The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1865.

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Remarkable Houses, Extraordinary Persons and
Events, &c. &c.
By JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A.,
Author of "A Century of Anecdote," &e. Sc.
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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 Dispatch" of April 9, "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 Circular," with the signature of "Detector,"
has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. The
reader of " Punch" should read this pamphlet also. He has
often read, in the pages of "Punch," of certain 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 many of Mr." Punch's" contemporaries, 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,edful to be known, will be found in the pampbl. t
above referred to, which is entitled "Revelations of Quacks
an I Quackery," and is to be had at the "Medical Circular "
Office, 20, King William-street, Strand, W.C.
The vile practices, the monstrous impudence, the cruel
rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of
Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they work, even to
the causation of suicide, are fully set forth in " Revelations
of Quacks and Qackery." And mark especially that, as
aforesaid, the names of the Quacks are published. The
pamphlet in question thus constitutes a regular Quack Di-
rectory, by consulting which every young man may know
where he may go if he wishes to get plundered and destroyed.
Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy " Revelations of
Quacks and Quackery." Its contents will astonish and amuse
you, white they invoke your indignation and disgust. Of
course you do not want it on account of its warnings for your
own sake, but you doubtless do for that of the many simple-
tons with whom you must be acquainted, it your acquaint-
ance is large. " Who are tne Quacks that 'Punch' means I"
Consider what it is to he able to answer this question of the
young and inexperienced, and, for charity's sake, if for no
other, go and provide yourself with "Revelations of Quacks
and Quackery," by Detector.—Punch, April 12.

THE Duke of SIITHERLA_ND and PER-
CENTAGES to SERVANTS.—Write for your TEA
direct to the EAST INDIA TEA COHL'AANY. China,
Assam, and Japan Teas in every variety, from is. 10d. per
lb. upwards. List of prices sent on application.—Ware-
houses, 9, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, City.

THE BENEFACTOR OF THE SKIN.-
➢iOLI.ARD'S perfumed Toilet Sulphur Soap and
Cream, highly patronised by the faculty, nobility, and gentry.
Nothing equals the properties and qualities of the Soap No.
1 for ordinary toilet purposes, and of N os. 2 to 5 in all oases
of cutaneous affections or rheumatism.

Perfumed toilet cream, cold cream, and pomatum for the
hair.

Barege cream for sulphur baths, without any disagreeable
odour. _ _ _

All these preparations may be had at the central depot,
221 A, Regent-street, London, W. ; and at Messrs. Newbery
and Sons, Barclay and Sons, Edwards, Keating, Sanger and
Son, Jozeaunetti, and all chemists. Pamphlets and tests-
monlals tree on a plication.
Agent for Edinb argh—Mr. John M'Kay, chemist, 119,
George-street.

TEET 11.--No Fancy Names or Advertising
Chicanery. - Fixed Prices, and all completed for the
charges named-35. 6d., 5s , 7s. 6d , and the very best that can
be made, on fine gold, at 10:i. each. A full set at £3, as good
as those advertised at £1 and £5 ; and the very best that can
be made, on fine gold, at £lO the set. Partial sets in propor-
tion. Stopping, 2s 61; extractions, Is. Repairs effected
whilst waiting. Teeth remodelled, and every case attended
to at fair but moderate charges, by Mr. ALBERT, Old-
established Dentist, 31, Great Russell-street, W.(l. Con-
sultations 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 50 stamps. Moss'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 7s. 6d.; Gentlemen's from ss.
The Dye is sold at
.38. 6d, or sent free for Si stamps. It is
most easy of we.

HAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX.'ROSS'S DEPIL &Tom( removes,
without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face,
neck, and arms. 3s. 6d.; sent the same day.as ordered by post
for 51 stamps.

SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in
ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily
produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free fors4
stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248 , high Holborn, London. Essay
m Hair, id.

