The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, uCTOBER 4, 1867.

quaST. LEONARD'S-ON-SEA, 55, Warrior-
sro.--Fir,t-chss BOARDING HOUSE. Good sea
view. A,icess to ornamental gardens. Terms moderate.
Admirably adapted f*,,r vi,itors from India.

MICHAELMAS BENZ WALS.

NORTII BRITISII AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Acts of Parliament.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Policies should be renewed within fifteen Jays from the
29th instant. Receipts may be had at the various Agencies
and Branches, and at the Head Office.
London
61 Threadneedle-street, E.C.
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IN est-End Office, 8, Waterloo-place, S.W.
September, 1867.

WIL I\llN GT 0 N AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
£200,000 SIX PER CENT. STERLING MORTGAGE
BONDS.
COTTON LOAN BONDS, issued by Messrs. J. H.
SCIIRODER and CO., and stamped by the. London and
County Bank, taken in part payment.
The undersigned is authorised to offer £200,000 of the
MORTGAGE BONDS of tho above Railway, bearing 6
per cent. interest.
The principal and interest of those Bonds are payable in
London in sterling, at the office of Messrs. Robert Benson
and Co., and each Bond will be countersigned by them.
The railway is in full operation, producing ample re-
venues over expenditure to provide for the interest and
redemption of these Bonds.
The Bonds will bo in sums of £2OO each, and will be
issued at the average price of 721 per cent., and payments
will be received as follows:-
5 per cont. on application.
15 per cent. on allotment.
35 per cent. in cash on November 15, 1867; or at the
option of the applicant, 10 per cent. in cash and
25 per cent. in cotton loan bonds, ex the coupons
overdue thereon, issued by Messrs. J. 11. Schroder
and Co., and stamped by the London and County
Bank, which bonds will bo accepted at the price
of 25 per cent.
171 per cent. on the 15th January, 1868.

721 per cent.
Prospectuses, forms of application, and all particulars,
may be obtained of the undersigned at the London Office
of the Company, 10, King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street,
E.C. ; the London and County Bank, E.C.; and at the
office of the Committee of Cotton Loan Bondholders, 32,
Nicholas-lane, E.C.
HENRY M. DRANE,
President of the Wilmington and Manchester
Railway.

INDIA OFFICE, September 21, 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 24th 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.

CONTRACT FOR WHEAT AND OATS.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 28th September, 1867.
THE 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.:—
To be tendered for
Quantities. at a rate.

Imperial Bushels.
Wheat
Oats
One 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 aro to be made for each Article.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders aro 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 acceptine 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 601bper
bushel, and no Oats of less than 421 b. per bushel.
The samples produced by persons whose Tenders aro
not accepted aro 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-
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 bear in the left-hand corner the words,
" Tender, ," and must also be delivered at the
Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

By order,ANONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

WALKER'S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
are superseding all others. Prize medals, ',melon,
1862, P9.r14, 1857. Gold from £l5 155., silver from £6 65.-
68, Cornhill, and 230, Regent-street.

MADAME RACHEL'S CIRCASSIAN
BEAUTY WASH. Beautiful for ever.-47A, New
Bond-street; 24 and 25, Rue de Choiseul, Boulevart des
Italiens, Paris.

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

LkAIPLOUGH'S PYRETIC SALINE forms a
most invigorating summer draught, curin4 headache.
giddiness, sea and bilious sickness, or any form of skin
affections.
Sold by all chemists, and the maker, IL Lamplough, 113,
Holborn-hill, E.C.

EAU-DE-VIE.—This Pare PALE BRANDY,
18a. per gallon, is vtry superior to recent importations
of Cognac, recommended by the medioal profession, and ex-
tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 338. per dozen, or in
a case 395., railway carriage paid.—HENRY BRETT and
CO., Old Furnival's Distillery, Holborn, EX , and 80, Regent-
street, S.W. Established 1829.

THE GREAT SHIP RACE
ATtIEL
. 1

TAEPING 2
Unlike most other Races this Race will be the greates
Boon to

"The Iluman Race,"

who are already rushing in numbers
TO THE EAST INDIA TEL COMPANY
for the delicious KAISHOWS and MONINGS Imported in
these and other clippers not "placed" in the race.
Warehouses-9, GREAT ST. HELEN'S CHURCHYARD.
Ask for the Clipper Mixture at 3s. Bd.

T E E T H.—Messrs. G A B R I E L.
(ESTABLISHED 1815).
NEW PAMPHLET, FREE BY POST FOR FOUR STAMPS,
Explaining the Painless System of Dentistry, and
self-adhesive Teeth without springs,
AT MODERATE CIIARGES.
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RAILWAY INfELLIGEkIC E.

