The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-27 00:00:00

CONTRACTS FOR SALT PORK.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House,
Aug. 25, 1866.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
tAITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on MON-
DAY, the Ist of October next, at twelve o'clock at noon,
,;;;;.v. bo ready to treat with such persons as may be
honil'ng to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into
ir Majesty's Victualling Stores at the undermentioned
the following quantitiaa of SALT PORK, all of the
are of the present season. viz.:—
NAVY PORK.
Deptford 1,600 tierces 3,600 barrels.
1,800 ~ 1,800 „
t -r'ac
ba b tierce of Pork to contain 75 pieces of 41b. each, and
lchbarrel 50 pieces of 41b. each, instead of the number of
""ees formerly contained in the tierces and barrels.
30th da
f The Pork to he delivered into the respective storeseas
Olows, viz.:—One-third of each quantity for each place
tl the 15th day of January, 1867 ; anoer thirthereof by
tl° sth day of March, 1867 ; and the remainder thereof by
a°y of April, 1867; or any greater portion, or the
(1,;"°10, at any earlier period, if preferred by the party ten-
q, and to be paid for by bills at three days after date,
lch will be sent to parties as usual.
fh-uheir Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
01, ,6tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole,
for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a
iire,ater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an
ttg salted power of selection in accepting tenders.
ic'very tender must specify the name of the person by
tirm the meat is intended to be cured, the brand of the
VI and the place of cure.
A 4-enders for Pork of the cure of the United States of
'`lllerica will not be admitted.
Persons tendering for more than one port must give a
'l)arate tender for each port.
tal'ersons tenderinust give a reference to a banker for
t,eth, surety proposed; and they are desired to take special
I,""ce that the use of wooden hoops is abolished, and that
v i,°ll hoops only will be required for the casks in accordance
Ith the conditions of the contract.
tik form of the tender may be obtained, and the conditions
),„' the contract, to which particular attention is called, may
ti„,,Reen in the lobby of the Department of the Controller
ictualling, Somerset House ; at the Victualling Yards
at • Victualler
and Plymouth ; or by applying to the Agent
IPtualler at Haufbowline ; or to the Collectors of her
rajeety'S Customs at Bristol, Limerick, Beltest, Water-
-6)11, and Newry ; or to the Secretary to the Postmaster-
reUeral at Dublin ; or to the Commander conducting the
acket Service at Liverpool.
i;
er I'lo tender will be admitted for a less quantity than 100
'es or 100 barrels.
No tender will be received after twelve o'clock at noon
the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the
ritted form provided for the purpose but it will not be
beoessary that the party tendering, organ agent appointed
f,,Y' him, should attend, as the result of the offer received
1,',2,11 each person will be communicated to him and to his
9posed sureties in wrng.
,tt,l'very tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
eliralty, end bear in theleft-hand corner of the envelope
e Words, " Tender for Salt Pork," and must also be de-
eered at the Department of the Controller of Victualling,
Mersa House.
Bt,Yhe contractors will have to pay half the amount of the
InPB on the contracts and bonds.
By order. ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

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President Johnson and Northern Unionists,

The publication of Mr. Ward Beecher's letters has

led Mr. Horace Greeley to publish a statement re-
specting the early mouths of Mr. Johnson's presi-
dency. Mr. Greeley says :
" I was one of many who early apprehended and
anxiously deprecated a breach between Congress and
the President. Soon after our last State election,
and before the assembling of the present Congress,
I went, not uninvited, to Washington expressly to
guard against such a difference. Being admitted to
an inter view with the President, I urged him to call to
Washington three of the most eminent and trusted,
expositors of Northern anti-slavery sentiments and
three equally eminent and representative Southern
ex-rebels, and ask them to take up their residence
at the White House for a week, or fortnight, or so
long as they might find necessary, while they, by
free and friendly conference and discussion, should
earnestly endeavour to find a common ground
whereon the North and the South should be not
merely reconciled, but made evermore fraternal and
harmonious. I suggested that the President should

occasionally, as he could find time, drop in on these
conferences, and offer such suggestions as he should
deem fit—rather as a moderator or common friend
than as a party to the discussion.

