The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-22 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY. 22, 1861.

NOTICE.—BUCKLEYS' SERENADERS.—
LAsr WEEK but THREE of the Season, owing to
several Provincial Engagements entered into previous to
their appearance in London. The Programme will be changed
every week so as to enable them to produce all their most
Popular Novelties, the Burlesque Operatic Selections will be
varied, including " Lucrezia Borgia," " Cenerentola," " Tro-
vatore," and "La Sonnambula." Doors open every night at
half •past Seven. A Day Performance every Wednesday and
Saturday. Doors open at half-past Two. Stalls, 3s. ; Area,
2s. ; Gallery, ls.
St. James's Hall, Piccadilly,
19th January, 1861. al

AIR• W. S. WOODIN'S NEW ENTERTAIN-
MENT, the CABINET of CURIOSITIES, POLY-
GRAPHIC HALL, King lam-street, Charing-cross,
TO-NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at
Eight. Private boxes, £1 Is. ; Stalls and box stalls, 3s. ;
area, 28. ; amphitheatre, is. --A plan of the stalls may be
seen, and seats secured (without extra charge), at the Box-
office, from 10 till 4. Morning Performance, Saturday, Jan.
19.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. -ARGYLL
ROOMS.—GRAND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT
with the Celebrated BAND, Forty in number (established
eleven years), chosen from the Philharmonic Concerts, Royal
Italian Operas, and the Household Troops. Conducted by.
Mons. Lamotte. Cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt.—Dancing
at Nine o'clock-Is. admission.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS,
High Holborn.—The most elegant entertainment in
the world. The dancing area is most extensive. The reading
and smoking rooms on either side of the spacious galleries are
replete with every comfort, and the refreshment rooms at-
tached to the ball room are unrivalled even by Oriental
beauty. The wines and refreshments are of the highest qua-
lity, and the band, conducted by Mr. Packer, stands alone for
its excellence. Admission, is.

TO THE RIFLE BRIGADE.--A GOOD
SIGHT WILL PROVE ADVANTAGEOUS IN
SELF-DEFENCE. To render your sight and hearing per-
fect take GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF, invented by him to
give strength and vigour to the vision, &c. Sold in tinfoil pack-
ages, 6d. per oz. ; canisters, Bd., is. 3d., or in jars 2 oz., 4 oz.,
8 oz., lbs. upwards at Bs. per lb. for export, under the authority
of the Lords of the Treasury, and Medical authority. Or
should you be a smoker, leave it off, it renders your hand un-
steady. If you must smoke, smoke GRIMSTONE'S ARO-
MATIC HERB TOBACCO. This will strengthen your
nerves ; by swallowing your spittle it increases the appetite.
The smoke equalz Oriental pastules. Sold in square, green
packets with red label, at 34. per oz., 3s. 6d. per lb. GRIM-
STONE'S HAIR REGENERATOR is the only article that
will produce whiskers, moustaches, eye brows, or cause a new
growth of human hair upon those parts nature intends this
ornament of the human figure. It is sold in triangular
bottles, and inclosed in the 77th edition of the pamphlet full
of testimonials from ladies and gentlemen. Real addresses,
45., 75., and na., this size contains four of the 4s. size, All
letters to William Grimstone, herbalist, London Depot, 52,
High-street, Bloomsbury; and by Messrs. Barclay and Sons,
Farringdon-street, and all other respectable dealers

great distitutio3 i among the widows and orphans
of deceased idlers, crowds of hardworking
men are we kly flocking thither, in hopes
of obtaining employment in the Dockyard
imme, -liate work; but many linger on,
and Arsenal, a Treat proportion of whom fail in
an augmentation may occur they may f-heir own, in hopes that as vacan-
gfunds of
co
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withoutnri n
ulti-
mately succeed in b. ing employed.
On account of the limited accommodation afforded
by the garrison churcha,s atWoolwich for the officers,
mechanics, and labourers, now increased to upwards
of 10,000 persons, the War Department has pur-
chased 700 seats in the Church Ipf the Holy Trinity,
opposite the principal entrance of the Arsenal, to
be appropriated in the following order—viz., 79
seats in the body of the church for the Royal Car-
riage Department, and 81 in thi3 galleries ; 75 and
74 for the Laboratory.; 79 and 81 for the Gun
Factories ; Military store Department, 12 and 17 ;
the Police, 6 ; and miscellaneous, 29.

The Rev. Mr. Ruddock has been appointed chap-
lain in the pay of the War Department at a salary
of £250 per annum.

MR. EDWIN JAMES ..4.IVD HIS CONSTITUENTS.

