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CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR BATHURST, RIVER GAMBIA. Department of the Storekeeperteneral of the Navy, Somerset-place, 14th May, 1860. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING th e -a- OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the 22d inst., at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supply ing and delivering into store at Bathurst, River Gambia, 400 TONS OF SOUTH WALES COALS, Fit for the service of her Majesty's Stc:am Vessels. A form of the tender may be seen at th e said office. No tender will be received after two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be notice-ti, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly auttorised in writing. Every tender must b addressed to the Secretary of the - Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words" Ten der for Coals," and must be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied lly a letter signed by a responsible person, en gaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of £2OO, for the due performance of the Contract. CONTRACTS FOR FRESH OX BEEF. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling*, Somerset House, 12th May, 1860. frHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD of the 'UNITED KINGDOM of GR EAT HIGH B RIT ADM IR TAIN T and AL IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the 31st last, at /itlf-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying (under separate Contracts), all such quantities of FRESH OX BEEF as may be demanded for the use of her Majesty's Ships and Vessels at the following places, from the Ist July to the 31st December, 1860, both days included, viz. : ENGLAND, &c. Trull Jersey and Guernsey Littlehampton Liverpool London Bridge to Woolwich, inclu- 1 sive Lymington North Shields Penzance Plymouth (Oxen) Portland and Port land Roads SCOTLAND. Granton I Leith Greenock I Queensferry IRELAND. Kingstown and Mill Cove) Bere- I Queenstown and Dublin haven) Kinsale N.B.—The Cont rac t ors are to supply Good, Fat, Rathmullen Well-Fed Ox Beef, as NO HEIFER MEAT will be admitted. Separate tenders must be made for each port, and no at tention will be paid to any offesr,not so made.- • None of the contracts to be dub -let, and the contracts for Chatham and Sheerness to be taken by persons residing on the spot. and, the Cattle for Chatham and Sheerness to be slaughtered on the spot. Particular attention is called to the recent modifications of the Conditions of the Contracts, which may be seen at this 'Office. or by applying to the superintendents of the Victual ling Establishments at Deptford, Gosport, and Plymouth ; 'the Superintendents of Her Majesty's Dock-yards at Wool 'ick Chatham, and Sheerness ;,the Clerk in charge of Her Majesty's Yard at Deal ; the Agent for the Victualling at Raulbowline ; the Agent for Transports at Leith; the Offi cers conducting the Packet Service at Dover, Liverpool, and Southampton ; the Secretary to the Postmaster-General Dublin; to the Collectors of Her Majesty' Customs at Cowes , Ifull Ramsgate Dartmouth Jersey and Guern- Weymouth Falmouth sey Greenock Grimsby Yarmouth S tornoway Rar wich Penzance Shields And. to the Postmaster at Torquay (for lorbay) and each of the Places. Forms of Tender may alsoo ther be obtained, on application to the proper Officer at either of the above Places. No tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the Printed Form provided for the purpose ; but it will not be necessary that the party tendering, or an agent appointed by him, should attend at this Office, as the result of the offer re teived from each person wilt be communicated to him and his Proposed sureties in writing. Every tender must be 'delivered at the above Office, and Signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of £590 for the due performance of each of the Contracts for Sheerness, Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Queenstown and Kin sale ; and in the sum of £3OO for each of the other Contracts. Chatham to Gilling ham, inclusive • Cowes Dartmouth t Deal, and in the Downs Dover Falmouth Gravesend Greenhithe Grimsby Harwich Holyhead Portsmouth (Oxen) Purfleet • Ramsgate - heerness,from be low Gillingham to the Great Nore inclusive S, , uthampton Torbay Weymouth Yarmouth Stornoway THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London. Empowered by Act of Parliament for LIFE ASSURANCE, SURVIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. John Elliotson,XD.,Cantab., I John Moss, Esq. John Symes, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO VIE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blonde!, Esq. rrofessor Whe atstone, A lTl O , R a B n . d Professor J. Radford. Young. J. Elliotson ME DICAL REFEREE GENERAL. , XD., Cahtab FR S 37, Conduit-street ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &o. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. 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THE CASE BOOK : 100 Cases of SPERMATORRWEA; Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, &c. &c. &o. To be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; and the Author.. Actricy to the Wert ag Qum tee lialt-a-Cininee. ~~ 86-k our • 31 ' t t AA , 4 , , 4 2114 4311' " 4 1 - # 44 3 17 ) ' ll 6l 1 / 4 / • 14./0 , ,.41.5,,, , Ron:. ct v e 71. e //, 0 ~~~ ~ A li o , • 4 D . STAMPED, SD. was their :duty to do, a,. 4 home. If liberty were ex tinguished in England, how much would liberty t , he whole wide world ! , e i liberty of England have to mourn throughout the But what would become of to 'e House of if any irresponsible, unelected, A . without check, to Parliament was to re permitted, rifle the pockets and tills of the intla 'strious ula . pop tions of this country ? (Cheers.)R each branch of the Legislature, with due moderaticete with due nent regard to the rights and interests of the 0), her, per formed its just functions, then real and per.u. s a freedom would be secured to . England, =e l it would be said for generations to come that 11 -e ' of all countries of the world, have been longee). without turbulent and violent revolutions. I It was not more necessary for the House of Commons than for the House of Loeds or the. Crown to observe its true functions. But what was it that a party in the House of Commons asked the House of Lords to do this session ? They, were expected to reject a bill for the abolition of church-rates, a bill for the repeal of the paper duty, and a bill for providing a very moderate extension of the franchise to the people of the United