The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-19 00:00:00

No. 23,279.

MR. DIXON'S NEW WORK.
ICcw ready. in 2 vols , Bvo., with Illustrations, '.Cs„
EBy W A M E R IC A.
L WILLIAM lIEI'WORTII DIXON.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Seventh edition, 2 vols. Svo.. cloth, extra, illustrated with
Portrait of the Author, the 36 Original Engravings, and all
the Woodcuts, price 10s. 6t.,
CARLETON'S (W.) TRAITS and STORIES
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THE OCEAN ST. LEGER of 1866.—What
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MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
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THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1967.

AFTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to
SUP.
Alter Drury-lana Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Lyceum 'theatre F VANS' to SUP,
Atter Adelphi Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Olympic theatre . - EVANS' to SUP.
After Strand Theatre EVA N6' AO SUP.
Atter New it oya ty Theatre .. .. EVANS' to SUP.
Alter St. James's Theatri ..... ... EVANS' to SC.'.
Aft,r Prince of Wales' The itrc....EVANS' to SUE'.
Loudoa Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden.
V0c..l Entertainment at Eight.

T II E 0 X F 0 it D ,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
THE 'MUSICAL EST ABLISHM. EN T ,F LONDON.
LES DRAGONS DE vu,Lxas (Opera Comigae), Music
.by A. Maill trt, in which Miss RUSSELL wi I appear, as-
si.tel by ilis.es Barrie and Fitz Henry ; Messrs. A. St. Alt)), n,
Hull 4, Fox, Husk, Evan., and Bury, with Extra Band and
CLorus ; produced and conducted by Mr. F. Jonglimans:
I he strength of Mr. Morton lies in his operatic selections,
executed b a small but highly efficient band, and a well-
selected body of vo •alists, under the direction of Mr. F.
Jon,;htnans."—Times, Jan. 9,1857.
COMEDY, by Messrs. Hurry Sydney, Brierley, and Eger-
ton; Mr. G. H. FREDERICKS and Mr. FRANK HUSSEY,
of the NEW AMERICAN MINSTRELS; together with
an Entirely New Divertissement, entitled THE OXFORD
REVELS, arranged and produced under the immediate
superintendence of Mr. W. H. Payne, THIS EVENING.
"Of the decorum that prevails throughout very section
of fhe Hail it is impos able to ti,,eak too highly."—Times,
Jan. IS .7.

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NOTICE OF kEMOVAL.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
BAKER-STREET.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
NEW ADDIFIONS. —Life-size Models of the KINGS and
QUEENS of ENGLAND, from WILLI &M of NORMANDY
to QUEEN VICTORIA.
Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m.
Admittance, Is.; children, under ten, half-price; extra
rooms, 6d.

ARGYLL ROOMS. GRAND CASINO,
Windmill-street. Piccadilly.
These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirelyre-
decorated. are now OPEN EVERY EVENING for Concert
and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Luca CUM Manager,
M. GRENET.

Admission to Promenades, One Shilling.
Reserved Seats, Two Shillings.

WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL,
HOLBORN.

Sole Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND.
Grand Selection from Auber's Opera of " MASA-
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opera. Terrific ovation of the Irish Minstrels, at 9, with
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Corn. A new and original overture composed and ar-
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Arthur Lloyd at 11, with anew song " Borachio Pestachio,
Lablachio, Moustachio, and the Holy Poly Eye "—Jolly
Nash, Georgina Smithson, Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers,
and Harry and Kattie King ; and Pio Watkini, the
Japanaze Juggler. Band of 30 first-class performers, and
large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden
Opera Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P. CORR.'.
Prices of admission—Stalls and Balcony, ls. ' • Area, 6d. ;
Private Boxes, 10s. Gd. Can be secured at the Box Office,
between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open every
Evening at 7 o'clock.

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HOMSON'S CORSET.
The " GLOVE-FITTING,' on February 10th,
THOMSON'S CRINOLINES.
NEW STYLES, on February 10th.

MR. ROEBUCK AT SHEFFIELD.

