The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1864.

N°. 22 346

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The DIRECT ORS of the comrANy of PROPRIE-
TORS of the AI.CTION a.RT• will be prepared at one
o'clock, p.m., on MONDAY, the 29th of February next, at the
BOARD ROOM of the said Company in the Mart, to OPEN
scale i TENDERS from persons desirous of purchasing the
premises generally known as the Auction Mart, opposite to
the Bank of England, London. Each Tender mu-t be ac-
companied with a receipt annexed to it, signed by the proper
officer of the Union Bank of London, acknowledging that the
sum of £2,000 has been paid into the bank by the person
making such Tender to an account there of "The Trustees of
the Auction Mart," and no cognisance will be taken of the
Tender of any person who shall not have delivered his Ten-
der with such receipt annexed thereto into the hands of the
Secretary of the said Company, either on Saturday, the 27th
day of February next, between the hours of ten a.m. and four
p.m., or upon the morning of Monday, the 29th day of
February, between the hours of ten a.m. and one p.m., after
which last-named date and hour no Tender will be received.
The highest Tender will be accepted, provided the sum ten-
dered shall be equal in amount to or exceed a reserve price
determined upon by the Directors of the said Company, and
placed under seal prior to the opening of any of the Tenders.
If upon opening the Tenders it shall be found that two or
more Tenders are of the same amount, such amount being the
highest amount tendered, the Directors of tne said Company
reserve the power of deciding which one of such two or more
Tenders shall be accepted, and of rejecting the one or more
not so accepted. A form of agreement has been prepared,
which will have to be executed by the person whose Tender
shall be declared accepted, immediately upon any such declara-
tion being made by the Directors of the said Company, and
in default of his so doing, such person shall absolutely forfeit
to the Company the sum he shall have previously deposited
in the said bank. Copies of the sad agreement, together with
copies of this advertisement, conditions of tender,grati ands
on lip forms
of tender, have been printed, and may be had
plication at the Auction Mart, or at the Office of the Solici-
tors to the said Company, Messrs. Uptons, Johnson, and
Upton, 20, Austinfr ars, E.C. The moneys deposited by all
parties whose Tenders may not be accepted will be returned
to them on application at the Union Bank of
at Londowhich n. a
on the
29th day of February, between the hour final
declaration may be maile with respect to the Tenders re-
ceived at four p m., or on the ensuing day between the hours
of ten a.m. and four p.m.
The premises may be viewed by all persons provided with
tickets, to be obtained as above.
By order of the Board of Directors,
G. IL JAQUES, Secretary.
Auction Mart, January, 1861.

Cardinal Wiseman on the Warlike State of
Europe.

IL D F I
By WALTER TBORNBURY.

R E.

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Capital, £4,000,000, in 40,000 Shares of £lOO each.
DIRECTORS.
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North-Western Railway Company.
Joseph Boyce, Esq., Director of the Royal Bank of Ireland,
and Midland Great Western Railway Company, Dublin.
Thomas Dakin, Esq Alderman, President of the Great
Western Re dway of Canada.
Stauros Dilberoglue, Esq. (G. J. Ca afy and Co.), Thread-
needle-street
W. Smith Dixon, Esq , Govan Iron Works,' Glasgow.
Thomas Gooch, Esq. (Gooch and Cousens), Director of the
Bank of London.
Captain H. J. W. Jervis, M.D., Deputy Chairman, Great
Eastern Railway Com any.
Octavius Ommanney, Esq. (Ilallet, Ommanney, and Co.),
Westminster.
Joseph Robinson, Esq., 7, Laurence Pountney-hill.
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Solicitors in Bristol—Messrs. Daniel and Cox.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

