The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-04 00:00:00

man looked at this list with amazunm-t. He stood r::acl

them over, and at last, as we came out, he said, " Well, I
believe there is a better and a more extensive selection of
periodicals down on that card, as taken in in this reading
room of your working men in Rochdale than there is belong-
ing to the Athenaeum Club in London." Now, the Athe-
nreum is a club of which a great many Mere' y persons are
members, and it is said to have, I believe, the best library
of any club in London ; it devotes some hundreds a year
from its funds to keep up its library, and to the supply, of
course, of those periodicals for the use of its members. If
you go in, it is so quiet and literary looking that, unless
you have been to college yourselves, you feel almost alarmed
at getting into such a presence ; yet this gentleman, a
member of that club, declared that at the Store in Toad-
lane there was a better and greater selection of periodicals
supi lied than there was in that famed and literary club—
so that I may claim that we are not altogether in darkness
here. (Applause.) Mr. Molesworth ventured upon some
topics which some people may think are forcien to an
occasion like this: but they are not foreign. He
referred to the necessity of all men, and all classes of
people, understanding their interests, not only in respect
to their private plans and employments, but also in
respect to their public duties as citizens. At the
present time, what can be more unfortunate than our
position. The position of you who live upon wages
must always be mere precarious than that; of
those men who live upon trade, or upon capital employed
in some business ; because, although your income is steady
under ordinary circumstances, and does not vary much so
long as it is continued at all, yet want of health, an accident,
or your employers meeting with some misfortune or sever: e
in trade—any of these things may stop a working man's in-
come, may bring him almost at once to difficulty, and, per-
haps, penury. It seems to me that we are at a time just
now when everybody in this district ought to learn, and will
Marie, that which he ought to have learned a long time ago..
No doubt the middle classes, who have more political power
—though they have not much directly ; no doubt the cotton
spinners and merchants of this district, if they could have
known ten years ago that this exact state of things which
they now all see would have arisen, no doubt they would have
done very many things which they have not done; and no
doubt if three years ago every workman in this country had
known the certainty—as certain as any thing in the future
can be—that after three years nearly all the mills of Lanca-
shire would be working two, three, and four days a week,
with the possibility of some of them being stopped altoge-
ther, the probability is that every man, except the most
reckless and profligate—and they are a very small minority
—every man would have endeavoured to have saved some of
his income during the last few years so as to help to lacer
him through the storm which was coming and which is now
unhappily upon us. Everybody who knew anything at all of
the matter knew that some time or other there would be a
catastrophe in the United States. They did not know it would
come in this shape, but they knew it would come in some
shape or some way. Everybody knew who knew anything on
this topic that there was a country, a country under the
sway of the British Crown, which was abund intly capable
of supplying any deficiency which might thus arise in the
supply of the raw material for our manufactures from
the United States of America. Yet scarcely any single
thing has been done during the whole of this time to enable
us to make up from India that which we can now find no
longer, and perhaps may not obtain for years to come from
the United States. Men passed on, saying, "We have always
had cotton, and cotton will always come somehow ; it will
only be a question of paying so much more for it." But things
will not always come just as heedless and reckless men like;
but some great calamity comes. We are now threatened
with great suffering to the industrial classes of our popula-
tion, and great suffering to men carrying on their businesses,
owing principally to the neglect of those precautions which
instruction and thought, and forethought would have ena-
bled them to adopt. I never consider this question of edu-
cation without looking at the wonderful scenes of strife
which the world is almost continually affording us—strife
in, our own localities, social strife, strife between those
who work and those who employ, strife on all kinds of
subjects, but on that particularly of our social relations,
causing immense embarrassments and great sufferings.
Then, if we look abroad over the world we find strife of a
more disastrous and of a more sanguinary character. I
know not how all this is to be avoided ; but if it be in the
intention of Heaven that all this shall cease, it can only
cease, in my mind, from the increasing instruction, thought-
fulness, and morality of the people of this country. (Cheers.)

THE POST-OFFICE TUBKISEE BATH.