The tenth annual meeting of the Sheffield Cham-
ber of Commerce was held in the Cutlers' Hall yes-
terday—Mr. Alderman Jackson in the cha'r.
report dealt with several questions that have arisen
during the past year in connexion with commercial
legislation—the French and Austrian treaties, the
modification of our commercial relations with Ger-

many that will folio,. the " redistribution of Statcs,"

the .American tariff, &c. The chamber regretted
tkit it had been found impossible to obtain the at-
tention of the Legislature to any practical measures

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Prices for foreign and home orders on application at 112,
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For prospoctu,es and particulars apply without delay to
Mr. ItUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey,

promoted by chambers of commerce, on account of
many disturbing causes. Some interesting statistics
of Sheffield trade with America were furnished by

Works—London, Birmingham, and Paris.
I:stablished 1803.

Just published, 2d ; sent by the author for V stamps,
UGLINESS and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphlet
descriptive of articles and means used for improving
the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 218, High Holborn,
London.

Mr. Abbott, the Ames,ican consul. In 1864 the
value of the goods exported from Sheffield to
America was £782,226 ; in 1865, £823,772 ; in
1866, £1,545,878. The value of the steel alone ex-

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from their use, as they have been a never-failing Family
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ported to America from Sheffield in 1866 was up-

wards of £700,000.
The PRESIDENT, in a review of the trade and
commerce of the town during the year, gave sta-

tistics showing the enormous suffering and loss that
had arisen from the strike, and consequent lock-
out, that prevailed for sixteen weeks in the file trade.
The loss to the trade of the. town by that dispute
would not be much less than £200,000. The loss

of wages alone, he was informed, would amount to
over £95,000. The president referred to the change
that was apparently avproaching in the commercial
policy of Austria. That great empire was one of
their worst customers, standing thirty-fifth in the
list of the countriea with which they did business.

SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in
ALEX. ROSS'S CANI`HARIDES OIL, which speedily
Prixin°eB whlakers and thickens hair, as 6d, 586 d, and IN fid ;
sent by post for 54. 84, and 144 st,mps.— AL EX. ROSS, 248,
High Holborn, London, and all Chemists.

The really educated classes in Austria were in favour
of free trade. The president next spoke of the pro-

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HAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn,
Lendon.—ALEX. 11.0SS'S CURLING FLUID curls
Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold
at 3s 54, 5s 6d, and 10s 6d ; sent tree for 55, 84, and 144 stamps.
—Had cf all Chemlits.

REY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.—
IT ALEX. ROSS'S lIAIR DYE produces a perfect colour
Immediately it is used. It Is permanent, and perfectly na-
tural in elle t. Price 3s td. 5s ed. and 106 6(1 ; sent by post
for 54, 81, and 141 stamps ; and all Chemists.

rity of the Scotch system is this, that there are a set
of men who act the part of what is called in Eng-
land the assignee. They arc really professional
men, and they arc chosen, not by rotation, bat by
the body of creditors. They say it works well
in Scotland. Why the whole of Scotland is not
e4nal to Londoc. I know what will be the
consequence, that there will be first of all
a struggle, a tassel between various creditors as
to who they shall appoint their assignee. They
say that there will be a certain number of persons
that will devote themselves to the business of as-
signee ; that there will be A, B, and C, and so on
all down the alphabet, and then you can choose
your own assignee. That will be the first thing—a
fight amongst the creditors. The next is, the
chances are that the men won't be really so well
instructed as the men were who were the official
assignees under the old bankruptcy law of Lord
Brougham. Nothing could be worse than the
original bankruptcy law. A great improvement
was made by the bill Lord Brougham brought in.
There were great mistakes in his bill ; but the most
mischievous thing, I think, ever done to trade by
legislation, excepting protection, was Lord West-
bury's Bankruptcy Bill. (Hear, hear.) That has
been found out, and you all know, Sir, that the
mercantile world are up in arms at the present state
of the bankruptcy law of England. We shall have
another experiment ; they are going to try the
Scotch system. 1 hope the Scotch system may suc-
ceed ; my belief is that it will not ; and I shall take
the opportunity which, I suppose, will be afforded
me, of stating my views on the bankruptcy law
whenever it comes before the House of Commons.
And I hope none of you will fancy I am going be-
yond my duty if I oppose your views in this matter.
(Hear, hear, and laughter.) I have one more word
to say, Sir, and that is in regard to America. It is
not simply a desire for protection that brings about
the protective tariff. There are many parties in
that country, and every party fights for their assist-
ants. There are large bodies of men who want
protection, and in order to gain their help, as party
men, protection is established throughout the United
States. If you want a proof of the direful effects of
protection, you will go to the United States. At
this present moment—l wish my poor countrymen
knew it—going there they fancy they are going to
Paradise—they are going rather to the other place.
(Hear and laughter.) But now that Canada has taken
the line of free trade, the consequence will be—and
you will see it immediately—that there will be so
large a smuggling trade to Canada that I have no
doubt Sheffield will benefit. (Laughter.) I hope
this will be the result, and that in the fights now
going on on that continent we at least shall be
gainers. I hope you will not fancy I have done
any great thing in coming here. I came down in
four hours from London ; I felt no difficuly in get-
ting into the carriage—l came down, in fact, very
much like a trunk—(laughter)—in a very comfort-
able way. If I can upon any occasion, by coming
here, do any service to Sheffield I hope you will
make no " bones" (if I may use a vulgar phrase) in
asking me to come down, and I shall be most happy
to wait upon you. (Applause.)