Kingdom. (Laughter and cheers.) Though he had criticised with, he be lieved, no unjust severity, the conduct of the aris tocratic class, he never laid upon them burdens so onerous, he might say labours so perilous, and even fatal as those which they were now desired to per font ea the bidding of an exasperated and baffled minority :in the House of Commons. Mr. Bright their proceed6e l to express his conviction that at this moment the educational institutions towards the support of which meeby hundred thousand pounds were voted by Parliament were not to be compared, in point of the information and instruction commu nicated, to the results achieveel. by the abolition of the newspaper stamp—results lc aids would be im mensely increased when the paper duty" itself was finally abolished. There was too genseralil7 in the House of Lords an unreasoning and ignorant Olarm at the spread of the newspaper press in so cs!leall form and with so extensive a circulation as to per meate even the very lowest class of society in thi . .s kingdom. He hoped that the kill would not be re jected through the rash menace of Lord Derby; but, if it were, it must not be forgotten that it was introduced on the responsibility of the Cabinet. This must be treated, therefore, as a Cabinet ques tion. If the Government submitted to surrender their own dignity and the rights of the House of Commons to Lord Derby and his friends, then the Government would be degraded, the exalted office which Mr. Gladstone filled would be debased, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be no more than a mere clerk conjointly of the two houses, in no degree independent, and unable to do those things which in his conscience he believed to be essential to the welfare of his country. The House of Commons also would be humiliated to the last degree. What would be said by all the great men who had adorned the pages of our history from the days of the Revolution to the present time if they could come back to behold the English House of Commons in its most triumphant position and in the height of its honour surrender one of its ' privileges for which they shed their blood and spared no sacrifice ? He did not, however, believe that the Government would trifle with this ques tion, or tamely surrender the great interests com mitted to its care. (Cheers.) But, if they did eo, then the Government was irretrievably lost—not by the ordinary fiat of a majority before which the Government can retire with a hope of some time returning to power, but with an amount of odium —he might almost say of execration, or at least of contempt and pity, which would render it impos sible for those statesmen ever again to possess the confidence of the people. What would happen then P The old thing over again, he supposed. (A laugh.) Lord Derby in one house, and Mr. Disraeli in the other ; men in power who - had no principle. (Hisses and cheers.) Wherever they seemed to be 'travelling, if they studied with minutest investigation the pages of their political Bradshaw, they would find that every line con verged to one point, and that was Downing-street. (Cheers and hisses.) 'With such men in office, Par liamentary Reform would inevitably be postponed, and our foreign relations would, he feared, run great risk of embroilment. There could be no doubt that over Europe, if Lord Derby were to come into office now, there would pass a shudder of appre hension, and, instead of the growing tranquillity for which they all hoped, and he trusted at times all prayed, there would be an increase of excitement gathering to terror, and he did not believe the peace of Europe would be worth twelve months' pur chase. He hoped, however, that all this threat of rejecting the repeal of the paper duty would come to nothing, and that wiser heads than Lord Derby's in the House of Lords would temper his passion and advise him to moderate courses. They would then have the satisfaction of seeing that harmony was preserved between the two houses—that re spect for our institutions was not diminished— that the great industry of papermaking was set free —that the press was no longer to be bound down by taxation ; and everybody in the United King dom would feel that in regard to great fiscal ques tions the present session was one of the best and noblest the Parliament of England had ever seen. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman concluded by ex horting his countrymen to uphold the privileges of the House of Commons which their fathers had contended for, and which they would be recreant and unworthy children now to surrender. Mr. W. WILES moved that a petition should be sent to the House of Lords, setting forth the objec tionable character of the paper duty, and that for their lordships to refuse their consent to the repeal, after the House of Commons and the Crown had sanctioned it, would be an usurpation of the privi leges of the House of Commons and of the rights of th people, and praying that their lordships would therefore consent to the bill. The motion was seconded by Mr. W. C. BEN NETT, and carried by the meeting, as was also a third resolution appointing a deputation to present an address to Lord Derby entreating him to re consider the proposal he had made to the House of Lords. The meeting then broke up. THE CHANPIONSHIP. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—ln answer to Mr. Heenan's letter which appeared in the Times of this day, I beg, first, to observe that I have not been hiding myself as he would insinuate. I called, with my backer, at the office of Bell's Life in London on Tuesday, the Bth of May. I told him that my backer and I were going out of town until Saturday. I visited Tun bridge on Wednesday, Maidstone on Thursday, Tunbridge and Hastings on Friday, and Brighton on Saturday. My movements were well known, and a letter or telegram addressed to " Tom Sayers," or " The Champion of England," would have found me at either of those places, but none came to hand. The ridiculous suggestion, put forward by Mr. H e enan, of mutilating the belt, I laugh to scorn, and could afford to treat it with the contempt it merits, but that some good friends of mine—of the Peace Society—have, innocently enough,patronised the notion. The belt, sir, I have fought hard to obtain— 1 striving for that prize I have within the last three years defeated some of the best men of my country —and, without intending to cast the slightest slur on my gallant opponent, I say that no Ame rican citizen, nor foreigner from any other land, however flowery and sunny, shall bear it, or the buckle of it, from Old England while my arm and heart