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CONTRACT FOR PORTER

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, September 6, 1867.
TAE 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 THURSDAY, the
3d October, al-, Twelve o'clock at noon, they will be ready to
treat with sucll persons as may be 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 tho 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 bo 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 writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the loft-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.

CONTRACTS FOR SALT PORK.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, August 21, 1867.
T'
HE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD /UGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the
Ist 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 the undermentioned Ports the
following quantities of
SALT PORK,
all of the cure of the present soaaon, viz. :
Navy Pork.
DEPTFORD ............ 4,800 tierces 4,800 barrels.
11AULBOWLINE ... 2,400 ~ 2,400
Each tierce of Pork to contain 75 pieces of 41b. each,' and
each barrel 50 pieces of 4lbs. each, instead of the number of
pieces formerly contained in the tierces and barrels.
The Pork to bo delivered into the respective Stores as
follows, viz.:—One-third of each quantity for each place
by the 15th day of January, 1868; another third thereof
by the sth day of March, 1868; and the remainder thereof
by the 30th day of April, 1868 ; or any greater portion, or
the whole, at any earlier period, if preferred by the party
tendering, and to be paid for by bills at three days after
date, which will bo sent to parties as usual.
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 tit, or for a
greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an
unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders.
Every Tender must specify the name of the Person by
whom the Meat is intended to be clued, the Brand of the
Meat, and the place of cure.
Tenders for Pork of the cure of the United States of
America will not be admitted.
Persons tendering for more than ono Port must give a
separate Tender for each Port.
Persons tendering must give a reference to a Banker for
each surety proposed ; and they are desired to take special
notice that the use of Wooden Hoops is abolished, and that
Iron Hoops only will be required for the Casks in accord-
ance with the conditions of the Contract.
A Form of the Tender may be obtained, and the recently
altered conditions of the Contract, to which particular at-
tention is called, may seen in the Lobby of the Depart-
ment of the Controller of Victualling, Somerset louse; at
the Victualling Yards at Gosport and Plymouth ; or by
applying to the Agent Victualler at Haulbowline ; or to the
Collectors of nor Majesty's Customs at Bristol, Limerick,
Belfast, Waterford, and Newry;
or or Loth Commander Secretar
con-
to tho
Postmaster-General at Dublin; to
ducting the Packet Service at Liverpool.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner of the envelope
the words " Tender for Salt Pork," and must also b de-
livered at the Department of the Controller of Victualing,
Somerset House.
The Contractors will have topay ono-half the amount
of the Stamps on the Contracts and Bonds.
By order, •
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public tiecuritics,

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quarter past nine, at the Fairy Palace, Agricultural Hall.
The Illuminated Fountains play at a quarter before nine.
Four Military Bands, drums, fifes, cannon, &c., forming
an ensemble of more than 200 performers. See the
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NEW PROCESS FOR MAKING CHLORINE.

In the Mining Journal of Saturday (21st inst.)
we find the following letters from Mr. Walter Wel-
don and Mr. Townsend Ilook, in answer to the one
from Mr. Isham Baggs, in reference to the manu
facture of chlorine, Which appeared in the Mining
Journal of the previous Saturday (14th September),
and which, as relating to a matter of scientific in-
terest, was copied into our impression of last Mon-
-
day evening. Having already given one side of
the argument—if only in fair-play, we now readily
give insertion to the subjoined
Sir,—l beg to claim,
as a matter of simple justice,
space for a few words of most indignant denial of
the charges which
are brought against me in the
extraordinary letter from Mr. Isham Baggs, which
appears in the journal of last week. One of those
charges is that I have plagiarised from Mr. Baggs
the new process fur the manufacture of chlorine,
which I described at the recent meeting of the
British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Mr. Baggs asserts that
"in 1862, at the Soho
Works, Woburn," he communicated to my friend
Mr. Townsend Hook, of the Snodland Paperworks,
" the rationale of the whole process" which I de-
scribed and illustrated at Dundee,
and more than
insinuates that Mr. Hook must have communicated
to me what Mr. Baggs thus alleges that he com-
municated to him five years ago, and that I thus
at Dundee, pre-
saepnpteiatirged "as i ne "borrowedgeiiuino plumage" at
of
my
own brain"
what was really that of the brain of Mr. Baggs.
Permit me, Sir, to declare that Mr. Hook, whose
acquaintance I did not make until Feb. 24 last year,
has never at any time communicated to me
" the rationale" of any process for the manufacture
of chlorine ; that Hook has never informed me
of any particular whatever relative to any process
in to ly way connected with that manufacture ; that,
notwithstanding my baying been acquainted with
Mr. Hook for the last 18 monihs, and having once
been present at an interview between that gentle-
man and Mr. Baggs, I was entirely ignorant until
yesterday, when 1 first saw his letter in your columns,
that Mr. Baggs had ever experimented with respect
to that manufacture, or had ever projected any im-
provements in it ; that there is no mention or hint
in all chemical literature, neither in the records of
any patent office in the world, of anyone before
myself having ever experimented with any process
for the perpetual recovery of the oxide of manganese
used iu the manufacture of chlorine at all really re-
sembling that patented by me ; that this process
was in very truth my own original conception, and
has been honestly worked out by me, without help
or hint from any one whatever; and that I still
fully believe, previous to the publication of my first
specification relating to my process, no one but
myself had ever performed it, even in the laboratory.
Mr. Baggs further charges me. with having, in
my paper read at Dundee, made assertions with

