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

THE SUN, LONDON, NV 4. DNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18", 1867.

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

THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON and
GLOM: INSURANCE COAPANY.
Offices—l, Dale-street, Liverpool; 7, Cornhill ; and
Charing-cross, London.

The Invested Funds now amount to £3,254,334, the
Fire Revenue to £818,055, and that of the Life to £254,397.
The moderato rates of premium, with a guaranteed fixed
Bonus for the Life Policies of this Company, and their
value as SPECIAL SECURITIES to third parties,
render them particularly advantageous. Whole-world
leave is granted on reasonable terms, and claims aro paid
thirty days after admission.
JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary.

CANDLES, GLYCERINE, and SOAP.—A
Gold Medal was awarded at the Paris Exhibition to
Price's Patent Candle Company Limited, for " Candles,
Glycerine, and Soap"—the only one to any British exhibi-
tor for these three things combined. The chief Candles of
the Company are their "BELMONTINE" and "PRICE'S
PARAFFINE" for those who must have the ex.reme
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 SOLIDIFIE I ) GLYCERINE" con-
tains half its weight 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
Price'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 be the very
best Night Lights made. " PRICE'S CHILD'S NIGHT
LIGHTS" are known everywhere, and nro excellent for
burning without a glass.

'll GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
cp. 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 fragrance to the breath. Price Is.
6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-erect, London.

lyl ANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per-
fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers,
and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner
or Savoy-steps), 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.

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

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

NOTICE.

C. F. HANCOCK, SON, & CO.,

JEWELLERS AND SILVERSMITHS TO TILE QUEEN ArD

PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES,

And by Special Appointinent.te the principal Sovereigns
and Courts of Europe,
Beg respectfully to state that their only Address is
33 & 33, BR,THON-STREET,
CORNER OF•BOND-STI:rET.

AWARDED TO. C. F. 1-lANCDOK
Great Exhibition, 1851—Council Medal for Originality and
Taste. ParisExhibition,lBss=-Golclllodaillcd'Honnour

International Exhibition, 1862—Prize Medal, for great
Excellence of Design and Manufacture. Paris Universal
Exhibition, 1867 —Gofd Medal.
MANUFACTURERS OF THE VICTORIA CROSS.

PAINLESS, DENTISTRY.
m 1815),
of
ESSR S. GABRIEL,DENTisTs (Established
Lon don 5B, Harley-street, Cavendish-square,
64, Ludgate-Hill, L.C.,
Liverpool 34, Duke-street, and
Brighton
have just published a NEW PAMPHLET explaininr; their Pain-
less System of Dentistry, -and self-adhesive Teeth without
springs, at MODERATE CIiALGE3, Which may be bad free by post
for four stamps.

are attested by Mr. Tidd Pratt.. Working men are
made members by subscribing one shilling an-
nually, for which they are provided with a 'card of
tgembership. All this is v ell ; and we are informed
that the society has already providei many hun-
dreds of men with employine at at good wages, avd
through its agency four im pending strikes have
been prevented or arranged_ Samu thousandA of
wol king men have registered themselves, and num-
bers are daily repairing to ;he society's offices, for
the purpose. By co-oper: .ng with this society the
working man places hituse... under no patronage and
accepts no charity. It is simply a system of insur-
ance like any other. For ls. per annum he insures
himself, as far as possible, from being out of work ;
by paying from 3d. to Gd. weekly if he is young,
or from Gd. to Is. if he is over fifty, he is entitled
to a sick allowance of from 10s. to £1 per week ;
and he thus reduces to a minimum the two chief
evils incidental to his calling. He 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 for arbi-
tration, it will be so dealt with under Lord St.
Leopards' 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 be taken by ballot.
Under these regulations we are not surprised
that workmen should register themselves, but
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 duo to that curious policy of niggardli-
ness which induces a man to postpone insuring
his own shop till his neighbour's house is on
fire. Yet if these gentlemen NN ere to calculate how
much a strike coEti, 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 ba 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. Girdlestone 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.