The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-23 00:00:00

Mr. WHITE 228, Piccadilly.

A Sincrle Truss, Igs., 215., 26s 6d., and 31s. 6d Postage, Is.
A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 428 . ant 525. 6d. Postage, Is. Bd.
An Umbilical True% 425. and 525. 64. PqatAge. Is.

post-oflice Orders to be made payable toiJohn White, Post-
office, Piccadilly.
NEW PATENT

VLASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of
Weakness and Swelling o; the Legs, ~prains, Ate. They are
porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
like an ordinary stocking. Price-48. 6d., 7s. 6d., 103., and 16s.
each. Postage, 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING
£2,1400 required.
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Boys' Ref age, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

E 4 OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON-
4, TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited lor establishing
the COUNTRY HONE. £l.OOO required.
WM. WIT-LI k MS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8. Great Queen-street. W.C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys.
One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 boy+ is estimated at
£B,outi, being 215 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to nay for one boy each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothbury. and 214, nigh Nolborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1,11-Mall East; and by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FOR
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CRLLDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they aro homeless and starving. The Manager ore.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, andhave
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommo&
tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been. begun? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the, Rev. 11. GILBEUT
Fiusbary-circus E.Q.

CONTRACT FOR STEARINE CANDLES.
CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY,
Somerset House, ith November, 1866.
THE 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 MONDAY, the
3d December 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 Majesty's
Victualling Stores at Deptford, all such quantities of
STEARINE CANDLES,
for the use of Her Majesty's Indian Troop Ships, as may
from time to time be demanded under a Contract for
Twelve Calendar Months, certain and further, until the
expiration of Three Calendar Months' warning.
Samules (not less than 6 lbs. of each description) must
be produced by the parties tendering, and none to be ten-
dered the material of which is of a solidifying point below
125 degrees Fahrenheit.
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 may be seen.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at
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 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 in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for Stearine Candles," and must also be delivered
at the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admi-
ralty, Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons,
engaging to become bound with the person tendering in
the sum of £l,OOO for the due performance of the Contract.
By order, ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

T 0 GUNMAKERS and Others.
The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of
receiving PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for
BREECH-LOADING. RIFLES, either repeating or not
repeating, which may replace the present Service Rifles in
future manufacture.
11.
The following are the conditions considered essential in
military non-repeating Rifles:—
A. WEIGHT.
Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet.
B. LENGTH.
To be 51 inches, with short stock, measured from the
hollow of the butt-plate to muzzle.
c. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP.
Must not exceed 61b. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for
service.

D. CARTRIDGES.
Must carry their own ignition.
E. SIGHTS.

The foresight mustlxisUCTl as to admit ofa bayonet
fixed according to the present system.
Y. STOCK.
3111 St be such as TO Carry a hgui, Laxob.O. aLaarasse-i.cull, ena
allow a sling to be used.
G. RECOIL.
Must not exceed that of the Enfield Rifle by more than
10 per cent.
H. THE ARM AS A WHOLE.
Must be as little liable to injury bylong-continued firing,
rough usage, and exposure, as tho naval rifles converted to
breech-loaders on the Snider system. To be as capable,
also, of being used without accident by imperfectly trained
men, and of being manufactured in quantities anti of uni-
form quality.
1. THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. _

Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp,
and exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for
Sni,ler's converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci-
dental explosion as the same cartridge, and as capable of
being manufactured in large quantities, and of uniform
quality. K. CALIBRE.
Optional.
L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE.
Optional.

at. THE LOCK.
Optional.
x. RAPIDITY OF FIRE.
Capable of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without
aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table.
o. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A. FIXED REST.
The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more
than 36in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500,
and Gin. at 300.
The mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty
shots each.

P. TRAJECTORY.
Not to require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1
deg. 30 min.

Q. FOULING.
The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent.
at 1,000 yards after firing 250 rounds.

R. PENETRATION.
The mean penetration of five shots not to be less than
that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle—
viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48
hours in water.
Distance 30 yards.

s. LUBRICATION.
Wax on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant
may be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought
necessary by the competitor.