are ca pable of defending it. lam as ready asMr. Heenan to fight again, and repudiate with indignation the insinuation that lam not. In a very short time the Champion's belt will be mine by indefeasible right ; and even if Mr. Heenan had defeated me it would not be his. He would have to do as I have done — meet every aspirant to the honour of wearing it for three years before he would become the lawful pos sessor of the trophy. What, then, becomes of the assertion made in Mr. Heenan's letter, that the belt is equally owned by both of us ? The re is no such equa lity ; but I will do him the justice he appears desirous of denying m e, b y admitting his equality in valour. To run, swim, or wrestle for the belt of the prize ring is a challenge so eminently absurd that one can hardly imagine it emanates from a sane man, and the evidence of aberration of mind is greatly strengthened by the proposal to jump off a house-top. The same proposi▪ tion was once mad e by a lunatic, who met h is medic• al attendant alone on the roof of the asylum. " Let us," said the ma d patient, seizing the doctor with a firm grasp, "jump down ;" but the medical man, with great pr esence of mind, replied, " Nay, anybody ' . could jump d own . let us go into the street and jump up.” Like Teddy the Tiler, I know something of the roof s o f h ouses , and their foundat i ons also,. and while I unquestion ably , admit that Heenan is a " brick," I h o p e al ways to be able t o sa7, with truth, as I d o now , that lam a bricklayer. he offer to fight four men, at intervals of 30 days, savours of bounce, and is un worthy of John Heenan. He should r emember that it might take him the first month to vanquish TOM SAYERS. Gordon Hotel, Coyent-garden, May 15. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1860. lOUNTRY APARTMENI S.—To be LET, \-1 Furnished, THREE BED ROOMS, a Sitting Room, and use of a Kitchen, near a healthy village twelve miles from London. The house stands in -a very extensive garden and is dose to Buthy Park, at an easy dist ,nee from two stations. Omnibuses piss within a few minutes' walk to and from London, and the stations several times during the day. re those seeking rural retirement and quiet comfort this ad vertisement offers unusual advantages. • Address, M. E., Hampton Wick, Middlesex. aREAT,,„ WES TERN RAILWAY.- WHITSI7NTIDE HOLIDAYS -RETURN TICKETS - - issued on SATURDAY, the 26th of May, and intermediate days, will be available for return up to and including Satur day, the 2d of June. GREAT WESTERN " RAILWAY. WHITSUNWI DE lIOLIDAYS.—EXQURSIONS to the NORTH at LOW FARES.—Trains will leave the Paddington Station at 10.20 4.m. for OXFORD (fares Gs 6d and 4s), Banbury (8s and Gs), Leamington and Warwick (10s. Gd and 6s), Birmingham (12s and 7s), Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Bilston (128 Gd and 7s Gd), WolVerhampton (13s and 8s), Wellington and Shrewsbury (17s and 10s), Oswestry (18s Gd and 11s), Welshpool (20s and 12s), Llangollen Road, Wrexham, and Chester (18s. 6d. and 11s), Birkenhead and Liverpool (218 and Its 6d); on Saturday, May 26, returning on Wednesday, May 30 ; on Monday, May 28, returning on Thursday, May 31 ; and on Wednesday, May ZO, returning on Saturday, 2d of June. The train will return from Liverpool (Landing Stage) at 10.30 a.m. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.—EXCURSION to the SEASIDE.—On SA TURDAY, May 26, a Train will leave Paddington at 3.3) p.m., for Chippenham, Trowbridge, Westbury, and Frome (fares, 10s and 6s), Yeovil (11s and 7s), Dorchester and Wey mouth (12s and 8s), returning from Weymouth at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, May 30. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. WITITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.—On Saturday, May 26, an Excursion Train will leave Paddington, at 6.v0 p.m., for Bath and Bristol, re turning on Tuesday, May 29, from Bristol at 8.15 a.m., and Bath at 8.45 a.m. Fares—Bath, 128. and Os ; Bristol, 14s and 78. GREAT WEST ERN RAILWAY. WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.—On WHIT SUNDAY, May 27, an Excursion Train will learn Paddington at 7.30 a.m.' for Cirencester and Stroud (fares Os and ss), Gloucester and Cheltenham (10s and 6s), and Ross and Hereford (128 and 8s), returning from Here ford at 6.30 p.m. the same day. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.- On WHIT SUNDAY, the 27th of May, an Excursion Train will leave Paddington at 7.43 a.m.., foi Ox ford (fares 6s 6d and 4s), .Banbury (8s and ss), Leamington and Warwick (10s 6d and 6s), Birmingham (12s and 78), Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Bilston (12s 6d and 7s 6d), f a r n o d m (13siyWoolvlverelrihaammpptotonnat7 p.m. and 8s), returning the same day, laTnSEUxNeuTrlsDi Excursion Train Hgt HOLIDAYS.—On A I T I Y 1 e SW a elspSnarldWEd r t i g t ni on iSlUN't a i t ib o W . A 3E - m 3s.l 7 a , YW f 2 o 7 r l:: Taplow (fares, 58., 3s. 6d., and 2s. - ed.), rwyford, Henley, Reading, Theale, Aldermaston, IVoolhampton, Thatcham, Newbury, Kintbury, and Hungerford 58. 6d., 45., and 35.) ; returning the same day from Hungerford at 7 p.m. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS. —On WHIT MONDAY, May IS, an Excursion Train will leave Paddington at 10.45 a.m. for Taplow, Twy ford, Henley, Reading, Theale, Aldermaston, Woolhampton, Thatcham, Newbury, Kintbury, and Hungerford, returning the same day from Hungerford at 7.0. Fares to Taplow, 55., 3s. 6d., and 2s. 6d. ; to the other stations ss. 6d., 45., and 3s. N.B.—For further particulars of the above Excursions, time of return from intermediate stations, dm., see handbills. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TuEspAr. Business was to-day almost confined to the events now decided at Bath. The Wizard for the Derby was in bettor odour than yesterday, 100 to 30 being taken a time or two about him. Umpire and Thormanby were each in request at their quotations. 21 to 1 was currently offered against St. Albans, whom it is said pulled up lame on Saturday last while at exercise. Loiterer was in some demand at 50 to 1, and those odds were taken to win a few hundreds about The Rap and Cramond, and 1,000 to 15 once about Traducer. THE DERBY. 100 to 30 agst The Wizard (taken) 11 to 2 agst Umpire (taken) 6to 1 agst Thormanby (taken) 20 to 1 agst St. Albans (offered) • 20 to 1 agst High Treason (offered) 25 to 1 agst Horror (take 200 to 7) 50 to 1 agst Loiterer (taken freely) 50 to 1 agst Cramond (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agst The Rap (taken) 50 to 1 apt Sutton (offered) 1000 to 15 agst Traducer (taken) BATH AND SOMERSET RACES.