tectionist policy of America, which threatens such
disaster to Sheffield, and of the relaxation of the
Canadian protective system. The proposed com-
mission of inquiry into the Sheffield trade outrages
was briefly referred to, and on this point the presi-
dent emphatically vindicated the right of every man
to carry his labour to an open market and make the
best possible terms for himself.
A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. J. A. Roe-
buck, M.P., for leis constant attention to the wants
of the town ; and he was elected, with Mr. Hadfield,
an honorary member.
Mr. ROEBUCK, on rising, was received with ap-
plause. He said—Mr. Chairman, sir, I am very
much obliged to the chamber for the kind expres-
sion of opinion respecting myself, and I am also
deeply obliged to Mr. Atkinson for the manner in
which he has proposed the vote of thanks. But, sir
I think my proper business here is to listen, and not
to talk. I came down to receive instructions from
those whose interests are concerned, and I have been
' if I may use the
reallyterm,
by
very
the
report
pu
oc
rl edified
whichhas been read by your
secretary. The business of a member of Parlia-
ment, I take it to be, is to receive all the informa-
tion and important facts that he can receive from
the Chamber of Commerce, and that then he should
apply his mind, as a statesman, to render the know-
ledge so acquired useful in shape of laws. The busi-
ness of a lawyer is supposed to require education.
The business of a physician is also supposed to re-
quire some education ; but statesmanship, like gig-
driving, is supposed to come by instinct. (Laugh-
ter.) I have found that two matters are very con-
stantly confounded together, namely, the supplying
us with information of facts, and at the same time
the giving us the opinions of the parties who supply
those facts. I receive both with the greatest pos-
sible thankfulness, but I keep to myself the power
and the right to do what I like with the evidence
that is brought before me. (Hear, hear ) The cvi-
Jence of opinion is important, but the evidence of
fact for a legislator is still more important, and I do
hope, being an honorary member of your worthy body,
that when you think it worth while to communicate,
you will communicate it to me, and it shall receive, as
all such comtnuni cationsought.to receive, the greatest
care I can possibly give to it, and the action shall
be immediate ; and, as Mr. Jackson said, I will do
the best I can with the information you so supply.
(Applause.) There are one or two matters in the
report which I wish to make a few observations
upon. The first is the Austrian treaty. We know
that every country in the world, with the single ex-

HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes
superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms, without effect
to the skin. Price 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and 100 6d; sent for 54, H 4,
and 114 stamps.—Had of all Chemists.

Conservative \Festival at Cambridge.

DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the
skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S
VE ;ETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal-
lowness, &c. 28 gd and 7s fscl ; or past for 40 and 100 stamps.
—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Che-
mists.

FAIR COLOUR WASII.—By washing the
head, with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in seven
or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains
so by an occ•+slonal using. 10s Ad ; sent for stamps.—AL
ROSS, 248, High Ilolborn, London, and all Chemists.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
Lome to th' 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
than 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in' five years.
the new home the Committee wish to form woald be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 18, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Mr. Daniel Cooper, Queen •strect Cheapside;
_ Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street, or by Messrs

