The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-28 00:00:00

No. 23,128.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, J ULY 28, 1866.

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " MARGARET
AND HER BRIDESMAIDS."
Just ready, in 3 vols.,
LORDS AND LADIES.
By the Author of
"Margaret and 11.:1- Bridesmaids." &c.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street

THE WELLINGTON, ST. JA3IES'S - STREET
(Entrance 160, Piccadilly).

J. AND D. NICOLL,
• TAILORS to the QUEEN, ROYAL FAMILY,
and the COURTS of EUROPE.

and general adaptation to their readers' eyes. The
typographical machinery, so very little understood
in England, requires to be better understood. The
machines for setting and distributing type have
evidently led to volumes being produced on very
economical terms. The state of the textile manu-
factures cannot at the present moment be fairly
estimated. The protracted war necessarily carried
off a large portion of the labouring classes, and
every allowance must be made for any want of
novelty that may be apparent ; still, there can be
little doubt that much advantage may be derived
by houses that wish to show how willingly they
will enter into competition with the old es-
tablished system of production. The engi-
neering authorities do not lead us to expect
much improvement on the European system
of railways ; but so much is spoken of the
ingenious arrangements of the carriages and of the
sleeping cars that it is hoped that the directors of
establishments here will have an opportunity of
studying models of these additions to the comforts
of the traveller, and that the transatlantic system
will be placed in its best light before the continental
world, always much more ready to avail themselves
of improvements elsewhere suggested than the some-
what positive inhabitants of Great Britain, to

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.

FOR GENTLEMEN, Nicoll's Fashionable Dress
and Morning Suits, Cheviot Suits for Tourists and the
Sea- side; Nicoll's Guinea Waterproof Tweed Overcoats are
patronized by Travellers all over the world.

Eupp rs until One a.m.
Elegant Saloon Dinimr llcoms for Ladies.

Limp cloth, price Is.,
SYSTEMATIC MEMORY ; or, How to Make
a Bad yemory Good, and a Good Memory Better. By
T. MACLAREN.

IUR. ARTHUR SKETCHLEY'S New
Entertainment.,li MRS. BROW AT HOME AND
A B )A 1 E V ERh V 1..N1.NG at Eight (except Saturday);
Saturday Atternooa at Three. E:4-yoti4n Hall, Piccadilly.
Tickets at the Box-office; Mr. Mitchell's ; and all music-
sellers.

FOR BOYS,—Nicoll's fashionable Knickerbocker Suits
at 215., 255., 31s. Gd., &c., &e. ; also, Jacket, Vest, and
Trousers Suits, 205., 31s. Gd., &c.

London: F. Pitman, 20. Paternoster-row.

FOR LADlES,—Nicoll's New Jackets " The Patrol,
&c., Waterproof Tweed Cloaks, Coats, and Cheviot
Jackets, at One Guinea each; Riding Habits, from Three
to Six Guineas ; New Serge and other specialities in
Travelling and Sea-side dresses.
In each department Garments are kept ready for imme-
diate use, or made to order at a few hours' notice.

THE PRICE OF MEAT.
Just published, no pages, boards Is. 6.1., cloth 25.,
VEGETABLE COOKERY, PASTRY, &c. ;
containing Five Hundred healthy and tasty dishes
without he use of Meat. Full of information of thegreatest
value to every housewife and Cook.
London : F. Pitman. 20, Paternoster-row.

11. J. and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, 118, 120, Regent-
street, W. ; 22. Cornhill, E.C.; 10, Mosley-street, Man-
chester ; and 50, Bold-street, Liverpool.

JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOTH rA.srm is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price ls. 6j—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper
Thames-street, London.

COLD BATH.—The celebrated OLD ROMAN
Strand-lane, near Somerset Admission,House.-- ls.
RE-OPENED with pvements,

whom novelty is seldom agreeable, and who often
prefer old, long-tried habits to the progressive
advance which is made by a young and ardent
people.