-TUESDAY. Lansdowne Trial Stakes (Handicap) of .5 sous each, with 40 added ; winners extra. One mile. 17 subs. Mr. King's Fitz Avon, by t irikol, 3 yrs, 6st 51b (inc. 51b extra) (H. Grimshaw) 1 Mr. S. Jacob's Amsterdam, 5 yrs, 9st (inc. 71b extra) (Aldcroft) 2 Mr. Saxon's Lady Peel, 4 yrs, 7st 81b (Comery) 3 The following also ran :—Felicitas, Theory, Rara Avis, Mushroom, Predictor, Catherine, and Sparta. Betting-9 to 4 agst Amsterdam, sto 2 agst Fitz Avon, 6 to 1 agst Catherine, 7 to 1 agst Felicitas. Fitz Avon made play throughout at the bend Predictor, who was lying second, was driven over a post, and Am sterdam went on in attendance on Fits Avon, but never quite got up, and was beaten by a neck ; a bad third ; Pre dictor trotted in. The Biennial Stakes, of 10 sovs each, with 50 added, for fro-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies and geldings, Bst 71b ; certain penalties and allowances. T.Y.C. Half a mile. ¢0 subs. Mr. Saxon's Big Ben, Bst 71b (L. Snowden) 1 Mr. Parkes's Matilda colt, Bst 10Ib (J. Adams) 2 Lord Strathmore's Shillelagh, Bst 101 b (Aldcroft) 3 The following also ran :—Bohemionne colt, Camerino, Overton, and Bandit. Betting-7 to 4 , n Big Ben, 6to 1 each Camerino and Overton, 7 to 1 each agat the Matilda colt and Shillelagh. Custance weighed for Mr. J. Shelley's Vapour, Bst 41b, but the horse did not arrive at the post in time to start. The three placed were in front throughout, Shillelagh leading until nearing the distance, where Big Ben took up the running, and won a fine race by a head ; a bad third ; Camerino, Overton, and Bandit were next. The County Members' Plate (Handicap), of 50 sous. One mile. Mr. Saxon's Informer, 3 yrs, 6st (Midgley) 1 Mr. Grimshaw's Harlequin, 3 yrs, sst 101 b.. (J. Adams) 2 Mr. Stinton's Grillade, aged, 7st 71b (Gray) 3 Tho following also ran :—Pomena, Contract, St. Cla rence, Arcanum, Codicil, Volunteer, Table Bay, Albert Smith, Robin Hood, and Waterford. Betting-5 to 2 agst Pomona, 7to 2 agst Informer, 7to 1 agst Harlequin. Won by three lengths; a head between the second and third; Pomona close up. _ _ _ The Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 50 added, for 3-yr-olds; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies and geldings, Bst 71b; the second to save his stake. One rade and a half. 57 subs. Lord Derby's Cape Flyaway, Bst 101 b (Aldcroft) 1 Mr. Merry's Brother to Rainbow, Bst 101 b (Custance) 2 Duke of Beaufort's Blue Ruin, Bst 101 b (A. Day) 3 The following also ran :—Dartmouth, Lupullus, South Australian, and Loiterer. Brother to Rainbow seemed! to have the race within his grasp at the half distance, but Cape Flyaway collared him at the Stand, and won by three • quarters of a length ; wide intervals between the others. The Kelston Stakes of 10 sove each, 5 ft, with 50 added; weight for age. Certain penalties and allowances, T.Y.C. 24 subs. Mr. G. Fitzwilliam's colt by the Flying Dutchman out of Bohemienne, 2 yrs, 6st 71b... (J. Adams) 1 Mr. J. Sargeant's Crater, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b .... (Charlton) 2 Mr. F. Robinson's Ariadne, 4 yes, Bst 91b (A. Day) 3 The following also ran :-Highwayman, Star of the West, Sycophant, The Pope,, Reverie, and the Rover. Betting-6 to 4 agst Ariad.ne., 9to 4 agst Rover, 7to 1 agst Bohemienne colt. Won by two lengths; three lengths between the second and third ; Sycophant, Highwayman, and The Rover were next close together. The Bath Handicap of 10 sell I each, 5 ft, with 100 added. Winners extra. Once round ', about one mile and a half. 21 subs., eight of whom paid 5 sovs each. Mrs. Osbaldestone's Maid of C ►rleans, by Autocrat, 3 yrs, Est 71b Mr. T. Stevens's Dreadnought, 3 yrs, 7st.. (Grimshaw) 2 Mr. Saxon's Jenny Longlegs, :3 yrs, 6st 121 b.. (Comery) 2 The following also ran :—S; tapleton, Philomel, Theory, and Pomona. Betting-6 to 4on Philomel o 6to 1 agst Dreadnought. Won by a length; two lengths between the second and. third. LATEST DERBY BETTIJ LTG ON TIIE COURSE, 100 to 30 agst The Wiz ►r d - 9to 2 agst Umpire (taken) 13 to 2 agst Thorman day (taken) 13 to 1 agst Nutbour; a (taken) 20 to 1 agst Buccane ar (wanted) 25 to 1 agst Mainsto: 40 to 1 agst Sutton ( Olen) St. Albans no t mentioned. A QUA: TICS. ROYAL LONDON YACHT CLUB. The first regatta of the sea sc •n amongst the yachts of this very popular club took place yesterday, and notwithstand ing the uncertain state of the weather, preceded as it had been by days of heavy rain, there was a very large and fashionable attendance on 'board the Prince of Wales steamer, which had been ch Artered for the occasion by the club, where every attention, in the choice viands and other wise, were paid to the comic r, its of the guests. The following were the co c apeting craft : Thin Class. Station. Yacht. Tons. Owners. 1 Violet 9 Lord de Ros. 2 Haidee 8 Thos. Bartlett, Esq. 3 Surprise 8 Thos. Carr, Esq. 4 Clara Extra I Match. 1 Mayfly 2 Eugenie 3 Spray 5.. ,„ George Haines, Esq. 4 Blue Bell 6 J. W. Ridgway, Esq. For the first of these were pr,izes of £2O, £lO, and £5, the drat Platy the atrs , A zatviA tio priori woo 410 ; the course in both being from Erith to the Coal House Point and back to East Greenwich. Mr. A. Arcedeckne, the commodore, was at his post early, and assisted by the other officers of the club, every opportunity was afforded the visitors of witnessing the match. The start of the first match took place at ten minutes to 12, and all were round very prettily, the wind at the time beitig due easterly. The Blue Bell took the lead very smartly, and in beating down showed that she was admir ably handled by her owner. The Spray was the second boat, and these two positions were retained in each suc ceeding mile. At 12 O'clock the larger, or those denomi nated the third class, were :also well started, the Violet having, however, to encounter a mischance in setting her topsail, which threw her much in the rear. .Di rectly they were fairly under way the liaidee took the lead, and rota ned it throughout the whole race. The other yachts wore at Gravesend, more astern of her, however, than at Coal House Paint, where, owing to the wind veering very considerably, they became closer, and rounded in the fol lowing time and order;— Hours. Min. Sec. Haidee Violet Blue Bell Spray. Surprise Mayfly 2 16 .... 