ception of England, has a notion of protecting trade
and, therefore, we need not be at all surprised that
the German merchants of the Austrian empire have
acquired a notion of the benefit of protection. When
we find that our own colonists, sent out by Eng-
land, in a very few years after they have acquired
self-government have put on protective duties by
which the manufacturers of England are subjected
to taxation of the highest kind— pretty nearly to the
amount of exclusion—we need not be surprised that
the Germans, who have not that sort of connection
with us that our colonies have, do the same thing.
(Hear, hear.) But, Sir, I have had an opportunity
lately of addressing my old Canadian friends, for it
is pretty well known that a great part of my youth
was passed in Canada. I met them the other day,
and I opened my
mind to them. I told them very
plainly that England derived no earthly benefit from
except her colonies, the due which she might derive
from them as being the recipients of her manufac-
tures ; but that they in their wisdom had done their
utmost to exclude the manufactures of England.
But I hope this will not continue ; that they may
see the right way, and return to us some acknow-
ledgment of the benefits we have conferred. We
have given them our language,
our laws, our litera-
ture, and our protection whenever it was required.
For all this we got nothing. All we seek is free
trade, and we have got protection thrown in our
faces. That, I believe, is upon the decline. What
you said about Canada is quite true. They are be-
ginning to learn the right path, and are beginning
to pursue it, andi believe Austria is doing the same.
(Hear, hear.) Now, I am very much surprised that
should be the case, excepting that I believe in the
case of Austria a dire necessity has taught them
wisdom. They are now separated from Germany.
The largest portions of Austrian territory are pro-
ducers of raw produ'e. They want cheap manufac-
tures, and the best thing the Emperor can do, as
regards the largest part of his possessions, is to intro-
duce, as far as possible, free trade. I believe the
German portion of the Austrian empire will by de-
grees see that they can also stand this tussel with
us of free trade ; but I am quite sure that one means
of holding the empire of Austria together will be
by free trade, and that that little bit of knowledge,
most vital for the empire, has crept into the minds
of the rulers of Austria. Now, Sir, there is one
other remark I wish to make, and I speak in this
desultory manner because I had made no prepara-
tion for what I am going to say, but merely refer
to what wassuggested to me by the report. But I
wish to say one word about the bankruptcy laws,
and to make an observation with regard to the
mode I shall pursue with reference to information I
may receive from you. Lord Westbury, when he
was Attorney-General, introduced the bankruptcy
law. I hope my professional friends will not take
offence at what I am about to say. I was very inti-
mate with the Attorney-general, and I said to him,
" I object to your bill altogether, and I will tell
you why I object. It is a Bankruptcy Bill made
for the attorneys."—(Applause.) I hope, as I said
before, no professional friend will take offence. (A
laugh.)But the very thing occuried that I predicted
would occur. You did away, in reality, with the
official assignee. An assignee is appointed by the
creditors. He cannot do the duty ; he knows
nothing about it, and he must have an attorney on
his right hand ; and when you did away with the
official assignee, you really made the attorney
the assignee. What .are you about doing now ? I
had a long fight on this subject through the com-
mittee of the House of Commons, and that com-
mittee went pell-mell, headlong in favour of the
Scotch system. 1 don't like prophesying, but I
will venture to prophesy about that. The peculia-

