the working of charities ho could not at all agree
with that declaration. It was often impossible for
literary men to piovide for their families ; and he
could not admit that indoor relief in the workhouse
was the proper and only resource of the widows and
children of those who had instructed us, amused
our leisure, and improved our lives. In the case of
bodily labour no man could go on working after the
limbs absolutely required rest, but with regard to
mental labour the case was different. Thebrain could
unfortunately be coaxed to go on working until it
died, and there were hundreds and hundreds of cases
of men in this teeming city who were working their
brains to death, and who if they were told they ought
to rest would reply that the system under which
they were working was so constituted that rest was
impossible. Society was responsible for the exist-
ence of that system. It insisted upon having
its daily paper, and you could not seize upon the
man who wrote the leaders, or who reported, and
tell him that he was imprudent because he did the
work which his position absolutely required of him.
In his opinion as applied to cases arising out of cir-
cumstances and conditions such as those to which
he had alluded charity was neither mischievous nor
useless. In consequence of his being called upon
to take the chair upon that occasion he had had the
opportunity of inquiring into the operations of this
corporation and becoming acquainted with the cases
in which assistance had been given, and he was pre-
pared to say that, so far as he could judge, the
charity of the society had in all cases been bestowed
upon deserving objects. The late Mr. Thackeray,
who was a friend of his, had adorned the Charter-
house by his description of one of the poor brethren
now departed, Colonel Newcome. He was himself
a governor of the Charterhouse, and was desirous
that the persons who obtained the advantages of
that foundation should be chosen from the class for
whose benefit it was originally intended, and from
which Mr. Thackeray appeared to have supposed
that they were selected. It was, therefore, his in-
tention as soon as a vacancy came to him to consult
the secretary of this corporation, and if he could
name a real literary man who would accept the pre-
sentation he sliould mark his sense of the honour
which had been done him by his selection to preside
upon this occasion by appointing him one of the
poor brethren of the Charterhouseto succeed Colonel
Newcome. (Applause.)
The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm, and
subscriptions to the fund were afterwards announced
to the amount of upwards of £l,OOO.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE proposed " The
Health of the Chairman," which was most cordially

received, and briefly acknowledged by the most rev,
prelate.

Mr. GOSCUEN propose " The Literature of Eng-
land," coupling with the toast the name of the Dean
of Westminster.

The Dean of WESTMINSTER, in responding, dwelt
upon two peculiarities of English literature—one
that, while the literature of other countries, such as
Italy and Spain, had flourished for a time and then
come to an' end, there had in England been several
successive periods at which literature had reached a
high pitch of excellence, and at all of which, though
differing materially in each, it was intimately iden-
tified with the life and character of the nation ; and
the other that the literature of our time, al-
though still maintaining the insular indepen-
dence which marked our character, had become
more cosmopolitan than it was formerly, and had
in different branches been materially influenced by
the literature of France and Germany. Ho con-
cluded with a panegyric upon living historians, in-
cluding Earl Stanhope, Mr. Merivale, the historian
of Julius Caesar, who found an Imperial rival who,
with all the resources of his empire would find it