PIMPLE REMOVER—AII diseases of the skin
are improved by one dose of ,ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE-
TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness
dre. 28. 9d.; by post for 40 st,unps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High
Holborn, London,

ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, ls. ; sent for
14 stamps; Eye Colour, 3s. ed., or 51 stamps. Skin
tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or eu stamps.
Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps.—AL:s:X. ROSS, 218,
High Holborn, London.

SAUCE.—LEA and PERRINS'
WO RCE6TERSHIRE SAUCE.
This delicious condiment, pronounced by cmnoissenrs #
"THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE,"
Is prepared solely by LEA and PERRINS.
The public are respectfully cautioned against worthless
imitations, and should see that Lea and rerrins' names are
on wrapper, label, bottle. and stopper.
ASK for LEA and PERRINS' SAUCE.
So'd wholesale and for export by the Propeetors, Wor-
cester Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell; Messrs. Barclay and
Sons, London, &c. &c. ; and by Grocers and Oilmen uni-
versally.

PARIS.-GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE.-
Establishbd in 1855.—Situated in the most Central
part of Paris Rue de Rivoli and Place du Palate ttoyal—Six
Hundren Bed-rooms' at from 3tr. to 20tr—Sixty sitting-
room s at from 41r. to 2 fr.—a richly-decorated Dining Saloon
—Table d'HOte at six o'clock—Public Coffee and Dining
Rooms Choice Wines—Dinners served It It carte both in the
dining rooms and the private apartments—Reading and
Conversation Saloons; also Saloons for Musical, Wedding,
and other ptrties—all Newspapers and Serial Publications
received—llivans, Coffee, Smoking and Billiard Rooms—
numerous Bath-rooms—Carriages on the premises —first-
class Private Equipag-es at command -Omnibues runnng
to all the railway et dions— stal Letter-box—sTelegri ph
Office day and night—Photograph Studio—a staff of servants
speaking all languages.
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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—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G
President—Hls Grace the Duke of BUCCLE UCH, K.G.

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This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a con •iderable period averaged between
8,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee
,the requisite funds to maintain them.

Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mai-
lerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ' • llerries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; W 'Maras, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; I. Barned and
Co . Liverpool; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.
. STANFORD SMITH, Secretary.

DOME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N.,
for the Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, of
utcast and Destitute Boys, ,and those verging on crline,
under 10 years of age.

President—ROßEßT HANBURY, Esq., 1.4,1.. P,
VICE-PRESIDENTS.

I Sir S. M. Peto, Bart, M.P.
li Abel Smith, Esq., 31. P.
StcenprhyenE.Cave, Gurney,Es E.,
Bt. P.
Samuel Morley, Esq. I
COMMITTEE.
Mr Alex. Anderson. ' Rev. H. 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. I Mr. E. J. Tabrum.
Mr. Francis Lycett. Dlr. It. T. Turnbull.
Treasurer—W. H. Wiliam, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.C.
Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, 5.6, Suffolk-street,
Pall-Mall East, S.W.
Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard-

E.C.

The mode of admission to the House is twofold,
Ist. By election of the subscribers. B lys thus admitted
are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till
they are 11 years o, age.
With the view lo secure the election of the most deserving
cases, the Commit' e 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 case, 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 quarterly 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 children to be admitted free will take place as
frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will
admit, till the Home is full ; they will then be held periodi-
cally
Forms of application for the admission of children may ba
had at the acme, and et the Honorary Oevretary,

AGRAND UNIVE_
BIEL t) at ST. JAME
Wednes..ay. May 17, Thursda.
Saturday, May 2 1.:65, in Al.
The Infant Asylum and Or-
phanage of the Sisters of
charity..
Th 3 licuse.of Refuge for Fe-
male Prisoners.
The French Schools of Sistcra
of Charity.
The Servants' Home, St. Ed-
ward's Convent, Blandford-
square.
The Milan Church and Cha-
rities.
The New Church, Kensington.
Opens e eh day at 2.0 p.m. ; closes at 10.0 p.m.
Admission —First and second days till 6.0 p.m., 25. 6d. ;
after 6.0 p.m., Is.; other days, Is. ; children, halt-price.

