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THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
t ban 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases:—
F. V., aged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
H. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents;
M. H.. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fatten, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,

S. B.,.ajed 17;fallen;both parents dead.'
M. A. W., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, frem the age of 8 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.'
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen •scree*, Cheapside; ur by Messrs
Barclay and Co., Lombard-street.

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This Hospital, foundel in the year 1828, the first to estab-
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the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and L ,gacies
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
iestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
1,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several nundred more beds, had the Committ:•.:
the requisite lunar to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edwara Dias
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FOR
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 Manage; &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 £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
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Finsbury-circus, E.C.

DONORS AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THE REFUGE.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G.
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The Lord Chelmsford. H. Cazenne, Esq.
The Lord Cranworth. Mrs. Chesterton.
Baron de Rothschild, M.P. A. H. Campbell, Esq.
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The Governors of the Bank H. E. Gurney, Esq.
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Tallow Chandlers. J. Knight, Esq.
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Tho Directors of the National T. Riddell Esq.
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REFORM MEETINGS.

ST. MARTIN'S HALL.

A meeting in favour of the Government Fran-
chise Bill, convened by the Reform League, was
held last evening in St. Martin's-hall. The room
was crowded, and a second meeting took place in
the lower hall. Placards containing a rude represen-
tation of a Scotch terrier, with an extract from Mr.
Bright's speech on the 13th ult., and with the head-
ing, " The new party—which is the head and which
is the tail ? Messrs. Caine and Stroud, sole owners
of the animal"—were freely posted about the hall,
and evoked much laughter and cheering.
Mr. Edmond Beales, the president of the League,
occupied the chair, and on the platform were Lord
Elcho, M.P., Mr. Hughes, M.P., Professor Beasley,
Professor White, Col. Dickson, Dr. Brewer, Mr.
llolyoake, and the. delegates of a number of trade
societies.

The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, com-
mended Earl Russell for having honestly redeemed
the pledge he gave to the deputation of the League,
to introduce such a measure as Parliament ought
and might be expected to pass. He named the noble
lord, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Bright as the three
men who were pre-eminently entitled to public con-
fidence, and stigmatised Mr. Lowe as the arch-
slanderer of the working classes. He expressed his
conviction that the bill, which was a small instal-
meat of the debt which Mr. Gladstone admitted to
be justly due, would pass in spite of the tricks aid
dodges of simulated friends, and predicted that if it
were rejected there would be an overwhelming agi-
tation for a much larger measure. He then stated
that Lord Elcho had attended in order ~to defend
himself against the charge of being an enemy of the
working classes. and he hoped they would give him
a patient hearing.
Lord ELcHo then rose, but great uproar ensued,
a large part of the meeting refusing to hear him.

Mr. HUGHES, after the clamour had lasted several
minutes, came forward and begged for silence, add-
ing that, if the meeting would not hear a man in his
own defence, he himself would not address them.
Comparative quiet having been restored,
Lord ELCIIO said he hoped the working men of
London would show they possessed the love of fair
play which was a characteristic of Englishmen, by
giving a patient hearing to a man who came before
them single-handed in his own defence. (Cheers.)
He had no idea of appearing before them till on his
return from the country three hours ago he found an
invitation to attend, and this invitation was virtu-
ally a challenge, for enclosed was a letter by Mr.
Howell, secretary of theßeformLeague, giving a re-
solution passed by the delegates of the trades' unions
of the metropolis. The resolution was as follows :
" That in consequence of Lord Elcho having in his
speech in the House of Commons on Mr. Baines's
bill for extending the borough franchise vilified the
people in a most shameful manner—(cheers)—this
meeting of trades' delegates, representing 70,000
men, declare that they have no confidence in him
whatever—(A Voice—" Quite right, too")—and
object to his becoming the chairman of any commit-
tee, whether in the house or out of it, affecting the
interests of labour." (Cheers.) Now, he had come
there to answer that accusation, and though a friend
offered to accompany him, he preferred coming
alone, for he believed that in any meeting of his
fellow-countrymen there would be such a love of
straightforwardness and fair play that they would
form a ring, and that any one among them would
give him a knee if occasion required it. (Laughter.)
His attention had been frequently called to this re-
solution, and he yesterday addressed a letter to Mr.
Howell on the subject. (His lordship then read his
reply, in which he explained that in consequence of
Mr. Cobbett's illness he last session moved for the
appointment of a committee on the Master and
workman's Act, and Acted on that committee,