THE WELLINGTON THREE SHILLING
DINNER, consisting of Soup, Fish, Entrée, Joint,
Sweet, &c., is served daily irom 3 to 9, and on Sundays from
5 to 8.30.
Private Rooms for large or small parties.
JOHN CATES, Manager.
The Wellington, St. James's-street.
Entrance, 160, Piccadilly.
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The Duncan, 80, screw, line of-battle ship, Captain R.
Gibson, with Rear-Admiral Sir James Hope, K.C.B„ the
future naval Commander •in- Chief of her Majesty's ships on
the North American and West Indian stations, on board,
sailed from Spithead for her destination at daylight on Sa-
turday morning. The Nile, screw line-of-battle ship, re-
turns to England with Rear-Admiaal Sir Alex. Milne,
K C. 8,, the late naval Commander-in-Chief, immediately
on the Duncan arriving out. The Duncan made a final
trial of speed at the measured mile on Friday, when she
attained a mean speed, with full toiler power, of 11 knots,
and with half boiler power 9.200 hots. The ship drew 23ft
sin of water forward, and 52tt Sin aft. The wind was strong
from the N.W., and there was a Kareity of steam during
two of the runs, or the rate of speetwould have been some-
what higher. The machinery worked perfectly, and. the
Duncan enters upon her maiden cruise the handsomest,
and most probably the fastest, line-of-battle ship afloat.
The Duncan, brought to outside Plymouth Sound yester-
day morning, and having received from a steam tender su-
pernumerary seamen for the fleet cn the American station,
continued her voyage to Halifax aLd the West Indies.
The Orontes, screw troopship, Ctpt. Henry W. Hire, will
embark to-day at Portsmouth 17 officers and 54 men, women
and children, belonging to various tegiments serving in the
Mediterranean, for conveyance to Gibraltar and Malta.
From the latter place the Oroates will proceed on to Corfu,
where she will embark the 2d battalion of the 6th Foot,
which she will take to the West Indies, and return thence
to Spithead with the first battalion of the 14th Foot. The
Orontes is termed in official phraseology an " improved''
Himalaya. The actual difference in the two vessels is that
while the Himalaya is continually at work, the Orontes is
continually under repair. On Saturday she was tested at
the measured mile in Stokes Bay, after being fitted with a
temporary crank of her foremast engine, and attained a
mean speed of 12.336 knots. . _

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the above Corpora-
tion is now prepared to entertain APPLICATIONS for
CONTRACTS.
Communications to be addressed to the Secretary.
By order of the Board,
J. CHARLES HANDFIELD, Sec. pro tern.
Temporary Offices, 31, Threadneedle-street, E.C.

rr HE 0 XF 0 R D
8, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the new and success-
ful Cantata KING CHRISTMAS, and other Musical Enter-
tainments, supported by the following talented artistes :
Misses Russell, Fitz-Henry, Tyrrell, SN, almsley; and Messrs.
Morley, Tivoli, Green.
Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Comedy, by Mr. T. Maclagam W. Randall, G. Hutchenson,
G. W. Jester, Miss Nelly Powur (the juvenile commedienne),
and those wonderous Gymnasts, Messrs. Berri, Leach, and
Foster.
Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, ls.; private
boxes, 10s. 6d.

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Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862.
Capital £2,000,000, in 20,( 00 shares of £lOO each.
First hsue 5,000 shares.
Deposit £1 per share on application, and £1 per share on
allotment. Calls will not exceed £5 per share, at intervals
of three menthe.

DIRECTORS.
Frederick Harrison, Esq., D i rector of the London and County

Bank.
James L. Hart, Esq., Consul for Mexico (J. Hart and Co.),

London.
Abel Heywood. Esq. (ex-Mayor of Manchester), Director of
the Alliance Bank.
Lewis Lam worthy, Esq., Manchester.
William J. Marshall, Esq. (Wilson, Bowles, and Co.), London.
Joh., Paterson, Esq, chairman of the Standard Bank of
British south Africa.
Robert Rumney, Esq., Director of the Alliance Bank, Man-

CANTERBURY HALL.-THIS EVENING,
First time, an entirely new and original Optical Illu-
sion, entitled FAME; Or, PRINCE BLOSSOM IN THE
FOREST OF SHADOWS. with novel effects, patented by
C. Morton, and now exhibited for the first time—Prince
B ossom. Miss E. Townley—in addition to the usual enter-
tainments of the establishment, supported by the whole of
the talented company.
Admission, Area, 6d . ; Stalls and Balcony, Is.
Open every Evening,.

Chester.
Charles Alexander Thurburn, Esq., late of R. and H. Thur
burn, of Alexandria.