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On Thursday evening a Conservative festival was
held at the Guildhall, Cambridge, which although
strictly local, was attended by 600 persons. The
meeting was ostensibly in honour of Messrs. F. S.
Powell and J. E. Gorst, the sitting members, but
was certainly no less so in that of Mr. Forsyth,
Q.C., who contested the borough and was returned
at the head of the poll in 1865.
Mr. Alderman BALLS, who took took the chair,
after giving the usual loyal toasts, proposed "The
Borough Members."
Mr. PowELL, in his reply, after expressing his
gratitude to the constituency of Cambridge for the
confidence they had placed in him, said it would be
no more possible to speak in this month of January,
1867, without reference to a Reform Bill than it
would have been in January, 1866, without allusion
to the cattle plague. No man dare repudiate this
question who had any regard to the safety of the
State, as its consideration was demanded by a large
body, who year by year were becoming more capable
of exercising the rights and fulfilling the great
duties of citizenship; but he desired to refute an
eft-repeated and dangerous fallacy. In his mind
the safety of the country did not dwell in votes,
but in laws ; not in the suffrage, but in the ad-
ministration. It was too common for those
interested in popular subjects to argue
before popular assemblies that there was less
liberty in England than in any other country be-
cause the suffrage was more restricted with us ; but
he would ask that man who was dissatisfied to go
to France or. Prussia and see what came of freedom
in those countries. He saw nothing in what was
now taking place in America that England ought to
imitate, but much that she ought diligently to avoid.
Doubtless there must shortly be a change in the re-
presentative system in England. He did not say
that they ought to confine themselves to the settle-
ment of 1832—that change was not necessary ; but
he did say such change should be made with cau-
tion. He trusted some Government would be able
Ito deal with those difficulties ; ho had yet to learn
that a Conservative Government was more unfit to
grapple with them than a so-called Liberal one. If
this question were to be got rid of, it could only be
by bold and comprehensive legislation. It could
not be pushed aside by a timid statesman, for, if so,
it would again and again arise and be a stumbling-
block in •the path of beneficial legislation. He
trusted the Legislature would never yield to a me-
nacing democracy and exhibitions of force. Let
them believe him when he said that the Parliament
of England once overawed, the supreme power in
this English laud now enjoyed by the three estates
of the realm would pass under the govern-
ment of men who mistook frenzy for reason, lauda-
tions of themselves and those who followed them as
the greatest triumphs of statesmanship, and the
most brilliant achievement of political science.
(Cheers.) In the course of next Session he hoped
to see some useful legislation iu regard to certain of
the public departments, and in the conduct of these
affairs no ground could be stated why a Conserva-
tive Government was not as much entitled to the
confidence of the English people as a " Whig" or
" Liberal " one. Reform was urgently required in
our Administration as regarded the army and navy,
the law and education. We required such a settle-
ment of the education question as would diminish pau-
perism and relieve the rates, by the abrogation of a
system imposed by a Whig Chancellor, happily no
longer in Downing-street. Another question he wished
to see dealt with next Session was the dwellings of the
working classes. He did not wish to impose heavy
burdens to improve the state of any class, but he
did desire to see removed from England the deep
disgrace of having in large centres of population the
worst-housed people. They were told Conservatives
were in a minority in Parliament. He did not
know whether that was so, but he did know that
Conservative principles were not in a minority in
England, and he did desire earnestly that the coma-
try should be fairly tested and an opinion taken.
The Whig Radical party was a most disrupt and
heterogeneous one. The Whigs voted with the ex-
treme Radicals, not to assist them in their views,
but in order to circumvent and defeat them. The
Radicals did not vote with the Whigs from any
unity of principle, but that they might utterly abo-
lish and put an end to Whig ascendancy. So they
were at war. They had no common end, while the
Conservatives were a united and homogeneous party.
They were not opposed to progress ; they desired
advance, but they desired to advance safely ; there
might be changes in their party, but one thing he
was sure of—there would be, as in the past, the
same earnest and unflinching adhesion to those con,

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servativc principles the triumph of which they were
met to celebrate that day. (Loud cheering.)
Mr. GoitsT, after warmly thanking the meeting
for the kindness show❑ him, said there was no doubt
they should next session have to face the question
of reform. Speaking as a private person, he did not
hesitate to express his opinion it was desirable the
Reform be postponed. If the question were
taken this session no other legislation could possibly
take place. Reform would be the first and only
question. lie believed there were a number of
other subjects demanding immediate attention, and
first among them army reform. With regard to re-
form, he thought public opinion was not ripe for
the question yet. The party who cried out for re-
form and an extension of the suffrage—men like
Mr. Lowe and Lord Grosvenor—as soon as they
were brought face to face with a concrete bill,
shrank back aghast ; so he thought it would be well
if the question were hung up a little while to give
them time to make up their minds as to what a
Reform Bill meant. An experiment in universal
suffrage was going on in Prussia and America, and
it would be better to wait and see the result of
that.

Dr. FAWCETT proposed the health of Mr.
Forsyth.
Mr. FORSYTII, in his reply, said he differed some-
what from his friend Mr. Gorst on the subject of
Reform, and he hoped the policy would not be one
of inaction with regard to that question. There
was an excellent opportunity to bring in a safe and
satisfactory measure, and there was a noble career
open to the Government if they carried it. There
would then be the questions of law reform, bank-
ruptcy, education, and many others, to enter upon,
and he hoped attention would be paid to the means
of:determining some punishment for the authors of
such great commercial frauds as had of late been a
disgrace and a scandal to England. Ile believed
that any Government that would grapple with these
questions successfully would deserve and obtain the
gratitude as well as a verdict of the country.
Other toasts having been proposed and re-
sponded to, the proceedings terminated.