The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1866.

T HE 0 X F OR D,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (Limited).
TIES EVENING, and during the Week, EXTRA
PERFORMANCES by all the available Went. Opera,
Burlesque, Pantomime, Ballet, and Comedy Every
Evening, performed by the entire company, including
Misses Russell, Fitz Henry, Barrie ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn,
W. Williams, Spaguoli, &c. THE HUNGARIANS in
their new entertainment, Messrs. Duriah and Davies's
illustrations of Negro Life ; Herr Preskow, the wondrous
posturer, from the Grand Theatre, St. Petersburg; the
D'Aubans; Herr Berraui and his talented family; the
ENCHANTED HASH, eleven characters performed by Mr.
E. Marshall (his first appearance here), the entertainment
written expressly for him by Mr. W. T. Vandervell ; and
a host•of other talent., for which see programme and small
biIIs.—EVERY EVENING.
Admission—Area, Gd.; stalls and balcony, ls.; private
boxes, 10s. Gd.

CANTERBURY HALL.
RI-F UM ! TI-F UM.
During the Week will be performed the above most
extraordinary Entertainment, containing all the novel-
ties now in this country, and including the services of
Les Montagnards, their first appearance ; Mr. E. Mar-
shall, Mrs. and Mr. W. Randall, the renowned Talliott,
Les Freres d'Etoile, Signor Tescano, a la Donato; Los
Tableaux d'Amour, illuminated by the Magnesium Light ;
Fairy Orchestra, designed and painted by Mr. T. Burgess
and Mr. W. Gowrie ; and Grand Ballet of upwards of one
hundred ballerines. The whole written and composed
expressly for this establishment by 'William Vandervell,
Esq. In addition to the vocal and instrumental entertain-
ment. EVERY EVENING.
Admission—Area, Gd ; stalls and balcony, ls.

NiADAINIE TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
Baker-street,
NEW ADDITIONS.—In the Chamber of Horrors are
full-length Portrait Models, taken from Life, of CHAR-
LOTTE WINSOR and STEPHEN FORWOOD, alias
ERNEST SOUTHEY. •

Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from "Ttill 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Children under 10, half-price
Extra Rooms, Sixpence;

ARGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET,
Piccadilly.
Musical Director and Conductor, M. LUIGI CURTI.
Principal Cornet-a-Piston, M. M‘Eleney. Euphonion, the
celebrated Signor Luigi Mosca.
Programme this Evening and during the Week—Grand
Selections, IL TROVATORE and IL LUCIA. Solo vio-
loncello, M. Sloman, jun. L'AFRICAIN VALSE and
ECLIPSE GALOP.
Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock. Admission, is.
Manager, M. GRENET.

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HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN,
49, Great Ormond-street, Queen-square.
Patron—Her Majesty the QUEEN.
The Committee have much pleasure in announcing that A.
J. a BERESFORD HOPE, Esq M.P., has consented to
preside at the FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY FESTI-
VAL of this Charity, on February 12, at Willie's Rooms.
FIRST LIST OF STEWARDS.
The Most Noble the Marquis Vice-Admiral Sir Augustus
of Abercorn Clifford, Bart.
The Right Honourable the The Rev. Sir C. Macgregor,
Earl of Shaftesbury, K G. Bart.
The Right Honourable Earl Sir Archibald Alison, Bart.
Amherst Admiral Sir William Bowles
The Right Honourable Vie- Col. Beauchamp Waliter, C.D.
count Gort Colonel Home Purees, C.B.
The Right Rev. the Bishop of Colonel F. R. Wa'do Sibthorp
Chichester Lieut.-Colonel Frederick C.
The Right Rev. the Bishop of Keppel
St. I avid's Lieut -Colonel Playfair
The Right Honourable Lord Michael T. Bass, Esq., M.P.
Leith Allen A. Bathurst, Esq., M.P.
Right Honourable Viscount Stephen Cave, Esq., KJ.,
Milton, M.P. W. W. Fitzwilliam Dick, Esq.,
Colonel the lion. Percy E. M.P.
Herbert, M.P. Albert Grant, Esq., M.P.
The Hon. and Rev. Charles K. D. Hodgson, Esq., 3.r.p.
James Willoughby J. Dyce Nicol, Esq., 31.1..
The Honourable Arthur Kin- Arthur J. Otway, Esq., kip.
naird, M.P. Charles Waring, Esq., IMP.
Sir R. N. C. Hamilton, Bart.
The complete List of Stewards will shortly be published.
Additional names will be thankfully received. The expense
to each steward is limited to one guinea.
Subscriptions in aid of the funds are earnestly solicited, and
will be thankfully received by the 'treasurer, Hei,ry Sykes
Thornton, I';sq. ; or by any of the Stewards.
SAMUEL WIIITFORD, Secretary.

