The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, -kV I. DNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1867.

NEW NOVEL BY MRS. W. GREY.
On Friday, Dcc. 20, in 3 vols.,
LOVE'S SACRIFICE.
By Mrs. W. GREY.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

rUNDLES, GLYCERINE, and SOAP.—A
N..) Gold Medal was awarded at the Paris Exhibition to
Price's Patent Candle Company Limited, for " Candles,
Glycerine, and.,Seap"—the only ono to any British exhibi-
tor for these three things combined. The chief Candles of
the Company are their " BEL.AIONTINE" and "PRICE'S
pARAFFINE" for those who must have the evreme
transparency of pure Paraffine their "GOLD MEDAL
PALMITINE " and " SHERWOOD PALMITINE," for
those who, while desiring candles of great beauty, require
also steady brilliancy of light and freedom from smoke
and smell; their good old-fashioned " B ELMONT SPERM
AND WAX," and "BEST" "No. 2," "No. 3," and
"BATTERSEA" COMPOSITES for those who require
only perfect burning without caring for transparency; and
their "CHAMBER" Candles, hard, and of small diameter,
to avoid the dripping of grease when carried. Their new
toilet soap, "PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE" con-
tains half its wt•ight of their distilled Glycerine, and should
-be the one toilet soap in use, especially in winter, because of
its admirable effects in preventing chapping of the hands and
face. There ought also to be in every house one of the sealed
bottles of their patent distilled Glycerine, known every-
where as " PRICE'S GLYCERINE," two or three dr ps
of which, mixed with three or four times as much water,
will in a day or two remove chapping and roughness of
skin, whether of adults or children ; and when this is
effected, a single drop of the undiluted Glycerine applied
once a day will prevent the recurrence of the chapping and
roughness. insist on having " Price's Glycerine" in the
Company's own sealed bottles, quantities of cheap impure
Glycerine being now sold in the shops because of the low
rate at which the dealers can buy it in comparison with
Trice's. All the good medical authorities abroad as well
as at home order " PRICE'S" as the only Glycerine to be
used.
" PRICE'S NEW PATENT NIGHT LIGHTS" for
burning in the wide glasses, are believed to bo the very
best Night Lights made. " PRICES CHILD'S NIGHT
LIGHTS" are known everywhere, and are excellent for
burning without a glass.

JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder;
gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from de-
cay, and imparts a pleasant fragranco to the breath. Price ls.
Gd.—Red Bull 'Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London.

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11ANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per-
j fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers,
and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (cornor
of Savoy-stepa), London.

'WALKER'S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
aro superseding all others. Prize medals, London,
1862; Paris, 1867. Gold from £l5 155.. silver from £6 65.-68,
Cornhill, and 230, Regent-street.

DUN VILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY,
BELFAST,
Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords.
" V.R." IRISH WHISKY.

DUNVILLE and CO.'S " Ir.R." OLD IRISH
WHISKY, BELFAST.
London Offices and Stores,
4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C.
Established 1808. Quotations on application.

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THE ~ SINGER" NEW FAMILY
MACHINE

Is fitted with a new
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which GAUGES and MARKS each succeeding TUOK while
sewing, a MOST VALUABLE ACCESSORY, not to be had with
any other Nitalna.
SINGER" NEW FAMILY SEWING
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Catalogue, and Samples of Work post free.
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

NOTICE.

C. F. HANCOCK, SON, & CO')
JEWELLERS AND SILVERSMITHS TO THE QUEEN Arl)

PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES,

And by Special Appointment to the principal Sovereigns

and Courts of Europe,

Beg respectfully to state that their only Address is
33 & 39, BRIIrON-STREET,

COUNEU OF .BOND-STREET•

AWARDED TO C. F. HANCOCK :
Great Exhibition, 1851—Council Medal for Originality and
Taste. Paris Exhibition,lBss —Gold Medai lle d'llonnetir
International Exhibition, 1862—Prize Medal, for groat
Excellence of Design and Manufacture. Paris Universal
Exhibition, 1867 Gold Medal.

