The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-15 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1866.

T'lE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'S-STREET
(Entrance NO, Piccadilly).
Set Dinners as usual. The carte varied, hoizie, and mode •
rate. Turtle, thick and clear, alvv•iys ready.
The Bitlirrel Rooms now conducted by J. Roberts, the
champion.

::uppers until One a.m.
Elegant Stloon Dining* It, ems for Ladies.

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11 E 0 X F 0 It v,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
T 111,3 MUSICAL ES I' ABLISH tIENT oF LONDON.
Successful Revival of Offenbach's " ORPHEE AUX
ENFEI:S." The Sisters DELEPIEIME, d 9 and 3
years. the wonderful performers on the Violin :lid Xilo-
phone, Last Week in England.
Comedy by Duriah and Davies, Fred. Laroche, and Harry
Sydney (the political 3lomus).
Feats of Atlas by the Brothers Pentland, and Gymnastic
Performances by Les Freres Victorelli.
NOTICE.—IIr. DAVID FISHER, of the Princess's,
Adelphi, and Haymarket Theatres. will appear in his DRA-
MATIC SKETCHES THIS EVENING.
In preparation the Lyric Drama of the "RUINS OF
ATHENS," by L. VAN BEETHOVEN, the arguments in which
will be read by a distinguished member of the theatrical
prof( salon.
Musical Director and Conductor, Mr. F. Jonglimans.
Admission—Area, 611. ; stalls and balcony, is ; private
boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d.
Open every evening at 8.

ARGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO,
Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re-
decorated, are now OPEN EVEItY EVENING for Concert
and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Lucie CURTL Manager,
M. GRENET.
Admission to Promenade, One Shilling.
Reserved Seats, Two Shillings.

ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
BAKER-STREET.
-NEW EDI PIONS. MARRIAG GROUP of 'their
Royal Hiemesses the PRINCESS 1114:LENA. 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, IS. ; children, unler ten, half-price; extra
rooms, 6d.
Open from 11 a m. till 10 p.m.

WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL,
lIOLBORN.
Under New Management.
Proprietors—Messrs. Sweasey and Holland_
Grand Selections from TROVATORE and ROB ROY by
50 vocalists and a band of 30, conducted by P. Cord.
Enthusiastic reception of GEORGE LEYBOURNE, the
Lion Comio—GEORGINA SMITHSON, the Characteristic
Singer and Dancer—EMMA WEST, Burlesque Actress and
Serio-Comic—JAMES GS in his Wonderful Globe
entertainment—Great Success of the Eighteen STAR MIN-
STRELS—W. WES I' (Stump Orator), Princinal Comedian—
J. E. ALI.I BONE, the celebrated Basso of the original
Cl risty's Minstrels, and S. REDDEN. Champion Tambour—
C. MADDEN, Prize Jig Dancer—Songs, Duets, Glees, and
Choruses by a company of first-class ta'entei artistes never
before heard in ,Negro Minstrel,y.
• Box-office open from
-101111
Doors o, en at Seven. 001010 We at ' Ralf -Past

CHOCOLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH.

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C C OLAT-MENIER is pure, wholesome, and
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31-ENTER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE.
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THE CULTIVATION of TEA in the East
Indies is an important feature, and the EAST INDI
TEA l OMPANY have, on account of its great strength and
exquisite flavour, promoted its saie by every means. The
Company are now selling Assam, Cachar, Darjeeling, ,tc., at
the reduced duty—viz, from 2s. Bd. to 35. Bd. per lb, and
China Teas as usual at Is. 4d. per lb. and upwards. Ware-
houses, No. 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgrate.

DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY,
BELFAST,

Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords.

"V.R." IRISH WHISKY.

DUNVILLE and CO.'S " \T.R." OLD IRISH
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London Offices and Stores,
4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C.
Established 18e8. Quotations on application.

FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real
Malt," 19s. 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 see of this ,enni na old spirit, which is
coming into universal consumption through England.
For price lists apply at Offices, 14, Strand. London, W.C.
Established in Grafton-street, Dublin, A.D. 1780.

JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, Jul;11-street,
Cork.—`• The purest spirit and safest drink in the
world."—l.oudon Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C.,
next the " Times."

TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork, be.: to announce that they ere able to supply the
trade with their celebrated Whiskies. casks or cases, and
to take orders in bond aL d for exportation, at their offices, 7,
Printing-house-square, London, E.C. the only house in the
square not occupied by the " Times." 1. D. and Co.'s whiskies
brim:* the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial
markets, is may be observed ny reference to the "Journal of
Commerce of Victoria," by waich it ty it be seen that their
whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and ls. per case over the next
best, and is. 6d Der gallon and ss. 6d. r, case over the lowest
quotation. Always on hand a large 'supply of ve y old
mellow wh;sky in the finest condition, matured in sherry
casks, unsurpassable is quality and flavour, supplied on the
most reasonable terms.

STARCH MANUFACTURERS
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GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
treed in the Royal Laundry,
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AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL. 1862.
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of the highest order, and from Individuals of undoubted re-
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Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales.

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, V.C.
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HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—CON-
TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing
the COUNTRY HOME. 41,000 required.
War. WILLIAM, 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
£a,ooo, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to ray for one boy each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothburv. and 214, fliv,h Holborn ; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall EMas nd by
W.WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FO
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
11A, 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 the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts aro admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
sze, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, andhave
to spend night after night in the cold, 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 ? Tho 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
grat3ially received by the Licv.:l). GMBEwr,;D.D. Fol 22,
giu4l,ury-cirrus, E. 4.

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Prices for foreign and home orders on application at 17,
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APRIZE of TEN GUINEAS is offered for
the best short ESSAY upon the evils exposed in a
recent work entitled "Search," published by Mr. Booth,
307, Regent-street, W. The Essay must be legibly
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must contain practical suggestions, and be addressed post
paid, before the Ist of December, 1866, under a cypher to
care of Captain C. Tucker, Caldecott-hill, Bushey, Herts.
The Motto of the successful' essay will be advertised in
" Public Opinion" and other papers in February, 1867, and
tbe:amount of the prize wilt• be paid through Captain
Tucker upon receipt of a copy of the first page of the
Essay.
Donors of a florin or more to the Female Medical Society,
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sending the Treasurer's receipt and their address to Capt.
Tucker.

suspended by the military occupation of ch is free city,
application being made in exceptional cases only to
the members of the permanent burgher representa-

tion and the Legislative Assembly, The competent
authorities being thus deprived of the power of ex-
ercising the Sovereign right conferrc upon them by
their fellow citizens, we, the undersigned citizens,

consider ourselves called upon and funler regard it

as our duty to declare that the an nexatiom of Frank-

ort to the Prussian monarchy cannot be ea,nctioned
[egally, nor advisably by political exigency. In as
far as the legal question is concerned, we are referred

to the authentic records of the period, and if they
enumerate a determined opposition to Prussia re-

form, and a conflict undertaken for the purpost of
destroying such tendency, and even allusions made

to the great danger incessantly threatening Prussia;
we, at least, will refrain from expressing our opinion
how far such accusations regard Hanover, the Elec-
torate of Hesse, and Nassau, but with regard to
Frankfort we affirm they are totally inapplicable.
" It is well known that Frankfort was in a posi-
tion to object to a Prussian plan of reform of the

Diet, still less can the right of conquest serve as a
pretext, for war never was declared between Frank-

fort and the Prussian monarchy.

This fact is re-

cognised in a circular which the Prussian Govern-
ment despatched to the European Cabinets in con-
sequence of the Diet suspending the Royal Prus-
sian Telegraph office. In this document particular
stress is laid on the circumstance of the suspension

taking place in a city of peace with Prussia. The
incident to which the official acknowledgment re-
fers
occurred on the 16th of June; the report of
the Bth commission in the Prussian Chamber of
Deputies on the Ist of September considers, not-
withstanding the enmity of Frankfort established,
because the free city had at a meeting of the Diet
held on the 14th of June voted for one proposal of
the Austrian Government, " to mobilise the non-

Prussian contingents, Prussia having taken the
law in her own hands in the Federal State of
Holstein." But when voting on the 14th of June,
Frankfort expressly declared the Senate would not
sanction the motives of the Austrian proposal. On
the contrary, in voting for the mobilisation of the
non-Prussian and non-Austrian Federal army,

Frankfort opposed the chief intention of Austria,

-and refused to sanction the moving of the Austrian
-army in the name of the Confederation. At the
same time it ought not to be forgotten that Frank-
fort, being the seat of the Diet, continued neutral
to a certain extent, while its independence, on the
other hand, could not fail to be influenced by its
Federal garrison. And it would be an act of injus-
tice to render it responsible for every circumstance
that took place after the departure of the Royal
Prussian troops, and the town was left to the sole
occupation of the Federals.
" One fact will prove, in au unquestionable man-
ner, the neutrality of the city of Frankfort—viz.,
its contingent never being mobilised, and never join-
ing any corps. It mounted guard peaceably at the
gates of the of the town when the Prussians entered.
It was simply disbanded, which would not have been
the case had there been war.

