The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, T UESD Y EVENING, MARCH 26, 1867.

TAP AN E S E.—FLORAL HALL, Covent-
garden.—The JAPANESE TROUPE will have the
honour to dive their Gymnastic and other Performances
EVERY EVENING (includitur SATURDAY) at Eight;
and on WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY MORNINGS at
Three. Stalls, ss. Reserved Seats, 2s. G.I. Admission, ls.
Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office from 10 till 5; also
at Mr. Mitchell's, Old Bond-street; Austin's, St. James's
hall; and Keith, Drowse, and Co., Cheapside. N.B.—
Skating on Monday, Tuesday, 'Thursday, and Friday,
from Three till Five, and every evening after the Japanese
performs aces.

THE NEW NANTYAIWYN MINING EX-
TENSION COMPANY (1.1111 TED).

Incorporated under " The Companies' Act, 186," whereby
the liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount
of his Shares.

Capita, .E 50,000,
Ia 50,000 Shares of £1 each.
ss. Deposit on application, and ss. per Share on Allotment.
No call will be made for six mouths, and it is probable,
from the prospects, with the assistance of the ore money,
that no further capital will be required.

HYAM & Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-ST.

HYAM & Co.'s WINTER, OVERCOATS.

HYAM & Co.'s SILK-FAC ED OVERCOATS.

HYAIII & Co.'s REEFERS.

HYAM & Co.'s SUITS.

HYAM & Co.'s MORNING COATS.

HYAM & Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE.

HYAM & Co.'s VESTS and TROUSERS.

'YAM & Co.'s LADIES' HABITS.

HYAM & Co.'s LIVERIES.

H YAM & Co.'s HATS end HOSIERY.

[JYAM and Co.'s ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN
66 and 67, Oxford-street, London.
Hyam & Co.'s Winter Tweed Overcoats 21s. to 30s.
Hyam & Co.'s Winter Overcoats
Hyam & Co.'s Winter Reefer 2ss. to 555.
Hyam & Co.'s Winter Silas
Ilyam & Co.'s Winter Jackets
Hyam & Co.'s Winter Frock Coats 3os. to 70s.
Hyam & Co.'s Winter Vests 6s. to 14s.
Hyam & Co.'s Winter Trousers l4s. to 255.

-T.TYAm & Co.'s BOYS' WINTER CLOTHING,
66 and 67, Oxford-street, London.
The first establishment in the kingdom for Juvenilo
Clothing.
Boys' Sandringham Overcoats
Boys' Prince Alfred Reefer
Boys' Overcoats for Little Boys
Boys' Knickerbocker Suits
Boys' Westminster and Osborne Suits lss. to 355.
Boys' Eaton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits 255. to 425.
Boys' Jackets for School and Homo 9s. to 21s.

TTYAM & Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS.
1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear.
2. Bespoke or Order Department.
3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department.
4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department.

HYAM and Co's ONLY ESTABLISHMENTS.
LONDON-66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET.
BIRMINGHAM-21, 22, and 23, NEW-STREET.
LEEDS-42, BRIGGATE, and
DEWSBURY—WESTGATE.

LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC 13..k.LSA111.—AN
EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels
or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad-
mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relievin7,
coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con-
sumption. it frequently cures persons whom the faculty
pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which
provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption
its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or
even lying down for tear of suffocation, may depend on relief
in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared my and sold by
W. LA.M.BERT, Chemist, 8, King-William-street, Charing-
cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., and
three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask
for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are
engraved on the stamp.

°MING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
mostusetal invention of the day, A.GUA AMARELLA.
Messrs. JOLIN GOSNELL and CO., Red Bull Wharf, 93,
Upper Thames-street Perfume:li to her Majesty, respect-
uY offer to the public this truly marvellous flail. which
gradually restores ins human hair to Its pristine hue—no
matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the
properties of dyes ' • it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
system, and when the hair is once restored one application
per month will keep it in perfect colour. l'rt:enne guinea per
bottle, or in half bottles. 10s. 63. Testimonials from artistes
of the highest order, and from Individuals of undoubted re-
spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John
Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perituners to her Royal
Fittrhness the Primes. nt Wales.

'IVIE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL has
URGENT NEKD of FUNDS. —Donations and Sub-
scriptions will be thAnkfutly received by Messrs. ainsdale
and Co., 60, Cornhill ; Me-sr.. Drurumon.i and Co., Charing-
cross; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; Messrs. Hoare,
Fleet-street; and by the undersizned, at the Hospital,
Liverpool-road, N., CHARLES FINN, Sec.

