The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-11 00:00:00

THE StiN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1858.

THE OPERA COLONNADE HOTEL COM-
PANY (Limited), Charles,street, Haymarket (late Feuil-
lade's). Incorporated under. the Joint Stock Company's Acts,
the liability of shareholders being limited to the amount they
each subscribe for. • Capital £25,000, in 5,000 shares of X 5 each.
Deposit ns. per share on application, and £2 per share on
allotment. - • •

DIRECTORS.
George lidsdale, ,Esq., 1, Euston-square.
John Buckmaster, Esq., 21, Addison-road, Notting-hill.
Captain Dampier, 91, Jermyn-street, St. James's,•and. Edgar
House, Bath.
George Herbert Clarke, Esq., 13, Addison-road north, Bays-
water.
Joseph Buckmaster, Esq., 2, Addison-terrace, Kensington.
Bankers—The Union BatikofLondon (Charing-cross Branch),

4, Tall-mall east, S. W.
Brokers—Messrs. Samuel Hill and Son,S, Copthall.buildings,
Throgmorton-street.
Solicitors—Messrs. trichard and Collette, 57,Lincoln' s-inn-
. .

• ' fields.
Secretary pro tem.—Mr;T: R.' Congo '
Temporary Offices, 152, Gresham House; Old Broad-street.
The Ground Floor of the premises will be used as a Re-
staurant, capable of. dining 600 .daily. The upper part
will be used for the Hotel Department, comprising a 'olfee-
room, private rooms, and about 60 bed-rooms, and in both
departments fixed moderate charges will be the rule.
Applicants for shares will be required to pay to the bankers
of the Company, or to the Directors, a deposit of 10s. per
share on the number of shares applied for."
Applications for Shares, Prospectuses, &c., may be made
to the solicitors, Messrs. Prichard and Collette, 57, Lincoln's-
inn-fields; to the brokers. Messrs. Samuel Hill and Son,
3, Copthall-buildings. Bank; to the Secretary, at the Hotel;
or at the temporary offices of the Company, 152, Gresham-
house, Old Broad-street.

L.
ONDON CRYSTAL PAL A CE.—
Regent-circus, Oxford-street, and Great Portland-
street.—This magnificent building will be opened to the
Public on WEDNESDAY, December Ist, 1858, for the sale of
all kinds of 'useful and fancy Articles. It will contain the
largest number of first-class Exhibitors of any Building in
Europe. The Photographic Establishment is the fittest in
London. The Aviary, Conservatory, General Refreshment
Room, and Ladles' Private Refreshmentßoom, with Retiring
Room attached, will be replete in their several departments.
Anolicatiopet for thr to bo
mace forthwith.

nINOP OLION TAVERN and HOTEL,
sos. 1, and 2, 13rownlow-street, High-Holborn, W.C.
The Beat Served Dinner in London for Is. 6d.
A Successiolfof Joints from One till Seven o'Clock.
Private and Smoking Rooms.
TABLE D'HOTE on SUNDAYS, at 5 o'clock, 2s. each.
Henekeys, Abbott, and Co.'s first-class Wines and Spirits.

NV-HO WILL PAY THE CHINESE
INDEMNITY ? Why, the English themselves. An
export duty is tole levied, and then not even the East India*
Tea Company will be able, as they now are, to sell 61b. of
Black, Green, or Mixed Tea, at ls. 10d. per lb., and Coffee, in
the Berry, at 10d.—Warehouse, 9, Great St. Helen's-church-
yard, City.

GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY,
AND PRONOUNCED BY HEZ MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be
THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED,
Sold by.all Chandlers, Grocers, &c., &c.

DESECRATION OF THE DEAD:AT
CAMDEN TOWN.

THE NAVY

The committee of investigationm dockyard eco-
nomy, consisting of Rear-AdmiriVß. Smart, K.H.,
Mr. R. Laws,- Mr. H. Chatfield, Ail Mr. A. Murray
are still engaged in their examina!on of the system
pursued at Chatham dockyard. 'he committee sit
daily from 9 till 4 o clock, and exmine the various
officers and- heads of departmentsoccasionally visit-
ing the ropery, smithy, metal rills, and factories
for the purpose. of making themelves thoroughly
acquainted with the practical woxing of the plans
in operation at that dockyard. lie committee are
expected to be engaged at Chaham for several
days to come.
The Falmouth, Lott master, sailed yesterday
from Chatham dockyard with a ergo of war stores
or Devonpcet.
The Rochester,Heather niaster,taving completed
her repairs at Chatham, has conmenced shipping
naval stores at Pembroke dockyad:
Her Majesty's -screw store trensport Industry,
Master Commander Hodges, lades with victualling
stores and clothing for Aseensior and Rio Janeiro,
yesterday lay to at Woolwich fom Deptford, and
fastened alongside 'the Salsette in consequence of
the heavy fog on the river, andthe danger of the
navigation.
$
The paddlewheel, isteanivessel Harpy, 1, Com-
mander G. Brine, arrived in Pljmouth Sound on
Tuesday from the Mediterranean
The Admiralty yacht Banshee, Master Com-
mander Williams, late in the sersice of the survey-
ing commissioners on, tha Se6tcl,toast. was vester-
bi day admitted into basin at Woes and piaeed
reserve.