SAL BAZAAR will be
i'S HALL, Tuesday, May 16,
May 18, Friday, May 19, and
D of
l'he Little Sisters of the Poor.
The llot.pital of St. John and
Eliz &eat.
The New Schools, Warwick-
street, Golden-square.
The German Church snd
Charities.
The Orphanage, Vic.rage-
place, Kensington.
The Saint Ninolas Industrial
School, Walthamstow.
The Soc.ety of St. Vincent-de-
Paul.

STALL I
Hcr Exc•eilency the Countess
Apponyi.
The Marchioness of London-
derry.
The Dowager Marchioness of
Lothian.
The Countess of Newburgh.
The Dowager Countess 01
Buchan,
The Viscountess Norreys.
The Lady Edward Fitzalan
Howard.
The Lady William Hervey.
And many (

OLDEUS:
The Lady Georgiana Fuller-
ton.
The Lady Arundel of War-
dour.
The Baroness Maroehetti.
the Hon. Mrs. More O'Fer-
rall.
The lion. Mrs. Henry Petre.
The Hon. Mrs. Charles Petre.
Lady Blount.
Lady Bedingfield.
Lady Chichester.
Lady Clifford.
ether Ladies.

NOW IS THE TIME TO. VISIT THE
11 CRYSTAL PALACE.—WetorDry. relighlful Spring
appearance of Gardens and Park. Nature in fullest beauty.
Refreshed by the recent rain the park and gardens truly
delightful. The shrubs and plants in flower around the lakes
have never been so charmingly fresh. Alone worth a special
visit.

TO-MORROW.—Performances by the Company's cele-
brated Orchestral Band at 12.30 and 4.30, and on the Great
Organ.. Shakspe, e House, Fine Arts Courts, Picture Gallery,
Chinese 'ollection, Skating Hall, Chimpanzee, Archery,
Bowls, Cricket, Boats, &o. _

Admission by New Guinea Season Tickets, or One Shil-
ling, from Monday to Friday. Saturday, Great Flower Show,
Seven Shillings and Sixpence ; or by Tickets had before the
day, Five Shillings.

EVERY ONE SHOULD HAVE THE
CRYSTAL PALACE NEW SEASON TICKET.
Unparalleled Attractions for One Guinea only. See Pro-
gramme.

CRYSTAL PALACE.- FLOWER SHOW
NEXT SATURDAY,

NOTE.—The unusually fine season and other causes already
give promise that, high as the Crystal Palace Flower Shows
have hitherto stood in public estimation, the coming exhibi-
tion will be one of the very finest on record.

Five Shilling Tickets should be taken at once. The price
oa the day will be Seven Shillings and Sixpence.

GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL-
CRYSTAL PALACE.—REHEARSAL, FRIDAY,
June 23; MESSIAH, MONDAY, June 25; SELECTION,
WEDNESDAY, June 28 ; ISRAEL IN EGYPT, FRIDAY,
June 30.

Stalls, Plans, and Programmes at the Crystal Palace, and
at 2, Exeter Hall. Rehearsal Stalls and admissions should
be taken without delay.
NOTE.--A Photogra; h, carte de visite size, of the Orchestra
of Four Thousand Performers will be sent free by post on
receipt of two postage stamps at the Crystal Palace, or at No.
2, Exeter

STODARE STODARE 1 I STODARE ! 1-
The NEW and EXTRAORDINARY ILLU -lONS
which Colonel Stodare performs EVERY NIGHT, at Eight,
and Saturday Afternoons, at Three, continue to attract
crowded and brillant audiences. Early application for the
stalls is respectfully solicited. THEATRE OF MYSTERY,
EGYPTIAN HALL. The great Indian basket feat termi-
nates each representation. "This is most decidedly the
sensation for the season."
Admission, Is.; area, 2s. ; stalls, 35., which may be ob-
tained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street,
and at the Box-office.
A. NIMMO, Acting Manager.

MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.
JOHN PARRY, will appear in their new entertain-
ment; entitled A PECULIAR FAMILY, by William
Brough. New scenery by T. and W. Grieve. To conclude
with MRS. ROSELEAP AT THE SEASIDE, by Mr. John
Parry. Every Evening, except Saturday, at 8. Wednesday
and Saturday afrernoons, at 3. ROYAL GALLERY OF
ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent-street.

Unreserved seats, ls., 28. ; stalls, 38. ; stall chaire, ss. May
be secured in advance, without fee, at the Gallery.
OPERA DI CAMERA, every Tuesday and Thursday
at 3, and Saturday at 8.

THOXF O R D,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

ORPH AUX ENFERS, LA CIRcASSIENNE, and
the BROTHER AND SISTER, by Sir Henry Bishop, will
be performed during this week. Principal artistes : —Mons.
Lavessiere, signor Spagnoli, AL Marini, Mr. Green, Misses
Ellison and Barrie, and Mdile. D'Auria, with full Band and
Chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.

MIRIAM (1143nfante Planiste, aged 8 years) will play
"Blue Bells." par Oesten, and "La Friere d'une Viiirge, '
par Leduc, This Evening.

- Comedy, by Mr. George Hodson (the celebrated Comedian
and Mimic), Little Hob, Miss Kate Balfe, Les Freres TaMott,
the Grotesque, D'Aubans, Madame Ramsden, and Les Freres
Stonette.

Conductor, Kr. F. Jonghmans.
Every Evening at Halt-past Scven. Admiesioa—area, 6d.;
stalls and balcony, is.; private boxes, 10s. 6d.

CIANTERBURY HALL.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
HODGE PODGE,
(According to Act of Parliament).
CANTERBURY 11 ALL—EVERY EVENING
at half-past Nine o'clock.
Tn addition to the other attractions of this wonderful
establishment.

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

Full-length Models of the late President LINCOLN,
basely assassinated ; also President DAVIS. of the Confe-
derate States; the late lamented HICtIARD COBDEN,
Esq., and JOHN BitIGIIT,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, taken from a likeness presented by him-
self to 5f r . Stratton, Wife of General Tom Thumb.

Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill - street,
Piccadilly.
PROMENADE, CONCERT, and DANCE every Evening.
This admired Band, under the direction of Signor LUIGI
CURTI, will perform at 9 o'clock a GrAnd Overture, at II
o'clock a Selection from a favourite Opera, and a series of
novel Dance Music till 12 o'clock.
Open at half- past 8. Admission,,ls.
Manager—M, GRENET.