30 Clara They now proceeded up against the ebb, which was very strong, and the attention of the spectators was mainly di rected to the Bell and Spray, which far a length of time made a beautifal race, much science being exhibited on both sides. The Clara, then, becoming advantaged by the wind, began to show her power, and certainly materially mended her position ; the Bell improving, but the Spray falling off. race finished in the following manner : Hours. Min. Sec. Haid e e Violet Surprise Blue Bell Clara Spray Mayfly The worthy Commodore then presenter' the first, second, and third prizes of the third class to Mr. Bartlett, Lord de Ros, and Mr. Carr, and the first prize of the extra match to Mr. Ridgway, the second being held in abeyance, owing to the Spray fouling, as it was alleged, the buoy. _REPEAL OF THE PAPER DUTY. Last night a public meeting was held in St. Martin's-hall, "to protest against the usurpation proposed by Lord Derby to the House of Lords, in the retention of the tax on paper, independent of the House of Commons and the Crown. •*ln order to attract the attention of passers-by a number of men were employed to wali about in front of the hall and in the adjoining streets, bearing placards, on which were inscribed such questions as " Is the House of Lords to govern the finances of the people and the country ?" "Is the House of ( Lords to de prive the Commons of its privileges ?" By the hour fixed for the opening of the meeting a nume rous audience was collected. Mr. Sergeant Parry was called to the chair. Among those on the plat form were Mr. Bright, M.P. ; Mr. Hadfield, M.P. ; Mr. Lawson, M.P. ; Mr. Ingram, M.P.; Mr. Lea tham, M.P. ; Mr. Coningham, M.P.; Mr. Craufurd, Mr. Padmore, M.P. ; Mr. Pese, M.P.; Mr. Routledge (Eyfisham-mills) • Mr. It. C. Rawlins (Hope-mills) ; Mr. Duncan M'Larcn, &c. The CHAIRMAN said that a meeting had seldom been called for the purpose of considering a more interesting or important question than that which was to engage their attention on that occasion. One of the most valuable privileges of the people had been assailed by the rash and insolent menace of a few irresponsible men. (hear, hear.) The re peal of the paper duty had been settled long ago ; not only by the decided expression of the public mind, but by the consent of the leading men of both the great political parties, and by the distinct vote of the House of Commons. They did not now require to discuss that question. What they had to consider was whether, after the representatives of the people and the Crown had agreed on a finan cial scheme, such as the repeal of the paper duty, any other body in the country had a right to in terfere. (Hear, hear.) A threat had been made by Lords Monteagle and Derby that an attempt would be made in the House of Peers to reject the Paper•tax Bill on the second reading. Using the mildest and most temperate lan guage, he could only express his conviction that if the House of Lords, which was an obvious anomaly—(hisses and cheers)—among the institu tions of a free country, ventured to usurp any of the privileges of the House of Commons- or of the people, the days of hereditary legislation were numbered. (Hisses and cheers.) Mr. BEAL moved the first resolution, which was as follows: " That the Excise tax on paper —an obstruction to lite. rature and education, an impediment to commerce and in dustry, and a means of diminishing rather than incieasing n tdom t o h fe o e mtLnhaosenr, didar revenue—has nsetxttoho lase rejecttsimposition, gnh the e b bsc e ty e ri onbo itsvl rinoe of no u trhl o d ei re i t a s ac i rle d atophn a ie y l. t w t yT h d b,O hy e uoal d i ftt Thfaboeo be equivalent t s cat e hxo ome neither House ne C il ot e hn n e r y whose undoubted right it has always been to be taxed only by themselves. That such a proceeding, being an act of usurpation, would be derogatory to the dignity of the Crown, subversive of the privileges of the House of Com mons and of the rights of the people, and would tend to impair the authority of the House of Lords." Mr. R. C. RAWLINS (Hope-mills) seconded the motion. Mr. BRIGHT, in supporting the resolution, said it was several years since he addressed a public meeting in London ; but he recollected that the last time he did so they were assembled for the very same purpose, as far as taxation was concerned, as that which had now called them together. Looking back to that time, and reflecting how slowly every thing good travelled in thi s country, they might, perhaps, congratulate themselves on the progress which they had made, for at that time so unjust were our laws with regard to the press that every labourer, however humble, who advertised for work, was obliged to pay a tax of ls. 6d. before his ad vertisement could appear in a newspaper, while not a farthing more w as l ev i ed on an a d ver tisement of a column in length and concerning the sale of an estate worth £lO,OOO a year. That tax had been abolished, and the practice of advertising had greatly increased. After that the newspaper stamp was surrendered, and the result had been that in Lon don there were now three principal penny journals, together with smaller and less impor tan t newspapers iu almost every parish, and that throughout the country a complete revolution had taken place with regard to periodical literature. There remained, however, an important branch of the taxes on knowledge, which still remained unsettled. The raw material of all our books and newspapers, that which was, as it were, the basis of our educational system, still remained taxed with a duty which one would suppose could only be proposed and main• blued in a period of utter barbarism. That tax yielded a net annual revenue probably under £1,200,000. That tax had been condemned by a Royal commission, by the express decision of the House of Commons, passed unanimously under the Derby Administration, and by the Government offi cials, who were driven to acknowledge that it was from day to day becoming more untenable, and that it ought to be repealed. (Hear, hear.) It had been condemned by a united Cabinet through the mouth of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a bill had been passed by the House of Commons declaring that it should cease on an early day. (Hear, hear.) Now, there was a party in the House of Commons which was in intimate connexion with a party in the House of Lords, and though the party in the Commons was in 7a minority, it was alleged, he knew not with what truth, that their confederates were in a majority in the other house. When Mr. Gladstone brought in his budget it was received with such enthusiastic favour throughout the coun try that a far larger majority of the House of Com mons than was at first anticipated voted in support of it. Not long after the introduction of the budget an amendment was moved by Mr. Du Cane, one of the members for Essex, the gist of which, though it was rather roundabout in