" A suggestion of names being invited, I proposed
those of Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts,
Gerrit Smith, of New York, and Judge R. P.
Spaulding, of Ohio, as three who seemed to me fair
representatives of the anti-slavery sentiment of
the North, while neither specially obnoxious to nor
disposed to deal harshly with the South; and I added
that I hoped they would be met by men like Gen.
Robert E. Lee, Alexander 11. Stephens, &c., who
would be recognised and heeded by the South, as
men in whose hands her honour and true interests
would be safe. But I added that I had no special
desire that these or any particular men should be
selected, wishing only that those chosen from either
section should be such as to command their people's
confidence and support. And I pledged myself to
support, to the extent of my power, any adjustment
that should be matured and agreed upon.
" Some two months later, after the meeting of
Congress, and when the political sky had become
darker, I went again to Washington, on the assu-
ranee of a mutual friend that the President desired
to see me. The joint committee on reconstruction
had then been appointed. At an interview promptly
accorded I urged the President to invite the committee
to the White House, and discuss with them, from
evening to evening, as friend with friends, all the
phases of the grave problem of reconstruction, with
a fixed resolve to find a basis of agreement if pos-
sible. I urged such considerations as occurred to
me in favour of the feasibility of such agreement if
it were earnestly sought, as I felt sure it would be on
the side of Congress. The vast patronage in the
President's hands—the reluctance of the majority in
Congress to see their friends, supporters, and nominees
expelled by wholesale from office, and their places
supplied by bitter adversaries the natural anxiety of
every party in power to maintain cordial relations
with the head of the Government chosen by its votes

—these, and a thousand kindred considerations, ren-
dered morally certain an agreement between Congress
and the President without a sacrifice of principle on
either hand, if the latter should sincerely seek it.
I speak only of what I said and proposed, because
I have no permission and no right to speak further.
That my suggestions were not followed, nor any-
thing akin to them, the public sadly knows. And

the conclusion to which I have been most reluct-
antly forced is, that the President did not want
harmony with Congress—that he had already made
up his mind to break with the party which has

through the favour and support of its implacable
enemies."

Military and Naval Intelli;;ence.

The Government has decided upon putting into
immediate execution the new Act of last Session for
the better prevention of contagious diseases at cer-
tain naval and military stations, which takes effect
from and after the 30th inst., at the port and gar-
rison at Chatham, the arrangements of carrying out
the Act being entrusted to the nietropolitan police.
The former Act (the 27th and 28th of Victoria,
cap. 85) relating to the same subject will cease to
operate from the date mentioned. In order to carry
out the operations of the amended Act to their
fullest extent, the Government has entered into an
arrangement with the governors of St. Bartholo-
mew's llospital, Roohester, for fitting up a portion
of that establishment for the reception of female
patients belonging to the class who come under the
operation of the Act. The governors of the hos-
pital have agreed to appropriate 40 beds in the hos-
pital for the purposes required, the Government con-
tributing to the funds of the hospital £4O per annum
for each bed. Hitherto patients from Sheerness have
been sent to the Rochester Hospital, but arrange-
ments are being made for the conversion of one of
the military buildings at Sheerness into an hospital
for the reception of female patients. The seaport and
garrison towns to which the Act applies are—Ports-
mouth, Chatham, Plymouth and Devonport, Wool-
wich, Sheerness, Aldersbott, Windsor, Colchester,
Shorncliffe, the Curragh, Cork, and Queenstown.
The undermentioned arrangements have been ap-
proved in connection with the camp at Colchester :
—Lieut. Johnston, 82d Regiment, to join the depot
on the Gth of October; Lieut. Clarke,,looth Foot,
to join the service companies as soon as possible;
Lieut. Barker, Ist King's Dragoon Guards, to pro-
ceed to Hythe, to undergo a course of musketry
instruction ; Ensign Powell and Skinner 2-18th
Foot, to proceed to the service companies as soon
as a passage can be provided ; Capt. Boulton, 100th
Regiment, to proceed to the service companies with
the draught now under orders.

