The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1867.

ILITA.RY PRISON, Southwark—TENDEßS
INA_ for the SUPPLY of the following ARTICLES,
for the use of the above Establishment, from the Ist April,
1867, to the 30th September, 1867, both days inclusive, are
required, viz. :
Best Second Bread at per 41b.
Best Oaten Meal qt per cwt.
Best Indian Meal (fine ground)
Good beef (without bone) at per lb.
Bost New Milk
Good Potatoes at per cwt.
Forms of Tender, with all particulars, to be had on ap-
plication at the Military Prison, Southwark. •
Tenders, with samples of Bread, Oat and Indian Meal,
by noon on the 25th inst., and addressed to the Visitor,
Visitor's Board-room, Military Prison, Southwark.
FRED. WINGFIELD, Visitor.
Military Prison, March 13, 1867.

CONTRACTS FOR TALLOW AND PITCH.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, March 15, 1867.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, Do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY,
the 2d April next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to
treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT
for Supplying and Delivering into Store at her Majesty's
several Dockyards,
RUSSIA or ENGLISH TALLOW and ARCHANGEL
PITCH.
Distributions of the articles and forms of the tenders and
conditions of the contracts may be seen in the lobby of the
Storekeeper-General's Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on
the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party
attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for ;" and must also be delivered
at the department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty,
Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by two
responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the
Person tendering in :h.e sum of £25 per cent. on the. value
for the performL4o of the Contract.
By Order,ANONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public
Securities.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.

*RUGBY HUNT STEEPLECHASES, Monday, March 18.
WARWICK SPRING RACES and GRAND ANNUAL
STEEPLECHASES,
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, March 19th,
20th, and 21st.
First and Second Class Ordinary-RETURN TICKETS
issued from LONDON (Euston, Kensington, Chelsea, Bat-
tersea„ and Clapham Junction) to WARWICK (Avenue
or Milverton Station) on MON i)AY, March 18, and inter-
vening days, will be available to RETURN by any Train
(Irish and Limited Mails excepted) up to and including
FRIDAY, the 22d March.

FARES FOR THE DOUBLE JOURNEY.
To Avenue. To Milverton.
First Class
Second Class 193, 6d-
Return Tickets to Warwick, Avenue or Milverton, from
Broad-street (City Terminus), Dalston, and Shoroditch,
also will be available from the 18th, and following days,
up to the 22d March.
* Passengers holding Return Tickets from London to
Leamington or Warwick, issued on Monday, the 18th
March, will be allowed to break their journey at Rugby, to
enable them to attend the Rugby Haut Steeplechases.
By order,
W. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Euston-square, March, 1867.

THE NEW NANTYMWYN MINING EX-
TENSION COMPANY (LIMITED).

Incorporated under "The Companies' Act, 1862," whereby
the liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount
of his Shares.

Capital, £50,000,
In 50,000 Shares of £1 each.
ss. Deposit on application, and ss. per Share on Allotment.
No call will be made for six months, and it is probable,
from the prospects, with the assistance of the ore money,
that no further capital will be required.

ARTIFICIAL TEETH !—For price unequalled.
For use, comfort, and appearance unsurpassed.
PAINLESSLY supplied (in a few hours when required) by
Mr. DAY, DENTIST,
291, Regent-street (3 doors from the Polytechnic),
Late principal assistant to Mr. ESKELL, of 8, Grosvenor-
street, W.

DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre-
oared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
inffer from bilious and liver romplaints, indigestion, uind,
spasms, giddiness, dizzinees of the eyes, &c. For habitual
ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
of the blood, they are truly exoellent ; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, Chemist, 8, King
Williams-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most drug-
gists, in boxes,la. lid., and three times the quantity in one,
2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills.
The genuine are a square greet. package. with " William
Lambert." entrraved on the stamp.

1111 E BOARD of MANAGEMENT of the
LONDON HOWEOPATIIIC HOSPITAL wish to
call the attention of their friends t its position—during, the
past year the beds have been almost constantly fitted, and
the drain on the resources of the Hospital has consequently
been great. They trust, therefore, that all the friends of
hon ce pathy, both in town and country, will rally round
them, and taus prevent the necessity of curtailing the use-
fulness of the Hospital by the admission of fewer patients
SUBSCRIPTIONS earnestly needed. Bankers—Messrs.
Prescott and Co., Threadneedle-street ; and Union Bank,
Argyll-place, Regent-street.
JOHN R. WARRICN, Clerk.
No. 52, Great Ormond-street, W.C.

What air does the young mouse sing to the old
mouse, when biting his way through the scenery at
the opera ? " here me, gnaw, ma,"

Ben :volent Society of St. Pa,tr;ck.

St. Patrick's Day falling this year upon a Sunday,
the benevolent society which has adopted the name
of the national saint, and labours meritoriously
among the children of the humbler Irish in London,

held its festival on the eve of the anniversary, as-

sembling its supporters and friends to dinner on

Saturday at Willis's Rooms. In the national, as in
the family life, anniversary gatherings are sometimes
tinged with melancholy, and sincethe first establish-
ment of this society, 84 years ago, there have been
few occasions on which friends and well-wishers to
the prosperity of Ireland have been drawn together
under circumstances of greater discouragement. Fe-
nianism may be, and deservestobe, heartily despised.
It is not of native growth, and with the extermina-
tion of those who scatter the seeds ill-weeds would
cease to grow apace. But the real mischief under-
lying the present organisation consists in its foreign
origin and propagation—in thefact that it has again
been thought worth while to make of Ireland a hot-
bed of foreign intrigue. Great watchfulness, great
good sense, and cordial co-operation will be needed
on the part of Irishmen themselves to frustrate these
insidious attacks. Meanwhile, for English or for
Irish, no more instructive gathering could be held
than that of Saturday, although its purpose was
avowedly non-political. The classes reached and in-
fluenced by the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick
are precisely those which, if neglected, suffered to
grow up uneducated and withbut sympa-
thies, will naturally f
torAt the to?ls of thoOe who plan
excursions to Cli'ester •Or Cainrciveen. There are
thousands of them in every great city in the empire.
As the branch is trained so it will grow, bearing
British or American fruit. For Irishmen there was a
special moral to be drawn from the company who
sat down to dinner. Irrespective of noblemen and
gentlemen now or lately high in position and trust,
there sat at the head table the representatives of the
Government of the military and naval services of
England—the Earl of Longford and Mr. Corry. Both
of these are Irishmen. If Fenianism had its way to-
morrow, could it open to any of its votaries positions
of influence and power like these ? The occasion
was to have been gracedby the presence of his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, and in expectation of
the honour thus to be conferred upon the national
society, the corps of London Irish Volunteers ob-
tained permission to furnish a guard of honour, con-
sisting of lb nre'n ,from each of its 12 companies, ruder
command -Of Capt. Cusack and Lieut. Lucas. Un-
fortunately the death of the Mother of the King of
Denmark, which was only known with certainty on
Friday, prevented 'his Royal Highness almost at the
last moment from presiding, whereupon the duties of
chairman were undertaken by his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge. Somewhat less than 200
noblemen and gentlemen sat down to dinner, among
whom were—the Earl of Cork, Earl Vane, Lord
Dufferin, Earl of Darnley, Earl of Dartrey, Earl of
Longford, Lord Annesley, Viscount liarberton,
Bishop of Limerick, Sir Herveyßruce, M.P.; Right
Hon. H. Corry, M.P., Sir James Power, M.P., Sir
Wm. Tyrone Power, K.C.8., Sir J. Prior, Col.
the Hon. 11. Cole, M.P., Capt. D. Darner, Sir R.
Howard, Mr. J. L. O'Beirne, M.P., Col. Tyrwhitt,
Mr. W. H. Russell, Col. Sargent, C. 8., Mr. P.Van-
derby], M.P., Mr. C. M`Garel, Capt. M. J. O'Con-
nell, Capt. Corscaden, Dr. Maunsell, Mr. J. Ha-
milton, M.P., Dr. Nelson, Mr. Malvany, Mr. Mal-
colnisom, Admiral Seymour, M.P., &c.
Copies of the annual report were distributed to
the guests, from which it appeared that the past year
had been an eventful one for the society. The sus-
pension of a banking firm of long standing, the
members of which had been for many years con-
nected with the charity, caused the resignation of
the treasurer, and on the eve of the late anniversary
festival the Marquis of Lansdowne was seized with
illness, which put it out of his power to take the
chair. In this emergency the committee appealed to
Mr. Chichester Fortescue, then Chief Secretary for
Ireland, whose kindness at this critical conjunc-

- .
ture was most gratefully acknowledged. The post
of treasurer, vacated by Mr. Bainbridge, had been
filled by Sir Ralph Howard. At the time of the
late treasurer's resignation the balance in that gen-

tletnan's hands was £6OO, but the committee had
reason to hope that the whole amount would ulti-
mately be repaid. The fundamental principles of
non-sectarian benevolence and charity, limited only
by nationality, on which the society is based, had
been consistently borne in mind the. schools,

though not so full as in some previous years, were
in a satisfactory condition. The superintendents
gave a favourable account of the general health,
progress, and conduct of the scholars, but confirmed

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the almost universal complaint, that, owing to the
demand for youthful labour, children are removed
at so early an age as to prevent their benefiting as
much as could be wished by the instruction afforded
in the schools.

His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, in
proposing the first toast, expressed the deep regret
felt by the Prince of %Vales at being prevented by
an unfortunate circumstance from attending that
evening, and said his Royal Highness, understanding
it was his intention to be present and support him,
requested that he would take the chair in his stead.
(Cheers.) In introducing the toast, which preceded
all others, he felt that many remarks were not needed
to induce them to drink it with cordiality. In apart
of the world—which should be nameless—a great
deal had lately been heard about disloyalty; but he
was one of those who believed that, if the feeling of
the population could be taken without reference to
external influence, it would be found that they were
asloyal as in any other part of her Majesty's dominions.
He had the advantage of living for some years in Ire-
land, and his firm belief was that if the people were
left to themselves—(loud cheers) —they were a re-
markably loyal and devoted people. Circumstances
not to be alluded to in a meeting of this nature had
undoubtedly arisen, causing unpleasant feelings ;
but he felt confident that if the whole of the Irish
people could be polled the great majority would join
evygeour
use
awill forl.y m
meeting
heartily in drinking " Health and happiness to her
Majesty the Queen."
The toast was drunk with manifestations of loyalty
and enthusiasm more than usually prolonged.
His ROYAL HIGHNESS prefaced the next toast—
" The Health of the Prince and Princess of Wales
and the rest of the Royal Family"—by reading the
following letter which had been received from
General Knollys :
"Marlborough-house, Pall-Mall, March 16.
" Sir,—l am commanded by the Prince of Wales to tram-
s, which his Royal Highness
IboeogOldnee:ough to receive, as president of
requests
this day of the Benevolent Society
icieStualte.nsePlathsiatrick. It is with sincere feelings of regret and dis-
appointment that the Prince has been so unexpectedly pro-
vented taking the chair himself and advocating the interests
of a society so dear to the friends and so productive of
benefits to the children of Ireland.
"I have the honour to be, Sir, you r Royal Highness's
most dutiful servant, "J. KNOLLYS.
" Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, H.G."
His Royal Highness went on to s ty :--I think the
expression given utterance to in that letter and the
large subscription sent by the Prince of Wales show
that though absent in person he is present in spirit.
(Cheers.) To the toast which it is now my duty
and pleasure to propose additional interest attaches
from the fact that the health of her Royal High-
ness the Princess of Wales has not been of that cha-
racter which I am confident all present would desire.
I regret that the health of the illustrious partner of
his Royal Highness for some time past has been such
as to cause a good deal of concern, and that her
progress towards convalescence has been slow ; but
I trust that we may before long have the happiness
of congratulating ourselves on her Royal Highness's
entire recovery. (Cheers.) The strong feeling exist-
' ing in the minds of all classes of the public respect-
ing the illness of her Royal Highness has proved a
igreat source of gratification to the members of the
Royal Family, I am sure that good feeling and

loyalty are none the less quick and genuine among
the gentlemen whom I see before me.

The toast was drunk with much enthusiasm.
his ROYAL If tGirs2ss next propwiel, "'.the Army,
the Navy, and the Volunteers." llt had been told,
he said, that in some parts of the army there were
soldiers who could not be relied upon. He did not
believe there was any sufficient foundation for this
charge. He was happy to say that no bodies of
troops had had any opportunity of attesting their
loyalty and devotion to the service, but on smalloc-
casions opportunities had been given, and he had not
heard a single instance of complaint against any sol-
dier in her Majesty's service. Great efforts had no
doubt been made to render some of our troops dis-
loyal. As far as he could learn those efforts had
been in vain. He must also say that the constabu-

lary of Ireland had proved their bravery, and
by their conduct entitled themselves to the greatest
credit. (Loud cheers.) Depend upon it, these men
had been placed in situations of the greatest diffi-
culty, and strenuous efforts had not been wanting
to:shake their loyalty; but they had neither been dis-
loyal, nor had they neglected their duty. (Cheers.)
In the army there were large numbers of Irish-
men, and there were no finer or braver soldiers in
the world. (Cheers.) He could not say whether
there were many Irishmen in the navy, but he had
not the slightest doubt that if such was the case they
were equally brave with their military confrres.
His Royal Highness described the controversies of
the present day with regard to the two services as
Appalling. Between _those claiming for increa4c4,
efficiency and those contending against undue ex-
penditure, for one man who was satisfied by seeing
his views carried out at least 200 were dissatisfied.
He believed the authorities had succeeded in going
neither too fast nor too slow. They were told now
that the Snider rifle was not the best thing that could
be got, that there were hundreds of things better.

Where were they ? The country had an arm which
he believed to be quite as good as that of any other
country. There had been some mistakes at first,
but, as this was a new arm, a little time was required
to get everything in order. In a very short time
the whole British army would be armed with the
Snider rifle, at a very small cost compared with that
which would have been incurred if the conversion
had not been practicable. On the part of the Prince
of Wales and on his own part, he was much gratified
with the compliment paid him by the London Irish
Regiment in forming a guard of honour. They were
a very fine corps, and he was exceedingly pleased
to see them there.

Colonel SARGENT, C. 8., responded on behalf of
the army.
Several other toasts having been given and re-
sponded to, the proceedings terminated.