The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-23 00:00:00

NEGLECT OF

It is too well known that the case of poor Mr.
SNIDER is by no means a solitary one. We have
recently heard of another that comes still nearer
home to the business and bosoms of Englishmen.
Mr. WILLIAM HENRY JAMES is one of the first pro-
moters of railway improvements in this country, and
yet, in the midst of their great success, this gentle-
man is suffering from penury and neglect. As long
ago as 1821 he was the first man in England to sug-
gest the introduction of tubes in locomotive engines,
by means of which their speed has been increased
from the original rate of five or six miles an hour to
the present one. lle is also the inventor and patentee
of other improvements in the English railway sys-
tem. At the age of 70 Mr. JAMES is now living
in Peckham, enduring the greatest poverty and pri-

vation !
d;AanutEasgeislassucchonafnerrienci.
venWtihveengoennieusthaisnkths
civilised world, it seems in-
on the business of the civi
be should besoonneg everyl neglected. dh. a
nlciN.re
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benevolence ! Our beneficiary insti-
tutions foft.hAe.l:.
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atgheatof
being multiplied
tutions are
here is a
worthy man in the midst of this
Christian city of London, the metro-
the world, lying on a bed of
languishing and want. his furniture, and that only
a the simplest kind, suited to his humble taste and
ppoolwiserf al
of Christian
actual necessities, has been taken for rent. At our
last stage of information in his melancholy case he
was daily expecting a summops for " Queen's
Taxes," with a seizure for " Poor's Rates" to fol-
low. A notice of ejectment has been notice on him
by his landlord, and if help is not afforded him this
distinguished English inventor will be turned into
the crowded and cold streets of a London winter.
JAMES is well known in several departments of the
scientific and literary world. Some of the principles
of his discovery were prominent in the discussions
of the late Social Festival connected with the Atlan-
tic Telegraph Cable. llonours are conferred on
others who apply these principles, while the roan ofl
genius who invented them is suffered to die of ne-
glect!

Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer cloud,
Without our special wonder ?
Does not every traveller by steam, on land and
sea, owe a personal debt to WILLIAM HENIIYJAMES ?
Ought not this just debt to be paid at once? A few
friends, we understand, leave taken up this matter,
with a view of purchasing a suitable annuity. Their
character is a guarantee that the business will be
well ruanaged.—Anglo-American limes.

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MONT LILY RETURN of CuNVICTIONS.

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During ucto er
i
During the current year. 341 3H 13.58

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committed to prison; also heavy legal expenses in appeal
cases.

The support of the public is urgently needed to prevent a
curtailment oCoperations.
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be addressed to

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INDIA OFFICE, Nov. 22, 1866.
BY ORDER of the SECRETARY of STATE
for INDIA in COUNCIL.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the DIRECTOR-
GENERAL of STOVES for INDIA will be ready, on or
before MONDAY, the 3d December, 1866, to receive Pro-
posals iu writing, sealed up, from such persons as may be
willing to supply

SERGE;
and that the Conditions of the said Contract may be had on
application at the India Store Office, Cannon Row, West-
minster, where the Proposals are to be left at any time be-
fore Two o'clock p.m. of the said 3d day of December,
1866, after which hour no Tender will be received.
GER ALD
Director-General.

TE AT RE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.—
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 23, Lord Lytton's Play of
THE LADY OF LYONS. Pauline Deschappelles, Miss
Helen Faueit ; Claude Melnotte, Mr. Walter Montgomery.
To conclude with, each evening, Shakspere's Comedy of
KATHARINE AND PETRUCHIO. Petruchio, Mr. T.
S win bo u rne ; Katharine, Miss Isabel Adams.

