The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, AIONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1866.

TILE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'S-STREET
(Entrance 160, Piccadilly).
Set Dinners as usual. The carte varied, choice, and mode-
rate. Turtle, thick and clear, always ready.
The Billiard Rooms now conducted by J. Roberts, the
champion.
Flippers until One a.m.
Elegant Saloon Dining Rooms for Ladles.

¶1 H E 0 X F 0 it v,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (Limited%

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EN TRA NOVELTIES. Operatic Selections performed
by Misses Russell, Barry, Fitznenry; Messrs. A. St. Albyn,
flush, Bury, Dalton, and Tivoli, with full band and chorus,
conducted by Mr. F. jONGLIMANS.
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Comedy, Burlesque. Gymnastic, and other performances,
by all the moot talented Foreicrn and Envlish artistes, in-
ducting Mr. HARRY SIDNEY and Mr. J. W. ADAMS.
Messrs. Duriah and Davies in their Nigher ecceatricitle..
o. &c. All Excursionists to London should pay a visit to
this establishment.
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Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, Is ; private
boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d.

Open every evening at 8.
Engagement of the talented JULIETTI and JULIA
DEL BPIERRE, Violinists to all the Northern Courts, aged
respectively nine and thirteen years. Mdlle. Juliette will
also perform a Fantasii on her extraordinary instrument
called the Xilophone, composed of Bois et Faille. They will
appear Every Evening at Nine o'clock.

WE ST ON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL,
HOLBORN.

Under New Management.
Proprietors—Messrs. Sweasey and Holland,

Two of the Grandest Selections ever performed, ROB ROY
and MACBETH, every evening, by 50 vocalists and a superb
band of 30 performers, conducted by P. Corri.
• Ait I'HUR LLOYD'S new sums a=e nightly received with
deat. ning rounds of applause —JOLLY NASH, the mirthful
—WEST, the Great Stump Orator—and EMMA WEST,
Senn-Comic and Burlesque Actress—LYDlA HOWARD. the
Smallest Actress in the World, only 25 inches high and two
and a half years of age—JAMES HE MINGS, the renowned
Globe Performer (his first appearance at this Hall)—and Al.
PIE RROT, the Wonder of Wonders.

Box-office open from 10 to 4.

** Sweasey and Holland's STAR MINSTRELS, sixteen
innumber, will appear on MONDAY, Sept. 10.
SPECIAL NOTICE.—In consequence of the length of the en-
tertainments, doors will open at 7, commence at half-past.

ARGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO,
Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re-
decorated, are now OPEN EVERY EV HNIN(3, for Concert
and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Ludt CURTL Manager,
M. GRENET.

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

M
ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
BAKER-STREET.

NEW EDITIONS.—A MARRIAGE GROUP of their
Royal Highnesses the PRINCESS HELENA and PRINCE
CHRISTIAN; also a variety of COURT DRESSES of the
most magnificent and costly description. Several life-size
Portrait Models of the most distinguished Men of the Day
are likewise to be seen.

Admittance, la.; children, under ten, half-price; extra
rooms, 6d.

Open from 11 a m. till 10 p.m.

THE CULTIVATION of TEA in the East
Indies is an important feature, and the EAST INDI
TEA COMPANY have, on account of its great strength and
exquisite flavour, promoted its sale by every means. The
Company are now selling Assam, Cachar, Darjeeling, &c., at
the reduced duty—viz., from 2s. Bd. 0 3s. Bd. per lb , and
China Teas as usual at ls. 4d. per lb. and upwards. —Ware-
houses, No. 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopegate.

FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real
Malt," 198. per gallon, is sold in bottles and jars, bear-
ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms are offered
to the trade for the sale of this genuine old spirit, which is
coming into universal consumption through England.
For price lists apply at Offices, 14, Strand. London, W.C.
Established in Gratton-street, Dublin, A.D. 1780.

JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork.—" The purest spirit and safcst drink in the
world."—London Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C.,
next the "Times."

TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork, beir to announce that they ore able to supply the
trade with their celebrated Whiskies. in casks or cases, and
to take orders in bond lit d for exportation, at their Gffices, 7,
Printing-house-square, London, E.O . the only house in the
square not occupied bv the " Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies
brimg the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial
markets, as may be observed by reverence to the "Journal of
Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their
whiskies fetch Bd. per gallon and Is. per case over the next
brat, and Is. Gd per gallon and ss. 6d. a case over the lowest
quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ve y old
mellow whisky in the finest condition, matured in sherry
casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the
most reasonable terms.