_ There_are, of course, a vast number of arts whose
cultivation has scarcely begun, for the people have
had the material objects of life to supply before they
could pay attention to the ornamental. It is not
to be supposed that the ceramic art, which em-
braces porcelain as well as pottery, has made any
great progress. Still, it may be found well worthy
the manufacturer's attention to fabricate such spe-
cimens as may enable him to show that in time he
will be enabled to compete with the establishments
that were founded in Europe by princes who seemed
to vie with each other in sending forth vases beau-
tifully painted, fabricated from earth difficult to be
procured. The existence of Kaolin in the United
States will ultimately allow the ingenious American
to show his taste and skill. Decorative furniture
is proclaimed by the visitors to New York to be
visible in the houses of the wealthy, and such is the
admiration of the Parisian of handsome cabinet fur-
niture—that the upholsterer who will constructfrom
some of the native woods articles of luxury will
find inexhaustible patronage if he unite ease and
luxury with taste and beauty in his contributions.
Musical instruments of a very superior character
have been gladly received in various parts of South
America. The concertina, the harmonicon, the
2Eolian harp, are highly prized ; the India-rubber
flute, the tambourine, and the guitar of American
fabric, would -,find a hearty welcome, and might
obtain considerable success. The quantity of gold,
and the discovery of precious stones, have led to the
extension of the jeweller's fabric, and from the
articles which have been worn by some of the
American ladies mingling in the fashionable world
of Paris it isevident that there is much originality
and considerable taste amongst the employed, and
that their labours ought to be seen and would be
duly estimated.
The abundant supply of iron and fuel in England
has, no doubt, caused her superiority in the manu-
facture of steel, which was so evident at the last
exhibition. The demand for this important part of
all machinery was so great that it will doubtless
cause the industrious American to increase the
supply, and to show of what he is capable. In the
military art, the invention of revolvers and the
attention to projectiles are proofs that, when called
upon, there is the same quickness of invention and
of originality that has marked the career of the
nation. In the higher class of the fine arts, paint-
ing and statuary, it is evident that America has not
remained stationary. At Rome the rising artists
have been distinguished for their taste and genius.
They have studied with care and attention the an-
tique, and have succeeded in obtaining the appro-
bation and admiration of amateurs. Men of science
can, from their wide fields of research, furnish spe-
cimens of animal and vegetable life that are new to
Europe, whilst they can add to the stores of remedies
that have been collected for medical art. The
ethnologist can send various weapons—whether
spears, bows and arrows, or clubs, that have been
employed by Indian tribes—and thus suggest new
information to the student of the history of the
progress of man. From the United States every
one naturally looks for a material increase of our
knowledge in every department, whilst the exhibitor
will not only obtain the reward of merit, but may
derive substantial advantage from the efficiency of
his labours.

The following is an enumeration of American
products most required at the Paris Exhibition :—.
AGRICULTURE.—TooIs and Implements.
PRODUCE.—Wheat, Cotton, Tobacco, Scc.

REARING OF ANIMALS.—Fleeces, Beehives, &e.
PRESERVATION OF WOOD, &C.

MACHINERY.—RaiIways and Transport, Coachinakers'
Work, Saddlery: Mining, Building, Weaving, Spinning,
Clockwork, Warming and Ventilation, Lighthouses, Tele-
graphs, Chemical Manufactures, Dying, Printing, Leather,
Bleaching.

MINING JIND METALLURGY.—CoaI, Petroleum, Precious
Metals.

MINERAL PRODUCTIONS. - Lands and Clays, Elaboration
of Metals, Bells, Boiler Tubes, Locks, Galvanised and
Japan Wares, Goldsmiths' and Jewellers' Works, Plated
Goods, Bronze Articles, Glass and Pottery, Earthenware,
Stoneware, Porcelain.

COTTON MANUFACTURES.—RaW Cotton, Ootton Fabrics,
Printed Goods, Mixed Fabrics, Woollen and Worsted
Manufactures, Wool, Hair, and Bristle, Yarns, Hair
Fabrics.

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The general good i 3 the paramount consideration,
and a new Portland springs up better in every re-
spect than the Portland of old, and furnishes to
each Portland man a keen satisfaction of a difficulty
honestly met and handsomely overcome, the satis-
faction—whatever be his individual loss—of having
heartily joined his fellow townspeople in perform-
ing the public duty he owed his city. Whatever
may be the advantage of a centralised form of
Government, of the paternal State, which teaches
the people like children to look to their rulers for
everything, there can be no strength, there can be
no energy in such a State, which can compare with
action like this. Such a calamity happening in
almost any town in Europe would have disorga-
nised the municipal machinery, and rendered help-
less those to whom the people looked for remedial
measures. If the Aldermen of London had their
houses burnt over their heads, the offices and shops
where they transacted their business, their Guildhall
and Mansion House, the Banks where their cheques
were cashed, their records burned, their Govern-
ment buildings destroyed—we wonder when they
would recover from the shock ! What time would
it take them to re-plan the building of the city
after housing the sufferers and making the neces-
sary provision for their wants ? When we bring
the matter home to ourselves we begin to form an
idea of the energy and self-reliance of the American
character, and how their institutions work in times
of great trial. There is that Conservatism in the
public mind which makes the people trust in and
aid the authorities they have elected, which in-
duces them to forego small individual interests for
the public weal, and enables the nation to shake
whichhakeoff
a calamity, and even to turn to good that
elsewhere, and under other circumstances, would be
a crushing evil.