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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, uCTOBER 8, 1867.

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CONTRACT FOR WHEAT AND OATS.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 28th September, 1867.
riIHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUIING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
14th October next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will be
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.:—

Quantities. To be tendered for
at a rate.
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 601bpor
bushel, and no Oats of less than 421 b. per bushel.
The samples produced by persons whose Tenders are
not accepted are to be taken away by them immediately
after the contracts have bean decided.
No Tenders will be received unless made in accordance
with the above denomination of quantities and rates ; and
Contractors in claiming payment are to make out their in-
♦oices in pounds at per 100 lb.
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 tip 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 BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

INDIA. OFFICE, September 21, 1867.
INTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Rolls of
Officers of her Majesty's Indian Army on the staff
of the Commauder-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 roceived, 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.

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have abandoned colonial legislation, we grudge
military defence, but the Privy Council is still re-
garded throughout the colonies as the supreme
expositor of the laws of the empire. That moral
influence of a British tribunal is still unshaken ;
and its authority has in our times been largely
augmented by the wisdom, temper, and equity
which Lord Kingsdown gave to it. The war of
1854 re-opened, after forty years' peace, the
Maritime Courts of Prize. The principles of Lord
Stowell and the practices of the last war were to
be subjected to legal revision. In these questions
Lord Kingsdown took the warmest interest ; and if
the result of the decisions of that period has been
to mitigate the pressure of war on neutral States,
and to substitute more temperate and civilised usages
for the harsh practices of former times, no small
share of the credit is due to the spirit of his judg-
ments. Lastly, it devolved upon him to share in the
decisions of those great ecclesiastical causes which
are imperishably connected with the history of the
Church of England. The cases of " Gorham v. the
Bishop of Exeter," of " Liddell v. Westerton,"
" Long v. Bishop of Cape Town," and " Essays and
Reviews," were decided by Committees of the Privy
Council, in which Lord Kingsdown took an active
part, and they were• decided in entire conformity
with his views. Friendly to the Church of England,
as a pious, tolerant, and beneficent institution, he
abhorred the exclusive pretensions of dogmatical
theologians, and he held very cheap the claims of
sacerdotal authority. To maintain the Church of
England on the broad foundations of the law of the
laud, without allowing any party to persecute or
proscribe its opponents, was the scope and object of
his views. This liberality of opinion drew down on
him the bitter hatred of the bigots, which has re-
cently been manifested in a peculiar manner by Dr.
Pusey at Oxford; but it has earned for the memory of
Lord Kingsdown the profound respect and gratitude
of the most eminent, judicious, and enlightened of
his countrymen.
Lord Kingsdown was never married ; his title,
therefore, is extinct. Of his property the larger
part reverts to a descendant of Sir Robert ;
the remainder pas3es to the brother and nephews
of the late peer.

THE DEA7H OF M. FOULD.

(From the Times.)
_ _

The death of M. Achille Fould, a member of the
Council of State and late Minister of Finance, was
reported from Tarbes on Saturday last. The loss
of this statesman would at all times have been a
grievous one for the Emperor Napoleon ; but it
must fall upon him with aggravated severity at the
present moment. Indeed, strongly disturbed as the
mind of the French Monarch may lately have been
by the disappearance of so many of his ablest and
most trusted servants from the scene of this world,
it is doubtful whether among those who have gone
before or who still survive M. Fould, there was or
is any man whom both France and her ruler could
not better have spared than this most upright and
faithful of national stewards. In De Morny the
Emperor may lament a more staunch supporter ; in
Mocquard a more intimate confidant ; Billault may
have been a more influential advocate in the Cham-
ber ; Thouvenel a surer guide in the Cabinet ; but
all these stood forward as champions of the Impe-
rial policy. Their task was ilmited to sheilding
their Sovereign from the attacks of his adversaries.
Fould alone knew how to save him from himself.
Ile warned him against errors into which he was
falling ; he enabled him to repair blunders to which
he was already committed. The course he pre-
scribed was not always the most palatable, but it
was the only salutary one. Seated at the Exchequer,
Fould had the authority of the physician—disre-
garded, and even loathed in moments of wilful
imprudence, but invoked and held paramount on
the first appearance of alarming symptoms.

