The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1867.

CONTRACT FOR WHEAT AND OATS.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
llluse, 28th September, 1867.
(rim COMMISSIONERS for EXECUIING
L the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
11th October next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will bo
ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to
CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned
Articles, viz. :

To be tendered for
at a rate.

Quantities.
Imperial Bushels.
Wheat .. 10,000
Oats
Ono half of each to be delivered in three weeks from the
date of Contract, and the remainder thereof in three weeks
afterwards, or earlier, if preferred by the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of
the Articles.
Separate tenders are to be made for each Article.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole
or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a
greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an
unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders.
Samples of the wheat and oats (not less than 2 quarts of
each) must be produced by the parties tendering.
No Wheat tendered is to be of less weight than 601 b per
bushel, and no Oats of less than 421 b. per bushel.
The samples produced by persons whose Tenders are
not accepted aro to be taken away by them immediately
after the contracts have bean decided.
No Tenders will bo received unless made in accordance
with the above denomination of quantities and rates ; and
Contractors in claiming payment are to make out their in-
voices in pounds at per 1001 b.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House.
Particular attention is called to the Conditions of the
Contracts, which may be seen in the said Lobby. NO Ten-
der will be received after Noon on the day of treaty, and
it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent
on his behalf, should attend at the office on the day of Con-
tract, as the result of the offer received from each person
will be communicated to him and to his proposed sureties
in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and boar in the left-hand corner the words,
"Tender, ," and must also bo delivered at the
Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

By order,
ANTONIO BItADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

INDIA OFFICE, September 24, 1867.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Rolls of
Officers of her Majesty's Indian Army on the staff
of the Commander-in-Chief in India,
Of Officers of the 2d Regiment Cavalry, Hyderabad
Contingent, and
Of the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Gunners
of the A Troop, Horse Brigade, Madras Artillery, serving
with the " Saugor Field Division" under the command of
Major-General Sir G. C. Whitlock, K.C.8., entitled to share
in the first distribution of the BANDA and KIRWEE
PRIZE MONEY, whose shares have not been paid in
India, have been received, and that payment of shares will
commence at this Office on the 21th October next, and will
be continued daily between the hours of 11 and 2.
Soldiers serving should apply through their Commanding
Officers, and Pensioners through the Staff Officers of Pen-
sioners of their districts.

All persons should state clearly the name of the officer
or soldier on whose account the prize is claimed, together
with the rank and regimental number borne at the time of
the capture of Banda or Kirwee in 1858.
Notice is also given that immediately upon the receipt
of the Rolls of the remaining corps, a notification similar
to the present will be made.

T. T. PEARS, Major-General,
Military Secretary.

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

LAMPLOUGH'S PYRETIC SALINE forms a
most invigorating summer draught, curing headache,
giddiness, sea and bilious sickness, or any form of skin
affections.
Sold by all chemists, and the maker, H. Lamplough, 113,
Holborn-hill, E.C.

house, using it as a means of speculation, and sell-
ing pieces of his garments and his personal effects
for large prices. The c.rrespondent also states, but
for this he will not vouch, that there is a report
that Lisso removed a small portion of the skull,
which he sold, replacing it with wood. The body
of the Emperor was in a good state of pre-
servation, as far as outward appearance showed.
There is a report that the residence of Baron
Magnus bad been broken into by order of Juarez
to secure important documents supposed to be in his
possession, but they were not found.

ACCIDENT TO THE EMPRESS OF 7'HE

FRENCH.

ST. JEAN DE Luz, Oct. 4.

Fifty years ago St. Jean de Luz and Socoa were
names familiar enough to English ears, the former
as the headquarters of the Duke of 'Wellington, the
latter as the little port at which the stores and
munitions of the British army were landed ; subse-
quently their career has been so uneventful that you
may not know of the existence of a breakwater which
now runs out from Socoa point. _ .

Here last night happened an accident which in-
volved the life of one poor fellow, but which might
have been politically much more disastrous. The
Empress and the Prince Imperial had been cruising
towards the Spanish coast; but, finding the sea would
be too high to land at Biarritz, the Royal yacht
-took shelter behind the breakwater, and the Royal
party, instead of landing at Socoa, started in the
yacht's boats for St. Jean de Luz. The pilot who
had charge of the leading boat, in which were the
Empress and the Prince, missed the entrance of the
harbour, ran the boat among the rocks, somehow
fell overboard himself, and was drowned. The
Royal party were carried through the surf and safely
landed. The boats in which were the suite hit the
entrance of the harbour, following, as they sup-
posed, the Royal gig. Great was their consternation
when they found what had befallen the Empress
and her boy.
You may like to hear something about this break-
water, as from its importance to the nautical world
1 believe it to be among the greatest of the many
great works of Napoleon 111. The breakwater,
which runs out from the foot of Socoa across the
bay to the eastward, is now completed to within
about a third of its length. Up to this time there
has been no harbour of refuge from La Rochelle to
the coast of Spain. Already, however, an ironclad
may ride behind the Socoa breakwater, sheltered
from all winds to the westward of north by compass,
from which quarter come those dangerous ocean seas
that have given to the Bay of Biscay its bad renown.
Contrary to the plan of the Plymouth breakwater,
this one of Socoa stands some 20ft. above the sea,
the base and parapet of the wall seaward being in
about the same perpendicular line, but it is slightly
concave between those points. The foundation is
made of huge oblong blocks, formed of rocks and
stones embedded in wooden cases filled with Port-
land cement. These blocks are taken out to sea
two at a time—one on each side of a sort of plat-
form, which, being lifted in the centre, sends both
masses overboard simultaneously, to find their rest-
ing place as chance throws them. The plan has re-
sulted in a structure which has stood the spring
and present equinox without the apparent displace-
ment of a stone. The Emperor takes great interest
in this work, and as a recognition of its success has
lately paid it a State visit.
In these holyday times a man may do worse than
spend a week or two in rambles among the neigh-
bouring bills and quaint old Basque towns ; and he
will find an able chaplain and a simple little church,
and may pass an English Sunday at St. Jean de
Luz.

with his aide-de-camp, Capt. Maitland Lennox, for

London.

On Saturday Brigade-Major W. W. Lynch, at-
tached to the Staff of Major-Gen. F. Mu• ray,
commanding the division at Clutharn, under N.,' hose
superintendence the five screw steamers Boliva7,
Empress, Commoundouris, Parana, and Venetia
have been fitted up and equipp3,l for the convey-
ance of mules !or the Abyssinian expedition, pro-
ceeded from headquarters to Plymouth for the
purpose of making a final inspection of the vessels
previous to their departure during the present
week. The steamers will proceed direct to Gibraltar,
where they will take on board the mules purchased
under the direction of the officials sent out from
this country, together with a number of muleteers
specially engaged, after which they will call at Malta
to take on board mules from that island. Each
vessel is fitted up to convey about 150 mules.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Alfred A. C. Parr, James
Brant, and Robert M. Sparrow, midshipmen, to the
Minotaur.