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Mr. Gordon jackson was yesterday appointed
assistant-surgeon to the Victory, and Mr. Chas. F.
Wise acting assistant-surgeon to the Imaum.

THE ARGYLL ROOMS AND THE
SOCIAL EVIL.

The following letter has been addressed to a
contemporary :

Sir,—As an inhabitant of St. James's for some
years, perhaps you will allow me an equal right,
with " An Inhabitant of Old Bond-street," to say a
word about the Argyll Rooms, about which so
much twaddle has been written and spoken. I will
say at once that never did I read so weak and so
unphilosophical an argument as that contained in
the letter of the above-named correspondent, who
speaks with such a plentiful show of gravity of the
" social evil within gilded walls." Perhaps one
man's opinion is as valuable as any other's upon
any subject that involves the public interest. I am
myself of opinion that there is just reason to scout
the Argyll Rooms as stimulant in the propagation
and encouragement of vice and harlotry. Of course,
I am not so mad-brained as to assert that vice does
not enter there; but as I am continually in the
immediate neighbourhood of Great Windmill-street,
it may be conceded that I have as good, if not a bet •
ter, opportunity to judge of what is going on in
that locality as any "Inhabitant of Old Bond-street"
—were he as big as Goliath, or as wise as the
man of Gotham. _ _

I most emphatically aver that the closing of the
Argyll Rooms was no improvement to the neigh-
bourhood of St. lames's, as it was so strongly as-
serted it would be. The neighbourhood of the
Haymarket and Piccadilly did not throw off its
spangle suit and put on one of sable; on the con-
m•94.Q of this second Memphis, this re-
vival of another Pandemonium, increased in lewd-
ness to the very perfection of public disgust. This
is a fact that will be testified to by every resident
in Windmill-street.

Surely, Mr. Editor, if the wayward lasses of this
fecundating metropolis never perpetrate anything
worse than a dance, they will not do much harm;
and the fact is indisputable, that Mr. Bignell has
ever conducted his establishment with all due de-
corum and a necessary observance of public morality.
Nothing that would shock any one possessing a
grain of common sense is ever permitted to take place
there ; and if the fact requires any substantiation,
that a respectable and virtuous woman has ever
entered within 'these " gilded walls," I am pre-
pared to assert that this has occurred—ay, with an
affidavit, if needs be. The immortal Shakspere has
well said (and the sentence is peculiarly fitted as
an illustration of the bitterness with which Mr.
Bignell has been assailed),—

" Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what 'wretches feel,
So that thou may'st cast the superfluous to them

And show the heavens more just."

With your good leave, Mr. Editor, I would fur-
ther counsel your correspondent never again to
speak of persons and circumstances, without first
possessing himself of the correct facts, as the neglect
of this in a writer is a most serious fault. Had
he known the " baker opposite the casino" (who he
singles out individually for his strictures, notwith-
standing the fact that he had no more to do-in the
business than the rest of his neighbours, and that
extended simply to a conscientious opinion), he
would not have offered such an insult to him as
he has done in the impression of your widely-
circulated paper of the 24th ult. The "bakers"' 1
name (for nature has endowed him with one),
I must inform your correspondent, is Alexander;
and I have not the least doubt list that the situa-
tion "in which it has pleased God to place
him" is quite as honest as that of the " Inha-
bitant of Old Bond-street," whatever his profession
may be. Allow me to state, moreover, Mr. Editor,
simply as a matter of justice, that I have known
Mr. Alexander ever since I came out of my swad-
dling clothes ; and as the son of a tradesman, and a
housekeeper, who has been a parishoner of St.
James's for sixteen years, and St. Anne's for twenty-
five, assert that there is not a more straightforward
or religious man to be found in any of the Pures of
St. James's than he is. If there were the least fear
of contradiction in this regard, Mr. Editor, I should
not be bold enough to make this assertion thus
openly to you, and in the face of his neighbours.
With regard to the " keeping open" his shop late
at night, every one of common understanding is
aware that the unhappy journeyman baker corn-
' mences his labours when most other good-ordered
- n "- i" a«ma of R..TTI Tlll C ,111
that, as a cons'quence, it is absolutely necessary
that the master-baker, or somebody else, should sit
up to admit his mea to their nightly labour. Mr.
Alexander, howf,ver, does not keep his shop open
till this hour ; he closes shortly after ten, and merely
opens his door at the requisite time, simply that
his men may walk through space, and not through
beech. Will the purists deny him this liberty and
right ?
Let me beg to observe, in conclusion, Mr. Editor,
that I do not for one moment doubt the honesty—
so far as principle goes—of your correspondent,
and, therefore, acquit him of any malignant intent.
I believe, with others, he has made a great mistake
in this questio vexata ; and, upon the principle of
audi aiterain partem, beg you will favour an old
subscriber to your paper with the insertion of this
statement—Your obedient servant, B. W. W.
Great Crown-court, Windmill-street.