January 16, 1866.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
han 955 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, makings total of 3,687, who have
been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases:
F. Y., aged If, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
K. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead.
B , aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
3. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
4.3. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A, 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, homeless, de-erted by her parents,
K. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents ilead,
S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both par nts dead.
K. A. W., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.
I'he new home the mmittee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost c (fret., from the age of 6to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper,s, Queen •streek, Cheap-side; or by Rem&
Barclay and Col Lombard-street.

THE MOORFIELDS ESTATE, Hereford.—
Votes for Herefordshire.—Eligible Investment.-1 he
cONSERVArIVE Lai\ D Sod I:TY.—The Allotment of
the above valuable Estate, at Hereford, at the Shire Hall,
will take place on WEDNESDAY, 21st February, 1866, at
Seven o'clo•k, after a Public Meeting, at which the Society's
warking system will be explained. W. Pulling.
Esq., tt.e
Chairman of the Hereford Conservative Association, will
preside. R. li*gzallay,
5(1, Q.C., M.P. for Herd rd, will
be present. The Deputation of the itoard will be Viscount
Ram high, Viscoun Ingestre, Colonel Meyrick, and the Hon
and Rev. W. Talbot. Particulars of the Estate, with prices
of the plots, are enclosed. ,Plans 6d or id. by post. Pros-
pectuses sent free of charge.
CHARLES LEWIS GRUN EISEN, Secretary.
Office, No. 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London.

THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT
1. ASSOCIATION (Limited).
Capital subscribed, £5,000,000.
Paid up, 5.500,000.
CitAtumAte—JOHN CHAPMAN, ESQ.
KANAGES.
Henry J. Barker, Esq., and T. RFraser Sandeman,
This Association makes ADVANCES upon approved Mer-
cantile and other Securities, and RECEIVES MONEY ON
DEPOSIT at Interest for short or long periods.
DEPOSITORS for periods of not less than Three Years
may procure, on application at the Offices, Debentures of the
Association, bearing interest at 6 per cent. per annum, pay-
able quarterly by Coupon " to bearer" attached.
W. C. WINTERBOTTO.II, Secretary.
27, Lombard-street, London, E.C.

PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FOR
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 the
.
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitoue]y ovary weei.e. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they aro 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, refusedadmittance, and have
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, antsleet. 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 ? 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
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT, D.D., No. 22,
Finsbury-circus, E.C.
DONORS AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THE REFUGE.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OP WALES, K.G.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G.
His Royal Highness the Duke D'Aumale.
His Excellency the Count D'Apponyi.
His Excellency the Count Lavradio.
The Earl of Abergavenny. Messrs. Dinasdale, Drewett,
The Earl of Dosart. Fowler, and Barnard.
The Earl of Denbigh. Messrs. anbury and Lloyds.
The Earl Grey, K.G. Messrs. Prescott, Grote, Cave
The Earl of Harewood. and Co.
The Earl of Eglinton. London Assurance Corpora-
The Earl of Kenmare. Lion.
The Earl of Durham. Royal Exchange Insurance
The Countess of Albemarle. Company.
The Lady Ellen Browne. Sun Fire Office.
The Lady Camilla E. For- R. W. Barclay, Esq.
tescue. J. Bethell, Esq.
The Viscount Gage. Mrs. Barnawall.
Field-Marshal Lord Gough, Miss Burton.
K.P. Mrs. Curling.
The Lord Dormer. J. Henry Challis, Esq.
The Lord Petra. Dr. Carvalho.
The Lord Leigh. R. Crawford, Esq., M.P.
The Lord Chelmsford. H. Cazenne, Esq.
The Lord Cranworth. Mrs. Chesterton.
Baron de Rothschild, M.P. A. H. Campbell, Esq.
The Hon. C. Langdale. Miss Douglas.
The Hon. W. Browne. Messrs. Durant & Co.
The Hon. H. G. Campbell. Messrs. Dawson & Sons.
Sir Charles Price, Bart. Miss Dobson
Sir Robert Gerard, Bart. Cursetjee Furdonjee, Esq.
Sir Pyers Mostyn, Bart. Miss Franklin
Hon. Rustomjeo Jamsetjee Dr. Gull.
J eejeebhoy. C. Gould, Esq.
The Governors of the Bank H. E. Gurney, Esq.
of England. Messrs. Hills & Underwood.
The Worshipful Company of Capt. Hogg.
Armourers and Braziers. Miss Kaye.
The Worshipful Company of J. Kynaston, Esq.
Tallow Chandlers. J. Knight, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of 14. Lloyd, Esq.
Drapers. J. Lewis 3lie,ville, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of Miss M‘Malion.
Grocers. C. Manning, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of Miss Martin
Saddlers. Breton Martinez, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of Messrs. Ponsford and Son-
Salters. thall.
The Worshipful Company 02 F. X. Pereira, Esq.
Merchant Tailors. Mrs. Palmer.
The Directors of the Bank of H. W. Prescott, Esq.
Australia. F. Philips, Esq.
The Directors of the Bank of N. H. E. Prowett,
Australasia. M. R. Do Quadros, Esq.
The Directors of the Colo- G. A. Shoe, Eol.
vial Bank. If. Riddell, Esq.
The Directors of the National T. Riddell Esq.
Bank of Ireland. Messrs. Ralli Bros.
The Directors of the Provin- Messrs. De la Rue and Co.
cial Bank of Ireland. Miss Romhold.
The Directors of the Char- Mrs. Simpson.
tered Mercantile Bank of Mrs. Scott.
India, London, and China. Mrs. Southby.
The Directors of the Impe- Messrs. Tucker and New.
rial Ottoman Bank. F. Ward, Esq.
The Directors of the London G. Basil Wcod, Esq.
and County Bank. Miss Young.
The Directors of the Union J. Young, Esq.
Bank.
Messrs. Zulueta, and Co.
Messrs. Coutts and Co. &c. &c.

