The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-18 00:00:00

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

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Mr. Tennant arranges elementary oolleetiona of ROCKS.
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Messrs. JOHN G °SNELL and CO. Red Bull Wharf, 93,
Upper Thames-street, Perfumers to CO.,
Majesty, respect-
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aradually restores too human hair to its pristine hue—no
matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the
properties of dyes ' • it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
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bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 61. Testimonials from artistes
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Highness the Princess of Wales.

TT OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
1- are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING
W
SITU'. £2,000 required. M. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Boys' Ref age, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON-
TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing
the COUNTRY HOME. Zl,OOO required.
WM. WILLIAMS, secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8, Great gueen-street, W.C.

is estimated at
LONDON.
—The
HOMELESS BOYS OF LONgeD.
Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys
eiDxnpeelniudnitdarreed
foarn dsufipiptyoratrine
supporting;
notohebßoyesf u
£a,ooo. befog £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to pay for one boy each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothburv, and 214, High liolborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East ; anu by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-etre:A, W.C.

DROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,

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, 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
are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have
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 .£1,300 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 tamilies
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 tare earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT, LLD., No: 22,
Finsbury-circus, E. '•

GLASGOW, Wednesday.
Mr. Bright was entertained at breakfast this
morning by a numerous body of the Scottish
National Reform League, at the Cobden Hotel.
Mr. Graham, M.P., was in the chair, and among
others present were Mrs. M‘Laren (a sister of Mr.
Bright), Miss Cobden, Mr. Dalglish, M.P., Mr.
Craufurd, M.P., Mr. Crum-Ewing, M.P., Mr. T.
B. Potter, M.P., and Mr. Duncan M'Laren, M.P.
After breakfast the CHAIRMAN briefly addressed
the meeting in eulogy of the services which Mr.
Bright had rendered to the cause of Reform. He
commented upon the indefatigable exertions of the
hon. member,
obtaining the repeal of the corn laws, and pointed
in conjunction with Mr. Cobden, in
to the triumphant issue of those exertions as an in-
centive to perseverance now. He also impressed
upon the meeting the necessity of sinking minor
differences and of combining in action, so that there
might be no Mistake when Parliament re-assembled
as to what the feeling of the country really was.
Mr. CRAUFURID,
M.P., spoke in warm praise of
the demonstration of yesterday, and said that hay-
ing visited various parts of the city after the even-
ing meeting, he was proud to congratulate Glasgow
upon the order and sobriety which had been main-
tained throughout the vhole of the proceedings.
Mr. Councillor CORBETT, of Glasgow, supported
the proposal for combining to carry on the move-
ment, and said that as funds would be necessary he
would be willing to subscribe £lOO as a commence-
ment.
Mr. BRIGHT, who was very warmly received,
said—l feel it very difficult to say anything after
the speecn of my hon. friend who presides over
this meeting. I must make allowance for the exag-
gerations of some parts of it, arising from his
too friendly judgment of myself, and, making the
allowance, I thank him very sincerely for the friendly
words which he has uttered on my behalf. But,
passing away from sentiment to business, it occurs
to me that although it is now a long time since
Scotland and England were united as one country,
and although they are as I believe for ever, so far
as we can see, inseparably united, yet, being in
Scotland, it is hardly possible to consider any pub-
lic question without some direct reference to Scot-
tish interests. (Hear, hear.) Now, the position of
this part of the United Kingdom on the question of
Reform is one very peculiar and having special in-
terest. Scotland has, as I think every one will ad-
mit, not her proper share in the composition of the
House of Commons. lam not quite certain what
is the increased number of members which Scotland
should have, judging arithmetically from her popu-
lation and her 'wealth and her contributions to the
public taxes, but I think the increase should not be
much short of 20 members. In the bill which I
brought before the public soon after I was here
eight years ago, and for the preparation of which I
was greatly, and more so than I can express, in-
debted to my hon. relative the member for Edin-
burgh, I proposed an addition of 15or 16 members.
In the bill which the late Government introduced
into the House of Commons I think the addition
was only seven. Now, that was a measure not
partial, but rather of scanty justice; but still it
was a measure which was looked upon with extreme
jealousy, and which was met with a strong threat-
ened opposition on the party of the Tory party in
the House. (Hear, bear.) lam not very much
surprised at that jealousy and that threatened op-
position, for I found on discussing the question of
Reform that the Tories, the members of the present
regard the question as
Government, their supporters in Parliament, and
their
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which
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power of a given party.. They discuss it as if it were
people and of a free representation of all
not a question--as, indeed, it is not with them—of j us-
tice to all the
classes, but as it may interfere with or affect their
particular party interests. (Hear, hear.) Therefore
it was not to be wondered at, seeing the condition
of the representation of Scotland, the members of
the present Government, then the leaders of the
Opposition, and their friends in Parliament, should
look with great hostility on any proposition that
proposed to transfer members from small and cor-
rupt and rotten boroughs in England to independent

