The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-22 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR SOAP FOR DEPTFORD,

Cohtract Department, Admiralty, Whitehall, S.W.
16th December, 1370.
TENDERS will be received on Wednesday, 28th
December, at 2 o'clock p.m., for 500,0001 b. of SOAP for
Deptford, to be delivered by the 15th February, 1871.
A form of Tender containing all particulars may be obtained
at this Office.

FRANCIS W. ROWSELL,
Superintendent of Contracts

RIMMEL'S PERFUMED ALMANAC FOR
• 1871. Richly Illuminated. Price ed., by post for 6
stamps. Sold by all the Trade..
RL\(MEL, PERFITAIER; 96, Strand ; 128, Regent-street ;
24, Cornhillt London ; and 76, King's-road, Brighton.

EIGHTEENTII ANNUAL WINTER EXIII-
BITION of CABINET PICTURES by British and Foreign
Artists is now OPEN, at the FRENCH GALLERY, 120, Pall
Mall, from nine till half-past five o'clock. Admission, ls. Cata-
logues, Od.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH SCHOOLS
J._ of INSTRUCTION,I64 and 166, City-road, London, B.C.—
Established 1868.—Evening Classes. The usual WINTER,
EVENING CLASSES have now COMMENCED, whereby gen-
tlemen who are engaged during the day will have the advantage
of being instructed in every practical part of telegraphy.
T. EVANS LUNDY, Secretary.

HOME CHARITIES —Owing to the noble and
benevolent exertions made by the British Public during
the last few months to aid the Sick and Wounded in the War
now raging on the Continent, to relieve the French Peasants,
and the relatives and friends of those lost in H.M.S. Captain,
the Funds of the following HOME CHARITIES have suffered
very materially, viz.:—
The Boys' Refuge, at 8, Great Queen-street, Holborn.
Bisley Farm School, Surrey.
Chichester Training Ship.
Girls' Refuge, 19, Broad-street, Bloomsbury.
Home for Little Girls, and Girls' Refuge, Ealing.
In these Institutions between 500 and 600 Boys and Girls are
educated, fed, clothed, and trained to earn their own living.
Besides the above work, upwards of 500 Ragged School
children are supplied with dinner once a week.
AN URGENT APPEAL is therefore made for HELP to pur-
chase FOOD and CLOTHING for these poor Children.
Contributions will be thankfully received by , the London and
Westminster Bank, 214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, City,
and by

WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary
Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, Holborn, W.C.

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chief Office-17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
Annual Income, £300,000.
Capital, subscribed by more than 1,600 Shareholders, nearly
£BOO,OOO.
DIRECTORS.
cmintmeN —General Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., P.R.S.
The Rev. A. Alston, D.D. R. M. Carter, Esq., M.P.
E. Hamilton Anson, Esq. Edmund Heeley, Esq.
A. R. Bristow, Esq. Reginald Read, Esq., M.D.
This Society are now ISSITIN COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES.
The peculiar features of these Policies are as follow :-
1. The Payments Cease after Ten' or Twenty Years.
2. The Policy is not forfeited by the non-payment of renewal
premium during the ten or twenty years.
3. The Assurer is entitled for each yearly payment he has
made to a paid-up Policy for one-tenth or one-twentieth of the
sum Assured

lIBNB,Y B. PARMINTER, Manager.

ALEXANDRA ORPHANAGE for INFANTS,
Hornsey-rise, near Highgate, N.
Children eligible from any part of the Kingdom.
Under the immediate patronage of
Their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE and PRINCESS of
WALES, and the
CROWN PRINCESS of PRUSSIA.
A MEETING of Governors was held on THURSDAY, November
17, 1870, at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, for the
ELECTION of TEN INFANTS, Two of whom to be retained
until sixteen years of age.
ROBERT JONES, Esq., Sheriff of London and Middlesex, in
the Chair.
At the close of the Ballot the following were declared to be
SUCCESSFUL :
ELECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL SIXTEEN I.EARS
OF AGE.
1. Scarlett, Alice Maud'.... 635 12. Bloom, Louisa ... 611
ELECTED I 0 CONTINUE UNTIL NINE YEARS OF .AGE.
3. Richards, Henry William 648 7. Stevens, Elizabeth .... 452
4. Leigh, Charles Edward.. 576 8. Mather, Selina Agnes.. 439
5. Eyles, Alfred Henry .. .. 490 9. Bennett, Louisa Mary.. 431
6. Childs, Alice Rebecca .. 458 10. Curtis, Elizabeth Maud 429
A vote of thanks to the Chairman and to the Scrutineers
terminated the proceedings.
JOSEPH SOUL, Hon. Secretary.
73, Cheapside.
URGENT APPEAL.—The Committee very earnestly appeal
for Contributions in aid of the BUILDING FUND especially, as
well as for the general purposes of the Charity, which has no
funded property, but depends wholly upon voluntary support.
No salaries are paid but to the household. The Orphange is
open to visitors.