Although his name was known, and his abilities
acknowledged under Louis Philippe, and his poli-
tical career began six years before the downfall of
the July Monarchy, Fould may properly be reck-
oned among the statesmen of the Second Republic
and Empire. He was in repeated emergencies
the good genius of the President and the Emperor.
A Conservative under Guizot, Fould submitted to
the Revolution, and accepted the Republic, and
only strove to keep the movement within the limits
of reason and order. His influence is supposed to
have had weight with the Provisional Government,
when strong measures became necessary to crush
Red-Republicanism in the bloody days of June ;
and he is even said to have exposed his life in the
struggle against the combatants at the Barricades.
On the 2d of December, 1851, Fould appeared, as
Finance Minister, among the members of the Coup
d'Etat Cabinet. Impressed with the necessity of a
strong-handed Government in France, Fould cast
in his lot with the Restorer of the Empire. But he
was a partisan " up to the altar" only. No political
consideration could induce him to become a sharer
of what he deemed an act of spoliation, and he
threw up his portfolio only a few weeks after his
instalment rather than sign the decree of the
sequestration of the property of the Orleans family.
In other respects, however, Fould was only a
financier, not a politician. Government measures
concerned him merely in so far as the situation of
the Treasury, the credit and prosperity of the
country might be affected by them. As under the
republic his voice had been fearlessly raised against
the issue of assignats, so under the empire he would
take no place in his Sovereign's Council, except on
condition of the surrender of those supplementary
and extraordinary credits which virtually invested
the Executive with full financial powers, and robbed
the national representation of its most legitimate
functions. If with respect to the budget the Im-
perial Constitution is anything better than a fiction,
it is due to Fould alone. The steward's books could
not for ever be kept out of sight. It was necessary
not only to audit his accounts, but also listen to
his suggestions, and compound with his exigencies.
Whatever was sternly denounced by him as unwar-
rantable expenditure had to be inexorably cur-
tailed. The words "The Empire is Peace" were
spoken at Bordeaux under his inspiration. Had
his voice been heard throughout, the Mexican en-
terprise would never have gone beyond its original
object. He did not advise " Peace at any price ;"
but he at least deprecated war for war's sake. Un-
fortunately his aid was only called in now and then
in great extremities. His mission was to pick up
the pieces of what others had broken. Other influ-
ences were at work which his wisdom and firmness
could not always overrule. To make the two ends
meet appeared a mean object to people who
concerned themselves about the rank of the Great
Nation and the keenness of its susceptibilities. The
French flag must be held up to its proper height,
no matter how low the French Funds might sink.
Moreover, the Empire came in for the socialist
inheritance of the Republic. The scheme of a
loan of a milliard of francs, or 40 millions sterling,
to ba employed in works of public utility, and in
acknowledgment of the rights of labour, always
afforded a popular cry. Strong as Fould's control
might be over the Emperor's mind, other men had
the key to the Imperial heart. Old services had
to be requited with new rewards ; private fortunes
were to be built or restored on public speculation. As
a Minister of State and of the household Fould
proved himself no niggard of the public money. He
had been an amateur artist in early youth ; he had
oriental blood in his veins, had travelled South and
East, and improved a naturally exquisite taste. The
beautiful could have no less strong claims to his
support than the useful. The completion of the
Louvre and the Exhibition of 1855 benefited no less
by his skilful management than by his munificent
patronage, But the date of these enterprises was
anterior to the Crimean and all subsequent wars.
The Empire must be either glorious or magnificent,
and Fould thought that peace could justify luxury.
But it was otherwise when reckless men began to

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burn the candle at both ends, when what the
Marshals did not waste in gunpowder the Prefects
squandered in bricks and mortar.
With an eye to business and a heart for
his country, Fould gave way to extravagance, and
bided the time for retrenchment. His appeal was
to Philip sober. When hopelessly in difficulties,
France had to turn to him. Matters were never so
desperate but Fould's presence restored popular
confidence. The remedies ho brought with him
were bitter, pungent ; but faith in their efficiency
made them go down. Fould owed nothing to
favour. He was no courtier ; he stooped to no
compromise with truth and duty. He was a
wealthy man, and indifferent to the sweets of office.
Salary to him was no object, and his bank afforded
him as pleasurable excitement as the Treasury.
But he knew his business, and the value of it.
In that knowledge lay the secret of his ascendancy.
He was thrifty, intelligent, liberal. We are not
aware that he originated any important financial
theory. We are not sure that he was among the
earliest converts to the doctrines of Free Trade. We
do not know to what extent on the eve of his death
he applauded himself on the success of the Credit
Mobilier, his own creation. We doubt whether
the French people will eventually thank him for