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shivering men in the rigging, and a yell of indig-
nation, mingled with not a few imprecations, from
the crowd on the cliffs, the steamer proceeded on her
course. Within a few minutes of this cruel deser-
tion, a giant wave lifted the shattered hull
of the Hannah More on its foaming crest, and
dashed it with tremendous force against a de-
tached pyramid of granite, known as Rat Island.
A loud crash was heard above the roar of the
waves, the sides of the noble ship were seen to
vibrate and collapse, and in twenty minutes little
remained of her but a thousand fragments, fast
drifting to the westward. Another effort was then
made to save the crew. The same brave men who
had gone out previously again manned their tiny
punt, and by a stupendous effort were successful in
bringing off five men, who were landed on the
beach, and pulled up the cliffs by ropes. Before
the little boat could be again got afloat the ship had
broken up, and the remainder of the hapless crew
were to be seen clinging to the floating spars, and
being carried by the tremendous eddy running round
Rat Island away to westward, where some of them
were watched for hours drifting to and fro in the
currents. One poor fellow IN as seen hanging to a
spar, which was caught by a huge breaker and
dashed against the granite pyramid ; he rose no
more. A stalwart and brave man, Nolliscott by
name, was observed to make a desperate effort to
swim ashore. He reached land, but could obtain
no footing on the perpendicular rocks. 'Turning his
back on the treacherous rocks he swam to the wreck,
seized a spar, and a second time made for shore, but
was beaten back. When on the verge of exhaus-
tion the drowning man managed to get close under
a lofty and precipitous rock, when an islander, named
Isgar, threw him a rope, which was clutched with
the grasp of death, fastened round the man's waist,
and he, amid lusty cheers, was pulled up the rocks.
One of his feet was terribly lacerated in the struggle ;
thus six out of the crew of the ill-fated ship were
saved. The body of one of the 19 unfortunate men,
named George Greigg, of London, was picked up
and buried."

In Jeopardy.

(Front Dickens's " All the Year Round.")

I'm a bricklayer, I am ; and, what's more, down in the
country, where people ain't so particular about keeping
trades distinct as they are in great towns. This may be
seen any day in a general shop, where, as one might say,
you can get anything, from half a quartern of butter up to
a horn lantern ; and down again to a hundred of short-cut
brads—well, down in the country .I'vc done a bit of a job
now and then as a mason ; and not so badly neither, I
should suppose, for I got pretty well paid considering„
and didn't hear more than the usual amount of growlin
arter it was done--which is saying a deal. Ours ain't the
most agreeable of lives, and if it warn't for recollecting a
little about the dignity of labour, and such-like, one would
often grumble more than one does.

Some time ago, it don't matter to you, nor me, nor yet
anybody else, just when it was, work was precious slack
down our way—all things considered, I ain't a-going to
toll you where our way is. A day's work a week had
been all I'd been able to get for quite two months ; so
Mary, that's my wife, used to pinch and screw, and screw
and pinch, and keep on squeezing shilling arter shilling out
of the long stocking, till at last it got so light, that one
morning she lets it fall upon the table, where, instead of
coming down with a good hearty spang, it fell softly and
jest like a piece of cotton that was empty. And then, poor
lass, she hangs on to my neck, and burst out a'crying that
pitiful, that I'm blest if I didn't want my nose blowing about
every quarter of a minute. I hadn't minded the screwing
and pinching; not a bit of it. First week we went without
our puddings. Well, that wasn't much. Second week we
stopped my half-pints o' beer. Third week I put my pipe
out. Mary kep' on saying that things niust look up soon,
and then I should have an ounce of the best to make up
for it. But things didn't look up; and, in spite of all the
screwing, we got down to the bottom of the stocking, as I
said jest now.

I hadn't much cared for the pinching, but it was my
poor lass as got pinched the most, and she was a-getting
paler and thinner every day, till I couldn't bear to see it.
I run out o' the house, and down to Jenkins's yard, where
I'd been at-work last. I soon found Jenkins ; and I says
to him, " Governor," I says, •' this won't do, you know; a
man can't line upon wind."

" True for you, Bill Stock," he says.
" And a man can't keep his wife upon wind," I says.
"Eight you are, Bill," ho says ; and he went on end
spoke as fair as a man could speak; end said he hadn't a
job ho could put me on, or he would have done it in a
minute. " I'm worry sorry, Bill," he says, " but if times
don't mend, I tell you what I'm a-going to do."
" What's that ?" I says.

" Go up to London," he says ; " and if I was a young
man like you, I wouldn't stop starving down here, when
they're giving first-class wages up there, and when there's
building going on all round, as thick as thick, and good
big jobs too ; hotels, and railways, and bridges, and all
sorts."