THE BOARD of MANAGEMENT of the
LONDON HOWEOPAT MC HOSPITAL wish to
call the attention of their friends t its position—during the
Past year the beds have been almost constantly filled, and
the drain on the resources of the Hospital has consequently
been great. They trust, therefore, that all the friends of
ho co pathy, both in town and county, will rally round
them, and thus prevent the necessity of curtailing the use-
tulnebs of the Hospital by the admi,sion of fewer patients
SUBSCRIPTiONS earne,tly needed. Bankers Messrs.
Pres-•ott and Co., Threadneedle-street; and Union Bank,
Argyll-place, Regent-street.
JOIIN R. WARREN, Clerk,
NV. 52, Great Orrnouditreet,

I OHN GOeN ELL and Co.'s CHERRY
Too I' 1i l'A s-rn is greatly hulls: for to any tooth
powder; gives the tee. h ti pearl whiteness; protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts w Die:wait fragran, e to
the breath. Price ts. —lied Bull Wharf. v 3, Upper
Thame, -street. London.

TIIE GUARDIAN Fl RE AND LIFE
A RAN cE COM VANY.

Establllhed IS !I.
l'Co. i', Lombarl=strcet, I .onlon,
nEoucrioN OF FIRE INSUI;ANCE DUTY.
t•nb,crih• d pit 11, two
Total Inve.•tt•d Fund. n ward- of 1;2 7.:0,000.
'J'otai Income upwnrds of £32..,L00.

NOTICE IS HEREBY (ILATeIN. that VI'E PoLL 'LES
which expire at LADY DNY must be RENEWED
within ritteen Da) s at. this 011ie or with the Conti ant's
Agents lb 11010 at the Kin dom.othcrwise they become void.
All Insurances now have the bene..t of the Reduced Duty
of Is. 6,1. per cent.

Fvr t'ro'pe. tus and other Infortra!i• n apply to the Com-
pany's Agents, ur to

T. TALLEMACH. Secretary.

CONTRACT FOtt, STEARINE CANDLES.
CONTRACT PEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY.
Somerset House, March 23, 1867.
THE COMMISSIONERS -for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
15th April nest, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be
ready to treat with such persons as may be Killing to Con-
tract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Vic-
tualling Stores at Deptford all such quantities of
STEARINE CANDLES FOR SIGNAL LANTERNS,
as shall from time to time be demanded, under a contract
for twelve calendar months, certain, and further until the
expiration of three calendar months' warning.
Samples (not less than Gibs) must be produced by parties
tendering, and none to be tendered the material of which
is ,of a solidifying point bele—W-128 degrees of Fahrenheit.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the tenders.

No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained
on application in the Lobby of the Depai tment of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
also the conditions of the Contract may be seen.
No Tender will be received after 12 o'clock at noon on
the day of treaty ; and it will not be required that the party
tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the
Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer re-
ceived from each person will be communicated to him and
his proposed sureties in writing. •
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
" Tender for Stearine Candles;" and must also be' delivered
at the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admi-
ralty, Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons,
engaging •to become bound with the person tendering in
the sum of ,E 1,500 for the due performance of the Contract.
By Order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public
Securities.

S* 13 —0- It E ' S 'l', I 4•VcrIC.P

Is TU E Cheese !

TAEA:FNESS.—The.ORO-A.NIC VIBRATOR.—
-a-, • It fits into the ear, not 'perceptible ; the unpleasant
sensation of singing noises in the head is entirely removed.
It affords immediate rel.ef to deal persons, and enables them
to hear distinctly at church and public assembles. Every
other kind of hearing instrument. -Mew's. SOLOMON, 39,
Albemarle-street. Piccadilly.

GEOLOG Y.—ELEMENTARY` COLLEC-
TIONS, to illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell's
Elements of Geology" and facilitate the important study of
Mineralogy and Geology, ran be had at 2,5, 10,20, 50 to 50)
guineas; also single Specimens of Minerals, Roaks, Fossils,
and lteaent Shells, Geological 4la;,s. Hammers. all the recent
Pub ications. ac., of J. TENANT, Mlaeralogist -to Her
Majesty, IW. Strand, London.
Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and Geology by
Mr. TENNANT, KG.S., 149, Strand, W.C.

UNDER TIIE PATRONAGE OF TILE ELITE OF EUROPE
AND AMERICA.
NO MORE CRUSHING OF DRESSES.