STARCH MANUFACTURERS
TO H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
pLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
Used in the Royal Laundry,
AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL. MI
Sold brall Grocers, Chandlers, &c. &o.

LIEBIG'S EXTRACT of MEAT, for the hn-
media.e production of Beet Tea, Soups, and Gravies,
manufactured on the establishment of Robert Tooth, Esq., of
Sydney, Australia, may now be obtained of the consignees,
ALLEN and HAN IIUftYS. Plough-court, Lomb txd-.treet,
London. This Extract contains the so•uble constituents of
thirty times its weight of fresh meat; it is nutritious, con-
venient, economical, unaltered by time or &imam. Two oz.
pots, 2,6 d. ; halt-pound jars. Os. 6d.; one pound jars, 18s.

TiTIE DAMES GUNPOWDER COMPANY'S
CRYSTAL Gunpowder, pocked in Red Japanned
Canisters ; No. 1, Fine; No. 2, Medium; No. 3, Large Grain

THE K A.M ES GUNPOWDER CO IPANY, Contr.ictors
to lI.M. War Department, solicit a trial of their CRYSTAL
and other Sporting Guni..nwde.•, of this year's manufacture.
For strt mrth, nicauliness, and prompt ignition they will be
found unequalled. —Sold by most respectable dealers through-
out the Country, and wholesale at the Offices, 45, Lime-street,
London, E.C.

DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.
The Medical profession for Thirty years have approved
of this pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for
Acidity of the Stomach. Heartburn, Gout, and Indigestion ;
and as a mild aperient it is especially -adapted for ladies and
children. Prepared by
DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, &c.,
172, New Bond-street, London ;
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And sold throughout the world by all respectable chemists.
CAUTION.—See that " Dinneford and Co." is on each bottle

and red label over the cork.

DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A. NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre-
fared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent. will be found invaluable to all who
,offer from bilious and liver aomplaints, inligesticn, wind,
ipasma, giddiness, nizzinet.e of the eyes, &o. For habitual
ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
d the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
Von and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine aro a square
green package. with " William Lambert." engraved on the
stamp.

WINSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having
been recently opened and fitted with requisites for
the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr.
BOISItAGON, announces that he has transferred his Estab-
lishment from Birmingham to the above desirable residence,
easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour
and a-half by the London and North-Western line, and fit ty
minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on
a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing
prospect, are garden, me,dow, plantation, and recreation
grounds. For terms 'and forms of admission address the
proprietor.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING
SHIP. £2,000 required.
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

1.1 OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON-
TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing
the COUNTRY ROME. £l,OOO required.
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street. W.C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys.
One hundred and fifty are now In the Refuge. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at
Ls,ooo, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have premised to nay for one boy each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothburv. and 214, High Holborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East; and by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

PROVIDENCE ROWR NIGHT REFUGE,
FO
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass th©
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, aro given gratuitously every week. Tho poor
from all parts aro admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. Tho Manager &c.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made -by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, chilaren, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, andhave
to spend night after night in the cotd, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT, D.D., No, 22
Finsbury-circus, E.O.

JOHN GOENELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a nleassnt fragrance to
the breath. Price Is. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, s 3, Upper
Thames-street, London.

UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MOST
GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
THE ROYAL NAVAL, AHLIT-ARY, EAST
INDIA, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.

Established in the year 1837.
LIVES ASSURED in all parts of the world under most
favourable cmdttions.

ARTHUR R. HAMILTOg, Secretary.
17, Waterloo-place, Pall-Mall, Lond n, S.W.
Additional Agents and Medical Referees wanted in pro-
vincial towns.

"T HE" s A U C E.
(DR. SOUTHWOOD SMITH'S DIGESTIVE.)
Delicious with every dish. Wholesale and Export by A.
S. Stocker, Lamb's Conduit-street; Barclay and sons,
Batty and Co., London; and George Edmonds, Crown-
chambers, Liverpool. Retailed everywhere. Ask for " The"
Sauce.

LT CREED and CO., Artists in Draping the
I.l_ • Real Figure, and Habit Maizers by appointment to
the Queen and to the Empress of the French, 33, Conduit-
street, Bond-street, W. Pra3tical experience, combined with
a scientific knowledge of external anatomy, and the definite
proportions and forms of the human figure. give to them con-
fidence in soliciting patrona;e. Court, Diplomatic, civil,
Military, and Naval Uniforms. Habits, &c.

