The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-31 00:00:00

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.

GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair
to its pristine hue, no matter at what age.
NO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid
of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect-
ing this wont irful liquid. It is now offered to the public
in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price.
Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 50., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each,
including brush.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
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I °ht. Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald,
xiri Kat hari ae Rodgers.
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But the first costly amalgathation was in 1857 ; and
during the five years following the profits did not
amount to £50,000. The heaviest sums were paid
during those years for which no profit is claimed.
The fact is, that the incorporation of all the companies
joined to the Albert coat £274,000, and this sum
is " exclusive of any loss upon the assets handed
over." The report makes no pretence that this
policy of amalgamation was a profitable one. It is
clear that such a system must be suicidal on the
general principle that a good assurance office, like
every other sound concern, will maintain its indepen-
dent existence. It is probable that these acquisitions
would have been dear at any price, much more
so at the extravrgant cost we have quoted.
There can, indeed, be no doubt, as one
shareholder remarked, as to " how the money
went." The long list of sums, varying from £l5O,
to several amounts of LILCO° to £15,000, paid to
the managers and directors of the offices which
luckily lost their independent existence, tells it own
story—but not the whole story. These officials got
their reward, but there must be two parties to
every bargain. It will be interesting to know why
and for what inducement these immense sums were
handed over to the servants of any bankrupt office
which chose to seek amalgamation. There is
another highly important personage who does not
seem to have lost much by his connection with the
Albert Company. This is Mr. KIRBY, the manager,
Mr. KIRBY was the original projector of the com-
pany, and by the deed of settlement it was provided
that he should be life manager, with £4OO a year
and a commission of 5 per cent. He was to use the
offices for his own purposes ; he was to carry on his
own private business there; and he was to have all
the legal work of the company to himself, and be paid
separately for it. For the company such a bargain was
inconceivably bad. The terms are extravagant to
absurdity. The principle of appointing a life
manager is in itself sufficient to ruin any enterprise.
Not less unsound is the system of granting a com-
mission on earnings irrespective of the manner in
which they have been obtained. A commission on
net profits may be all very well ; a commission on
net receipts is folly. Mr. KIRBY'S bonus was on the
premiums solely, without reference to losses ; and
thus he was secured a comfortable revenue, even in
the company's worst days. The evidence as to
" where the money went to" is, it will be seen, a
but complete.

TIIE desire of the working class to secure them-
selves direct representation in Parliament must gain
the approval of every advocate of perfect national
representation. It is a good sign that working men
should display considerable interest in a question
respecting which they have formerly manifested
such indifference. Moreover, the object is in every
respect praiseworthy. Whilst the franchise was
confined to the classes just above the artisan in mate-
rial position, it was not to be expected that the work-
ing man would find any place in Parliament. But now
that the balance of political power is held by this
class its total exclusion from the House of Commons
is neither satisfactory to workmen themselves nor
reassuring to the rest of the community. The former
may justly complain that their grievances and neces-
sities cannot, in the nature of things, receive
full attention in an assemblage which contains
only indirect working-class representatives, and
those only few in number. The general
community cannot rest satisfied that the present
conditions of government, by which a large class is
wholly deprived of legislative power, are safe. The
business of Parliament is in the main twofold—to
legislate, and to combine the opinion of the nation
upon every species of question. Neither of these
objects are perfectly well attained at present. That
artisan interests are not adequately cared for
under existing circumstances is sufficiently proven by
the meagre list of measures which have been passed
of late years in the special interest of hand labour.
The Legislature has, indeed, displayed much more
consideration in this way than of yore ;
but the work done is a trifle compared
with that which has been neglected. As a
representation of public opinion,. Parliament must
be elually imperfect whilst some twenty millions of
the population speak only through a few mouth-
pieces. Represented in the House of Commons, it is
probable that working men will look to Parliament
for the redress of their grievances; now they
have recourse to other means. Decidedly it will be
well if the great interests for which the Reform Act
of 1867 provided are fully represented in Par-
liament. A few eldest sons, barristers, and army
officers might most advantageously make way
for a corresponding number of working men. '
Hitherto the interests of English artisans have
been well cared for by a band—far too small—of
gentlemen who, though not, working men, are honestly
devoted to the cause of their poor fellow-citizens
Working men cannot do better than to continue to
put their case into the hands of such advocates as Mr.
HUGHES and Professor FAIVCETT. It is not to the
credit of the class that the able representative secured
in Mr. MILL was not retained last November. The
new voters will, with the greatest advantage,
increase rather than diminish the number
of these indirect representatives. The work-
ing men of France have generally rested con-
tent with giving their suffrages to great writers and
scholars, they have secured the ablest of their
countrymen in aid of their cause, and they
appear to have suffered little by the want
of representatives from their own class. Still
the justice of the principle cannot be
questioned. It is a mere question of ways and
means ; and though this difficulty is a somewhat
means insuperable.
gAratvie ontheoef itt seehemmosneyby spneont in strikes might
do much more than the whole sum in sup-
porting a few working men M,P.'s. If trades unions
spend thousands at times in keeping—rightly or
wrongly—their members in idleness, the cost of con-
verting some of them into legislators would not be
much more. It is necessary that some provision of
this kind be made, but it is by no means essential
that an artisan M.P. should be able to live in
luxurious style. That a membership of the House of
Commons might, in the case of a working man,
involve little cost is quite certain, if the will and the
courage to do it -can be found. Besides, there are
some few ex-artisans with a competence who might
be chosen.