Last night Mr. Edwin James, pursuant to a
public announcement, addressed some 4,000 of the
inhabitants of Marylebone, assembled in Hall's
Riding School, Albany-street, Regent's-park. Mr.
Williams, M.P. for Lamlysth, Mr. Wyld, M.P.,
and Mr. Gordon Allan were among the gentlemen
on the platform ; as were also Mr. Nicholay, Mr.
D'lffanger, Mr. Michell, and several others who
take part in public affairs within the borough.
Alderman Sir JAMES DUKE, M.P., who was called
to the chair, briefly adverted to some of the public
services rendered by his learned friend Mr. James
in Parliament during the last session, dwelling
particularly on his being an ardent advocate of
economy, and mainly instrumental in carrying
through the House of Commons the bill relating to
the office of coroner, by which the country was re-
lievedfrom a great tax. Sir James then alluded to the
memorial recently sent to Lord Palmerston, calling
his attention to the large expenditure in carrying
on the public service, which he said he himself had
signed, though with the reservation that he would
never be a party to any act, tending to cripple the
navy, believing as he did that the defence of old
England from invasion primarily depended upon
its maritime power. He added an expression of
regret that the memorial in question had been
made public before being presented to the Pre-
mier, implying, as he thought, its publication did
an act of discourtesy to the noble lord.
Mr. JAMES then stood forward to speak, and was
greeted with cheers. He said he had made it a rule
to meet his constituents annually, not for the pur-
pose of boasting of anything he had done, but of
discussing some of the more prominent political
topics of the past, and to consider questions likely
to engage public attention in the coming session.
He was not there to solicit their votes ; he had
their confidence already—(cheers)—and the ques-
tion for them was whether he had abused it, or
forfeited a single pledge he gave on their elect-
ing him as one of their representatives in the House
of Commons. Recapitulating the topics con-
tained in the Queen's Speech on the opening
of last session, he said the attention of
Parliament was first directed to the commercial
treaty, which had been arranged through the in-
strumentality of a man whose name was never men-
tioned in an assembly of English patriots without
reverence—he meant Mr. Cobden. (Cheers.) He
(Mr. James) supported that treaty, believing that
it was intended to effect, as he trusted it would ul-
timately do, a firm and lasting alliance between
the two countries immediately concerned, though
its first results had been to press hard for a time on
several branches of our national industry. He could
not doubt that in the end the effect of it would be
to ally more strongly than ever the great French
nation with England, by welding together the
commercial interests of both, and so securing a
guarantee for peace and good will far more effec-
tual and durable than all the armaments resulting
from a prodigal expenditure of public money.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was but due to the
Emperor of the French to say that he had made
great sacrifices to carry out that treaty, for a re-
strictive system of trade and commerce had pre-
vailed in France ever since the war terminating in
1815, and he had many prejudices and difficulties
to overcome in :introducing a change of system.
Adverting next to the subject of Parliamentary re-
form, he (Mr. James) had always complained that
last Session it was postponed to the consideration
of the commercial treaty. He ventured to tell Lord
John Russell that the delay in proceeding with the
Reform Bill was calculated to jeopardize the mea-
sure, and to induce the country to doubt his sin-
cerity. The commercial treaty, no doubt, was
pressing ; but he could see no reason why the Re-
form Bill and it did not proceed pari passe. The
Reform Bill at length was introduced, and some-
body was pleased to twit him with making a
damaging speech against it; but he ventured to say
a more miserable Reform Bill was never propounded
in Parliament, and he would tell them why. If the
Government promised the country to concede mat-
ters of Parliamentary reform by instalments, then he
was ready to accept those instalments as they came,
even though they were presented in homceopathic
doses; but if they said they aimed at a settlement
of the question for the next quarter of a century,
then he contended that the settlement ought
to be a comprehensive one, for otherwise the people
were better without it. (Cheers.) He contended
that the rate-book ought to be the electoral regis-
ter of England. (Cheers.) He had in his place in
Parliament supported a lodger franchise, and had,
above all, urged the repeal of the rate-paying
clauses, for it was a mere mockery to give a work-
ing man the right to vote and to embarrass and
surround its exercise with technicalities. (Cheers.)
The Reform Bill of Mr. Disraeli, so far as it con-
ferred a lodger franchise, was greatly preferable to
that of Lord John Russell, adding, for example, as
it would have done, according to a calculation by
Mr. Whiteside, no less than 15,000 to the consti-
tuency of Marylebone alone. Again, with regard
to the redistribution of seats, a bill which placed
several of the old Whig borough constituencies with
80 or 90 voters in the same category with the
Tower Hamlets and Marylebone could not with
any propriety be called a settlement of a great
question. It was, in truth, a very small bill. (A
laugh.) He was present both at its birth and its
obsequies, and if he were asked to write its epitaph
it would be, " Sacred to the memory of a very little
bill, that lived a very little time, and died very
little regretted." (A laugh.) Besides, the Govern-
ment never seemed in earnest about the matter, and
the House of Commons was insincere, because the
country was apathetic. Worse than all, now that
it was wholly abortive, the preparation of it, he
was told, had cost £2,000. His clerk would have
drawn a bill as much to the purpose in 20 minutes
for a couple of guineas. (A laugh.) The Govern-
ment of Lord Derby staked its existence on its Re-
form Bill, and he (Mr. James) had never been able
to understand why the country did not exact of the
Present Government that it should stake its exist-
ence on a Reform Bill, that being the question on
which it succeeded to power. (Cheers.) Mr. James
then glanced briefly at the abortive attempts at law
reform and the consolidation of the criminal law
during the last session. He particularly adverted
to the miscarriage of the Bankruptcy Bill, andto Sir Richard Bethel! --than whom, he
said in passing, there was not a more ardent,
law reformer—having been embarrassedh.s endea-
b3 his
own Government at every instep i
your to carry it through the House of Commons.
• Alluding to the treatment of the question of the
the House of Lords, the subsequent
paper duties by