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counties as well. I cannot believe, for example,
that the tenant farmers of the cOunty of Hadding-
ton will submit to be represented long as they now
are. When I look back to the conduct of the mem-
ber for that county, at the late election, upon the
hustings—(hear, hear, and hisses)--when I look at
his conduct in the House of Commons with regard
to the requirements and interests of the people, and
in connection with this question of reform, I will
never believe until the Scottish people are wholly
changed there can be any county in Scotland, any
population or any electoral body even, that can be
in favour of representation by a gentleman whose
performances have been so marked in a direction
adverse as I believe—and I think as they believe—
to the true interests of the people. (Cheers.) Now,
the Scottish farmers are, as I believe, the best agri-
culturists probably in Europe, and it is a great plea-
s ure not only to travel through the Highlands of
your country, but to travel through the Lowlands,
where there is much of fertility, and where harvests
BO often bear evidence of the industry and skill of
the cultivators; but it is a melancholy thing to
think that those men, who can do so much with the
soil, should be in any clique, acting under a sort of
traditional subserviency to the owners of the soil,
neglecting or refusing to exercise freely the power
which the constitution has placed in their hands.
The evil is far more obvious and far more grievous
in England, but as the Scottish farmers have led
the farmers of the United Kingdom in the wise and
successful cultivation of the soil, I know not why
they should not lead them in the emancipation
from the political domination of their landlords,
which I am sure before many years will
come, not only in Scotland, but throughout
every portion of the United Kingdom. (Cheers.)
Mr. Craufurd has referred to the transactions of
yesterday. I was present at the great meeting and
the great procession at Birmingham ; I heard much
of the meeting in Manchester, and about that which
was held last week in the West Riding. lam cer-
tain that the transactions of yesterday did not fall
below, in ary degree, those to which I have referred.
I will not venture upon language of great eulogy as
to what I saw, but for three hours there passed be-
fore these windows a procession of men, the smallest
and most moderate computation of whose numbers,
with regard to the speed at which they passed, would
bring them up certainly to a number exceeding
50,000, and probably reaching 60,000. Look at their
demeanour, at their dress, and the character stamped
on their countenances ; look at the variety of the in-
dustries which they represented ; look at the feeling
of pride they had in the noble labours in which their
works are spent—(cheers) —take into consideration
all this and say whether it be right and whether it
be safe perpetually—for that is the dogina.Rf the
Tory party—to deny to these men those common
rights which belong to all the citizens of this coun-
try upon the known and admitted and ancient prin-
ciples of the British Constitution. (Cheers.) Why,
your motto is " Let Glasgow flourish ;" but what
would Glasgow be without the men who formed
that procession, and what would your could ry be,
and what would the United Kingdom and this Em-
pire be, if the men of these classes could by any sud-
den change be taken from among us? Why, the nation
would dwindle into no nation at all, and those men
who from the heights of their wealth look down upon
these multitudes as whose business alone it is to labour
and to obey the laws and to have no share in the mak,
in of these laws, why these men would be at once de-
throned from being the ostensible leaders of a great
nation, and would themselves, incompetent as they
are, have to descend even to the works of common
labour which they now despise. (Cheers.) There was
one thing which I was delighted to see yesterday. It
was evident in Birmingham as much as it was evident
here, more evident in Birmingham and lereb,ultthomerke,
than it was at Manchester or at Leeds,i .
seemed to be a great union of all classes in the p.ro e
-
ceedings of yesterday. All employ.mhel:asfotrhea
btunsni
seemed to have ceased but that which
ness of the day. There seemed to be, if I may
_speak
from inadequate means of observation—but lt ap-
as. if the men who lived
peared to me during the day
in the great streets, the great houses that are around
us, had a sympathy with the purpose in which the