A very elegant and spacious suit of rooms have been
fitted and opened by Dr. Culverwell, of Great Marlborough-
street, at 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand, as Turkish Baths, and
in order to place the luxury within the means of the public
generally, a very moderate fee of admission is charged.
Everything that the most refined taste could prompt has
been executed in order to secure the greatest comfort and
convenience to those patronising the new establishment, in
addition to which properly qualified medical gentlemen aro
in attendance during all hours of the day. The most timid
person, therefore, need have no fear of inconvenience, as
the attention paid to all is of the most satisfactory descrip-
tion. Like all unfamiliar theories the Turkish Bath
has met with the most obstinate opposition, but gradually
it has so gained ground and popularity that its necessity
has at length been universally acknowledged as a powerful
sanitary agent. The efficacy of the Turkish bath has been
generally admitted ; and as a positive luxury, cheap, easily
accessible, and, what very few luxuries are, not morely in-
nocent, but highly beneficial, it is a great preservative to
health. The enjoyment of the Turkish bath is hardly
realisable by the imagination of those who are strangers
to it. The perfect, harmonious, and healthy action
of every organ, the complete balance of overy function
of the body, the bracing of the nerves, and elasticity
of the whole frame, produce a most delicious elevation
of the spirits. Thus, though the whole system
receives an impetus that restores it to more than
its wonted vigour, the stimulus is healthy, because
perfectly natural and the result of a wholesome operation,
instead of the effect of an artificial and deleterious agent.
Some express an apprehension that the heat of the air in
the earlier stages of the bath may be found unpleasant, but
they have only to try the experiment to be practically con-
vinced to the contrary. Moreover, persons unacquainted
with chemistry are prone to judge of heat by figures which
mark the temperature on their thermometer, without taking
into consideration the medium by which that degree of heat
is lodged. But there is all the difference in the world
between hot air and hot water, and although water at
115 deg. of heat would be nearly insupportable, yet air
heated to nearly double that temperature could be sup-
ported in a Turkish bath. Both as a curative agent and a
most refined luxury, therefore, the value of the Turkish
Bath is inestimable, and in establishing such in the very
centre of the metropolis Dr. Culverwell has greatly added to
the many benefits he has already conferred, as a skilful
physician, on suffering humanity. To those who have not
yet experienced the pleasant and delightful effects of a
Turkish Bath we advise a speedy visit to the new and ele-
gant establishment ; and to those who are familiar with the
health-restoring operation we recommend those just opened
by Dr. Culverwell, feeling satisfied that the attention they
will receive will merit their entire approbation. "Without
doubt, one of the greatest luxuries in life is the Turkish
Bath ; and in no place in the metropolis can .that luxury be
obtained in greater perfection than at the Oriental Bath,
19, St. Martin's-le-Grand, opposite the General Post-office.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

The fresh arrivals of English wheat to this morning's
market were very moderate. For all descriptions the trade
was very firm, but buyers were indisposed to operate at any
advance on Monday's currencies. The quotations, gene-
rally speaking, were without material alteration.
Holders of foreign wheat were very firm in their demands,
and American parcels were held at further enhanced rates.
Other descriptions were fully as dear as on Monday.
Floating cargoes of grain were in steady request, and
prices were fully supported.
All kinds of barley were a dull inquiry, and prices had a
downward tendency

Malt changed hands to a limited extent, on former terms.
Oats, the supply of which was very moderate, moved off
steadily, at full prices.
Beans and peas were in slow reqaest, yet no change t ok
place in their value.
O. Flour.
I,ito 890 420 SO 450 sack,*
The flour trade was firm, and in seine instances the cur.
rencies had an upward tendency.
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Irish.. ........
WAhIteRtIVALsTIiIsWEEK.
Oats. Barley.
Malt.
Foraig-n•••••• .• 17,600 700 5,160 sks.
10,710 brls.

BOROUGH HOP.
The business doing in hops is confined to actual wants ;
prices, however, rule firm.

WHITECHAPEL.

The supply of meat is somewhat extensive, and the trade
rules inactive, as follows :
Beef from 2s 4d to 4s Od ; mutton, 2s 8d to 4s 2d ; veal,
Gd to 4s 6d ; and pork. 3s Gd to 4s Bcl per Blbs.

THE METROPOLITAN DEBTORS' PRISON.-0a
Monday the gaolers of the Metropolitan Debtors' Prisons
made their second monthly returns under the new law. The
prisons present a different appearance to what they
some time back, and it is anticipated that in progress of
time but few need to remain in prison for debt before hear-
ing. The power of arrest in execution is continued, but the
facilities afforded to get out of prison makes
this sojourn of
very short duration. The present number
in Whitecross-
street Prison is 104, and of that number 14 were County
Court commitments, leaving 90 "Sheriffs'," When the first
return was made there were 180 Sheriffs' and 19 County
Court cases. In Horsemonger-lane Gaol there are only 12
" Sheriffs" and about 8 County Court commitments,
which commitments do not come under the new law. The
only other prison for debt in the metropolis is the Queen's
Prison, where the number is under 100. Besides the pri-
Foners discharged by the Registrars, many inmates took
the hint and arranged with the detaining creditors and
thus avoided being made bankrupt.