respect to my process itself which were not in
accordance with facts. He also says, in allusion to
the statement made in my paper, that the oxide
most frequently obtained by my process contains
about 65 per cent. of binoxide ; that lie is " in a
position ino,,t positively to inform the public that
such is not the case," and that "45 per cent. is
much nearer the truth than 65 per cent." It
is difficult to condescend to make any reply
to so mendacious an assertion, but I will
just state that I exhibited at Dundee a
sample of oxide, which had been produced by the
hundredweight, which was reported by the profes-
sional analyst employed to test it as containing
about 78 per cent. of binoxide ; that I have very fre-
quently obtained by the.sarne process an oxide even
richer than this, and that all who have yet tried my
process have obtained an oxide of more than 55 per
cent, far oftener—even under the very imperfect
conditions which always obtain in first trials of a
new invention— than an oxide of any lower strength.
Similarly Mr. Baggs has the audacity to declare
that the oxide produced by my process " cannot be
treated," in what he chooses to call " the off-hand
manner" described in my paper, so as to enable all
the operations of tke process to be performed in one
and the same vessel, that vessel being the " still," in
which the artificial oxide is afterwards employed to
liberate chlorine ; the facts being that my process is
already in manufacturing use, and that artificial
oxide of manganeie produced by it is at this ripment
being treated quite successfully by a ton at a time,
exactly as described in my paper. Every other
statement made by Mr. Baggs with respect to my
process is similarly simply and entirely untrue.
So far from Mr. Baggs being " in a position to in.
form the public" upon any point whatever connected
with my process, he evidently does not even know
what my process is. The .process of which he pro-
fesses to have had so much unfavourable experience,
and his alleged experience of which is the sole jus-
tification he offers for his audacious statement, in small
capitals, that my process is " not new," cannot, on his
own showing, have been the same as mine, inasmuch
as lie found it impossible to obtain by it results
which my process yields with the utmost ease, and
could not render it available for manufacturing
purposes, whereas mine, as I have said, is in manu-
facturing operation at this moment. Moreover,
what Mr. Baggs, in his letter, describes as being my
process is simply the decomposition of still-liquor by
means of lime, and the subsequent preoxidation by
means of atmospheric oxygen of the protoxide of
manganese so obtained. As thus broadly stated,
this process, " the general rationale " of which was
known to chemists before Mr. Beggs wrs born, be-
long neither to Mr. Baggs nor to myself, but is
common property. During the last 30 or 40 years
a great many methods of carrying out this process,
all having precisely the same " general rationale,"
and all " identical in chemical details," and differing
only as regards methods of procedure, have been
patented, tried, found wanting, and abandoned. No
such process, until mine, has come into manufactur-
ing use. In such a case, it is only particular methods
of procedure that can be patented. Certain methods
of procedure are all that have been patented by me ;
it is these modes of procedure which make all the
difference between my success and the failure of my
predecessors in the same field ; and the very letter
in which Mr. Baggs so unfoundedly claims that I
have stolen my methods of procedure from him
conclusively proves that he does not even know what
they are. Nor is this unscrupulous claimant better
informed with respect to the simplest particulars re-
lating to the old method of manufacturing chlorine.
Because' speak of performing all the operations of my
process in a " still," he says that the vessel I use " can
be no other" than " a large leaden still, with blown
joints and scams," evidently entirely unaware that
roe noariy a generation now at kast 9) out of every
100 stills used in Great Britain for the generation
of chlorine for use in the manufacture of bleaching
powder have been made, not of lead, but of silicious
stone.