ALYTH.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held on Saturday at Myth ; Mr. Kinloch in the

chair.

The report stated that there was again an excess
of revenue over expenditure. It amounted for the
past half year to £315. The traffic receipts during
the half year amounted to £1,178 and the expenses
to £649 ; the interest on feu-duty, &e., amounted
to £283, leaving a balance of £246. The capital
account showed that £42,632 had been expended.

The CHAIRMAN said there were several claims on
which the company paid at the rate of £lOO per
annum, and in the course of some time those claims
would be cleared off altogether. Their suspense
account amounted some time ago to £9OO, but now
it was reduced to £367. The traffic was increasing,
and no doubt would continuo to do so. It was a
prudent course not to pay a dividend until the end
of another half year, when they would probably be
able to pay a dividend of 2 per cent. on the ordi-
nary stock and 5 per cent. on the preference stock.
He then moved the adoption of the report, which
was seconded by Sir G. RAMSAY, and carried una-
nimously.

SPORTING INTEL LIGS'NOE.

Letting-7 to 4on Jura. Won by a length ; five lengths I
bAween second and third. The winner was not sold.

Iler Majesty's Plate of 100 gs ; three year olds Bst 51b, four
9st 71b, five Oat 121 b, six and aged 9st 131 b ; twice round
(about two miles and a half).
Major Stapylton's Sumleelah, by Jeremy Diddler
Madeleine, 6 yrs, Oat 131 b (T '7inowden) 1
Mr Wallow's 1111u1sey, 6 yrs, Oat 131 b (Tomlinson) 2
Mr F. Gordon's Bracken, 3 yrs, Bst 51b (M. Noble) 3
Mr T. Clayton's Musketeer, 5 yrs, 9st 121 b (S. Adams) 4
Betting—Even on Sundeelab, 6 to 4 apt Moulsey. Won
by a length ; six lengths between second and third. Mus-
keteer was beaten off.

The Mice'ouch Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft (to the fund),

with 50 sovs added ; ono mile and a half.

Marquis of Q.ueensberry's Morris Dancer, by Lord of the
Isles—Maggie Lauder, 6 yrs, 9st 81b
(Lord Queensberry) 1
Sir W. Elliot's Three per Cent., 4 yrs, lOst 71b (in 51b ex)
(Mr. Boynton) 2
Mr Dawson's Belmont, 4 yrs, list 41b (Mr Arnold) 3
Betting-11 to 8 agst Three per Cent., 6 to 4 agst Bel-
mont, 4to 1 agst Morris Dancer. Won by a length; three
lengths between second and third.

The Two Leaders.

(From the Saturday Review.)