Doors open at half-past Six; performances commence at
seven o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone,

THIS EVENING, A DANGEROUS FRIEND. Messrs.
Chas. Ma hews, Howe, Kendal, Gordon, Weathersby. &c.;
Mesdames C. Mathews, Moore, Chippendale, Laws, Hill, ac.
Followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Mr. Chas.
Mathews, Mr. Compton, Mr. Eiogers, sir Clark, &o. ; Mes-
dames C Mathews, Hill, Wright, Colman, Sidney, &c.
Ater which, OUR MARY ANNE. Mr. Howe, Mr Clark,
Miss C. MIL

Commence at Seven.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr: rechter._.

THIS EVENING, BRUTU AND C,ESAR.
ilearade.

lilies

At a Quarter before 8, the new Drama, in Four Acts, THE
LONG 6TRIKE, written by Dion Boucicault. The New
Scenery by Mr. T. Greive and assistants. Messrs. S. Emery,
IL Widaicomb, itzpatrick. Dalton, D. Evans, Anderson,
Isewbound. Stanley. Lomas, Moreland, Andrews, Reynolds,
and J. C. Cowper.
To conclude with TWEEDLETON'S TAIL CO.A.T.
Acting Manager, Mr. IL Barnett. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. _ _

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The National Temperance League continues its
praiseworthy efforts to improve the moral tone of
the lower classes, and has just begun its fourth
series of meetings at the Lambeth Baths. Mr.
HUGHES, M.P., presided, and spoke with his usual
good sense. He expressed his anxiety to see the
people, as a rule, more temperate, though he dis-
approved of the Permissive Bill, saying very justly
that, in the first place, he did not believe it had the
slightest chance of being passed; and, in the second,
if it were passed, it would create a very unsa-
tisfactory feeling throughout the country. This is
undoubtedly tree, and all experience proves that

forced converts are worth very little. The abuse
of some should not in common justice prevent the
use of others, and if the Legislature is to forbid all
indulgences which may be carried to excess both
Parliament and people will have a hard time of it.
Mr. HUGHES, hovt ever, holds that something more
is necessary than moral persuasion, and thinks the
law is not sufficiently stringent. Instead of
drunkenness being admitted as an extenua-
tion of an offence before a legal tribunal

he would have it held as an aggravation.
Then, as to the licensing system, he thought it de-
fective, and would like to see a measure passed by
which, after two or three offences had been proved
against any particular publichouse, the owner should
be fined, and that, on a repetition of the offence, he
should forfeit his licence. This, he thought, was the
first practical measure at which they should aim ;
but the whole movement in favour of temperance he
held to be very important, and one upon whose suc-
cess depended the future of the country. There is no
I doubt of tie vast importance of discouraging intem-
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is the want of recreation, the inability to
r appreciateoftheir
intellectual amusements, the discomfort
I
homes, and the amusement, excitement, •
and society
Ito be found in the public-house. Going to the
lower strata, men who are worn out with exhausting
toil, and come home to dirty, evil smelling, over
crowded cellars and garrets, 'to coarse, unattrac- 1
tine food, are very easily tempted to search
for temporary forgetfulness of their misery.
Men in the upper ranks, after a hard day's political
or professional or commercial employment, may turn,
if they like, to the club or the theatre, or, if they
prefer the quiet of their own firesides, can take
pleasure in art or literature. What resource has
the working man if principles or prudence keep him
from the public-house ? He has not education
•
enough, perhaps, to make reading a pleasure 7 his
one room is too frequently a scene of confusion
and discomfort, and his wife too busy,
or too ignorant, to be any companion. It
is in scenes like these that the real danger
lies, and no Act of Parliament will remove it until
working men cease to be men, and become the
philosphical machines some social and political
reformers take them for. The two great evils of
bad dwellings and want of education have much to
do with the prevailing intemperance. While our
practical philanthropists would do well to consider
whether they cannot provide some less dangerous
amusement for the illiterate man whom mechanics'
institutes are too learned to benefit.

Dublin appears anxious not to be behind the pre-
vailing fashion for entertainments, and the enter-
tainment just given to the Lord-Lieutenant seems
to have been a very successful one altogether, both
in the company that assembled and in the enthu
siasm which prevailed. His Excellency was well
received, and made an interesting sieech, relating