THE COMIC PAPERS.
( From Punch. )
THE FIVE GREAT POWERS.—Love, Money, Ambition
Revenge, and a Good Dinner.
SENTIMENT BY AN OLD-FASHIONED MUSICIAN.—
Music of the Future," and long may it stop there
ADVICE TO IRISH TENANTS.—lnstead of taking " jug
a drain "—" Just take to draining."
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The

A gourmand friendof ours,writing from Paris, complains
that they have plenty of sorties, but no entrees.
FOLLOWING A BAD LEAD.— tMr. Bull, Emperor of
Russia, and Count Bismarck playing whist, with dummy.
Treaties of 1867 and 1856 on the table as cards just played.
Mr. Bull plays Protest.) Mr. Bull : " Hullo,
,gentlemen !
Two Revokes / You'll lose the game by tricks.'

CHRISTMAS OVER THE BORDER.—Southerner (forgetting
that Christmas day falls on Sunday this year). " Good
morning, Mr. Scarebain. A merry Christmas." The
Rev. Mr. S. " E—h Mon ! That's nae a fittin' ae'jective
to pit afore the Sabbath !!"

GROWING WEATHER FOR CONVICTION. —Stubbles has
been thrown out (" off " as well, we rather fancy), it's
sleeting cats and dogs, he has lost his way oil the marshes,
his horse is dead lame, and he has not even a cigar—and
begins to think, with Mr. Freeman, that hunting is
cruel ! !

(From Fun. )

ANAGRAM—Applicable to an American adventurer,
Train—l rant.
RISING SCHOLARS.—Here's news for the School Board
—by balloon !—" A school for aeronauts is being organ-
ised in Paris." Of course all the scholars must necessarily
be well up in their studies. What an elevating curri-
culum !
" HE Was A VULGAR Boy."—Mrs• Lovekid (asked by
an urchin to ring a door bell) : " There, my little fellow,
I've rung it for you ! " Runnaway Ringer : Well, then,
if the peeler catches yer, don't go and swear as it
was me! "
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FEATHER OR No.—We pluck this from a Transatlantic
fly-sheet :—" A fossil feather has been found by Dr.
Hayden, in Wyoming Territory, and is said to be the first
,pecimen on record." We presume this is a relic not of
the Dark but of the Plume-ages. How interesting to
prove by evidence as slight as a feather the rapidity of
Time's wing !

KRIEGSKOSTIN.

France thirsted for the Rhine's left shore,
From Prussia to take out the shine, oh ;
She's lost ; but when the war is o'er,
By Jove, she must shell out the Rhino.

(From Judy.)

NUTS TO CRACK FOR CRACK CRACKERS.—What's been
up lately ?—Umbrellas. The Prussian complexion after
a sortie—Blue. A good " branch of business just now—
The Mistletoe. Currant events—Mince-pie and Christ-
mas pudding.

BAVARIA AND THE GERMAN CONFEDERATION
The Etoile Beige has heard from Munich that there is a
great risk of the treaty concluded at Versailles with
respect to the entry of Bavaria into the German Empire
being rejected by the Second Chamber. In spite of the
language of the Minister of Justice, M. Luetz, who
took care, while admitting the freedom of the
Chamber to declare that it ought to ac-
cept the treaty, the committee which has been
appointed to examine into the Treaty is for the most part
composed of men who are vehement opponents of the new
policy. It is even rumoured that some deputies are dis-
posed to impeach the Minister M. Luetz for having insulted
the independence of the Legislature by intimating to
them in which way they should vote with respect to the
treaty in question. Should the Second Chamber reject
the measure, it will be dissolved, but the acquiescence of
the First Chamber seems to be secure. .
KING WILLIAM TO HIS SON.— The following is
the letter which the King of Prussia wrote to the Crown
Prince, appointing him Field Marshal : " With the
capitulation of the army of Marshal Bazaine and the
fortress of Metz, by which the two armies opposed since
July last to the united forces of Prussia and Germany in
the present sanguinary war, which was certainly not pro-
voked by us, have now fallen captive into our hands, so
important an epoch has been reached that I am induced
to mark my sense of its paramount importance by a
special act. Thou hast had a most important share in the
successful achievement of our difficult task by opening
the campaign with two victories following each other
closely ; then by covering the left flank of the main army
through the strategic advance, so that it could safely
proceed to the overthrow of Bazaine's army ; then by
thy joining the great army with thy corps to take part
in the operations against Sedan, and to achieve the
great events there ; and, lastly, thou hast—fightinc, at
intervals—accomplished the investment of Paris. halt—fighting
this collectively evinces a great and successful general.
The highest military rank is therefore due to thee, and I
herewith appoint thee Field-Marshal-General. It is the
first time that this dignity, which I likewise confer on
Prince Frederick Charles, has been bestowed on a prince of
our House. But the successes hitherto obtained in this cam-
paign, on the other hand, acquire such a promising magni-
tude and importance as to be without equal. This is why
I am justified in deviating from the custom of our House.
I can and must thus express to thee my own thanks and
those of the Fatherland ; the emotion of my paternal heart
I need not express in words."