Within the last few days the leaders of the two
great traditional parties who now serve under the
Radical junto have been doing emblematic things in
a typical manner. Mr. Disraeli has assisted at a
harvest feast, and Mr. G:adstone has helped to open
a dock. The one expatiated with genial ignorance
upon the brightness of the barley and the plentiful
ingathering of the oats ; while the other was deeply
moved and awfully impressive about iron and coal,
and the moral significance of big docks. The
Opposition leader spoke and felt at the foundation
of Barrow-in-Furness as the pious .zEneas may have
done when he came to Lavinium ; there was no
miraculous sow with 30 young ones, it is true, but
there were the Duke of Devonshire and the Marquis
of Hartington. Anyhow, his soul was inflamed
with prophetic fire, and his lips touched with a
sacred unction. The Minister chatted like a good-
humoured farmer over a pot of ale at the market-
town. Mr. Gladstone was penetrated as usual with
the high and holy profundity of all things, from
copper and cotton up to flesh and blood and his
fellow-Christians. He dwelt in his very best
funereal manner " upon the appearances of comfort,
and upon the good and sound arrangements
apparently made for the health and advantage of
the population, showing that amid the pursuit of
wealth those high and sacred purposes have not
been forgotten." Mr. Disraeli, ou the other hand,
did not seem to know or to care much about high
and sacred purposes. What he does know is that
the Buckinghamshire peasant loves three things—a
porch, an oven, and a tank; and, so far as Mr.
Disraeli can do anything for him, a porch, an oven,
and a tank he shall have. There is something quite
characteristic in this difference between calling a
tank a tank, and calling it a sacred purpose. It is
because Mr. Disraeli knows men that he is where he
is, at the very top of the political tree, while his
rival is croaking horribly against him on the lower
branches. He knows that in Buckinghamshire
the smiling yokels like preachments very well
in their proper place, but that elsewhere
they dislike them exceedingly, while they
are intensely charmed to think that their great
politician knows what it is to have a tank or an
oven of your own. Mr. Gladstone has less discern-
ment. He never loses the fervour of a very young
and devout curate in his first parish. He is always
ready for an exhortation. No occasion is too small
to be improved. We can never deplore enough
that it was not he, instead of Mr. Disraeli, who first
revealed to mankind the expediency of crossing a
Southdown with a Cotswold. What, in the hands
of the one, was a mere process of sheep-breeding,
would have assumed with the other nothing less
than the solemnity of a great religious observance.
We laughed at the one ; we should not have escaped
from the other without a wonderful deepening of
moral conviction. A mere agricultural innovation
with Mr. Disraeli would certainly have been satu-
rated with ethical or theological meaning by Mr.
Gladstone. And can we not imagine the disdain
with which the statesman who is chafing in the cold
shade would read his sunny rival's easy assurance
that he is not "up to politics" in September ? As
if there were any moment in life in which a man
ought not to be up to that great and difficult art
in which the happiness and advancement of so
many millions of fellow-creatures are wrapped up ;
as if the accident of a month which the fri-
volous make a holiday could justify a Chancellor
of the Exchequer in declining to preach to his
neighbours little moral and political sermons.
Still, for all this, Mr. Disraeli makes very pleasant
and seasonable September reading.
If this were a less sceptical age, and metempsy-
chosis were in fashion, one might almost believe that
the soul of the late Lord Palmerston had passed into
Mr. Disraeli. In the management of the House of
Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer has
shown that he can bend the bow of the departed
veteran, who knew the ways of many men and many
cities, with no unequal skill. The mantle of the
departed chief sits pretty easily on the shoulders of
his adroit successor. They are much of a figure.
Out of the house, too, there is a resemblance. Mr.
Disraeli at Hughenden and Lord Palmerston at a
Romney ploughing-match come to pretty nearly the
same thing. The proceedings at Hughenden the
other day suggest dreadful thoughts. Is it possible
that we have just entered, in spite of Reform Bills
and Trades' Unions and Fenians, upon a second
Palmerstonian epoch ? that we have to look forward
to a long gloomy era of joking and cajoling, of all
things being made pleasant to all men, of no
things being done for any man ? that in the Ses-
sion we are to be exasperated by a clever imitation
of activity, and in the vacation to be amused
by clever imitations of jocularity ? Is all this pos-
sible ? We are sure that, if it is, Mr. Disraeli is
competent to realise it. First of all, he enjoys
strategy of any sort, and has an inborn gift for
imitation. Imitation comes easier to him than
nature. It allows a greater freedom of play for the
wonderful variety of his acquired capacities. His
repertory is perhaps the most extensive of any
statesman's in Europe. He can play the philo-
sopher, generalising on history or human life, in a
way which might and does take in philosophers by
profession. As the playful or biting epigrammatist
he is matchless. As theologian ho once persuaded
a whole crowd of Oxford parsons and tutors, and
particularly undergraduates, that he had for ever
extinguished the theological pretensions of a Coleus°,
a Jowett, a Maurice, a Stanley, to say nothing of
the scientific pretensions of a Darwin. As practical
farmer, nobody would ever find out that he does
not know all about turnips and wurzel, about sheep
and wool, and barley and oats, about porches and
tanks. And, most marvellous of all, he has shown
that he can beat Mr. Gladstone on his own funereal
ground. He infused a truer pathos and a higher
solemnity into the twenty lines he spoke about Mr.
Cobden than Mr. Gladstone ever reached in the
House or out of it. There is no limit to this as-
tounding versatility. Perhaps a worse thing than
Palmerstonism would befall us if Mr. Disraeli took
very seriously to politics. Suppose he were to
become earnest about them. In the eventful session
which is just over there was some reason for sus-
pecting that he had allowed himself to grow really
earnest about Reform. And we know what he has
done, and what portentous difficulties he van-
quished. Somebody said of the thrice immortal
Wilkes that if he had only had a good character,
and George 111. a bad one, Wilkes would have
, driven the King out of the country. Most likely
he would, and the kingdom would not have been
much the worse if he had driven both him and his
eldest son out. Some future historian may say in
like manner, if Mr. Disraeli had had a good charac-
ter to fall back upon, he would have driven his rival
still deeper into the shade than he is now. In this
case the kingdom would decidedly be a good
deal the worse. To have skipped George IV.