public demand. Of social reforms it has none on
the anvil, and it has promised nothing of interest in
the way of administrative changes. Mr. Gladstone's
possible' railway scheme is not a proposal in the
party sense, for it is admitted that it cannot be
carried without the consent of the interests con-
cerned, and to stir up a battle there must be a bone
to be taken from some dog or other. There is in
fact literally nothing before the country, not even a
" lorcha case," and no cry except the Premier's
name, which has partially lost its power.
THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE EDMUNDS,
AND SOME OTHER SCANDAL.—Considering that we
are, and are rather proud of being, a shopkceping
nation, the way in which our chief shop is conducted,
and our accounts of the national receipts and expen-
diture kept, ought to be a model, both as regards
morality and accuracy, for business men. The
Edmunds Inquiry has therefore a value far beyond
the immediate matters with which it was concerned.
Mr. Edmunds' own character, and his curious no-
tions about honesty and honour and all that kind
of thing, have only a philosophical interest. The
odd sort of way in which everybody found it to be
his duty not to see the things which were before his
eyes shows the existence of a new moral disease,
quite as formidable as any Russian epidemic, which
seems specially to attack the House of Lords. As
is only fitting, the Speaker of the Upper House has
been most severely afflicted by this visitation. The
Lord President of the Council and the Chairman of
Committees are the victims who have suffered in
the second degree ; and while the members of her
Majesty's Government have incurred considerable
danger, it is characteristic of the general prevalence
of this malady that the chiefs of her Majesty's Op-
position have not escaped the epidemic, which has
invariably attacked the seat of moral vision. The
Lord Chancellor, who was perfectly well acquainted
with a notorious embezzlement of public funds, did
not consider it to be his duty to do anything to pre-
vent the embezzler, Mr. Edmunds, from getting an
honourable and substantial pecuniary testimonial
from the national purse. The Lord President of
the Council, though equally well informed on the
subject, thought it right to absent himself from an
inquiry in which he might have thrown the most
essential light on the only point which couldbe of the
slightest importance to a body especially entrusted
with the duty of seeing that pensions are exclusively
conferred on good and honest officers. This body, al
Committee of Inquiry, though all in possession of
unfavourable reports on the conduct of Mr. Edmunds,
did not deem it to be part of their duty to ascertain
whether there was any ground for those reports. One
member of the committee, on being told that he and
his colleagues ought at least to have waited for the
information to come formally before them which
they already possess informally, is seriously ag-
grieved at this delicate hint ; and, riding a very
high horse indeed, lays it down boldly and broadly
that to inquire into a certain set of circumstances
means to see as little of them as you possibly can,
and that to endeavour to find out a thing which you
have every reason to believe is purposely withheld
from you is quite beyond the meaning of inquiry at
all. This is the sort of political morality which
official life in England has, as it seems, a natural
tendency to secrete. If Lord Westbury had not
been Chancellor and official guardian of the Queen's
conscience, he could never, as he did on the 7th of
March, have indignantly denied that he had at any
time, or in any way, " ever held out to Mr. Ed-
munds that if he would resign he would use his good
offices to obtain a pension for him"—the fact being
that he had written, " All I can say is that, if Mr.
Edmunds thinks proper to resign, I will do all I can
with propriety to obtain for him his pension." If,
again, such a man as Lord Redesdale had not been
for many years Chairman of Committees, he would
assuredly not have discovered that important dis-
tinction between private and official morality which
he and his colleagues have so remarkably exemplified.
Nay, even if the House of Lords were only a body
of gentlemen who conducted the ordinary concerns
of life on the ordinary principles of English gentle-
men, they would have scarcely presented that spec-
tacle which now astonishes, if it does not edify, the
world outside the Peerage. We infer from these
concurrent instances a great principle of official
morality, which seems to be to do as little as possi-
. ble in the way of duty, for fear of being thought im-
pertinently and intrusively zealous in the execution
of a trust. It is the same great view of responsibility
which has possessed itself of so many of our domes-
tic servants, who never sweep out the bedrooms,
clean the kettles, or dust the curtains, because they
are not every day pointedly and specifically charged
to execute these tasks.
THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON THE LATE DIVISION
LIST AND TIIE GENERAL ELECTION.—The division
list on Mr. Baines's Borough Franchise Bill has
been scanned with great eagerness throughout the
country. It will play an important part at the
coming general election. Every M.P. who goes to
his constituency for re-election will be expected to
explain and defend his vote on Mr. Baines's bill.
Every candidate not now in Parliament will have to
state whether he would have voted with the ayes or
noes. An analysis of the division list may assist the
politician in weighing the party interests concerned,
and in speculating upon the influence which the di-
vision is likely to exercise upon those who took part
in it. The members of the Government voted, al-
most to a man, for the bill. Lord Palmerston was
the great exception. He was absent from illness,
and he did not think proper to " pair" for the mea-
sure. Every other member of the Cabinet in the
Lower House voted for the second reading. Sir
George Grey, Sir C. Wood, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. C. P. Villiers, Mr.
Milner Gibson, Lord Clarence Paget, the Marquis
of Hartington, Mr. H. A. Bruce, the Lord Advo-
cate, Mr. W. Cowper, Viscount Enfield, Mr. T. G.
Baring, Mr. Childers, Mr. Peel, the Solicitor-Gene-
ral, Mr. Headlam, and Mr. Brand, all went into the
lobby with Mr. Baines. The Attorney-General
shirked the division, and as he did not " pair" he
may be set down as unfavourable to the measure.
The same may be said of Sir Robert Peel, and the
junior Treasury Whip, Mr. K. Hugessen. It may
be thought that the votes thus given by members of
the Government in favour of an extension of the
suffrage will enable those who represent popular
constituencies to pass through in triumph. They
are, however, bound by Sir George Grey's explana-
tions and limitations, some of which are by no means
acceptable to advanced Reformers. The Home Sec-
retary voted for the bill, but reserved to himself the
right of altering the amount of the franchise, should
the bill ever get so far as the committee. So far
from going to the country pledged to bring forward
some great measure of reform in the next Parlia-
ment, the Government, through its mouth-piece,
Sir George Grey, would not promise .to deal with
the question of Parliamentary Reform at all, and
does not ask for the support of the country on this
ground. If, indeed, there should be some persis-
tent and overwhelming expression of public opinion
in favour of Parliamentary Reform the Home
Secretary intimates that the Government would be
ready to do the behests of the country. But as any
such overpowering demonstration is very unlikely
to be made, especially since the Government de-
clines to lead the way and to put itself at the head
of the reform movement, it will be taken for granted
by the democratic section of politicians that the
question of reform and the extension of the suffrage
is postponed sine die. This is not an attitude which
a member of the Government representing a large
popular constituency will find conducive to his ease
and comfort. Mr. Layard may have some difficulty
in satisfying the electors of Southwark that the Go-
vernment have behaved fairly to the working
classes. Mr. Milner Gibson at Ashton-under-Lyne,
and Mr. Villiers at Wolverhampton, will be told
that a Liberal Government is abdicating its highest
functions in holding the language of Sir George
Grey. The Conservatives came out of the debate
with clean hands. Lord Derby, after the last general
election, repudiated his own Reform Bill, and de-
clared that he was no longer bound to propose
either that or any other measure of Parliamentary
reform; The Conservatives have consistently op-
posed the measures of Mr. Locke King and Mr.
Baines. They have with some reason contended
thdt reform ought not to be dealt with bit by bit,
and that the £lO county franchise and a £6 borough
franchise cannot hope to pass either of those mea-
sures until they are introduced by the Govern-
ment, and made severally a Cabinet question.
The unanimity of the Conservatives in the
house will be imitated at the hustings by their
adherents. Not a single stray Conservative slighted
the traditions of his party by voting for the £6 fran-
chise for the boroughs. Several old Whigs absented
themselves from the division. The majority of 74
in favour of the " previous question" was further
swelled by about 30 Liberals. Sixteen of the num-
ber are county members ; five represent Scotch, and
three Irish constituencies. Their names are Mr.
Adeane, Cambridgeshire ; Major Anson, Lichfield ;
Mr. Bonham C artPr, Win chester ; Lord John Browne,
Mayo ; Sir R. Bulkeley, Anglesea ; Sir M. Cholme-
ley, Lincolnshire (North) ; Colonel Coke, Norfolk
(East); Mr. Duff, Banff ; Lord Dunkellin, Galway.
(Borough)* Mr. Finlay, Argyllshire ; Mr. Fitzwil-
ham, Malt;m ; Mr. Foley, Staffordshire (South) ,
Mr. Foster; Staffordshire (South); Mr, Greufell,

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Preston; Earl Grosvenor, Chester • Lordly. Grosve-
nor, Flintshire • Mr. Gurdon, Norfolk (West);
Mr. Hassard, Waterford ; Mr. Heathcote, Rutland-
shire ; Mr. Horseman, Stroud ; Mr. Lowe, Calne ;
Mr. Mackie, Kirkcudbrightshire ; Mr. Marsh, Salis-
bury ; Sir J. Matheson, Ross and Crornarty
Colonel Packe, Lincolnshire (South); Mr. O.
Ricardo, Worcester ; Mr. Augustus Smith, Truro ;
Mr. Vernon, Worcestershire (East) ; Mr. John
Walter, Berkshire ; and Mr. W. B. Wrightson,
Northallerton. To these may be added the tellers
—Lord Lichee Haddingtonshire ; and Mr. Black,
Edinburgh. Mr. Lowe's seat for Caine is secure so
long as he retains the favour of the Marquis of
Lansdowne. The question, however, arises whether
the Conservative tendencies of the right hon. gen-
tleman's speech may not be too strong for the diges-
tion of a Whig peer. People who knew the last
revered possessor of the title aver that Mr. Lowe
would never have sat for Caine again if he had
made so obstructive a speech in the lifetime of the
late Marquis. The present peer may be more timid
than his father, and the appearance of the names of
members of the Whig families of Westminster,
Clanricarde, Fitzwilliam, Sligo, Lichfield, and Coke,
in the majority against Mr. Baines's bill, shows that
the measure is regarded with more or less distrust
by the Whig nobility. It is so extremely improbable
that Mr. Lowe would venture to stand for a Liberal
borough that it is conjectured he either obtained
beforehand Lord Lansdowne's consent to his speech
against the extension of the suffrage, or determined
to throw himself into the arms of the Conservatives.
More than half the weight of the speech was derived
from Mr. Lowe's late position on the Ministerial
benches. If it had been delivered on the other side
of the House, the arguments and vaticination would
have fallen comparatively still-born. Another
speech so damaging to progress, and Mr. Lowe
must be invited to consider whether he is not bound,
in honesty and fairness to the Liberals, to cross the
floor of the House. Mr. Walter may not share Mr.
Lowe's alarm at the growth of the democratic in-
fluences ; but, having voted with the right hon. gen-
tleman against Mr. Baines's bill, he is likely to
suffer from any dissatisfection which the Liberal
party in Berkshire may feel at Mr. Lowe's speech.
We hear that Mr. Walter refuses to convas his
county, and, as the Conservatives have three
candidates in the field—men of family and posi-
tion,--it is by no means unlikely that he will
lose his seat at the next election. Mr. Black retires
from Edinburgh, and Mr. Augustus Smith from
Truro at the close of the present Parliament. Mr.
Horsman's elaborate speech against Reform is not
calculated to make him more acceptable to two
Liberal electors of Stroud. Mr. Marsh being, like
the member for Caine, a returned Australian, has a
horror of transferring all political power into the
hands of working men, and too hastily adopted Mr.
Lowe's conclusion that a £6 borough franchise
would have that effect. The danger which now
threatens the Liberal party is that the working
classes and the numerous voters who sympathise
with the cause of the unenfranchised may be alien-
ated from their natural leaders by the tone which
Sir G. Grey was instructed by the head of the Ad-
ministration to assume. If the advanced Liberals
take a serious view of what they may consider the
faithlessness of, the Government to the cause of
Parliamentary Reform, they will not in a few cases
run a Radical against a Whig, and thus let in a
Tory. When they cannot find a candidate of their
own, they may regard the contest of a Whig of
Mr. Lowe's stamp with a Conservative with apathy
and indifference. If the men of progress bring them-
selves to believe that it is not worth going across
the street to keep Lord Derby out or maintain Lord
Palmerston in many votes will be lost to the Mini-
stry, and the Conservatives may meet the new Par-
liament with a considerable majority. The ques-
tion which the Reformers will then have to determine
will be whether the foreign policy of the Palmerston
Cabinet and Mr. Gladstone's splendid financial legis-
lation are of themselves so desirable as to compensate
and atone for the virtual abandonment of Parlia-
mentary Reform.
" THE EXAMINER" ON INDIAN FINANCE.—Sir
Charles Trevelyan has ended a long and useful
financial career by a great financial blunder. After
a series of many years of consecutive deficits his
predecessor had made both ends meet, and even
exhibited a small surplus of £78,347. Sir
Charles has not only got rid of this surplus,
but produced, after two years' labour, a deficit
of £344,143, or in other words he has left
the financial condition of India worse than he
expenditure
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financial
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found it by the sum of £422,490. His estimate last
year made for the present amounts to a miscalcula-
tion of no less than £1,167,431. But Sir Charles
Trevelyan is by no means answerable for all this
unless in so far as he may have lent himself to the
continuation of a bad system of finance. The pre-
sent revenue, now above £46,000,000, has risen
froni a fourth, a third, and one-half our own, to be
now in round numbers within £24,000,000 of it. It
is not, indeed, the revenue which has fallen off and
produced the deficit, for. it even exhibits a small
surplus ; the evil lies in the expenditure, which has
opium.sarc ei
alvoel revenue enormously increased. One cause for this was the
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some £6,000,000, all paid by strangers, and there-
fdisooururce the happiest accident that ever befel a financier.
Instead of leaving this branch of trade in the hands
of the agriculturist and the trader, the Government
is itself cultivator and trader, raising the price paid
to the producer, in order to increase the supply, by
upwards of 40 per cent. The opium produced, of
course, increased greatly in quantity ; the price, of
course, fell ; and in this article alone a loss of half
a million was sustained. This comes of a Govern-
ment playing the cultivator and the trader. Where
a tax was levied on the opium, the culture and trade
being free, and by the tax, from a very narrow field
of production, one-third of the whole of the opium
revenue was yielded, no loss whatever was sustained
by the State. Owing to the maintenance of this
monopoly, the opium revenue, which ought to be as
stable as any other branch of our resources, fluctu-
ates from year to year, the price of a chest of the
drug being in one year £l5O, in another £lOO, and,
as in the past unlucky year, as low as £B3. On
account of this single nuisance alone, the revenue
may vary, from year to year, from a million to a
million and a half, and has often actually done
so, and even more. The military expenditure
shows an excess over the preceding year of more
than £630,000, and would seem to have been
inevitable, owing to a large increase in the
cost of the articles forming the rations of the
European troops. Yet even this will not account
for such an excess when we remember that the
European force has been reduced by 5,000 men, at
the usual estimate of £BO a head, making a sum of
£40,000. The most blameable part of Sir Charles's
Budget is his proposed means of making good his
deficit. Including the repeal of the income tax,
which at the small rate of 3 per cent, had already
yielded £1,200,000, and which is now well known
to have proved a popular tax with the native majo-
rity, it is a deficit that will amount to above
£2,400,000: The Budget imposes export duty on
tea, coffee, sugar, jute, silk, hides, and rice. Now
nearly all these articles have to compete with the
same products of foreign countries. The tea culti-
vation in its infancy has had to contend with the
skilfully-produced tea of China, and will now com-
pete also with that of Japan. Coffee, also a product
new to India, has to contend with that of Java and
Brazil—even with that of our own colony of Ceylon.
The sugar of India, even now while it is free, has a
difficulty in keeping its place in competition with
that of half a dozen fertile tropical lands. Jute is
new article peculiar to India, but it has proved a
valuable substitute in many cases for hemp, flax,
ced cotton. The hides of India have
to maintain
their place against those of Buenos Ayres. Indian
maintains its
silk, untaxed as it has been,hardly
better silks of China and Japan.
place against the
to
and even for high-priced wool and extravagantly-
prißice has been already subject an export duty,
and the Budget adds 50 per cent.
taxes go straight m the
to it. It is unne-
cessary to add that these
teeth of the financial princip'e of taxation recog-
nised in this country for the last 20 years, and in
carrying out which the author of the Indian Budget
was himself an active and concurring agent. These
small imposts, however, are far from making up for
the deficit, and Sir Charles Trevelyan proposes to
raise a loan of £1,200,000 in England as a supple-
ment. Sir Charles Wood has disallowed the export
duties, and we presume also the contemplated loan,
and for once at least Sir Charles and his Council
have as Indian administrators, compassed the doing
of a good and popular act.

JOHN WILKES AND THE CLERGY.—Dr. Rennell
Dean of Winchester, was on terms of intimacy
with Wilkes, who resided for some time in the Isle of
Wight ; where, he told the Dean, he associated by prefer-
ence with the clergy, alleging as his reason :—"When the
squires get drunk, which they do daily, they begin railing
at religion, which I dislike. Now a Hampshire parson,
whether drunk dr sober, never mentions religion at all."—
FraWo Magaanc,