The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-22 00:00:00

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

kJRNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
an 1 Dining-room, eonsisting of a new and elegant assert-
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Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar. Stn.
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine-
ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, W.C., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS.
AI INERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyeli's Elements of Geology; they will greatly facilitate
the intereeting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY,
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PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
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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.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON-
TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing
the COUNTRY HOME. 41,000 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
£5,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
tht4paanykiully for one by each year.
received by the London and West-
minsterLothbury, and 214, 1:11gli Holborn; Messrs.
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Bank,
ana Subscriptions
knd,
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1,
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

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ment. Subscriptions receivab!c as above, or by the under-
signed as honorary secretary,
CHARLES A. HOWELL.

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I)ROVIDENCE •ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
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HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
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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 are 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
ire, 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 lie 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
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tion of loose teeth until they become firm and useful in mas-
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What is to be the Fate of the Reform Bill ?

(From the Lendon Correspondent of the Scotsman.)
Parliament adjourned last night for the Whitsun-
tide holidays. When the House of Comm Ons reas-
sembles, the Franchise Bill and the Seats Bill, then
rolled into ' on 3, will be ready for committee. It
will first be necessary to clear away a cloud of in-
structions on going into committee, Mr. Bouverie's
being one ;
and it is possible that we may be .fav-
oured, on the motion for-going into committee, with
a few of the speeches that by a fiasco were not de-
livered this week on the second reading of the Seats
Bill. Committee once gained, the clauses will be
taken seriatim. The figure of the borough franchise
will be keenly fought by the ConservAtives, with
such Adullamite help as they can obtain. They will
try and put up the county franchise to £2O or £3O.
But the most objectional feature of the bill to the
Derbyites is the leaseholders' and copyholders'
clause. Assuming that no speeches are made for
delay, and that the Government do not throw up
the bill in consequence of defeat upon some vital
principle of the bill, we may imagine the bill carried
up to the Lords somewhere about the end of July.
What will the Lords do with it? The Govern-
ment Reform Bill of 1866 will be the first that has
gained the table of the Upper House since the great
Reform Bill of 1832. This of itself will give the
treasure an historical importance commensurate
with the responsibility thus thrown upon our here-
ditary legislators. The word is passed round that
the Derbyite peers are "prepared to act with -vigour
and decision ;" but they protest against any unne-
cessary strain being thrown upon them. The whips
have received instructions to urge the-Conservatives
in the Lower House to get the waggon out of the
mire for themselves, instead of calling upon Jupi-
ter. They deprecate the language occasionally heard
from thoughtless members of the Opposition
" We need not trouble ourselves about such or
such a clause ; the Lords are sure to strike it out."
Lord Derby is exceeding anxious that the clauses
which he is expected to amend and modify should
be carried in the Lower House by as narrow a ma-
jority as possible, if they are carried at all, so that
their lordships may not be called upon to act against
an overwhelming weight of House of Commons
_ . .

opinion.
These precautions having been taken, the Conser-
vative peers will probably succeed in making every
amendment in the bill which Mr. Disraeli endeavours
without success to carry in the Commons. Thus
the bill, say about the middle or end of August, will
come back to the Commons. There will be plenty
of timid and temporising reformers who will protest
against so much time being lost, and who will en-
treat the Government to agree to some compromise
with the Derbyite peers. If the Government con-
sent, there will be a conference, and much wrang-
ling and htiggling ; and perhaps the result may be,
in the last eek in August or the first week in Sep-
tember, the passing of a mutilated bill that will
satisfy nobody, and perchance shake the confidence
which the advanced Liberal party at present feel in
the Government.

Is there no alternative ? When the House of
Commons is asked to go into committee en a com-
prehensive Reform Bill in the last week in May, will
not every stage of the bill be discussed with hurry
and precipitation ? In the Lower House will not
the cry be raised—" We shall be too late for the
Lords ?" In the Upper House shall we not be
pretty sure to have a motion to postpone the bill to
another session in consequence of the lateness of its
arrival ? If it should be defeated, will not the Com-
mons be sorely tompted to " scamp" their work, and
to accept unwise amendments because the Govern-
ment are really beaten by time? The Chancellor of
the Exchequer, in introducing his Seats Bill, had to
deal with the probability of carrying the amalga-
mated measure at a very late period of the session,
and, in a tone of half banter, which was perfectly
understood, and which raised a storm of disapproval,
not unmixed with laughter, at the absurdity of the
suggestion, he hinted at the desirableness of an ad-
journed session in October or November. New
M.P.'s already find the work harder than they had
bargained for, and admit that the " count out" is a
Parliamentary institution of the greatest wisdom
and usefulness.

There is an alternative. Seeing that Toryism and
" cold obstruction" will be the sole gainers by going
on with the bill this session, I must, with your per-.
mission, again raise my voice while there is time,
and counsel the timely withdrawal of the bill.
Bring in the complete bill on the first day of next
session, and by Easter some progress may have
been
ample
made
in committee. The Lords will
havetime for deliberation ; above all—and
this is of extreme importance—public opinion will
have time to make itself heard against any restric-
tion of popular rights, and any reactionary and ob-
structive amendments which the Tory Peers may
succeed in carrying. I defy the most sanguine
oil chancefnrtrhieedpo conference
refinenrtge session
Liberal to assert that the unentfhraeinrcihnifiseudencleaes
bringing
ge
that must take place
tose sbwe ai lrl
adh
tau rvt ihenega
ef theaaidr
houses. It is, I think, demonstrable that the Libe-
ral party have everything to lose and nothing to
gain by going on with the bill, and that the Govern-
ment would would fight the battle of Reform at a
much greater advantage next session. If we go on,
and go into committee on the bill, every day occu-
pied in the discussion will be an additional reason for
doing something, and accepting some kind of a Re-
form Bill at the hands and under the dictation of
the Upper House. Members will recollect how little

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else they will have to show for the session, and may
in sheer despair urge the Government to accept some
mutilated and unsatisfactory measure, which the
people out of doors may refuse to accept as a settle-
ment of the question. These may be but Cassandra-
like vaticinations, but I confess I wish to rescue the

short. remainder of the session for bankruptcy .re-
form, church rate legislation, tenant-right settle-

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ment, and other subjects of practical utility. Re-
member that the Inland Revenue Bill is not yet
accepted, that Mr. Gladstone's scheme for reducing
the National Debt has not yet been discussed; that
the income tax, the mileage duties, and fire insur-
ances are not not yet disposed of ; that the Jamaica
insurrection debate still looms in the future; that the
education vote will require a night ; and that, over
and above the Government business, private mem-
bers have a right to occupy two nights of the week.
The Whitsuntide recess may be usefully occupied
in considering how much the Legislature may do
this session if all parties promptly agree to relegate
Parliamentary Reform to the year 1867, and how
little it will do, and how badly it will do it, if the
Government determines at any cost and hazard to
pass a Reform Bill this session.