As I have said that I was ignorant, until 1 yes-
terday saw his letter to you, that Mr. Baggs had
ever projected any improvements in the manufacture
of chlorine, I am bound to refer, with some parti-
cularity, to the interview between Mr. Hook and
Mr. Baggs, at which, at Mr. Hook's request, I was
present. It took place some months after .1 had
patented my process ; previous to it I had never
either seen or beard of Mr. Baggs ; and I have
never seen him, nor till yesterday had I ever heard
of him since. Mr. Baggs says that the "object of
the interview was to discuss some projected im-
provements of" his " in the manufacture of bleach
(chlorine)," but this is certainly not the fact. It
was to discuss something with respect to the manu-
facture of " bleach ;" but in reply to a direct ques-
tion of mine, Mr. Baggs distinctly stated that what
he had in his mind had nothing to do with the
manufacture of chlorine, but only with the manu-
facture of "bleach" therefrom, after the chlorine
had been itself produced. The " further ques-
tions" which Mr. Baggs says " were not answered
satisfactorily," were as to whether Mr. Hook, before
receiving any information as to what Mr. Baggs
proposed to do beyond the general assertion that it
was to produce " better bleach" than could then be
commanded, would hand over £lO to enable Mr.
Baggs to make an apparatus which should show
what he could do—" an apparatus," said Mr. Baggs,
" which could stand on this little table," at which he
was taking his tea ; and would, moreover, sign some
written preliminary agreement : to both of which
conditions Mr. Hook declined to accede. There
was no hint that Mr. Baggs was then contemplat-
ing, or had ever contemplated, cheapening or other-
wise improving the manufacture of chlorine itself,
which is the sole thing that my process has reference
to. All he talked about was some new way of
applying the chlorine, after it had been liberated.
Moreover, he did not " keep his counsel" quite so
completely as he alleges, for lie went on to indicate
that an essential part of his plan consisted in bring-
ing the lime which it was desired to convert into
bleaching-powder into intimate contact with the
chlorine it was desired to absorb, by putting it into
a kind of revolving barrel-churn, and sending the
chlorine into that, an idea which, so far from being
new, was proposed at a very early period of the
bleaching-powder manufacture, was practised for
many years, and was at length superseded by better
Processes.
Some of the allegation° in Mr. Baggs's letter will
be better dealt with in a court of law than in your
columns, and I will therefore now leave its writer,
for the present at least, to the judgment of your
readers. They will not fail to estimate at its true
value what is simply one of those efforts at detrac-
tion which all honest and successful inventors would
seem nowadays to have to endure at the hands of
men who, unable to succeed themselves, seek to
soothe their • wounded vanity by the assertion of
unbounded claims to the merit of the success of
others ; and Mr. Baggs will not fail to find that
such charges as he has ventured to bring against
me, like the " curses" and "chickens" of the Spa-
nish proverb, "always come home to roost."
Park Villa, West llill, W. WELDON.
Highgate, Sept. 18.

Sir,—My attention has been called by Mr. Wel-
don to a letter in last week's Journal signed " 'sham
Baggs." I have read the letter, and the insinuation
contained in it that I communicated any chemical
knowledge whatever that had been confidently im-
parted to me by Mr. I. Baggs to Mr. Weldon, who
subsequently patented it, is simply and entirely
false. In 1862 my friend Mr. William Thomas, of
Soho Mills, met with and engaged Mr. Baggs to
conduct some experiments, and I joined in the ex-
penses. The results were worthless, and Mr. Baggs
was dismissed ; but, so far as the lapse of five years
enables me to recollect, during which time I have
not given Mr. Baggs's confidential communication a
second thought, they were on the absolute necessity
of our expending 80111 t) housansla to en Ale hint to