LADIES MORE* BEAUTIFUL THAN
EVER.—Dr. CULVERWELL'S LADIES'. TUR-
KISH BATHS, Tuesdays. Gentlemen otherdays.-3. Great
Marlborotigh-street, W. 2s. A.so the Post office Turxish
Baths, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand,, Is. 6{l, • Saturdays ,and
Sundays, Is. ; at both establishments, is; Greatest purifier
of the blood and beautifier of the skin.

CHOCOLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH.

CHOCOLAT-MENLER, for Breakfast.

CHOCOLAT-MENMR is pure, wholesome, and
delicious.

ItiENIER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE.
Warehouse, 23, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
Sold everywhere.

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men. The engagement he then entered upon to
make Italy " free to the Adriatic" he now announces
as fulfilled to " his brother," King Victor Em-
manuel—fulfilled not altogether through his exer-
tions, yet not without his friendly interference; and
it will not be long, in all probability, before that
right of the people to dispose of themselves by
universal suffrage which he now calls upon the
Venetians to exercise will be extended to another
people whose destinies are more immediately under
his control. The termination of the Venetian diffi-
culty will soon be followed by the solution of the
Roman question. _ _

THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON WHY DO Alzil Go
INTO PARLIAMENT.—The disclosures before the elec-
tion commission all illustrate one point—the great
anxiety of many men to become members of Par-
liament at any price. It is clear that there are in
England several scores of men anxious, not only to
find opportunities of spending sums varying in
amount from £5,000 to £lO,OOO on a contested
election, but also to celebrate their success by the
regular payment of annuities of more than £l,OOO
a year to their constituents. It becomes a ques-
tion of considerable public interest to inquire, who
are these men, and what do :they want ? We are
not speaking of county members, or of bar-
risters. Their Parliamentary raison d'etre is ap-
parent enough. County members for the most
part represent, not only the present opinions of
certain constituents, but the traditions of the
counties, and, in•some degree, of the country itself.
Dismissing, then, the cases of territorial and legal
M.P.'s, the question remains—Who are the men
that represent the larger and more costly boroughs,
and why do they take the trouble of paying so
much for the position ? Looking over the lists of
members, we are struck with the great number of
contractors, merchants, bankers, brokers, colonial
landowners ,or traders, directors of financial and
other companies, and capitalists, or quasi-capita-
lists, of every description. In a commercial and
speculative age it is natural enough that a certain
number of representatives of the people should be
the representatives of commerce and capital. But a
further reference discloses the fact that thosewhom
the boroughs have sent to the House of Commons
are not among the best informed, or the most ca-
pable of giving information, even on their own spe-
cial subjects. The reason is plain why such men
wish to get into Parliament. The position of a
member of Parliament is the highest—nominally all
but the highest, practically the highest—in the king-
dom. It is not quite equal to that of a Peer ; and it
isnot permanent, like that of a peer; but in other
respects it is as good. The House of Commons has
gradually absorbed more and more of the Govern-
ment of the empire. On all great and momentous
questions which stir the heart of the country it
does, de facto, make or unmake the policy and the
administration. The most ordinary M.P. may re-
gard himself as the 658th part of the great govern-
ing machine which wields or modifies the policy of
England. This is of itself an abstract satisfaction
for which a rich parvenu is content to pay hand-
somely. But it involves a concrete enjoyment
which is more palpable and immediate. It is not
enough to have " begun life" with 55., and to
have made £300,000 or £400,000 in 20 or 25 years.
That will not win admission into the " best society."
Whatboots itto have made money and bought a fine
place and become a squire ? The rich parvenu
fancies that he is only a Brummagem squire after
all. lie curses the condition of all things. He curses
the aristocracy. He recalls the Radical creed of
his youth, and regrets he ever abandoned it. He
wishes he were a dissenter. He would then build
a chapel and preach his own politics to his own
tenants. While he is viewing all things in general
through the lurid glass of a morbid imagination, the
tempter appears to him in the guise of an election
agent. This man knows a borough which is ar-
dently seeking just such a member as he would be.
As to the expenses, the legitimate expenses, they
are only a few hundreds; and as to the illegitimate
expenses, why should gentlemen talk of such things?
From that moment the whole current of his thoughts
is changed. Life assumes another and more cheer-
ful colour. Parliament is the " open sesame" of his
every aspiration and ambition. Once enter the
portals of St. Stephen's, and everything else opens
before him. He becomes forthwith a governing
entity. He sits on the same bench with men whose
forefathers have sat therein every Parliament since
the Revolution. Ile pairs with a viscount or a
marquis. If he makes a few observations, he is
spoken of by Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Disraeli as " my
honourable friend." Invitations to dinners and
soirees inundate him. His daughters dance with
peers and the sons of peers. Before six months
of a London season have passed over their regene-
rate condition, they find they can cut their hum-
bler neighbours from the country as gracefully as
ever they were cut themselves. The father's hap-
piness is restored, and the mother's heart swells
with triumph.