are attested by Mr. Tidd Pratt. Working ai n are
made members by subscribing one shillin g an-
nually, for which they are provided with a e. and of
membership. All this is well ; and we are inf muted
that the society has already provided man.: r hun-
dreds of men with employment at good want .s, and
through its agency four impendii,g striket have
been prevented or arranged. Sam thousands of
working men have registered themselves, and Lum-
bers are daily repairing to the society's offices, for
the purpose. By co-operating with this society the
working man places himself under no patronage and
accepts no charity. It is simply a system of insur-
ance like any other. For ls. per annum be insures
himself, as far as posiible, from being out of work ;
by paying from 3d. to 6d. weekly if he is young,
or from 6d. to Is. if he is over fifty, be is entitled
to a sick allowance of from 10s. to per week;
and he thus reduces to a minimum the two chief
evils incidental to his calling. lie can further
lay before the society any gross act of
injustice on the part of his employer,
when, if the committee think it a fit case far arbi-
tration, it will be so dealt with under Lord St.
Leonarda' Act. Any member refusing-to abide by
such arbitration loses his membership ; and in all
disputes between employers and servants an equal
number only of the representatives of each class are
to vote, and such votes are to betaken b; ballot.
Under these regulationi 7fvre. not ,4*
Via witinlen should re 'theinse • t
when we examine the attitude of employers,
either in trade or otherwise, we find a de-
cided contrast. Though the society is meant to be
self supporting considerable preliminary expenses
have been incurred, and some few noblemen and
gentlemen have subscribed sums averaging £5 each
If the scheme is a useless folly, this is too much ;
but if they consider it a wise and practical measure,
it seems too little. It may be a symptom of the
nervousness and timidity which, according to the
Saturday Review, has fallen with such paralysing
effect on the upper classes, but at any rate the mass
of our territorial and county proprietors are, as a
rule, nowhere in the movement.
'We might reasonably expect to have seen the
large employers of labour fully represented, not only
as members, but as subscribers ; but such is not the
case. -Where are the names of the fashionable
tailors whose outcries were so loud this year, and
whose losses were stated to be so large owing to the
strike ? Conspicuous by their absence. The rail-
way companies have not joined the movement,
and Sheffield contributes only one name. This
may be owing to the cowed and demoralised
mental state of the Sheffield magnates, of
which we have had such numerous proofs, or it
may be due to that curious policy of niggardli-
ness which induces a man to postpone insuring
bis own shop till his neighbour's house is on
fire. Yet if these gentlemen were to calculate how
much a strike coAi, and, more than this, how much
the fear of a strike costs, would they measure it
by hundreds or by thousands? To wait until a
strike is imminent, and then to send a guinea with
a hurried request for hands from the society,
would not be a satisfactory way of deal-
ing, and it is one which the committee
ought to discourage if it is attempted. If the
scheme is properly supported it will undoubtedly do
on a large scale and for all divisions of labour what
Mr. Girillestone did in a small way for the Dorset-
shire agricultural servants. It will, however, be
important that the subscriptions and charges due
from the workmen and servants who obtain em-
ployment through the agency of the company should
in all cases be paid in full, or the society will dege-
nerate into a charitable association, the effect of
which cannot be otherwise than demoralising to all
concerned.—Pall Mall Gazette.

POST-OFFICE REFORM'.

A very numerously attended meeting was held
last night in Exeter Hall with the view of placing
the position of Post-office employes before the
public, in order that they might be enabled to re-
ceive better remuneration for their services, as well
as more certain and speedy means of promotion.
Mr. J. Bennett occupied the chair, and in a brief
speech dwelt upon the vast proportions which the
business of the Post-office had now attained, there
being no less, he said, than a thousand millions of
letters and pamphlets passing throught it annually.
The revenue, too, not only paid all the expenses of
the establishment, but left a profit of something
like a million and a half. Yet, notwithstanding
that such was the case, there existed among the
employes a degree of discontent and unhappiness
almost amounting to rebellion. In endeavouring to
obtain redress for their grievances they were told
that they were fighting against the laws of political
economy ; but where intelligence and energy were
required in a high degree, it must not be hoped that
those qualities could be secured for the wages of
dulness, or that the best way to obtain immaculate
honesty was to give a man a salary which would not
place the poorest person beyond the reach of temp-
tation. For manyyears the Post-office employes had
preferred ther claims for redress on the Post-office
authorities, but without avail. Their representa-
tions had been treated with neglect and contempt.
lie did not complain that the present heads of
departments, as they were called, were no wiser
than their predecessors, and it should be borne in
mind that that great man, Sir Rowland Ilill,
had taken it as a fundamental maxim that the au-
thorities were always wrong. They were always
wrong in their opinions, their figures, and their
prophecies, and they were now trying to diminish
the magnificent results which the exertions of Sir
It. Hill had achieved by the prosecution of a sys-
tem which led to a state of things almost amount-
ing to starvation. Mr. Bennett, to show how badly
the servants of the Post-office were in some in-
stances remunerated, read a letter which he had re-
ceived from a country postman, which stated that
he only got 12s. a week, and that having a wife and
four children to support, he could scarcely procure
for them the common necessaries of life. It was
unworthy, he contended, of a great and opulent
country like England to have these who served
well in a position of much trust and responsibility
thus paid, and he trusted that public opinion would
be brought to bear upon the subject, so that they
might be placed in a better position. Mr. E.
Reid then presented himself to the meeting, and
proposed the following resolution :—" That, con-
sidering the large amount of work Post-office
employes have to perform, the importance and trust
of their duties, the increased cost of living to which
they are now subject, and the additional remunera-
tion that has been accorded to other classes of labour,
this meeting is of opinion that Post-office ofli,•ials
on the permanent and unestablished staff through-
out the kingdom, especially those intrusted with
sorting, stamping, and carrying duties, are insuffi-
cently paid, and need a more certain and speedy
means of promotion ; that this meeting would ex
press its sympathy with the large class of the un-
established employes called rural messengers ;' and,
considering the great amount of their daily duties,
the similarity of their work to that of the per-
manent staff, the character of the widespread and
difficult districts through which they have to travel,
is of opinion that they deserve a higher rate of re
muneration, and also that some scheme of promo-
tion, of sick pay, annual holydays, with uniform,
&c., might justly be providedgfor them." He dwelt
at considerable length on the punctuality and in-
tegrity by which the Post-office employes were cha-
racterised, and the paltry reward which they received
for their services. Ile alluded to the fact that the
officers of the Inland Revenue and the cab pro-
prietors had had their claims for redress granted or
favourably entertained almost before the ink was
dry ou the resolutions in which they were em-
bodied, and asked whether the servants of the Post-
office were entitled to less consideration, Ile