It was seven o'clock before the solemn Benedic-
tion service was over, and that being the time at
which I had been invited to a grand banquet in
the old episcopal palace, I hurried off, and in what
the French call a little quarter of an hour, stood
"in grande tenue " in the presence of the three
bishops, the maire, the prefect, and more than
100 other dignitaries, ecclesiastical and secular.
After dinner, the first toast was the Holy Father,
coupling with it his worthy representative Mgr.
Marinelli, who had been sent from Rome expressly
to represent his Holiness on this occasion of ,the ,
fetes. The next toast was that of Mgr. Haffreingue,
and long and loud was the applause that greeted
it. The venerable old man made a humorous re-
ply, and then the Bishop of Arras proposed the
English pilgrims, and being called upon to respond,
I told " inter alia" how devotion to the Blessed
Virgin was increasing in England, and how we
would come in greater numbers to Boulogne next
year. The banquet over, I quietly made my escape
into the ramparts, where the calm beauty of the
night contrasted gratefully with tie whirring ex-
citement of the day, and as the glorious full moon
lighted up the misty valley and river of the Seane
and the bold wooded hills and sparkling sea, I
thought of her who is " pulchra ut luna." On
Monday morning we were up betimes, for what
sluggard could lie in bed and hear all the bells of
the town summoning to the worship of the great
Creator. There is ever something new and beau-
tiful to be seen at Notre Dame during this blessed
time, and thither we went to witness the arrival
of 2,700 pilgrims from St. Omer. They came like
the others, with their banners and their song and
their offering for the sanctuary, and they came
also fasting and with little baskets containing the
necessaries for the day. It was a touching sight
to see the devotion of these people, and how it re-
quired the services of two priests to administer
the Holy Communion to them at Mass. One cir-
cumstance particularly struck me, that this the
most numerous pilgrimage of all that had visited
the sanctuary this year should have come from
a town that has its own renowned sanctuary of
our Lady, that of "Notre Dame des Miracles."
A large pilgrimage also came from Calais, and the
antiquated cure and doctor.had travelled all night
in a post-chaise, never having in• their lives yet
ventured on a railway. Hardly had the proces-
sional song ceased when the high notes of female
voices were heard approaching, and a beautiful
procession came in from the Ursuline Convent,
looking so pure and white and holy, that one
could have fancied it a troop of St. Ursulas come
back to earth again. Thus it is all day, and every
day for three weeks during this beautiful festival,
that devout pilgrims from various places come in
to pay their solemn homage at this chosen sanc-
tuary. In the afternoon, there was a grand pro-
cess'on to the crypt, and the effect of several
tnousanas'or perserisi-eaa with a lighted taper in
hand, winding through the tortuous vaulted laby-
rinth was very beautiful. Here and there could
be seen amongst the modern work some portion
of the ancient crypt, undoubtedly of the ninth
century. Later in the evening, a greater treat was
prepared for us in a fine sermon in French from
Father Hermann, on devotion to the Blessed Virgin;
and our day ended as usual with Benediction
of the Blessed Sacrament. On Tuesday morning
the Cathedral had its usual early attractions for
our pilgrims, and many seemed to linger about
it most part of the day. Some strolled off to the
fishing village of Portel, where they found most of
the male population had departed for the North
Sea fishing, and learned that before sailing 500
went to Holy Communion as a preparation for
the perils of the voyage. Then they visited
the grove of the gallant Colonel Dupuis. He
it was who on the morning of the Bth of Sep-
tember, before the storming of the Malakoff,
calmly sat down to write his will, and remembering
the beautiful feast, bequeathed his cross of the
Legion of Honour to Our Lady of Boulogne, and
then he received Holy Communion, and afterwards
nobly fell at the head of his regiment on that
fatal day. his body was recovered and sent to
his native town of Boulogne, where it was interred
with great pomp, and his cross was placed at the
feet of our Lady's statue. It was borne in the
procession on a velvet cushion ; and who that
saw it and did not leel his own heart fired to do
some heroic act in honour of our Lady! Tuesday
evening came too quickly for our pilgrims, and at
nine o'clock they assembled at the Lady Chapel
to offer their last prayers before departing on
their homeward voyage. Father Hermann said
the prayer for travellers; then we sang "
Queen of lleaven," the "Magnificat," and, finally,
the "Te Deum." By half-past ten each one had
taken possession of the berth previously engaged,
and then, on the calmest of nights, this the first
English pilgrimage for 300 years was on its way
back to England.
Next year another pilgrimage will be organised,
and, with the aid of a committee, it is hoped ono
worthy of the Catholics of this country will be
formed. Boulogne has a double claim on us.
Our Henry VIII., of evil memory, desolated this
sanctuary, and the good Mgr. llaffreingue has
been nearly fifty years yearning and praying for
the conversion of our land, and when he finished
the mighty dome of his cathedral he placed on
its summit the beautiful statue of our Lady turned
towards England. When I took leave of the
kind-hearted and venerable man I knelt and
thanked him from my heart for the glorious things
lie has done, and for which every one who loves
our Lady should be grateful.
Lilystone Hall. THOS. WALMESLLI.

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