No arms will be received without the usual proof Larks.
Specifications, and drawings of the methods, proposed,
stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a
finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu-
nition, should be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War
Office, Pall-mall," on or before the 30th March, 1867.
The specifications and specimen arms will be considered
by the Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem-
bers, who will be selected by the Secretary of State for
War, and who will, after firing the 20 preliminary rounds,
select and recommend for further trial such of the systems
as may appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all
such as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to
warrant their being included in the competition, the con-
ditions of which are stated in this advertisement.
Each accepted competitor will then be required to furnish
for experiment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity
to the specimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am-
munition per arm, within four months after date of de-
mand- Each competitor will be required to disclose to the
committee the exact nature of the lubrication ho may em-
ploy. A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted
competitors, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of
the supply of ammunition required.
The Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the
arm which, on combination of all qualities, is considered
by the committee to be the best submitted.
A second reward of £6OO • for the arm which, while at-
taining a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu-
lars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism..
A third reward of £4OO for the best cartridge. The qua-
lities which will be principally taken into consideration in
awarding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power
of sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in
various climates, and general serviceability.
The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but
as they may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which
the cartridge is associated, they will not be so much con-
sidered as those above-mentioned.
It is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances
will a competitor be entitled to more than one prize; but
such prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be
given to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the
service.
IV
MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS.
Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re-
ceived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech-
loading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48
inches, including the stock.
The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 9ilb. ex-
clusive of the charges in the magazine.
It is indispensable that the arms be made to take a
bayonet.
The Secretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best
Magazine or Repeating Ann produced that fulfils the above
conditions; and in the absence of experience does not at
inresent define the standard of accuracy or other conditions
to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted.
• Those Magazine orßepeatingArms, which are accepted
foi• further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each.
;Phis sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per
arnlo tT

Title Secretary of State will take care that no ingenious
produced in answer to this advertisement shall be
adoptednor t 7
into the service without proper acknowledgment,
and th 3, t the name of the individual with whom it origi-
n
nat
intoef s s hee
tier
' be recorded in connection with it.
to which the first prize is awarded is adopted
rice it will bear the inventor's name.
itt
It
j: ST. GEORGE, liajoreral, Director
of Ordnance.
War Pelee, 186 g.

Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held on the
body of the unfortunate boy, Arthur Allen, whose
death occurred under the me'ancholy circumstances
reported yesterday. The prisoner was brought into
the inquest room by a police-constable, and was
placed at a table in the centre of the room, next to
the chair reserved for the witneassa.— The atte4tiou
of all present was immediately concentrated upon
him, but he maintained surprising firmness and
composure for some time. He is veryyouthf ul in
appearance, with no trace of malignant passion iu
his countenance. His eyes were swollen with cry-
ing. After the examination of the witnesses had
proceeded for a short space the prisoner's firmness
gave way, and frequent bursts of weeping showed
that he realised the position in which he was placed.
His distress was greatest when the officer produced
the hammer and the knife with which the murder
had been committed. It seems that the prisoner
has a stepmother, and he asserts that before he left
home she used him very cruelly, beat him very fre-
quently when no offence had been given, and was
fond of indulging in the malignant prediction that
he " would come to the gallows." That such would
be his fate seems to have been accepted by the un-
fortunate lad as a fact from which there was no
escape. He says he "always felt that he should
murder somebody, but he did not know who it was
to be." He was a fatalist ; and having accepted
as something inevitable the belief that he should
come to the ignominious death of a murderer he
made no attempt to resist the temptation that
constantly beset him to bring about its realisa-
tion. He had contemplated the murder for a week,
and on the fatal night the weapons he used were
secreted beneath the pillow on which he allowed his
victim to repose in unsuspecting confidence. He sat
up during the whole night in theted, watching the
poor lad. His stepmother's prediction seemed to
ring in his ears, and he resolved, just as the day
dawned, to commit the deed. He says he " re-
peated the Lord's prayer, and then struck the blow."
That blow took effect on the left side of the neck,
just beneath the ear, and the injury caused by the
hammer was increased by a severe stab with the
carving knife. The blow was so violent that the
blade snapped in half. Two other wounds were in-
flicted with the hammer, each of them fracturing
the skull ; but the first was the immediate cause of
death. The verdict was " Wilful murder," the
jury regretting they could come to no other.

Extension of the Union over the Continent
of North Amei ica.