I faces round sharp, and walks off home ; for when a
feller's hungry and close up, it lays hold on his temper as
well as his stummick, more especially when there's some-
body belonging to him in the same fix. So I walks off
home, where I finds Mary a-looking werry red-eyed ; and
I makes no more ado but I gets my pipe, and empties the
bit o' dust there was in the bottom o' the jar into it, lights
up, and sits down aside of Mary, and puts my arm
round her, jest as I used in old courting times ; and then
begins smoking an' thinking. Worry slow as to the fust,
and werry fast as to the second ; as smoking costs money,
and the dust was dry; whereas thinking came cheap jest
then—and it's sur-prising how yer can think on a empty
inside. I suppose it is because there's plenty o' room for
the thoughts to work in.

well, I hadn't been settin' above a minute like this,
when my lass lays her head on my shoulder, and though
she wouldn't let me see it, I knowed she was a-giving
way ; but I didn't take no notice. Perhaps I held her a
little bit tighter ; and there I sat thinking and watching the
thin smoke, till I could see buhdings, and scaffolds, and
heaps o' bricks, and blocks o' stone, and could almost hear
the ring of the trowels, and the "sar-jar" o' the big stone
saws, and there was the men a-running up and down the
ladders, and the gangers a-giving their orders, and all
seemed so plain, that I began to grow warm. And I keeps
on smoking till it seemed as though I was ono of a great
crowd o' men standing round a little square wooden office
place, and being called in one at a time ; and there I could
see them a-takin' their six-and-thirty shillings and two
pounds apiece, as fast as a clerk could book it. And then
all at once it seemed to fade away like a fog in the sun ;
and I kep' on drawing, but nothing come, and I found as
my pipe was out, and there was nothing left to light agen.
So I knocks the ashes out—what there was on 'em—and then
I breaks the pipe up, bit by bit, and puts all the pieces in
my pocket—right-band trousers-pocket.
" What for ?" says you.

Nothin' at all, as I launcs on ; but that's what I did ; and I
ain a-telling you what happened. Perhaps it was because I
felt uncomfortable with nothing to rattle in my pocket.
Howsomaver, my mind was made up; and brightening
up, and looking as cheerful as if I'd six-and-thirty shil-
lings to take on Saturday, I says to her as was by my
side :

" Polly, my lass, I'am a-going up to Loudon !"
" Going where ?" she says, lifting up her head.
" London," I says ; and then I began to think about
what going to London meant. For, mind yer, it didn't
mean a chap in a rough jacket making up a bundle in a
clean blue handkercher, and then shovin' his stick through
the knot and then sticking it over his shoulder, and then
stuffing his hands in his pockets, and taking the road up-
wards, whistlin' like a blackbird. No :• it meant something
else. It meant breaking up a tidy little home as two
young folks—common people, in courso—had:been a sav-
ing up for years, to make snug; it meant half breaking a
poor simple lass's heart to part with this little thing and
that little thing ; tearing up the nest that took so long
a-building, and was allus so snug arter a cold day's work.
I looked at the clean little winders, and then at the bright
kettle on the shiny black hob, and then at the worry small
fire as there was, and then fust at one thing, and then at
another, all so clean and neat and homely, and all show-
ing how proud my lass was of 'em all, and then I thought
a little more of what going up to London really did mean,
and I suppose it must have been through feeling low
and faint and poorly, and I'm almost ashamed to tell
it, for I'm such a big strong chap ; but truth's truth.
Well, somehow a blind seemed to come over my eyes,
and my head went down upon my knees, and
I cried like a schoolboy. But it went off, for
my lass was kneeling aside me in a minute, and got my
thick old head upon her shoulder, and began a-doing all
she could to make believe it was all right, and she would'nt
mind a bit, but we'd get on wonderfully well up there ; and
so we talked it over for long enough, while she made be-
lieve to be so cheerful, and knelt at my side, a-ciphering
away—a-putting down nought for herself, and a-carrying
I don't know how much for me—till I glowed up, under
the discovery that whether work was plenty, or whether
work was slack, I, Bill Stock—christened William—was
rich in my good wife.
There was something like a thought, that was, and