The Royal Sovereign, screw turret ship, Capt. A.
Herbert, is ordered by the Admiralty to be paid out
of commission at Portsmouth on the 10th proximo.
The Admiralty have also further ordered that the
Royal Sovereign, after paying out of commission,
is not to be handed over to the charge of the captain
of the Steam Reserve of the port, as is the ordinary
Course pursued with vessels under similar circum-
stances, but that she is to be attached to the Excel-
lent gunnery ship for drill purposes, to instruct sea-
men in the working of heavy ordnance in turrets.
It is reported, however, that the Royal Sovereign
will shortly be again commissioned with a full com-
plement of officers and men by Capt. Cowper P.
Coles. To the paying out of commission of the
Royal Sovereign at the present time there can be no
great objection, on the ground of her re-commission
by Capt. Coles, or even as a matter of economy,
during the time her after-turret is being rebuilt ;
but we trust Sir John Pakington does not intend
placing her officers on half-pay, several of whom have
notlong been borne on her books, and have therefore
necessarily gone to considerable expense in their
outfit for what they had :good reason to believe
would be the usual three years' term of service in
their ship. _ _ _

The screw sloop corvette Reindeer, 7, 200 horse-
power, fitting at Chatham for commission, is to be
placed in one of the available docks at Chatham for
the purpose of being examined to ascertain whether
she has sustained any injury from having taken the
ground during the recent official trial of speed at
the measured mile.

The Charybdis, 17, 400 horse-power, screw cor-
vette, has a large number of shipwrights and other
hands employed,on her at Sheerness dockyard, where
she is undergoing some heavy repairs toboth hull and
machinery. Her decks are ripped up, and she is
being supplied with new timbers and beams where
necessary. Her boilers have been removed, and her
machinery and engines are undergoing an extensive
overhaul and repair. She will be detained in dock
for some time to come.

The screw steam-sloop Dryad, 4, was launched

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is 187 ft. ; length of keel for tonnage, 1 ft. Ain. is
breadth extreme, 36ft. ; for tonnage, 35ft. lin.
breadth moulded, 35ft. 2in. ; depth of hold, 19ft.
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4in. ; burden in tons, 1,081 0-94. The engines will
be of 300 horse-power. The Dryad is what is termed
an unarmoured sloop of war, having a submerged
projecting prow, constructed for sailing and not for
war purposes. Like the Amazon, she is from the
lines of Mr. E. J. Reed, the Constructor for the
Navy, but will probably be provided with a water-
tight compartment forward to meet the contingencies
of a collision. The ceremony of christening was per-
formed by Miss Lilias Drummond, daughter of the
Admiral. Mr. A. Moore, the master shipwright,
superintended the launch.

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Inconsequence of the increased weight of the ar-
mament to be supplied to the ironcased screw steam-
ship Lord Clyde, 24, at Devonport, it is intended to
decrease the number of her guns and to close some
of her ports.

The repairs of the armour-plated screw steam-
sloop Research, 4, Commander Robert A. E. Scott,
having been completed with all despatch, she was
ordered to leave Hanioaze. yesterday (Tuesday)
afternoon for the Sound, where she will to-day
(Wednesday) ship her powder and be ready again
for sea.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. Charles Wake to the
Endymion, commissioned ; -Commander N. Under-
wood to be inspecting commander in the Coast-
guard at llarwich ; Lieut. Richard B. Wilkinson
and Lieut. Osborn H. Parker to the Endymion ;
Sub Lieut. Alaric F. Grant and Sub-Lieut. Henry
C. Aitcheson to the Endymion ; Reginald A. Stock,
midshipman, to the Zealous ; J. H. Broome, Archi-
bald K. Hasence, Robert W. Craigie, Douglas E.
D. Curry, W. M. West, and Walton Drake, mid-
shipmen, to the Endymion ; John Freshficld, pay-
master, to the Endymion ; Percy O'M. Presgrave,
assist.-paymaster, to the Duke of Wellington;
William K. Horne, assist.-paymaster, to the Indus ;
Warden H. E. W. Roberts, assist.-paymaster, to
the Endymion ; Thos. D. Muir, clerk, to the Endy-
mion ; Robert Donaldson and Francis E. James,
assist.-clerks, to the Victoria, as supernumerary for
disposal ; and Wardell Fisher, assist.-clerk, to the
Endymion.

The undernamed naval cadets have been nomi-
nated :—William Ledgard and Arthur W. Browne.

The Iron and Coal Trades.

Much difference of opinion, says the Wolver-
hampton Chronicle, seems to prevail in this locality
as to the actual prospects of the iron trade during
the approaching quarter, and the action which the
Association of Masters will take at the preliminary
meeting, to be held in Birmingham, on Thursday
next. A considerable section of the trade, embrac-
ing many of the old established firms, and those who
have least difficulty in adhering to the list prices,
seem disposed to retain the price of Staffordshire bars
at the present figure, £8 10s. per ton. It is gene-
rally understood that this course will be the one
recommended by the leading members of the panel
of chairmen in whose hands the management of the
trade is left. But on the other side of the question
there aro many iron manufacturers who are com-
pelled to accept much lower prices than those fixed
at the meeting of the association, and it is understood
that there is a desire on the part of these makers, or
of a considerable portion of them, to see the list rates
made more nearly to coincide with the average price
which Staffordshire commands. We do not profess
to be in a position to offer an opinion as to which of
the above modes of action would best serve the inte-
rests of the general iron trade of this district. We
shall therefore content ourselves with stating the
arguments which have been adduced in favour of
either course.

