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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1865.

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,

CARRY'S CONFESSION.
By the Author of "High Church," "Owen," "Muffle."

REMEMBER,. YOU WILL SEE YOUR
FRIENDS at " E VANS'. " Alter tho Opera we
shut! Sup there!

lofty dormitory, four storeys, or rather galleries
high, from floor to roof. The dormitory is named
after the late Admiral Sir Henry Hope, K.C.8.,
and has at the top part his coat of arms and
motto, beautifully emblazoned with an inscription to
commemorate the fact, that he " was a great bene-
factor to the institution and to the cause of seamen
generally." The oblong dormitory, with its galleries
and its separate entrances to each individual sleep-
inq-berth, together with the simple but very effec-
tive methods of securing a thorough ventilation,
appears to us to reflect very high credit upon the
architect, Mr. E. L. Bracebridge, and when tested,
as it was yesterday, in an almost tropical heat,
by an assembly such as can rarely if ever meet in
it again, it may be safely said that it came
triumphantly through the ordeal. The band of
the Royal Naval School was in attendance, and
whiled away the long hours of waiting by the per-
formance of very well-selected music. At last,
when the Prince arrived, he was received at the
principal entrance by a distinguished company, and
passing through the entrance-hall up the main stair-
case, took his place upon the dais, immediately
under the memorial to Admiral Hope, while the
choir sang the National Anthem.
At the close of the anthem Admiral Sir W.
BOWLES read the following address :
" May it please your Royal Highness,—We, the
patron, president, vice-presidents, treasurer, chair-
man, and directors of this Sailors' Home, desire to
express our deep sense of gratitude to your Royal
Highness in condescending to open the new building
added to this establishment, and thus identifying
your illustrious name with the history of a benevo-
volent institution which, for the last 30 years, has
been a home not merely to the sailors of these realms,
but to those of all nations.

" This novel is equal to any former ones by the same
author. The story is cleverly told, and is very original. It
can scarcely fail to be read with thoughtful interest"—
Athen team.

Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

ROW I MANAGED MY CHILDREN from
INFANCY to MARRIAGE. By Mrs. WARREN.
Author of "How I Managed my House on £2OO a year."
One Shilling.
Houlston and Wright, 65, Paternoster-row, London.

" This home is the parent institution—the first
great and successful attempt to improve the careless
habits of the sailor—and owes its origin to the de-
voted energies of three naval officers, Capt. Robert
Jas. Eliot, R.N. (now deceased), Admiral Geo. C.
Gambier, and Capt. R. Justice, R.N. Its object is
to provide a home—combining protection, comfort,
instruction (religious and professional), with rational
amusements, and opportunities to economise—for
sailors when on shore.

" The dome was established in 1830, and opened
in 1835. Its receipts, which vary from £7,000 to
£9,000 per annum, are derived from money received
of the sailors for board and lodging, annual sub-
scriptions, legacies, and hitherto from stock which
benevolent friends had contributed, but which is now
absorbed in the erection of this new building. For
the remarkable successwhich, under Providence, has
attended its operations, and the no less striking favor
with which its benefits have been appreciated by the
sailor, we humbly beg to request your Royal High-
ness's considerate attention to the following statis-
tics

"Pince the year 1835 the home has accommo-
dated 158,525 sailors, including many of her Ma-
jesty's navy-184,885 belonging to the United
Kingdom and to her Majesty's possessions abroad,
and 23,640 to the various foreign countries with
which England has maritime and commercial inter-
course. Out of an aggregate sum of £1,263,893
lodged by the sailors in the bank of the home,
£711,560 has been drawn out; £452,610 has been
remitted to friends and relations, and £46,400 in-
vested in the Home and Board of Trade Savings
Banks.