"democratising the State Credit." But he was a
banker, and the son of a banker. He knew how
much valour and bow much discretion must go to
the safety of money transactions. As an account-
ant he introduced vital reforms. As a contriver of
Ways and Means he took a leaf out of Mr. Glad-
stone's book. Above all things, he was earnest
and honest. With these two qualities, and a proper
degree of firmness and independence, the task of a
Chancellor of the Exchequer is far less arduous
than is generally imagined. Place the Finances
above all other Government departments, give the
steward carte blanche over the expenditure, and
there will be plenty as well as order in the house-
hold.

it is only a few days since M. Fould was said to

have been summoned to Biarritz, where it was ex-
pected he might be induced to resume office in the
Emperor's Cabinet. But as his name was coupled
with those of Lavalette and Drouyn de Lhuys, of
:Mustier and Marshal Niel, it would be difficult to
put any safe construction on those vague rumours.
But, if the Emperor wished for Fould's services,
he knew full well on what terms they were to be
obtained. Under Fould's administration the Em-
pire at all times was peace. Had he come iu at this
juncture, or had even the thought of calling him

in, not only crossed the Emperor's mind, but also
take a firm hold of it, there was an end of the
Army Reorganisation Bill, an end of France's in-
terference in the affairs of Italy and Germany, an
end not only of the distant prospects of war, but
also of the more pressing horrors of an armed
peace. llad the Emperor's mind taken that turn,
the death of Fould could not have been more in-
opportune. But the Emperor, in any straits, knows
how to be his own minister. If he follows what
has been at all times Fould's programme, he will
find Fould's loss not altogether irreparable.

FENIANISJI IN THE NORTH OF
ENGLAND.

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A good deal of anxiety prevails in the north of
England with regard to the movements of the
Fenians. A large number of the lower order of the
Irish are employed iu the factories, ironworks, and
iron shipbuilding yards of the Tyne and Tees, and
in some of the pit districts of Durham and Northum-
berland, and of late midnight drillings and other
such like movements have been observed among
them. All the garrisons and barracks are now
guarded by soldiers, and there is not very much
danger of an attack in that direction, and if the
Fenians did make any rash outbreak it is very likely
a good account would be given of them. Fears,
however, are entertained of street outrages, and if
such were to occur they would be almost certain to
bring on a conflict between thelower orders of Eng-
lish and Irish, and the consequences might be serious

if judged by the tremendous onslaught made upon
the Irish by the population when an outbreak of
Fenianism occurred at Newcastle races a year and
a quarter ago. On Friday and Saturday great
excitement was caused in Berwick by a report which
was spread to the effect that the Fenians intended
to make an attack upon the barracks and seize the
arms and ammunition store there. There are a
great number of arms in the barracks, belonging
to the Northumberland Artillery Militia, and also

,o the Volunteer corps of the town. It appears

that information of the apprehended attack was
communicated in the first instance to Sir Richard
Mayne in London, and was to the effect that the
attack was to be made, and the arms and ammuni-

