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

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N°. 22.346.

THE SUN, LONDON AIONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1864•

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ALE of the AUCTION AIART. LONDON.
The DIRECT ORS of the COMPAISY of PROPRIE-
TORS of the AL CTION MART 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
sealed TENDERS from persons desirous of purchasing the
premises generally known as the Auction Mart, opposite to
the Bank of England, London. Each Tender mu- tbe 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 or 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
placed under seal prior to the opening d any of the Tenders.
determined upon by the Directors of the said Company, and
If upon opening the Tenders it shad be found that two or
more Tenders are of the same amount, such amount being the
highest amount ten&tred, the Directors of the said Company
reserve the power of deciding which one of such two or more
Tenders snail be accepted, and of rejecting the one or more
not so accepted. A form of agreement bas been prepared,
which will have to be executed by.theperson 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 said agreement, together with
copies of this advertisement, conditions of tender, and forms
of tender, have been printed, and may be had gratis on ap-
plication at the Auction Mart, or at the Office of the Solici-
tors to the said Company, Messrs. Uptons, Johnson, and
Upton, 20, Austinfr are, 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 London, on the
29th day of February, between the hour at which a final
declaration may be ma ‘e with respect to the Tenders re-
ct.ived at four p m., or on the ensuing day between the hours
of ten a.m. and four p.m.

Cardinal Wiseman on the Warlike State of

SPORT.

Europe.

The following pastoral was read in all the Catho-
de chapels yesterday by command of Cardinal Wise-

man :

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

Health and benediction in the Lord,

Together with a Price List of purified Bedding, and a mass
of valnable informationto all requiring househ)ld furniture,
carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy-
men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton,
Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth,
Wells, Oxford. Brighton, Gainsboroueh, Margate. Kidder-
minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking,
St. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's,
Wrexham, and above 500 other places In all parts of Great
Britain.
COBBETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford-
bridge, London, S.E,

We have scarcely entered on tho 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-

THE CONTRACT CORPORATION
(Limited).
Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1802,
Capital, £4,000,000, in 40,000 Shares of £lOO each.
DIRECTORS.
Wm. Latham Bailey, Esq. (Bailey Brothers and Co.), Liver-
pool.
W. Montague Mille, Esq. (Mille, Baillic, Cave, and Co.),
Old Bank, Bristol.
Anthony Kington Baker, Esq., Director of the Great Western
Railway Company.
George S. Boecroft, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and
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 Ra lway of Canada.
Stauros DlTheroglue, 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 c,f London.
Captain H. J. W. Jervis, M.P., Deputy Chairman, Great
astern Railway Com any.
Octavius Ommanney, Esq. (Hallet, Ommanney, and Co.),
Westminster.
Joseph Robinson, Esq., 7, Laurence Pountney-hill.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Edwards and Co., Westminster.
Solicitors in Bristol—Messrs. Daniel and Cox.

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

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By order of the Board of Directors,
G. ii, JAQUES, Secretary.

subtle and complicated connections of dogmatical teaching.
Indeed, so many doctrines on sin, penance, atonement, mor-
tification, fasting, and other religious observances now al-

Auction Mart, January, 1861.

most exclusively ours, are inculcated by the simple observ-
ance of Lent, that we cannot douLt that they were equally
taught and ,understood by those who not only kept more
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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

rigidly than we this yearly fast, but who must have had no
intelligible grounds for keeping it, if their belief had dif-

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.B„ the late naval Commander-in-Chief, immediately
on the Duncan arriving out. Thc, Duncan made a final
trial of speed at the measured mile on Friday, when she
attained a mean speed, with full boiler power, of 11 knots,
and with half boiler power 9.200 knots. The ship drew 23ft
sin of water forward, and 52ft Bin aft. The wind was strong
from the N.W., and thare was a scarcity of steam during
two of the runs, or the rate of speedwould 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 on the American station,
continued her voyage fo Halifax and the West Indies.
The Orontes, screw troopship, Capt. Henry W. Hire, will
embark to-day at Portsmouth 17 officers and 51 men, women
and children, belongitg to various regiments serving in the
Mediterranean, for ouveyance to Gibraltar and Malta.
From the latter place the Orestes will proceed on to Corfu,
where she will embari. the 2d battalion of the Gth Foot,
which she will take to the West Indies, and return thence
to Spithead with the frst battalion of the 14th Foot. The
Orontes is termed in oEcial 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 ber foremast engine, and attained a
mean speed of 12.336 Inots.

f ered from ours.

Wherefore, dearly beloved in Christ our Lord, let us begin

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this year courageously by bearing the reproach and pain of
His Cross, during this spring season, of sowing 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.

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

THE MEXICAN BANK (Limited).
Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862.
Capital £2,000,000, in 20,100 shares of £lOO each.
First Issue 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 months.

DIRECTORS.

Frederick Harrison, Esq., Director of the London and County

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.

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 Laneworthy, Esq., Manchester.
William J. Marshall, Esq. (Wilson, Bowles, and Co.), London.
John Paterson, Esq , chairman of the Standard Bank of

British ~outli Africa.
Robert Rumney, Esq., Director of the Alliance Bank, Man-

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 Angles, 9, Mincing-lane.
Liverpool—Fletcher, Hull, and Stone, Cook street.
BROKERS.
J. and J. Whitehead, 8, Moorgate-streot, London.
Shore and Kirk, Manchester.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
16, King William-street, London, E.C.

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 earth, the Church seizes en
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 foz 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 omincusly 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-

We have to record tl e death of Admiral George Hender-
son, who expired on die 23d ult. at Middle Deal Kent,
aged 78. The deceasel entered the navy in 1794 as part of
the retinue of Admiral Lord Bridport, to wham his father
for some time acted as secretary. -While serving in the West
Indies as master's mace to the Ulysses, 44, Mr. Henderson
assisted at the captari of Tabago, in 1803. He was promoted
to the rank of lieutenant: by Sir Samuel Hood, and ap-
pointed to the Aliigabr, 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 Cmstance; Herbert S. Taylor,
naval cadet, to the Prince Consort; Harcourt Popham,
midshipman, to the Hector; and Wyllys H. Wyllys,
master's assistant, to the Dasher.

fled, 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, Chins, 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 1 ook 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." (Ps. cxxi.) Towards God, the mighty
and strong, lot us turn our hearts, in fasting and in prayer,
that from darkness Ho 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 tranquillity ; 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 aro 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 Ho 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 end chapels of the archdiocese, on Quinquagesima
Sunday, this 7th day of February, 1864.
N. CARD. WISEMAN.
F. Canon SEARLE, See.

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LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE.
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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 Anfield (taken)
25 to 1 agat Blackdown (take 30)
30 to 1 agat Change (taken)
33 to 1 agst Merry Hart (taken and offered)
TWO THOUSAND.
11 to 2on the field (offered)
13 to 2 agat Cambuscan (taken)
THE DERBY.
10 to 1 aget 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 to 1 aget Ackworth (taken)

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Roodee event, bookmakers are not likely to commence
operations on the Northamptonshire Stakes, City and
Suburban, or Metropolitan Stakes just at present.—For the
Chester Cup, the only horso really in demand is Accident,
about whom 10 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

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task° 16 to 1 frooly)
20 to 1 agst Mr. Lloyd's nomination (taken and
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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 apt 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)