" In the official documents is also stated that the
opposition and enmity of the annexed countries
prove their co-operation is not to be relied on in
furthering the national interest and just wishes of
the German people. Such an un-called for reproach
addressed to Frankfort wounds its citizens painfully.
The past history of Frankfort and its geographical
position show that from time immemorial it
has been the centre of German life and
civilisation, and it has always aspired to
prove itself worthy of its high mission.
No event of importance, whether social or political,
ever took place in any part of Germany without
finding a corresponding enlm in Frankfort, nmi
it cannot be irrelevant to our purpose to recall the
memorable period when Germany assumed the right
to exist, breathe, and unite, and offered the Impe-
rial crown to King Frederick William IV., Frank-
fort, in its patriotic zeal going even so far as to
order the effigy of the future Emperor to be en-
graved on her coin. Nor ought it to be forgotten
that at a less distant period the Prussian Govern-
ment raised objections to the loud and unrestrained
complaints—the now acknowledged national claims
were given vent to on the soil of frankfort;
and, lastly, we refer to the prompt and energetic
support which is afforded to the commercial interests
of Germany, represented by Prussia, last year espe-
cially, by her example in maintaining the reconsti-
tution of the threatened Zollverein—an instance
bearing testimony to the invalidity of the charges
advanced in the official documents, and totally in-
applicable to the free city. On the contrary, they
clearly prove the non-existence of any legal ground
for the annexation of Frankfort.
" Closely connected with this point is the question
whether any political urgency dictates or excuses
the annexation.
" The strong hand of Prussia has undertaken to
reconstitute Germany, but its endeavours can only
be crowned with success when a complete reconci-
liation has taken place between Northern and
Southern Germany. For this purpose neutral ground
between their respective limits can hardly be spared,
and should Frankfort be reduced to the state of
a Prussian provincial town she will no longer
possess the power to exert her mediation in concili-
ating paramount antipathies, whereas, as a free and
independent city, whose integrity has been respected,
the sympathy of Frankfort would be acquired to
Prussia, and would increase in proportion to the
conservation of the venerable institutions of her
freedom, for which she would be indebted to a sense
of justice, and must consequently become the sacred
focus to rropagate the success of our national aspira-

tions.
" The maintenance of Frankfort is in itself a
matter of no signification, but she was, and will be,
prepared at all times to sacrifice her independence
without a murmur when the unity of Germany is
accomplished; but so long as disunion exists the in-
dependence of Frankfort is important, it has an his-
torical vocation which far exceeds its own importance,
and it would answer the purpose of Prussia to pre-
vent by annexation the fulfilment of her mission.
" Remarkable are the words of the historian Heeren ,
uttered with prophetic foresight and as a warning half
a century since :--' Four small jewels glisten in the'
Federal chain; they are the four free cities which
may not be eclipsed by the brilliancy of larger ones.
For it must be universally acknowledged how bene-
ficially the combination influenced commercial and
political interests, the latter deriving importance
from the multiplicity of political constitutions, not
from theoretical classifications on paper. Despotism
strives to attain uniformity, and would establish from
the banks of the Tagus to those of the Niemen
nothing but departments with prefects and mayors.
It would resemble the Roman empire, and terminate
in the sunset of all political progress, and crush
civilisation.'
" With such conviction, we feel proud in affirm-
ing, under existing circumstances, the population
of Frankfort, with unexampled unanimity, ardently
desire to retain their independence. Till the last
moment we shall *entertain this hope, and transmit
from generation to generation the memory of an
era of liberty and independence, where our social
organisation is based on the love of all as the surest
and best foundation. And we shall cling to our an-
cient right, our ancient faith, our ancient love with
sentiments of unalterable fidelity.
(Signed by the members of the two Legislative Corps
and by 15,000, of the citizens. in the Free City.)
" nkfort-on-the-Mame, Sept., 1866.

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FUNERAL OF HARRY GRIMSTIAW.—The body of this ill-
fated and famous jockey was borne to its last resting-place
on Tuesday last. The interment took place in Coverham
Church, where poor Harry now lies near his late father-
in-law and master, John Osborne. The funeral procession
included not only the relatives and friends of the deceased,
bat- several other -persons who • expreislr attetde'd" to -pa
their last tribute of respect.. The whole proceedings were
9# Pdpi9Ot impreksiYo chargcter,