tion seized. This was to be done by a party of
Fenians who were to come from the south. Sir R.
Mayne, on receiving the information, at once de-
spatched a detective officer to Berwick, who arrived
by the morning express on Friday. The officer pro-
ceeded to the residence of Superintendent Ronald-
son, to whom he told his mission. They then went
to the residence of the Mayor, to whom the infor-
mation supplied to Sir Richard Mayne was told.
His worship called a meeting of the magistrates,
and also requested the attendance of Capt. M'Bay,
who is in command of the staff of the Northumber-
land Militia stationed at Berwick ; of the captain of
the gunboat stationed in the river, of the captain of
the Coastguard, and of ,the captains of the Volun-
teer corps in the town. To these gentlemen the
Mayor explained the object of the meeting, and
some discussion then took place as to the means to
be adopted to repel any attack that might be made.
The result of the meeting was that on Friday and
Saturday night the Volunteers in the town assembled
at the barracks, and each Volunteer had his gun
placed in his own possession, it being thought safer
for the Volunteers to have their weapons in their
own houses than to have them stored in the bar-
racks. The arms belonging to the Militia, which
are very considerable, have been properly secured,
the locks having been taken off the carbines pre-
viously. Two large field-pieces stationed in the
barrack square have been loaded, and so placed
as to repel any attack, from whatever quarter
it may be made. Hand grenades are also
ready to be thrown over the walls of the
barracks at any moment. The staff of the militia are
on duty day and night, and their arms are fully
charged. The coastguard and men of the gunboat
are also ready for action. The police are at present
on duty all night.

ACCIDENT ON TILE SOUIII EAST ERN
BAIL JAY.

The continental mail express train from Dover to
London, which is timed to leave Dover at at 4.15
a.m., met with an accident yesterday morning about
two miles beyond Pluckley station. The train in
question starts from the Admiralty pier at Dover on
the arrival of the mail packet, and makes no stoppage
all the way to London. Yesterday the train did not
leave Dover until nearly half-past 4. It was com-
posed of the engine and tender, goods van, two
first-class carriages, a second-class carriage, three
first-class carriages, mail carriage, and goods van—
nine carriages in all. The average rate of speed by
this train is very high, and yesterday it ran through
Pluckley station at from 50 to 60 miles an hour.
When a short distance from a bridge called New-
lane-bridge the second-class carriage left the rails
and drew the five carriages behind it off the rails as
well. The guards instantly took measures to stop
the momentum of the train, and the engine-driver
shut off the steam, but the train passed under
the New-lane-bridge and was not brought to a
standstill until it had passed over a distance of
nearly 500 yards from the spot where the carriages
first left the rails. The engine and tender, with
the van and the two first carriages, did not leave
the rails, and fortunately the couplings of all the


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carriages held. --Had any part of the train become
detached the consequences might have been fright-
ful, as the carriages would then have come into col-
lision and run one over the other. As it was not
one of them was thrown over, and not a single pas-
senger, out of about a hundred who were in the train,
was injured. Thera is no doubt as to the cause of
the accident. The part of the line where it occurred
is under repair, and labourers were at work last
week taking out the old sleepers and replacing them
with new. The ballast has been removed, and the
sleepers are exposed for a long distance. The heavy
rain of Sunday night has caused the soil to sink
under one or two of the sleepers which had been
newly put in, and the road hal what is termed
" dropped down." The preponderous weight of the
engine no doubt displaced the rail at this place in
the first instance, and the immense speed of the
train would cause the middle and rearmost carriages
to oscillate very considerably, and of course to
leave the rails on meeting with a break any-
where. The carriages, it appears, went off the
inner rails and proceeded with the wheels close
to the metals, breaking the iron " chairs" and
crushing the sleepers. As the sleepers were un-
covered with ballast the passengers must have suf-
fered a succession of terrible jerks, and the strength
of the couplings and the carriages must have been
tested to the utmost. The rolling steak of the
South Eastern Company cannot be surpassed for
workmanship of strength by that of aulother line
in the kingdom, and this circumstance there is no
doubt prevented the accident from becoming disas-
trous. When the passengers had somewhat recovered
from their fright they were taken on in that portion
of the train which still remained on the rails, and at
an up-station additional carriages were put on, in
which those persons who had occupied the carriages
left behind completed their journey. There were only
three women in the train, and we believe not one of
the passengers sustained so much as a bruise or a
scratch worth speaking of. Immediately on the
accident becoming known at Ashford, pilot engine
with a party of mechanics and labourers, under Mr.
Hendy, of the carriage department, proceeded to the
spot. Mr. Cudworth, locomotive superintendent,
and Mr. Mansell, carriage superintendent, followed
in another train. The carriages which had been

left behind were scarcely damaged, and they were
lifted on to the rails and brought to Ashford at 12
o'clock. Gangs of men were set to work restoring
the permanent way, and during the afternoon all
traces of the accident were effaced, and bath lines
of rails in working order.