its terms, was that it would be improper to remove or reduce the duties on wines, silk, paper, and so on, and to make up for the deficiency thus created by an increase in the direct taxation on property. On the 24th. of Feb ruary the House of Commons, by 339 agaiinst 223, decided in favour of the reduction or repeal of these duties, and against the lowering of th e income tax., On the second reading of the Pnper-tax Repeal Bill, on the 12th of March, ara amend ment was moved by Sir W. Miles, to the effect that the 'repeal of the paper duty was in expedient at the present tiem, as it would entail th e addition of 10d. in the £1 to the income and property tax. The whole of that debate turned upon tl se question whether the income tax should be 9d. wit h the paper duty continued, or 10d. with the papea• duty re pealed ; and by 245 against 192 the Howie of Com mons declared in favour of a 10d. tax on :the owners of property, and the total abolition of the most odious of all forms of tyranny and taxati, m upon a great and important branch of industry.. (Hear.) Afterwards, on the third reading of the bill—when most persons believed there would be no ;strenuous opposition to it, for none had been mall 3 in com- MittCep And it was rare, after a decifiiye crt,Yitii9A on the second reading of a measure, that any great effort was made to contest its further progress—the third reading, he admitted.was carried by a majority of only ten. (A Voice—Nine.) No, ten in reality. (Much laughter, in which Mr. Ingram joined.) Well, whether a majority of nine or ten, seeing that a majority of 13 sufficed last session to overthrow the Government, he. hoped it would be sufficient to overthrow this most hateful and injurious tax. (Hear.) It was important to recollect that not only had the House of Commons condemned the tax, but it had provided a substitute. (Hear.) Both bills had gone up to the House. of Lords, and everybody believed that this question was settled. Were the papermakers criminals who had broken our laws, who had forfeited our syrapatht P Were they to be made the objects of the experiments of a House of Parliament which for 200 years had had no ex perience in questions of trade or taxation'? (Hear.) When a resolution passed the House of Commons for the imposition or repeal of a tax, the usual course was that the new system came into immediate operation. Why, then, was it that in this case, after the question had been settled by public opinion and the House of Commons, this great trade was again to be put on the rack and submitted to' Go vernmental torture ? He knew a papernigleer; who, relying on the repeal, had undertaken the buililing of a large mill. Another had bound himself to provide paper at a decline of £l4 a ton the day after the bill became law. Mills which had been abandoned for years past and allowed to fall into ruin were now beginning to assume a lively air and to!exhibit signs of renewed activity. The repeal gave promise of more employment and better wages for the people, of the development of civilization, morality, religion, and everything a people ought to cherish. All those who worked to supply the' literary appetite of England were enlarging their journals and magazines and bringing out new works at an unheard of cheapness in price, and all this was being done under the belief that 200 years of practice had settled the question.. When- the Crown and Commons were agreed upon the repeal of a tax, why should the House of Peers, which during he whole of that period had never meddled with such questions, step forward and dash the cup from the lips of the people who were eager to satiate their thirst ? (Cheers.) In comparison with this question, a million of revenue or the existence of a particular tax was of no consideration whatever. He had been very much abused. and occasionally ridiculed—(a laugh)—for having said that the con stitution of England was something which one could not very well know where to find or how to lay hold of—that it was not written down in any book like the constitutions of some other more or less favoured nations. But they did know some certain things which all Englishmen had agreed to acknow ledge as principles of the English constitution. For example, by the constitution, the people were not to be taxed except by and through our representa tives in Parliament. (Hear, hear.) By the consti tution all supplies to the Crown for the service of the year were gifts of the Commons. (Hear, hear.) All bills with reference to taxation which were brought into Parliament must make their first ap pearance in the House of Commons. That portion of the Queen's Speech at the commencement of the session which related to taxation was addressed, not to the Lords, but directly and exclusively to the Commons. The Chancellor of the Exche quer was always a member of the House of Com mons. He never heard of one sitting in the House of Lords—if he did, he was afraid their lord ships would not always be able to rise in time for dinner. (Hisses and cheers.) The estimates were prepared for the information of the Commons ; the Lords had no official knowledge of them whatever, or of the votes which were passed by the Commons, till the grants were embodied in bills and sent up to them in order that they might take the form of law. In the present instance the House of Com mons had sent up to the other House of Parliament two bills. The first of these was that which added ld. to the income tax; and the Lords having made no objection to it, it had received the Royal assent. The second was the Paper Duty Repeal Bill, which their Lordships now threatened to reject, although they had already passed the substitute for that tax. (Hear, hear.) He must say he thought such con duct very like what was called a" take in." (A laugh, and hear.) It was very like a fraud on the people, and sharp practice to the House of Com mons. (Hear, hear.) Even supposing that — the privilege of the Lords to repeal or impose a tax had never been disputed, and that they had an un doubted right to do what they now proposed, it would be, under the circumstances, a most unjust, if not imprudent and insolent proposition, for them to refuse to repeal a tax after having passed the substitute for it. (Hear.) If the House of Lords insisted en assuming entirely new functions, how could the Commons conduct their business ? How would the House of Commons know, when they passed any of the votes in supply, that the Lords would not reject it? Sucb behaviour on the part of the Lords would throw the functions of Parlia ment into inextricable confusion, abil introduce un certainty of the most perilous kind into everything connected with the taxation and expenditure of the country. (Hear, hear.) The House of Commons had provided £70,000,000 for the service of the country. The Crown, through its responsible advisers, had expressed perfect satisfaction with the amount, and declared that more was un necessary, and yet the Lords, who had never had the estimates before them, who could not possess so much knowledge of the subject as the Commons, stepped in and insisted that the sum was insufficient by £1,200,000, the precise amount of the paper duty. Seven years ago, when Mr. Gladstone was formerly Chancellor of the Ex chequer, he carried through the House of Com mons a Succession Duty Bill, which was intended to abolish an exemption, which the owners of free hold property had enjoyed for nearly 70 years, from paying the tax on the passage of property on demise. The bill went up to the House of Lords, and Lord Derby denouncing it in all the_ power of language, threatened its rejection ; but still it passed. On the 25th July, 1853, on the second reading of the bill, Lord Derby said," he was quite ready to admit that the House of Commons was quite right in vindicating its technical privileges, as well as guarding its bona fide control over the money of the country." He would like to know what would become of their bona fide control over the money of the country, if, after the House of Commons had decided there was no necessity for the paper duty, the House of Lords should con sider itself competent to maintain that Auty, and justified in doing so ? The bona fide control of the House of Commons would then have vanished en tirely, and the country would be handed over for future taxation to the House of Peers, which was not elective, and had heretofore never shown any desire to accommodate the expenditure of the State. (Cheers.) That no one might accuse him of con cealing the rest of Lord Derby's observation, he would read the whole of it. His lordship con tinued—" But, at the same time, he would say this, that if measures were to be introduced into the House of Commons alterin& the whole financial arrangements of the empire"—it could not.be said, at all events, that the abolition of a single Excise duty would have that effect—" measures imposing new and unheard of taxes on new and extraordi nary principles of taxation—and it was asserted that their lordships would have no power of alter ing a single word, of correcting even a mistake, or of rectifying errors into which the House of Commons might have fallen—that was in effect I to say their lordships' house was a useless por tion of the Legislature"—(laughter and cheers)— " and that as far as financial measures were concerned, they had only to record the bills framed by the other House of Parliament." Leaving the particular grievances of the papermakers, he asked them to consider what would be the consequence if the principle established by the sacrifice of many English lives 200 years ago— (cheers)—were now tamely surrendered to the House of Lords, which for the first time in our modern history had affected to deal with the qxation of the kingdom. It was bad enough in all Tonscienee to find that the House of Commons, though, of course, sympathising to some extent with public opinion, yet in many respects most inadequately represented it, especially on the question of taxation ; but, at least the men returned by the people, if their votes had not the influence which they ought to possess, could protest in the name of their constituents against any injustice which the Government, or a majority of the House, might attempt to inflict on them. But where were the representatives of the people in the House of Lords ? There was no man in that assembly with any sense of that responsi bility which he necessarily felt to tbe constituency who honoured him with their confidence in the House of Commons. We boasted of our love of freedom, our newspapers filled their columns every day with details of what men were doing in other parts of the world, some in overthrowing, some in building up noble fabrics of human liberty. The people read these accounts with interest; some times he almost feared they allowed their feelings to be excited even beyond what was good and rea sonable, but he besought them never for a single moment to forget what waft being done, and what it Gz~~ :If S PAPEIt - TELE NAVY. \.' .• = 0 21 , The, paddlewheel steam tender Aclv mond, second master commanding, frbtn4: -r" ti stown, arrived on Monday at Plymouth * - h4 ^ $ supernumeraries for the Bacchante, 51, at Ports mouth. They were transferred to the guardship Impregnable in Iramoaze, and then passed oisr to the paddlewheel steam tender Avon, G. Day, second master commanding, which conveyed them, with men left behind by the Channel squadron, to Ports mouth. The gunboat Sheldrake was orderei to be taken into No. 3 dock at Keyham stearaywd yesterday. The screw steamship Royal Albert, 121, Capt. IL Lacon, was appointed to be put out of Keyham basin yesterday, and placed at her moorings in Hamoaze. She will undergo a trial of machinery at sea as soon as she can be got ready; her crew were paid wages yesterday, and granted leave of absence. The following appointments were made yesterday the Admiralty:—Commander A. IL Hoskins, to !-Le 'Tecate ; Commander H. H. Beamish, to the w rl ogler, vice Hoskins; Commander A. M. L. Lyorrir, to the Racer, vice Pakenham, superseded at hi s owr i request; Lieut. Francis Hewson, to the Monarch; .And Lieut. W. R. Kennedy, to the Wasp. ,THE AR3ll'. The East India depots attached to the Ist and 3d battalions at Chatham, selected to occupy the tents pitched at the Spur battery and Prince Edward's bastion, did not leave their bar.racks yesterday, as had been directed, the order for their taking pos session of the tents on that day having been coun termanded by General Eyre in consequence of the representations made by the principal medical officer that it would be unnecess - trily exposing the health of the troops to allow t': em to go under canvas until the weather had become warmer and more settled, and the ground recovered from the effects of the saturating rains which have fallen. The tents are nearly all waterproof, and the inte rior of each is fitted up with every convenience for the health and comfort of the men. A portion of the encampment is set apart for the use of the Woops', where they will be allowed to amuse them „lvos With athletic games and sports, which are much eucooraged by General Eyre. The 2d ;it baalion of the 20th Regiment, under the command of _Li ."14,-Col. William P. Radcliffe, arrived