BANKERS.
The Alliance Bank. Lothburv, London ; Brown's-buildings,
Liverpool ; and Cross-street, Manchester.
SOLICITORS.
London—Flux and Arzles, t, Mincing-lane.
Liverpool—Fletcher, Hull, and Stone, Cook street.
RROKERS.
J. and J. Whitehead, 8, Moorgate-street, London.
Shore and Kirk, Manchester.
TE%IPORARY OFFICES.
16, King William-street. London, E.C.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA.-
GRAND CIRQUE IMPERIAL, EVERY EVENING,
at halt-past 7 ; MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and SATUR-
DAY, at 2 o'clock.

ill OYAL ALHAMBRA.-
xi) The best Male and Female Riders—the best Trained
Horses—the Funniest Clowns—the Greatest Gymnasts —the
Most Wonderful ELEPHANT in the whole World.

We have to record the death of Admiral George Hender-
son, who expired on the 23d ult. at Middle Deal Kent,
aged 78. The deceased entered the navy in 1794 as part of
the retinue of Admiral Lord Bridport, to whom his father
for some time acted as secretary. While serving in the West
Indies as master's mate to the Ulysses, 44, Mr. Henderson
assisted at the capture of Tabago, in 1803. He was promoted
to the rank of lieutenant: by Sir Samuel Hood, and ap-
pointed to the Alligator, 28, which, under Capt. C. Richard-
son, formal part of the force employed at the reduction of
the colony of Surinam. In this service he was severely
wounded. After the surrender of Madeira he returned to
England with Sir Samuel Hood's despatches and strong re-
commendations, which secured him, in 1808, a commander's
commission. During the Walcheren expedition he particu-
larly distinguished himself, and for the third time was
honourably mentioned in the Gazette. He obtained post-
rank on the Ist of August, 1811, accepted flag rank in 1846,
and was appointed vice-admiral in 1855 and admiral in
1860.
The following appointments were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. John B. Michell to the Meander;
George Williams, master, to the Euryalus ; George Gilpin,
master, to the Indus, for the Constance; Herbert S. Taylor,
naval cadet, to the Prince Consort; Harcourt Popham,
midshipman, to the Hector; and Wyllys li. Wyllys,
master's assistant, to the Dasher.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL
GALLERY; established 23 years at the Bazaar,
Baker-street —Great Treat for the Juveniles during the
Holidays.—The series of ➢iodels of the Kings of England,
from the Conqueror to that of her present Majesty, attired in
the magnificent costumes of their respective periods, is now
nearly complete ; and in the Chamber of Physiognomy are
several new additions. Admission, Is. ; extra rooms, 6d.
Open from 11 till dusk, and from 7 till 10.

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SPORT

Nicholas, by the Divine mercy of the Holy Roman
Church, of the title of St, Pudentiana, Cardinal, Priest, and
Archbishop of Westminster,—
To our dearly beloved brethren and children in Christ,
the clergy, secular and regular, and the faithful of the said
diocese?...
Health and benediction in the Lord,
We have scarcely entered on the new year before it be-
comes our duty to address you on the obligations of the
Lenten fast just about to commence,
You have been instructed from your tender age, taught,
indeed, in your very catechisms to regard the observance of
this annual ordinance as one of the earliest precepts and
practices in the Church. In fact, it bears the special title,
beyond almost any other ecclesiastical institution, of Apos-
tolical. For no one ever doubted in the ancient Church, nor
are we aware that any learned man now denies, that among
those traditions which are traceable, or referable, to the
Apostles, the fast of Lent is certainly one.
If, therefore, its conditions, however, mitigated in modern
times, are still difficult and distasteful, we may well be en-
couraged in our compliance with them by the reflection that
we share our penitential sufferings with the holiest and best
of our fathers in the faith, from the earliest ages. Indeed, a
link of their sensible and almost material character may
bring home to our minds our bond of union and unity with
the primitive Church more definitively and clearly than the
subtle and complicated connectiGns of dogmatical teaching.
Indeed, so many doctrines on sin, penance, atonement, mor-