" THE EXAMINER" ON THE FOLLY OF FOLLIES.
—Well may Colonel Sykes say that the millions
expended upon our fortifications have been thrown
away. If an individual had wasted his means in a
similar way he would have been pronounced in-
competent to manage his affairs, and shut up in a
lunatic asylum. here and there the country is dis-
figured by unmeaning obelisks and towers, stuck on
hills, to which the name of Follies is given, Snob's
Folly, Acres's Folly. The Portsdown works are a
gigantic State Folly, crowning the hill, as it were,
typically, with a fool's cap. It is true that the hill
overlooks Portsmouth, but no enemy could get to
it who had not the command of the country, and
having that command he would have something
better to do than to besiege Portsmouth.°
Upon examining the country it will be
seen to be so intersected by waters and marshes
that from whatever point an enemy might be
supposed to land he could not get to Portsdown
without a great detour. To make such a circuit with
the heavy material necessary for a siege would be
impossible without the complete mastery of the in-
terior, possessed of which, as we have before observed,
an invader who lost time upon a bombardment of
Portsmouth would be as stupid as the wiseacres who
have covered Portsdown with fortifications against
such a contingency. The works are permanent, of
course, as permanence carries the cost to the highest
pitch. But the field-works answering the same
purpose, or more effective, might be thrown up by
navvies in ten days or a fortnight, properly planned
beforehand, and would not cost a twentieth part of the
money. Resort to them, too, would not be had till
the highly improbable occasion arose. But these
considerations had no weight with a Govern-
ment regardless of expense, and guided by mili-
tary engineers who held nothing like leather.
But bad as the Portsdown Folly is, it is not the
worst, for nothing there is spoiled except some
grazing downs. To Alderney we must look for the
most complicated and consummate folly. Alderney
is quite out of the track of ships going up or down
channel, the rule with all such being to hug the
English rather than the opposite coast. But the
brilliant idea struck the Government of making
Alderney a harbour of refuge and naval station.
And for this object the engineers have gone to
work so cleverly as to destroy the little natural
shelter which the island possessed at St. Ann's.
They have made an artificial reef, cutting up the
anchorage, small as it was. A writer in the Times, who
evidently understands his subject, gives this account
of the present state of things :—" My conviction,
as an entirely unprejudiced person, is that the public
money ,has hitherto been, and is still being, lavished
there on a gigantic blunder. In fact, a million ster-
ling flung into the sea has only done harm ; it has
partially filled up with a mountain of stones the
natural harbour of St. Ann's, without having contri-
buted to its safety in any respect; on the contrary,
the north and north-east winds are thereby drawn as
through a funnel into a narrow. cul de sac, where
nothing can ride at safe moorings, if there is even
the most moderate breeze from those usual wintry
quarters, while at least half of the old anchorage
ground is rendered shoal and dangerous by the wide-
sloping sides of the breakwater. Whether or not an
arm thrown into the sea to screen the east—and its
cost a second million—may be worth while I cannot
undertake to say; it would look like obstinate persist-
ence in a fault, that common course so fatally ruinous;
but at present this vaunted national work is only a
source of maritime peril, worse than any reef of rocks
in these parts. The whole thing from beginning to
end is an extravagant blunder, disgraceful to its
promoters and abettors in every way. No large
ship of war can safely anchor at St. Ann's ; as for
the secrecy of the matter, French telescopes
while
command the breakwater eastwardly, le
5,000 men are required for the forts, and allto
protect a roadstead not now available for our Royal
navy, and half ruined by fillinGgoivnornouriesutm aollflicoriaaflst:
through the blunders of our
tln s. whaustt eo
Who are personally to blameoemf
the public money no one s
for • • "
knowsortoall
affair would be highly
cer-
tainly the whole case calls loudly. inquiry." A
history of this Alderney
in-
structive, showing who first conceived so egregious
a folly, and by whom it was approved and carried
into effect, notwithstanding all warnings. And,
indeed, the design was so faulty that it told