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seomod to stiffen me up, and put bone and muscle into a
fellow till ho felt bold as a lion ; so we set to talking over
the arrangements ; and two clays arter, Polly and I was in
a lodging in London.
Nox' morning I was up at 5, and made myself smart ;
tot fine, but clean, and looking as if Iwarn't afraid of work;
and I finds my way to one of the big workshops, where the
bell was a-ringing for six o'clock, and the men was a-
calling in; while a chap with a book was on the look-
out to time the late ones, for stopping on pay-day out of
their wages—which is but fair, yer know, for if two
hundred men lost a quarter of an hour apiece in a week, it
would come to something stiff in a year. Well, there was
a couple more chaps like me standing at the gate, come to
see if they could get• took on, and one of 'em slips in, and
comes out again directly a-swearing and growling like
anything, and then t'other goes in, and he comes out a-
swearing too, and then I feels my heart go sinking down
ever so low. So I says to the
"Any chance of a job?" I
"Go somewhere, he bays, cutti
so I asks t'other one.

;kr, rough ;

•
"Any chance of a job ?" I says.
"Not a ha'porth," he says, turning his back, and going
off with the lust one; and I must say as they looked a
pretty pair of blacks.

So I stood there for quite five minutes wondering what
to do ; whether I should go in and ask for myself, or go
and try somewheres else. I didn't like to try, after seeing
two men refused. All at once a tall sharp-eyed man comes
out of a sido place and looks at me quite fierce.
" Now, my man," he says, " what's' your business ?
What do you want ?"
" Job, sir," says I.
" Then why didn't you coma In and ask ?" he says.
" Saw two turned back," .1 says.
`L Oh ! ,ro don't want such as them hero," he says, " but
there's plenty of work fOr men who mean it ;" and then
he looks through me a'most. "I suppose you do mean
it, eh ?"

" Give us hold of a trowel," says I, spitting on both hands.
" Bricklayer?" says he, smiling.
" Right," says I.
" From the country ?" says he.
" Yes," says I.
" Work slack there ?" says he.
" Awful," says I.
" You'll do," says he. " Here, Jones, put this fellow in
number four lot."

If you'll believe me, I could have taken hold of him and hug-
ged him : but I didn't, for I kep' it for Polly.
Well—l wonder how many times I've said well since I be-
gun !—I was in work now, and I meant to keep it. Didn't
I make the bricks and mortar fly ! My hodman did his
day's work that day, if he never did it afore. Then some
of the men began to take it up, and got to chaffing ; one
says there'd soon be no work left; and another says, I'd
better have a couple o' Paddies to keep me going, one for
bricks, and another for mortar; while one fellow makes
hisself precious unpleasant, by keeping on going "puff!
puff ! puff !" like a steam-ingin', because I worked so fast.
But I let them chaff as long as they liked ; and bime-bv I
comes to be working alongside of my steam-ingin' friend,
and jest as he'd been going it a little ext►a, I says to him
quietly—

"Ever been out o' work, matey ?"
"Not to signify," he says.

"'Cause if ever you are, and come down worry close to
ground, you'll be as glad to handle the trowel again as I
am." Ho didn't puff any more that day, not as I heerd.

The Italian Budget.

FLORENCE, Jan. 22.
At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies this
day, the Finance Minister made his Statement.