tification, fasting, and other religious observances now al-
most exclusively ours, are inculcated by the simple observ-
ance of Lent, that we cannot doubt that they were equally
taught and 'understood by those who not only kept more
rigidly than we this yearly fast, but who must have had no
intelligible grounds for keeping it, if their belief had dif-
fered from ours.
Wherefore, dearly beloved in Christ our Lord, let us begin
this year courageously by bearing the reproach and pain of
His Cross, during this spring season, of eowing in tears that
we may later reap in joy. For this is the order and course
which our Divine Master has prescribed. You have been
always taught that this season of Lent is one of fasting and
bodily mortification, as well as of recollection and retire-
ment for purposes and motives of higher importance than
are these practices themselves.
By these means the mind and heart are purified and
sanctified ; past sins are expiated, lesser imperfections are
corrected, command is obtained over passions, evil desires
are repressed, self-will is curbed, obedience to God's laws is
enforced, and a spiritual manliness is produced or en-
couraged, in the soul to wrestle with the trials of life, and
of the spirit, in resignation, patience, and conformity to the
sublime will of God.
Moreover, the relaxed spring of our religious duties is in
a manner wound up, and moves with new energy the me-
chanism of daily and hourly duties for the rest of the year.
During this period our prayer besomes more frequent and
more fervent, our meditation is more concentrated ; our de-
votions in presence of the most adorable sacrament, publicly
exposed, are more continuous and more recollected, our fre-
quentation of the Sacraments is better prepared, our hearing
of the Divine Word is more repeated and more docile, and
our entire mind, undistracted by the frivolous or dissipating
amusements of the outer world, is brought down to a graver
tone, and thinks more seriously, and feels more deeply on
eternal truths.

In other words, dearly beloved, since a mutual anxiety
comes over us, on entering a new year, as to who amongst us
will reach its end, and who, as some must, will drop on the
road, and be lost for ever to this eel th, the Church seizes on
this solemn feeling, and matures it into a wise thought of
preparation for what may this year, and will assuredly some
coming year, befal us. Not in the spirit of timid solicitude,
still less in the superstitious terror of an imaginary presenti-
ment, but with the calm foresight with which at the year's
close a prudent man balances his past accounts, and readjusts
his future expenses, is this preparation to be made. And
thus every year will prepare for that possible event, which
may God avert from each among you, of its being your last.
These almost natural graces which the fast of Lent brings
with it are greatly increased by its almost necessary accom-
paniments of prayer and charity. That prayer which is joined
to fasting is ever commended in Scripture as peculiarly
powerful in propitiating the Divine wrath.
We surely stand much in need of such supplication at the
beginning of this new year. Its future is indeed as yet dark

to us, but it is not ominously dark ? Do not clouds, fore-
boding storms, hang round the entire horizon, in every
quarter of the heavens ? The North, in spite of winter's
rigours, see armies advancing to invade and to repel; and
we may soon hear that blood has melted and defiled the
earth's mantle of snow. And the South threatens too ; dis-
satisfied within itself, agitated, divided, with its sacrilegious
thirst unslaked, with its cravings after usurpation unsatis-
fied, it is sharpening its sword for new inroads into the pa-
trimony of other States.
The East, in Europe and in Asia, is no less convulsed or
menacing. Whatever may be our political opinions,we must
all bewail the savage warfare which is depopulating and
ravaging unfortunate Poland, for which the Holy Father
has invited all to pray. And thence round the globe, through
India, China, and Japan, to New Zealand, news daily
reaches us of battle and skirmish, of destruction of cities or
massacres of men, amidst barbarians or semi-civilised races,
whose remoteness from us ought, apparently, to have been
a security against disturbance.
And in the West, from which not a broad continent
separates us, but with which rather a wide ocean connects
us, we are promised but little prospect that the year on
which we are entering will put an end to the fratricidal war
that threatens almost the extermination of a grandly hope-
ful race.
Which way shall we turn for succour or for comfort?