" So rapidly of late years have the advantages of
this institution grown in the estimation of the sailors
that although the original edifice was capable of-
affording 328 sleeping berths, the pressure for ad-
mission reached such a crisis that it became impera-
tively necessary to erect this additional building,
the chief stone of which was laid in August, 1863,
by Lord Palmerston. The design, in its admirable
adaptation to and union with the original structure,
will give 174 additional beds (special provision
being made for officers of the mercantile marine),
making in the aggregate sleeping accommodation
for 502 persons.
" The contributions received from the public in
aid of the undertaking amount to £4,741, which,
with the sum of £9,419 transferred from the funds
of the institution, make a total of £14,160. The
expenditure has been £13,508, with liabilities for
fittings and furniture amounting to £4,233 more,
leaving a deficit of £3,581. Considering the con-
fidence inspired by the operations of this home in
the sailor, the force with which habits of economy
and principles of religion are pressed upon his atten-
tion, and the increased facilities which the enlarge-
ment gives for extending these beneficial and salu-
tary influences, we are led to hope that a Christian
public will acknowledge this debt as their own.
" Your Royal Highness will permit us to add
that your late lamented father, the great and good
Prince:Albert, was not a stranger to this institution,
for in May, 1846, his Royal Highness was graciously
pleased to lay the foundation stone of the Seamen's
church adjoining, which it is gratifying to say has,
since its opening, been attended by 170,000 sailors,
many of whom, it is believed, have had cause to
bless his memory.
" In conclusion, we again offer to your Royal
Highness our loyal and grateful thanks for the
national importance your presence and countenance
on this interesting occasion gives to a most useful
institution, and we are confident that this most
gracious action will tend to strengthen and perpe-
tuate in the minds of the sailors belonging to the
mercantile marine those sentiments of loyalty and
devotion to the Throne which it is our desire to
foster and cultivate."

His ROYAL HIGHNESS, who had listened through-
out with marked attention to the address, replied as
follows :—" Sir William Bowles, your Excellencies,
my Lords, Ladies, and Gentlenien,—lt is very gra-
tifying to me to comply with the invitation I have
received to take a part in this day's proceedings, and
to preside at tho opening of your new wing. The
b,eneficent results attending the establishment of the
Sailors' Home for our immense mercantile navy are
shown by the statements and figures which you have
now given, and which establish in the most satisfac-
tory way the necessity for having the original build-
ing. The interest taken by my lamented father in
the religious welfare of this institution, evinced by
his laying the first stone of the Seamen's Church
adjoining, will, I trust, be not less in his son, who
is well aware of the sentiments of loyalty and of
devotion to the Throne which distinguish the mer-
cantile navy of Great Britain."
The Bishop of OXFORD, assisted by the chaplain
of the institution, the Rev. D. GREATOREX, said
appropriate prayers, and a part of the 107th psalm
was said by the people and the chaplain alternately.
The hymn, " How ark Thy servants blessed, 0
Lord," followed, and his Royal Highness then, in
his usual clear and distinct voice, declared the build-
ing opened. The Bishop of Oxford offered up
prayer and pronounced the benediction, and the
Danish National Anthem having been sung by the
choir, the Prince left the dais, accompanied by his
suite ; and the patron, president, and several of the
directors proceeded to inspect the entire building,
and left the principal entrance amidst loud and
hearty cheers.

WAGES MOVEMENT ITN THE LONDON BUILDING
TRADEs.—A movement is now on foot amongst the work-
men in several branches of the building trade in London
for the purpoes of procuring an advance of 6d. per day on
the present rate of wages, based on the following grounds:
the increased and increasing cost of house and room rent; the
high price of butcher's meat and other provisions ; the
general prosperity of the trade ; and the fact, that in nearly
all the provincial towns the wages of the building operatives
have been advanced from 2s. to 3s. per week, in many cases
bringing up their wages to the standard paid in the metro-
polis. The initiative in this movement has been taken by
the stonemasons, who have adopted a memorial, to be sent
to the master builders of the metropolis, requesting an ad-
vance on their present rate of wages of three farthings per
hour, or about 3s. per week. A reply to this memorial is
requested by the 26th inst. Other trades are Moving in
the same direction.