Signor Scialoja said the expectations of his prede-
cessor had been realized. The interest upon the
public debt for the past half-year had been duly
paid, and there remained in the Treasury sufficient
funds to meet the present wants of the Administra-
tion. Upon taking account of all the resources at

the disposal of the Treasury on balances and
realizable credits, it was certain that these resources
would suffice to meet all the expenditure of 1866,
including the next half-year's interest upon the
public debt, without the necessity of having recourse
to extraordinary means. That declaration would
suffice to put an end to the rumours as to pretended
intentions of the Government, and the necessity for
a new loan. The deficiency anticipated for 1866
would be 265 or 265 millions. It would be asked
how did the Government propose';'to supply that de-
ficiency ? It was time to renom& operations which
were dazzling, but ruinous, and which only result in
contracts f9r sales and loans. There were but two
modes on which an equilibrium in the Budget could
be effected—the diminution of expenditure and the
increase of receipts. r First, what saving was it pos-
sible to effect? Of the 938 millions of the Budget
443 millions represented the amount required for
the payment of the interest upon the public debt, and
for other engagements guaranteed by the public
faith. It would be impossible to break public faith.
The nation which should be wanting in the fulfil-
ment of its engagements merited to be placed under
a ban by all civilised people. The 17 millions which
figured in the Budget on account of pensions would be
reduced gradually by the natural diminution in the
numbers of the pensioners. The 21 millions for pri-
sons might in time be somewhat reduced, but it was
not an item easy of diminution at present. 59 mil-
lions are devoted to the purchase of raw materials,
which are needed for State monopolies, and which
afterwards became sources of revenue. That amount
could not be reduced; on the contrary, it would be
desirable to increase it. There remained 396 millions
on which reductions may be effected. Of these
396 millions, no less than 230 millions were applied
'to the military and naval services. The remaining
166 millions represent the expenses of all the other
branches of the public service. Since the consti-
tution of the Kingdom of Italy economies to the
extent of 150 millions ,had been effected, but, on
the other hand, the Budget had been augmented by
new expenses, by obligations for railways, and other
expenses, which make up a total of 139 millions.
That was the true reason why the country bad not
yet been able to derive the benefit of the consider-
able, savings that had been effected. It was neces-
I nary, then, to consider what other savings were pos-
sible. The Cabinet, keeping in sight the political
and financial situation of the kingdom, and the
necessity that the country should be strong and
well provided with the means of defence, still be-
lieved that upon the expenditure for the army and
the navy a reduction of 30 millions might be ob-
tained. Upon the administration of the lotteries a
saving of 230,000 f. could be effected. Upon the
service of the Treasury,
if the Chamber should ap-
prove the transfer to the Bank, an economy of two
millions might Le looked for, and an additional
2i millions would be gained by the application of
new laws of administration. By a reform of the
judiciary organisation a saving of four millions
might be expected. The Minister of the Interior
koped to effect a reduction in his Budget to the
extent of 2k millions, and a law for the abolition of
sub-prefectures would be proposed. The Minister
of Public Works would propose to effect economies
amounting in the whole to four millions. A plan
for the reorganisation of the department of civil en-
gineering would produce a saving of 300,000 f., and
alterations in the regulations affecting the Post-
office and the telegraphs would result in a saving of
500,000 f. All these savings added to those which
would be proposed by the Minister of Public In-
struction of millions) and by the Minister of Agri-
culture and Commerce would amount to nearly 54i
millions. That amount, deducted the deficit of 265
or 266 millions, left still a deficiency of 2111 mil-
lions. rt then became necessary to consider what
permanent steps could be taken to meet that deficit.
Persisting in a resolution not to resort to extraor-
dinary measures, but to rely solely upon stable and
permanent resources, he was called upon to point
out by what means he proposed to augment the re-
ceipts. The Ministers had been of opinion that, be-
fore resorting to new taxes, they ought to review the
existing imposts, and consider whether it was pos-
sible to obtain from them larger results. The three
great Aaxes were the land-tax, the tax upon movable
property, and the registration tax. With respect to
the tax upon movable property. a new assessment
might be made. The land-tax should be consoli-
dated in' such a way as to allow of distinct taxes
leviable upon the revenue and upon the property, a
change that would be of equal advantage to agricul- 1