Let us not look around us, or turn from side to side, for
from none comes a cheering look. Let us rather" Lift our
eyes to the mountains," to the eternal hills, " whence help
will come to us. Our help is from the Lord, who made
Heaven and earth." (Pa. cxxi.) Towards God, the mighty
and strong, let us turn our hearts, in fasting and in prayer,
that from darkness He may bring forth light, and from
affliction gladness.
But dearly beloved, for the discharge of one part of our
duty, that which regards the Church of God, its peace and
serenity, we have a higher encouragement than any words
of ours, in a letter addressed to us by our Sovereign Pontiff,
in reply to our last filial address at the close of the last and
the advent of the present year.
" We do not doubt," such are his venerated words, " that
you continue ever, with more fervent earnestness, unceas-
ingly to pray and entreat our great and good God that he
will command the winds and the sea, and grant to His holy
Church most desirable peace and trar.quillity ; that He will
humble all her enemies and those of this Apostolic see, and
bring them back from the ways of impiety to the right road
of justice and salvation."
Yet, let us pray for peace, true and solid peace, only to be
gained where truth and justice are betrayed or assailed by
the return of evil-doers to the path of righteousness and
saving faith.
To these more public demands upon our earnest suppli-
cations during Lent, we need not add those which our own
personal necessities press upon us. Each one knows best
their extent, in his own case, and will apply to it the remedy
so simple, and so apt, suggested by an Archangel to Tobias.
" Bona est eratio cum jejunio," "Good is prayer with fast-
ing."—(Tob. viii, 12).
After exhorting all Catholics to have recourse to
prayer, and directing their attention to the orphan-
ages at North Hyde, to the prospects and need of
aid they required, the Cardinal goes on to say—
And now we will conclude by bestowing on you a blessing
better than our own—one transmitted to you, through us,
in the following words of our holy father, in his letter of
the 14th January :
" We in our turn most humbly implore God, the giver of
all good gifts, that He bestow upon you all things conducing
to prosperity and salvation, and that He ever pout out abun-
dantly upon you the gifts of Divine grace, which may like-
wise plentifully descend on the beloved flock committed to
your watchfulness.
" And as an augury, and surest pledge of the peculiar
benevolence with which we embrace you, we most lovingly
bestow our apostolical benediction, with the deepest affection
of our hearts, on you our dear son, and on all the faithful
clergy and laity entrusted to your care."
Given in Westminster, and ordered to be read in all the
churches and chapels of the archdiocese, on Quinquagesima
Sunday, this 7th day of February, 1864.
N. CARD. WISEMAN.
F. Canon SEARLE, Sec.

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Church and turret clocks specially estimated for. Benson's
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BETTING AT MANCHESTER—SiTvaphs._

With the exception of Chester Cup, there is not a volume
open in this market on the Spring Handicaps; and, judg-
ing by the few commissions that have been executed on the
Roodee event, bookmakers are not likely to commence
operations on the Northamptonshire Stakes, City and
Suburban, or Metropolitan Stakes just at preseni.---For the
Chester Cup, the only horse really in demand is Accident,
about whom 16 to 1 was freely taken. 20 to 1 was laid to
a little money against Anfield, but less than 30 to 1 was re-
fused about Blackdown.—Betting on the Derby, Two Thou-
sand Guineas, and Liverpool Steeple Chase was flat; and
there was no new feature in connection with the Waterloo
(Coursing) Cup. Closing prices :

LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE.
25 to agst Real Jam (taken)
25 to 1 agst Sinking Fund (taken)
33 to 1 agst Umpire (taken)
50 to 1 agst Avalanche (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
16 to 1 agst Accident (taken freely)
20 to 1 agst Aufleld (taken)
25 to 1 agst Blackdown (take 30)
30 to 1 agst Change (taken)
33 to 1 agst Merry Hart (taken and offered)
TWO THOUSAND.
11 to 2on the field (offered)
13 to 2 agst Cambuscan (taken)
THE DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Scottish Chief (taken and offered)
14 to 1 bar one (offered)
18 to 1 agst Forager (taken)
22 to 1 agst Coup d'Etat (taken)
33 w 1 agst Ackworth (taken)

THE WATERLOOVOURSING) CUP.
100 to 7 agst Mr. H. Haywood's nomination (offered
_ _ _

take 16 to 1 freely)
20 to 1 aget
.Mr. Lloyd's nomination (taken and

wanted)
20 to 1 agst Mr, Blackstock's nomination (offered)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Dunlop's nomination (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Thompson's nomination (offered)
28 to 1 agst Lord Lurgan's nomination (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Knowles's nomination (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Jardine's nomination (taken)
33 to 1 agst Lord Binning's nomination (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Jones's nomination (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Gordon's nomination (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Spinks' nomination (offered)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Bruce's nomination (ofiered)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Leigh's nomination (offered)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Callander's nomination (offered)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Bell Irving's nomination (offered: