The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THUBSDAY EVENING, SEPI'EMBER 19, 1867.

OHN GOENELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOlll PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price Is. Ad.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper
Thames-street, London.

1%, ANFIELI)'S PATENT PICKLES are per-
IV featly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers
and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107. Strand
(corner of Savoy-steps). London.

HYAM & Co.'s ATTIRE.

HYAM & Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-ST.

HYAM & Co.'s TWEED OVERCOATS.

HYAM & Co.'s SILK-FACED OVERCOATS.

HYAM & Co.'s FACED MELTON OVER-
COATS.

HYAM & Co.'s SUTTS.

HYAM & Co.'s MORNING COATS.

HYAINI & Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE.

HYAM & Co.'s VESTS and TROUSERS.

& Co.'s LADIES' HABITS.

11YAM & Co.'s LIVERIES.

HYAM & Co.'s HATS and HOSIERY.

HYAM and Co.'s PRICE LIST for GENTLE-
MEN.
66 and 67, Oxford-street, London.
Hyam & Co.'s Spring Tweed Overcoats. 21s. to 30s.
Hyam & Co.'s Spring Overcoats
Hyam & Co.'s Spring Reefer 2ss. to 555.
Hyam & Co.'s Spring Suits
Hyam & Co.'s Spring Jackets
Hyam & Co.'s Spring Frock Coats 3os. to 70s.
Hyam & Co.'s Spring Vests 6s. to 14s.
Hyam & Co.'s Spring Trousers .,145. to 255.

HYAM & Co.'s BOYS' SPRING CLOTHING,
66 and 67, Oxford-street, London.
The first establishment in the kingdom for Juvenile
Clothing.
Boys' Sandringham Overcoats
Boys' Prince Alfred Reefer
Boys' Overcoats for Little Boys
Boys' Knickerbocker Suits
Boys' Westminster and Osborne Suits lss. to 355.
Boys' Eaton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits 255. to 425.
Boys' Jackets for School and Home 9s. to 21s.

fYAM and Co.s SELECT DEPARTMENTS.
1. Gentlemen's Clothing for Immediate Wear.
2. Bespoke or Order Department.
3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Departnient.
4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department.

HYAM & Co.'s ESTABLISHMENTS.
LONDON-66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET.
BIRMINGHAM-21, 22, and 23, NEW-STREET.
LEEDS-42, BRIGGATE ; and
DEWSBURy—WESTGATE.

CONTRACT FOR PORTER.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, September 6, 1867.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
1- the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the
3d October, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will be ready to
treat with such persons as may bo willing to CONTRACT
for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling
Stores, at Deptford, all such quantities of
PORTER

as shall from time to time be demanded, under a Contract
for Twelve Months certain, and further until the expira-
tion of Three Calendar Months' warning.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained
on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
the Conditions of the Contract and the regulations re-
specting the drawback may be seen.
No Tender will be received after noon on the day of
treaty ; and it will not be required that the party tender-
ing, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the office
on the day of contract, as the result of the offer received
from each person will be communicated to him and his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear iu the left-hand corner the words,
" Tender for Porter," and must also be delivered at the
Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons, en-
gaging to become bound with the person tendering in the
sum of £5OO for the due performance of the Contract.

By Order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

-A.R my CONTRACTS.
Tenders will be received by the Director of Con-
tracts, War Office, Pall Mall, London, until Twelve o'clock
noon on the 26th September, for the supply of
for the use of her MajesF ORAGE
ty's Troops, stationed in the fol-
lowing places,
1868. from Ist November, 1867, to 80th April,
LONDON DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, 109, Victoria-

street, Wner :-
1. Hyde Park, Kensingtonestmi 3. stHampton Court.
Regent's Park, and Horse 4. Windsor.
Guards.
5. Brighton.
2. Hownslow and Kneller 6. Sandhurst.
Hall.
7. Enfield.
NORTHERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, Barrack-
street, Hume, Manchester :-
1. Bury.
2. Sheffield. 7. Birmingham.
3. Preston. 8. Coventry.
4. Ashton-under-Lyne. 9. Northampton.
10. Weedon.
11.
5. Burnley.
York.
6. Manchester.
EASTERN DISTRICT 12. Newcastle-on-Tyne.
, Commissariat Office, Camp
Colchester :-
1. Colchester.
2. Ipswich.
3. Norwich.
WOOLWICH DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, Royal
Artillery Barracks Woolwich (S.E.) :-
1. Woolwich.
2. Shoeburyness.
3. Warley Barracks.
4. Maidstone.
CHATHAM DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, The
Barracks, Chatham :-
No. 1, Chatham.
SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office,
Camp, Shorn°
1. Shorncliffe.
2. Canterbury
SOUTH-WESTERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office,
St. Thomas-street, Portsmouth:-
1. Portsmouth and Hilsea.
2. Dorchester.
3. Netley.
WESTERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, 20, East
Emma Place, Stonehenge, Plymouth :-
1. Plymouth, Devonport, Tregantle, and Scraesdon Forts,
Maker Barracks, and Heights.
2. Exeter and Topsham.
3. Bristol and Horfleld.
NORTH BRITAIN, Commissariat Office, 3, Hill-stree t.
Edinburgh :-

1. Perth.
2. Leith Fort, Edinburgh, and Piershill.
3. Hamilton.
Separate tenders must be made for each of the above-
mentioned stations as seya,rately numbered.

Forms of tender, initialed and numbered, and conditions
of contract, may be obtained on application at the above
offices, by letter addressed to the senior commissariat officer
of the district, or in person, between the hours of ten and
four o'clock, and no tender will bo entertained unless made
upon the form so obtained.
Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up
and signed, and no tender will be noticed unless delivered
under closed envelope at the War-office, Pall-mall, Lon-
don, before twelve o'clock noon on the 26th September
instant, addressed to the director of contracts, and marked
outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies."
THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts.
War-office, Pall Mall (S.W.), Sept. 13, 1867.

TEE T 11.—Messrs. G AB R I E L.
(ESTABLISHED 1815).
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Explaining the Painless System of Dentistry, and
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AT MODERATE CHARGES.
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*.* 131, Duke-street, Liverpool.

SWIMMING RACE IN THE THAMES. —Yesterday
morning a race took place in the Thames, from Battersea
Bridge to London Bridge, between E. Goodwin, of Lam-
beth, and Charles White, of the Serpentine Club. The
prize was £2O and the championship of the Thames. Both
men took the water at seven, and a very exciting race en-
sued, as the competitors passed and repassed each other
several times. At Hungerford Bridge White gave up, and
Goodwin finished the race in lb. 12m. 20sec.

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MR. DISRAELI AND THE EDINBURGH
CONSERVATI T' ES.

(From the Scotsman.)

It is understood that. Mr. Disraeli has now virtu-
tually accepted the invitation to a political dinner
in Edinburgh on the 29th proximo, got up by some
of the more zealous though neither most discreet nor
most exalted of the Scotch, or rather Edinburgh
Conservatives. We shall all be glad to see and
hear a public man of so much distinction, and there
is no need for saying that there is neither class nor
party in Scotland that would dream of exhibiting
anything but courtesy towards such a visitor. But,
viewing Mr. Disraeli with reference solely to his
present political position and recent achievements,
a serious question might be raised as to which is the
political party that owes him gratitude and can fitly
pay him honour—the Scottish Reform League, or
the Conservative Committee. He has been doing
Radical ploughing with a Conservative heifer—and
it seems at least fully as fitting that he should be
paid by those whose work he has done as by those
whom he has made to do the work. But somehow
there is no competition—the Scotch Bealesites take
the goods the Conservative demigod provides, and
incline to say nothing about it. The question,
therefore, as to whoare the proper entertainers does
not practically arise, and the merely abstract ques-
tion is not very interesting. Behind that, however,
comes another question—for what merit or achieve-
ment is it that the Scotch Conservatives, having
neglected Mr. Disraeli so long, are bent on doing
him honour now ? That is not only a natural but
an irrepressible question, and one which, pending
explanations, the more it is considered seems the
more unanswerable. It is now a very long time—
almost a generation—since the Scottish Conserva-
tives have seen fit formally to honour any Conser-
vative statesman; and it is just about as long since
Mr. Disraeli, now to be complimented for the first
time, began his career in Parliament. It is exactly
30 years since Sir Robert Peel was entertained at a
really great banquet at Glasgow. Is this his right-
ful successor who is now to be entertained at Edin-
burgh, and is this entertainment to be given for
the same kind of services? Sir Robert Peel was
entertained at Glasgow when, after having unsuc-
cessfully though strenuously resisted Parliamentary
reform, he had, by the skilful management of other
questions, brought back the Conservative party
almost to an equality of strength, and had " con-
served" some of those institutions, such as the
Irish , Church, of which the Conservatives then
claimed to be the special guardians. In a word,
Sir Robert Peel was entertained because he had
resisted the £lO Reform Bill, and had defeated or
impeded some of the legitimate consequences of that
dreaded measure. It might seem easy to say that
it is for quite opposite services or disservices that
Mr. Disraeli is now to be entertained ; but in truth
it is not easy to say anything about the matter till
we are told which is the part of Mr. Disraeli's very
variegated political career for whic!i the Scotch
Conservatives have contracted a somewhat sudden
admiration. During the 40 years that Mr. Disraeli
has been a public man, and the 30 years that he has
been a Parliamentary man, the
.Scotch Conserva-
tives have never until now thought of doing him
honour, or indicated any desire to behold his face.
He has, in his time, played four distinct political
parts—and it is desirable to know for which per-
formance he is now about to receive that applause
which, in a purely histrionic view, he has pretty
equally deserved in them all. He began as a Radical
under the patronage of Joseph Hume and Daniel
O'Connell ; but pass that over, because it may
pretty safely be assumed that this is not what the
Scotch Conservatives mean to commemorate, be-
cause Mr. Disraeli has obviously come back very
nearly to the place whence he started. There is
indeed cause for pathos rather than for jeering in
comparing Mr. Disraeli's earliest past with his pre-
sent—in seeing him, after a long, arduous, excited,
and exhausting career, coming back in the end to
where he was at the beginning—

- as a hare whom horns and hounds pursue,
Pants to the place from whence at first he flew.

Then be became a faithful though ambitious fol-
lower of Sir Robert Peel ; but he did not in that
capacity attain such eminence as to render it sup-
posable that it is for that either that the Scotch
Conservatives are honouring him 20 years after date.
His eminence first came when Sir Robert Peel first
left his party, and Mr. Disraeli undertook the task
of punishment and revenge. It must be admitted
that, with the distinguished exception of the Duke
of Buccleuch (is he to be chairman of the Disraelite
dinner?), and also of one or two other magnates,
such as Sir George Clerk and the late Lord Had-
dington, all the Scotch Conservatives were in that
case with Mr. Disraeli. The English Conservatives
split into Peelites and Protectionists, but we knew
almost nothing of such distinctions here—with the
Scotch Tories, Peel was a traitor, and Mr. Disraeli
an instrument of divine justice. There was, by-the-
bye, another great Conservative dinner got up even
so late as 1851, by pretty nearly the same people
who are getting up Mr. Disraeli's dinner at this
time—the late Lord Eglinton presided, and, Peel
being then beyond the reach of wrath, the very Duke
of Buccleuch was rebuked, though with all the
gentleness due to a duke. But even then Mr.
Disraeli was not thought of—the opinions were
endorsed, and the denunciations echoed ; but the
man was not invited, and but slightly complimented.
Is it meant to repair this mistake at this late hour
and under these present circumstances ?

It can scarcely be—for, besides lapse of time, the
circumstances have so entirely changed that Mr.
Disraeli is fresh from doing more and worse than the
Scotch Conservatives accused Sir Robert Peel of
doing the last time they " greatly daring, dined.',
Peel confessedly changed his opinions on a certain
question ; he resigned in order both to abdicate the
leadership of his party and to let his newly adopted
opinions be carried out by their older advo-
cates ; and he consented to carry out his
new opinions when their older advocates had
failed to form a government, when he had
separated himself from his old party, and had the
promise of support from his former opponents. Mr.
Disraeli, without confessing any change of opinion,
has acted in the teeth of his former professions, and
has pulled his party after him to illimitable lengths
in a course in which he and they had previously
refused to advance one inch. Is it for this that the
Scotch Conservatives are about to honour Mr.
Disraeli in 1867 ? If so, why did they not much
more honour Sir Robert Peel in 1846 ? Rather,
wby, on the contrary, did they then revile Peel, and
revile him through Mr. Disraeli as their organ ?
Why do our Scotch Conservatives give Mr. Disraeli
a dinner for stealing a horse, while they declared a
halter too good for Sir Robert Peel, who only looked
over the hedge? Mr. Disraeli made a good hit by
denouncing Sir Robert Peel, and also by implication
the Duke of Buccleuch, as having " caught the
Whigs bathing, and stolen their clothes ;" but Mr.
Disraeli has now caught the Radicals bathing, and
has run off, not merely with their clothes, but with
their skins. And the Duke of Buccleuch (or if not,
everybody will understand the reason why) is to be
the head and front of a compliment paid to the man
who was both funny and furious upon him for an
incomparably smaller breach of fidelity to party and
principle. Of course, returning good for evil is a
fine thing, and all the finer that it is so very rare.
But the case of the rest of the dinner company,
though a still more rare, will not be nearly so fine
a thing—for they will be complimenting a man for
doing a thing a hundred times more evil than the
thing for the doing of which they employed this
same man to revile and persecute another man.

Turning from men to measures, and from prin-
ciples to results, perhaps it is gratitude for the Re-
form Bill that is meant to be expressed by the Dis-
raelite dinher. Well, the bill either is Mr. Disraeli's
or it i<9 pot And, in eider case, the Conservatives

are in something of a dilemma. If, as some people
say and some facts prove, the bill is not his,
then the gratitude should be given not to him,
but to the Liberal majority of the House of Com-
mons, by whom he was disregarded and overruled ;
or otherwise, the dinner should express to Mr.
Disraeli not gratitude as a Minister who has car-
ried a great measure, but sympathy and compassion
for him as a Minister who could not carry his oNA n
measure, and submitted to the carrying of other
people's measures. If the bill is to be considered as
Mr. Disraeli's, then, of course, the Scotch Conser-
vatives are dining the right man—provided that they
are really delighted with the probable results of
household suffrage. Thus, after all, theleast unlikely
solution of the question why the Scotch Conserva-
tives are complimenting Mr. Disraeli is, that they
are thankful that the suffrage which they thought
too low at £lO has been brought down to nil. Per-
haps that was always their desire—only they never
before expressed it. They not only dissembled their
love, but were always kicking the object of it down
stairs. Of course there are difficulties also about
this hypothesis of the dinner being a sort of Te Deurn
for household suffrage ; but we can be patient,
especially as the whole affair is one of those which
are generally found most explainable after dinner.