while at the request of Mr. Newton, secretary of the
Master and Workman's Acts Amendment Associa-
tion at Glasgow, he had this session moved for the
reappointment of the committee. The selection of
chairman would rest with the committee. The letter
went on to request the citation of the passage or pas-
sages in which he was said to have vilified the peo-
ple. He was ignorant, he added, of having used the
words which could be so construed, having frequently
spoken in just praise of the working class, but if he
had unwittingly said anything that could be so in-
terpreted he should readily express his regret at hav-
ing done so. [The letter concluded by referring to
the Times of May 4, 1865, for the fullest report of
his speech.] When he should receive the passages
for which he had asked, and considered them with
due regard to the context, as well as to the actual
words, he should be able to judge whether he had
said anything justifying the imputation against lum,
and if this proved to be the case, he should have no
hesitation in offering an apology. He felt pretty
confident, however, that no expressions of his could
by any torturing bear the interpretation that had
been put upon them. He would go further, and say
that since he had been in Parliament he had to the
best of his ability supported every measure tending
to the well-being of the masses of his fellow-coun-
trymen. In 1846, when a young man, he resigned
his seat rather than vote against the repeal of the
corn laws and legislate for the benefit of his own
class—(cheers)--and he had consistently promoted
every measure for the amelioration of the social con-
dition of the people. He would mention, as an in-
stance, that he, with others, brought the working
men into the Volunteer movement by keeping the
expenses within a low sum, and when requested by
the representative of working men to take up a ques-
tion vitally affecting their interests, he cordially re-
sponded by moving for a committee on the subject.
(Cheers.) It was not becoming for a man to praise
himself, but he had the pleasure of being acquainted
with a gentleman present, than whom there was not
a warmer friend of the working classes—he referred
to Mr. Holyoake_(cheers)—and he would appeal
to him to say whether, from what heknew of him, he
was or was not the enemy of the working man.
(Interruption, and cries of " Reform" and " Vote
for the Bill.") It would show bad taste, and would
be an uncalled-for proceeding on his part, were
he to enter on the discussion of the question of
Reform. He had come there simply to make a per-
sonal explanation, and having made it he intended to
reserve what he had to say on Reform for the House
of Commons. (Hisses, and cries of "Sit down.")
When, however, they read what he might say upon
that question, they would, he thought, admit that
he was not the enemy of the working man. His
opinion was that every class and every interest in
the country—land, commerce, and industry—should
be fairly represented. His motto was " Justice to
all, preponderance to none ;" and he thought he
could not have given a better proof of the estima-
tion in which he held the working classes than by
coming there single-handed to make this explana-
tion. He thanked them in conclusion for the hear-
ing they had given him. (Cheers.)

Mr. HOWELL stated that Lord Elcho's letter would,
with his lordship's permission, be published, together
with his own reply to it, and the public would then
judge whether the resolution was truthful or not.
(Hear, hear.)

Mr. HOLYOAEE, in reply to Lord Elcho's appeal,
said he had always differed politically from his lord-
ship, and had urged upon him that he might as
safely trust the working classes with votes as with
muskets, but on all questions affecting the social
welfare of the working classes he had always found
Lord Elcho willing to render all the assistance in
his power. (Cheers.)
Mr. CREMER, delegate of the Amalgamated Car-
penters and Joiners' Society, proposed a resohltion
approving the bill so far as it went, while regarding
manhood suffrage and the ballot as the only satis-
factory basis of representation. He supported the
measure as a stepping-stone to a much more com-
prehensive enfranchisement, and, while concurring
iu the opinion that an assemblage in Parliament-
street such as that which welcomed Garibaldi would
have a decisive effect, he expressed his belief that
no such demonstration would take place, Ministers
not being in the position of Garibaldi—of having
never betrayed the people. He believed, however,
that the three men mentioned by the chairman would
never prove false to the popular cause.
Professor BEASLEY agreed with Mr. Lowe that
unless actual grievances could be shown there was
no necessity for altering our representative system.
He thought it strange that Mr. Love's position had
never been challenged on this point ; and, with a
view of supplying the omission, he instanced the un-
equal pressure of indirect taxation on the working
men, who paid 4s. a week out of 20s. wages, the
operation of the game laws, the punishment of ser-
vants for breach of contract, the excessive expendi-
ture on the army and navy as compared with the
education grant, the treatment of the poor in work-
houses, and the monopoly of land by large proprie-
tors. These were grievances which a reformed Par-
liament might be expected to redress, but which
were not likely to be redressed under the present
system. He attributed the revival of the Reform
agitation to the result of the American War, observ-
ing that Republicanism was now looking up in the
world, and that the question before long would be,
not whether we should reform our institutions, but
whether we should recast them. (Loud cheers,
with some hisses.) In the meantime he urged that
every exertion should be used to carry this bill, and
if the new Parliament did not remove the grievances
he had pointed out it would only show the necessity
of a much more sweeping measure. (Cheers.)
Mr. HUGHES, M.P., differed from the previous
speaker as to the uselessness of theoretical considera-
tions, for even if no grievances existed the working
classes were entitled to a share in the government
of the country. He commended the firm stand
made by the Ministry, and believed that in a few 1
weeks they might meet and congratulate one ano-
ther on the passing of the bill. The bon. gentle-
man expressed surprise at the way in which the
meeting had received the remark of Professor Beas-
ley as to recasting our institutions, for while an
ardent admirer of the United States, and while
thinking that republicanism worked admirably there, 1
he could not but remember that under a Constitu-
tion which had lasted for 700 years England had
attained to great glory and prosperity, and, be-
lieving those institutions capable of such a re-
form as to make Great Britain the best country in
which men ever lived, he desired a reform, and not
a recasting of them. (Cheers.)
Mr. BRADLAUGII, in a fervid speech, seconded the
resolution, which was then put and carried unani-
mously.
The second resolution, condemning all opposition
to the speedy passing of the bill, and recommending
a dissolution in the event of its defeat, was moved
by Mr. Howell, seconded by Mr. Lloyd Jones, and
was also carried.

A petition to the House of Commons was then
adopted, and the proceedings, which were protracted
to a late hour, concluded with a vote of thanks to
the chairman.