THE only PRIZE for any class of TRUNKS at
the Duo.ln Exhibition, 186 S, was AWARDED to Mr.
MYERS, ot CAVICNDISR HOUSE. WiTiore-street, Caven-
dish-square, London, for his newly-invented Patent Self-
Expanding DItESS BASK TRUNKS. which arc secured
by Royal Letters Patent in En zland sn,l France.
All Americans visiting' London are respectfully recom-
mended to visit the above itstabli4tmeat and inspect the
various descriptions and lar.;e assortment of travelling
Portmanteaus, Trunks, Ac, &c.
Ladies especial y wi.l fin 1 in 31.. Myers's Royal Alexandra
belt-Expanding and Codapsinz Dress Bnakets the ne p.m
ultra of per team,' for their ri quirements. This Basket com-
prises eve, y convenience the travOlvr can I.ll,V,4;etit. It is
construerect to carry a large o, +m ill q aittitv of Dresses,
Ac. ;_ and from ocular sue /mace' contrivance will ex-
pand or collapse by its own nal() t, then h: alapttog itself to
any size; and it can th_Telore be moil for either a short
journey or a I.,ng ton'.

cision on both sides. Let us have no more time
lost in " higgling" where each is willing to give
way, but each waits for the other to make the. fir,t
sign. The one party must pronounce boldly what
is essential, the other declare to abide by what it
will not relinquish. The House has another night
before it, and we trust it will turn it to better ac-
ecount. We can concAve nothing more degrad-
ing to its character as a deliberative assembly,
nothing more prejudicial to the prospect of a settle-
ment of the Reform question, ti. an that it should
enter into com•nittee not knowing its own mind,
and so leaving the issue to be the sport of chance.