Thepolicy which actuates the citizens of the United
gf fag to oprpad tho Iji lino Aver the Continent of
North America has a sound foundation. A re-
public, which shall embrace the whole area of the
Continent, has a better reason for its formation than
the mere idea of grandeur and the ambitious wish--
said to be implanted in the breast of every American
—of raising his country to the rank of the leading
nation of the world. The tendency to split and
form separate governments; originating in the diverg-
ence of interests, of character, of manners and
customs, may or may not be too strong for the wise
course which actuates the people to permit no nation
to grow upon that continent which may become
inimical and dangerous to themselves. The spec-
tacle presented by Europe must tend strongly to in-
fluence the statesmen of America in pursuing the
course they have markedout. Europe is incorrigible
in its armaments. War seems to beget war. The
aggrandisement of one country excites the jealousy
of another, and the fears of a third. Small princi-
palities are swallowed up, with an open disregard to
international law, the feeling of the inhabitants, and
to the rights of individuals, which painfully show
weak powers the fate that in all probability
lies before them. A vast addition to the nu-
merical strength of the Russian army is no
sooner announced than Europe becomes alarmed
by a plan for re-organising the French army, which
will give to the EMPEROR the power of bringing into
the field nearly all the able-bodied men in his do-
minions. In the face of rumours which have a
sinister bearing against the KAISER'S dominions,
Austria, though on the verge of bankruptcy, is com-
pelled to prepare for threatened events. Prussia
knows that she is now alike an object of hatred and
jealousy. Thus the Seven Days' War, instead of
pacifying Europe, seems only to have stirred into a
fiercer flame the hot burning embers of strife.
These armaments are maintained and increased in
the face of empty exchequers and credit, each year
running lower and lower. Each nation maintains
an army it has not the strength to support, and it
is compelled to look to extraneous aid to make up
its annually increasing deficit. The withdrawal of
labour from productive sources is a two-edged
sword, cutting both ways. Not only is the expen-
diture increased in the maintenance of an additional
body of men, but the nation loses in a far greater
degree by being deprived of the products of the
labour of the men thus substracted from its industry.
Indeed, the proportion may be said to be two to
one. For instance, if an additional hundred thou-
sand men costs the exchequer 0,-000,000, and
there are no troops maintained at so low a rate in
Europe, the loss in the productive power of the
population from which these men are taken
would represent double the sum, or £6,000,000,
causing a total loss of £9,000,000. It is not dif-'
ficult to foresee the end of all this. The intoler-
able nature of the burdens will precipitate the
catastrophe, and drive the countries into war to
prevent bankruptcy, or an internal explosion against
the unbearable taxes. If this increase of armament
becomes general throughout Europe, it will be
scarcely possible to maintain peace for more than a
year. With the example of Europe before them,
Americans may well strive for the one paramount
object of bringing the North American Continent
under one central rule. The Constitution of the
United States is admirably a'iapted for attaining
this end. It combines in a remarkable degree local
self-government, with the centralisation of a general
government. A system such as that in force through-
out the Union has never yet been tried, and those
who predict eventuallytlaat failure cannot ground their
predictions on the experience furnished by history.
Whatever may be the evils generated by a single
nation embracing in its area a vast continent, these
evils cannot be so great as those emanating from a
number of independent States bordering on each
other by mere imaginary lines. To allow the mani-
fold evils of Europe to be reproduced in America,
the result of these evils staring them in the face,
would show little wisdom on the part of the
American people. The gains of one tariff and
customs regulations extending over the continent, of
one system of coinage, weights, and measures, laws
and language, ono broad railway and traffic plan, '

Mr. Sullivan, Q.C., followed on the same side. He began
by expressing himself as very much surprised at the man-
ner in which Dr. Ball had argued some of the propositions
which he laid before the court. What was the meaning of
such phrases as the " autocratic masters," applied to the
senate of the Queen's University? Ho would venture to
say that in the whole course of equity proceedings no such
suit had ever been instituted. They were asked to restrain
the royal condescension in favour of the public at large.
In no country was there such a proceeding on record.
Though they were to search the books and records of the
darkest and most illiberal times, he would defy man to
point out a parallel to this proceeding. Mr. Sullivan then
proceeded to argue that in the creation of all corporations
there were two things to be borne in mind, and those were,
that, as the Crown could create corporations, so it could
also modify them.

Dr. Law—l appear hero on behalf of several respondents,
my clients, Lord Rosse, and some of the minority of the
senate, to show the justification of the course upon which
they have acted.

Mr. Lawson—They have no right to appear here. They
can have no interest in it.

Dr. Law—l appear for special respondents, Lord Rosso,
the Bishop of Killaloe, Mr. Shillington, and others.
Mr. Sullivan—They are individual members of the
senate.

Dr. Law—We have taken the best advice, and we be-
lieve this proceeding of the senate to be illegal.
Mr. Dowse, Q.C.—I appear and say ditto with Dr. Law.
Mr. Harrison, Q.C., then replied for the petitioners. He
contended that the 13th section necessarily and ex ti ter-
mini vested in what they called the governing portion
of this body the power to perform that most vital
and essential act which belonged to the corporation
alone. If over there was a case in which the. full consent
of the corporation was necessary it was this. It was alleged
forsooth that this new charter was in favour of public right,
and to carry out those matters of policy which his learned
friend Mr. Sullivan said he for ono would always st.and up
to support. But there were many men who would be
found to stand on the other side, and if the intelligence of
the public were to be consulted, he thought it would be a
strong thing to say that the principle of united education,
which had been in operation here for the last 30 or 40
years, should be destroyed by any document such as that
he held in his hand. The vital distinction between the
former charter and that of 1861 was, that in those of 1830
and 1852 the corporation was made to consist of the
chancellor, vice-chancellor, and senate ; whereas by that
of 1864 a new constituent element was introduced—namely,
the professors, graduates, and students. His lordship
asked what was the privilege conferred by that charter on
the students. He had heard no clear answer. Mr. Sulli-
van had said, forsooth, that it conferred the dignity of being
a member of the corporation without giving the students
a voice in it. And, according to their argument, the senate
could tamper with, surrender, or destroy the constitution
behind their backs, or without the consent of tho students
and graduates. It was contended that none of the new
graduates introduced by the supplementary charter would
become members of the corporation ; and secondly, that
they would not become members cf the convocation. And
it was admitted that if it could be shown that the effect
of the new charter would be to flood the corporation
with new members who were not contemplated originally,
the senate could have had no power to accept such
a charter, and that it would require legislation to effect
that end. But it would be found on coming to consider
the charter more closely that that would, in fact, be the
result of it. Those new graduates after two years, could,
according to the terms of the definition of the members of
convocation in the charter of 1864, become members of
that body. Being members of that body they might be
elected to be senators, and, being senators, they were be-
yond all question members of the corporation. There were
no words in the charter of 1866 defining the members of
the corporation. They were necessary in that of 1864.
Why were they omitted in the supplemehtal charter ?
Was it in consequence of the hurry is which this docu-
ment, intended no doubt for a legacy, from which great
and lasting benefits were to be derived by this country,
was launched so suddenly upon the world ? (A liugh.)
The Master of the Rolls—l do not offer the slightest
opinion on the merits of the case ; but, supposing you are
right in your construction of the charter, can I grant you
any relief at all ? Must not this petition stand over for
the Court of Chancery ?
Mr. Harrison—My lord, the necessity for the interlocu-
tory motion arose in this case from the course that the
senate has thought fit to pursue and adopt in this case.
They were cautioned when that meeting took place at
which the resolution was passed affecting to accept the
charter not to do that act. They were cautioned after-
wards against passing any rule which would assume
that that was a valid acceptance. They despised in the
most contemptuous way by their conduct and acts all
those warnings and cautions; and to-day, my lord, at the
bar actually, their leading counsel proceeded
very motion n
edto quote the
rules which they have passed pending this
this court. I can only say that I think it would have been
more decent for those gentlemen, no matter how high their
station, to have refrained from issuing any rules till your
lordship's opinion bad been taken on the matter. I see by
their advertisements in the papers that they are to hold
their matriculation examination on the sth Jan., and there-
fore, unless restrained by this court—assuming that we are
right, and that your lordship has jurisdiction—the degrees
may be conferred which we say would be an injury to
us, and the injury would bo committed before the
Court of Chancery could possibly determine this case.
After some further remarks by the Master of then
on the inconvenience of dealing with the case on an
toa
inter-
locutory motion, the further hearing was adjourned
Friday.
to oftho
Mr. Longfield, Q.C., applied yeestecrodrapyus
,indirteheete d
Court
Queen's Bench for a writ ofh
Prison,
commanding him to
bring up today the
governor of Mountjoy convict
Donis Dowling Mulcahy, in
order that he might join m body
of a
conciliung to have the writ of
error set down for argument. The application was granted.
The report of the nomination at Belfast, as published in
the local papers, shows that Mr. M`Mechan received as little
mercy from his opponents on that occasion as he did when
he attempted to make known his political principles at the
private mooting which ho called.
e The Wexford election," writes the Evening Mail, "is
another proof that the politics of the hierarchy aro distaste-
ful to the masses of Irish county electors. What Tip-
perary indicated in this respect Wexford corroborates, and
Waterford will, we trust, place ultimately beyond all pos-
sibility of denial. The contest was fought by Mr. Hennessy
at an advantage ; but his general ability, his readiness in
speech, his former Parliamentary labours, and his active
canvass, did not suffice to turn the scale. The energetic
manner in which the priesthood urged his claims drove
Over, we have no doubt, a number of popular votes to his