at the Curragh GMT on Saturday last from Dublin, there to be quartereil during the summer. A detachment of the 3d battalion of the Grena diera two officers and G 3 men ; Guards, consisting another of the 26th Regime/Lit , 80 men ; and another of the '7oth Regiment, two officers and 80 of two officers and 75 men, arrived at the Curragh Camp on Wednesday last for rifle practice, TILE GUNBOATS. The Messrs. Green, of Blackwall, in a letter to a contemporary, says : The statements made in the House of Commons on Friday last respectinc , the defective state of the gunboats, together with ° short bolts having been driven, being calculated to lead the public to be lieve that these short bolts would endanger the lives of the officers and crews of those vessels, we feel compelled to observe that during the Russian war we built 25 of those vessels in a short period. About three weeks back we received a:letter front the Admiralty, stating that upon removing the whole of the outside planking of one of those vessels built by us, the frame was found to be defective, anc. l that 100 bolts out of 2,302 were five inches short, thereby showing they were only driven through the outside plank and timbers. As to the vesols being defective, we are cot sur prised, as many of them were built of unseasoned timber, although the.best that could be got at the time, and the air excinc:.ed when they were hove up out of the water at Has cir, instead of having a t: or ventilation, which f plank taken out fore and aft , ought to have been done. With regard to the short boltg, we beg to state that during the progress of the 'work we were pushed very hard by the Admiralty to complete our contract, and even threatened with legal pro ceedings if behind time, which compelled us to e 2 : 1 " ploy a large number of strange shipwrights, who worked very often night and day, and it would, therefore be impossible for us or the Government inspector to be answerable that every bolt was pro- perly driven. It is admitted by the Admiralty, in their report, that 2,202 bolts were properly driven through, and we maintain, as shipbuilders, that planks fas tened with one through bolt in every other timber, with a short one between, are quite sufficient to secure the safety of any vessel of war. Lloyds require one through bolt and one short bolt in every butt, and not seas than half of the treenails to be driven through in building their highest cl6s ships, calculated to carry heavy cargoes; and, should the ship be copper-fastened, they require only one half of the bolts to be through bolts, and all the rest short bolts. We complain of the Admiralty for not giving the contractors longer time to build these vessels, and for not having a larger staff of inspectors to super intend the work, and also for not taking proper care of them after they were duly delivered up into the charge of their authorities, according to contract, with the necessary certificates. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM. The thirty-second anniversary of this institution was celebrated yesterday at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, James Watney, jun., Esq., in the chair. About 1,400 gentleman sat down to the dinner, which was amply provided by Mr. Strange. The grace having been sung, the CHAIRMAN, on rising to propose the usual loyal toasts, was received with vehement cheering. He took occasion to ad vert to the fact that the Prince Consort had always shown himself to be the patron of the arts, and that to him they were indebted for meeting under the roof of the Crystal Palace. Moreover, his Royal Highness had laid the foundation stone of the Albert and Ladies' wing of the almshouses. The toast of " The Army and Navy" followed. The Rev. Mr. MARTIN then read the report of the committee, which was of a most satisfactory character, and alluded to the generous subscriptions of the firms of Messrs. Watney and Elliott. It ap peared that the sum of £20,000 was required to effect the especial endowment of the asylum. There were many in the trade who were in a position to subscribe who had never contributed one farthing to this fund, and as the prosperity of the society depended in a great measure upon the annual fes tival the committee urged the necessity of liberal contributions. Mr. IMRIE read the first list of subscriptions, which was headed by that of the chairman and his friends, amounting to .£594 145., the chairman hay ing contributed 100 guineas. The CHAIRMAN proposed the toast of the even ing. The- asylum was founded in 1826, and in. 1827 the committee were enabled to purchase a plat of ground. The foundation-stone was laid by the Mike of Sussex in 1828, and he remained the patron to the time of his death in 1843. The building was completed, and 103 dwellings were raised. The Prince Consort consented to honour the institution by becoming its patron, and the 103 to 147, and now they. contained e habe one i much re- board were enabled to increase the residences from tants ; but though much had been . t d e r t e o s t half what they .E , 17,000 invested, li tho asylum, and. required. He had himself visited. be done. which wa s They s h c l o t d had been pleased with the cleanliness m th a e in in e of the • dences and of the inmates. Mr. THOMAS WHALEY, t c he hairan of the board of management, proposed " The m Health of t h e Chairman,' who responded in most courteous terms. The subscriptions and donations amounted to nearly £4,000, among which was a list presented unsolicited by Mr. Strange, of the Crystal Palace, amounting to 105 guineas. (Loud applause.) The remaining toasts, which were very nume rous, were of a complimentary character. The musical arrangements were under the direction of Mr. George Genge, assisted by Miss Medora Col lins, Miss Ellen Lyon, Mr. J. Howe, Mr. George Tedder, Mr. Burgess, and Mr. Ford. Mr. Toole was the toastmaster. _ _ Before the company separated, the CHAIRMAN proposed " the Health of Mr. Strange," who had so liberally provided for so large a company ; to which Mr. Strange responded in very appropriate terms. [ADVERTISEMEYT.]—HOHONVEty'S Ointment and Pills. —Limbs Saved.—Nothing can be more gratifying than the numerous testimonials voluntarily sent to Professor Hol loway recounting the extraordinary cure of wounds, sores, and,ulcers,effectedby his ointment and pills. John Thomas, far advanced in years, residing at Peinmainbank, Conway, suffered severely from a bad leg, which for years : resisted the treatment of the most skilful surgeons, who u ltimately recommended amputation of the limb. 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