THE " WESTMINSTER GAZETTE " ON WORKHOUSE
CHARITY.—There is no country in the world where
so much is done in the way of charity as in Eng-
land. Nay, more, 'there are no people so liberal
with their money for charitable objects as the
English, be they at home or abroad. Distinc-
tions of faith, and race, and blood are forgotten
when an appeal for help 'comes 'before them ;
and those who will vainly knock at the door of an
Italian or Sicilian magnate will find a ready re-
sponse in the heart and the purse of the British
merchant. There are hundreds of men and women
in this dear land of ours who feel and act on good
old Spencer's principle :
Good is no good, but if it be spend :
God giveth good for none other end.
Having duly acknowledged this, we are tempted
to ask how it is that in England, and especially in
our large towns, the misery is so appalling ? That
a week's unusual frost or cold drives hundreds to
their graves from sheer want of food and cloth-
ing and that the workhbuse machinery, so costly
and so cumbersome, and falling so heavilyAlm
those just removed from actual pauperism, utterly
and palpably fails to meet the evil. The answer
may be found, we think, in the errors of our pre-
sent system, and in the view taken of poverty by
the majority of the nation. Although, in the ab-
stract, we are ready enough to allow that it is of
God's ordering, and that in Holy Writ it is ex-
pressly stated that the poor shall never cease out
of the land, yet in practice poverty is looked upon
in England very much as a crime—a consequence
of want of wits, or thrift, or prudence, and to
be dealt with accordingly. The practical: opera-
tion of our workhouse system is, in consequence,
purely penal. Go over the best-regulated "house"
in any country union. Bolts and bars, locks and
keys, divide every court, and ward, and passage.
A chill goes through us when the door is locked be-
hind us, and we find ourselves in an apartment,
spotlessly clean, it is true, as far as whitewash and
scrubbing can make it, but utterly denuded of any-
thing like warmth, or comfort„ or hominess (to
.coin a Word which none so well as English-people
Understand); where, on hard henehes aroundthe cold
and cheerless room, of 'which the windows are
generally so glazed as to prevent their seeing out
of them, are ranged a set of old men, or old
wonien, as the cases may be, half stupified with
the intolerable routine of their daily lives, which
a clever and popular novelist has described as
" an alternation of soap and water, picking oakum,
and water gruel," and who rise on our entrance
with the servile and forced obedience of a prisoner
in a cell, their eyes often glancing fearfully and
furtively at the master or mistress who accompanies
the unexpected visitor, and replying in a set and
stereotyped form to any question which may be
put to them. Should the attention of the official
be for a moment diverted to §ome other object,
an eager whispered petition for " tea" or "batty"
may come from the lips of one or other of these
automatons,' instantly hushed by the consciousness
of being watched by the dread authority, whose
powers of punishment are unlimited and unknown.
And who are these men and these women ? Men
who have laboured all their lives long in tilling
the soil which has made them so ungrateful a re-
turn ; or shopkeepers whom bad debts, or competi-
tion, or " co-operative stores," have ruined; or
widows, who, after years, it •may be, of devoted
patient love and toil, have been left to face the
world alone, and given the alternative of a pit-
tance not sufficient to keep a roof over their
heads, or " The House," that terror of their
youths ! or else, people " who- have seen better
days," a class of endless ramifications and suscep-
tibilities of misery unfelt by those of humbler
birth or coarser organization. Still sadder is it to
leave these wards and go to the children. The
hours of school are over ; the cane and the strap
have done their work for the day ; and the poor
little things, in their hideous workhouse livery,
stand huddled and frightened together in the
corner of a bare room ; or else in a gravelled
court, miscalled a play-ground, utterly destitute
of the smallest amusement, without even the
swinging pole of our youth or anything to make
them forget for one instant that they are " Pauper.
Brats," as the poor themselves call them. And who
are these children ? The orphans of respectable
labourers, or the offspring of a sin which let none
who dwell in sheltered homes dare to condemn
too loudly—is it their fault that they came into
this hard world ? 'And when those children grow
older, with all sense of honest independence and
freedom, and childhood's joy crushed out of them,
what is their fate ? If they are boys apprenticed
to the worst and hardest masters, and to those
who ask the lowest premium ; for none of the
better class will take a workhouse lad. " They
are all sneaks," was said to the writer the other
day, " and good for nothing when they come out
of the house." Or if they are girls, harsh domestic
service is equally their portion, maids of " all
work," as it is too justly called, overworked and
under-fed sometimes, as in a case known to the
writer a few years since, given food only every
other day. Not two months ago, in a Wiltshire
parish, one of these poor girls drowned herself
in sheer desperation. She had told one of her
companions in misfortune "that she could bear it
no longer; that cruel as her mistres was, she would
rather die than go back to the ' House;' that she
didn't believe God could be the God of the poor,"
and so she went to her account. And sup
posing the " eligible" place for the workhouse
girl at the proper age be not found, what then ?
At fourteen she is separated from her companions
and placed in the ablebodied women's ward.
Do our readers know what that means ? In this
ward are all those poor creatures, hardened in vice,
who in winter are driven to seek some shelter from
the piercing cold of the streets. They are
utterly bad, reckless, and depraved, and, with the
ingenuity of devils, resolve to employ their leisure
time in perverting the pure and innocent girls or
young widows who may be thrown in their way.
The language of these women is such that re-
spectable tradesmen, employed in the premises,
have refused to work within hearing of their
words. An inquiry was set on foot by a late
eminent Cabinet Minister as to the state of
the unions in his own county on this head. The
returns were appalling. The masters and chap-
lains of the workhouses, one after the other, gave
evidence as to the frightfully , demoralizing effect
of this atrocious system, whereby young girls were
literally trained in vice. They stated that in one
week after the children had gone into those wards,
their manners and dispositions seemed to change':
that they became saucy, bold, impudent, and
bad. In one or two houses efforts had been made
to check the evil by building separate wards for
known prostitutes ; and a clause in the new Poor-
law Act was proposed, making it compulsory to
erect a distinct wing or rooms for this class of
persons, on the very true and righteous plea that
as the guardians were compelled to provide an hos-
pital for physical diseases, much more was it in-
cumbent on those entrusted with the care of
public morals to keep their orphans free from the
more deadly infection of vice and its consequent
misery. Yet nothing, after all, was done; the
statesman died ; other interests engrossed the
public mind ; and the evil remains to this day, and
bears its bitter fruit year by year, filling our gaols
and penitentiaries. This is only, after all, but a
part of the system which has substituted the poli-
tical economists and the policeman for the apostle
of charity. Mind—we do not say the philanthro-
pist. With all his anxiety for the good of his
species and the improvement of the human race, he
cannot meet evils of this gigantic nature. Chris-
tian charity alone will suffice, for it sustains its ex-
ertions by fixing its eyes on a higher object than
the misery it relieves. " What is not done for
God in this matter," says a noted writer, " is done
but uncertainly as well as scantily, and soon
wearies of the unlovely and exacting poor." It
is the similitude of Jesus which beautifies poverty
and transforms our service into one of loving de-
votion to Him as seen in His poor and suffering
members. Day by day our papers teem with
startling revelations of the cruelty, neglect, and
iniquity which goes on within those workhouse
walls. The leading journal fell foul of the
author of ".Impressions of Spain," because she
ventured on a comparison between similar insti-•
tutions in that country and in England. Yet,
when our present system is universally repro-
bated by men of every shade of opinion, and
the voice of our poor is crying out to Heaven
against our so-called relief of their necessities,
would it not be worth while W consider,