It will be remembered that about six weeks ago
the constitution of the association was considerably
modified, and that under the rules then adopted all
members of the trade became eligible to join the
Ironmasters' Association, and we understand that
g'ar'VT-a§—ifintgiders availed themselves of the re-
vised regulations and joined the society. Thus
the Ironmasters' Association now represents the
greater part of the manufacturers. The original
association was a close compact, and only num-
bered just those firms in whose hands by far the
greater qart of the Staffordshire trade rested, and
who also formed a large proportion of the national
iron trade, as this manufacture was then principally
carried on in this locality.
The society as at first constituted was capable of
ruling the prices which should be paid for finished
iron in this district, and it was from this centre that
other manufacturers of malleable iron naturally took
their rates. It is evident, therefore, that the present
association stands in a different relation to the local
and national trades than did its predecessor. Now
the second class manufacturers, or, in other words,
those ironmasters who do not attempt to be guided
by the list rates, and who are selling their iron at a
considerable reduction below the published prices,
are nevertheless compelled to base their scale of
wages on those paid by the first-class houses. As
there seems no prospect of any great activity in the
iron tirade during the approaching winter, and con-
sequently, as they are not to get advanced prices
during the next few months, they would be glad to
see a modification in the list prices. Another sec-
tion of the trade appears anxious to discontinue the
system of quoting list prices at all. It is understood
that this course would meet the approbation of all
the other iron producing districts ,in the country.
Those who advocate that no change should be made
this quarter urge that, considering the dispute still
existing in the North of England, and the uncertain
state of the iron trade of this locality, until the re-
sults of the late financial crisis have passed away, it
would be impolitic to introduce any change which
would interfere with the whole wages question of
the district.

Under the uncertainty which prevails as to the
course which will be adopted to-morrow, transac-
tions are restricted to the narrowest possible limits,
though the general impression appears to be that
there is a more healthy tone about the trade, espe-
cially as affects home consumers. Still some little
influence must be attributed to the stoppage of the
north country forges and mills, whereby certain
pressing Orders which would have been executed
there have found their way into Staffordshire.
We notice that the Great Bridge and Leabrook
Ironworks, recently conducted by Messrs. Solly
Brothers, have been formed into a limited liability
concern,'under the title of the Great Bridge Iron and
Steel Company. The managing director is Mr. J.
Solly. In the matter of the Lawton Iron and Steel-
works, Mr. J. Percivall, of Birmingham, has been
appointed provisional liquidator. Of course an im-
portant topic of discussion at the meetings last week
was the strike in the north, especially as it had
oozed out that the Brierley-hill Union and the Wol-
verhampton Millmen's Association were about to
send from £2OO to £3OO per week for the men on
strike. A correspondence which had passed between
the London Working Men's Association and the
acting-secretary of the North of England trade had
fallen into the hands of certain members on Thurs-
day afternoon, and the letters were a good deal
talked about, as the wages which appear to have
been earned in some works during the last six
months have been very great, and seemed to remind
the trade of the statistics of earnings which came
out in connection with the North Stafford strike
last year. Our advises from that locality state that
no very material change has taken place during the
past week. The rolling mills at Jarrow, which have
been in partial operation for some weeks,
com-
pletely closed on Saturday last, and it is aicid's3T. per
not
be opened till next year. The men I
eewo:,
so that
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head the week before last and 4s. last w
notwithstanding all that has said about the
substantial help from London and other
subst districts,i
to the present time no
re-
ceived. It is not generally
expected aid has been
pected that the strug-
glee reports from North
will last much longer. Th
a more encouraging character,
prospects are not at all hope-
Amerircaa is tolerably active,
as In South 11 ales business
tShtoauffaohrdsthheire arc of
several good orders for rails have recently come
to hand, h—and, but prices in this department are so low as
only to be touched in that particular district, where
wages are also remarkably low.

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