The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-16 00:00:00

NEW PATENT

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are porous. light in texture, and inexconsive, and are
drawn on like an ordinary stocktng. Price ls. GI., 7s. 6d.,
10s., and 16s. each. Postage. Gd.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.

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receipt of prticulars, with stamped directed envelope for
reply. Address—The Manager, "Sun" Printing Offices,
3, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.O.

ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE
ORPHA.IsT CHILDREN are being maintained in the
oFead3grsea ltly:wnex ediassls
It,
ROYALper ALBERT ORPH A.l A.SYLIIII, at the moderate rate
azLE Sacretary.
of £25 A
sanam each.
0313 e, 93, Cheapside, London, E.O,

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
F 111 PR EV EN TIV fg and R EFORIUTORY IN
STITIITION.

President—Bev. CANON DALV.
CONTRIBUTION'S for the support of the Homes in 1863 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers. Messrs. Bien-
quet, Salt, awl Co., 73, Lombard-street, PIC.; Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.O.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Easton-road, N.W.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
Caledonian•road, Islington, N.
Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
This Hospital has relieved 481,951 patients since it was
established at King's-cross in 1836. Patients are admitted
free.
Bankers -Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co. 60, Lombard-
street, Messrs. Ransom' and Bonverie, 1, Pall.mall. —Hon.
Sec., F. Smith, Esq. GEO. REID, See.

TTOAIELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of fool and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, BroadGstreet.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, -street, and Ealing]

370 children.
£l5 will keep a boy o'e girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and.WesttninstOr Bank
rl4, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, KC. and by
WILLIAM WILLI &MS, Secretary.
No. 8, Groat Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-flelds;

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—
His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.

President2--His brace the Duko of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
desthute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
Tho Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co.; Glyn and Co, ;
ITerries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams,
and Co.; Nisbet and Co. Barnors-street and at
the Rospital, from 10 till 5.

RECOMMENDED by the GOVERNMENT of INDIA,
thus —" We have long regarded this great scheme (the
BEHAR UNDERTAKING) as one of all others in
India to which PRIVATE CAPITAL should be IN-
VITED."
The same GOVERNMENT have now AGREED to PAY
for all WATER SUPPLIED by the COMPANY, they
PARTICIPATING in some of the PROFITS REAL-
ISED after TWENTY PER CENT. shall have been
RECEIVED by the SRAREIIOLDERS.
T E EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND
CANAL COMPANY.
Incorporated by Spacial Act of Parliament, with limited
INTENDED SC fIEME.
"THE BEHAR UNDERTAKING."
All preliminary investigation having been made, and
plans prepared and approved for immediate construction.
First issue of Capital for the Behar Undertaking
£1,000,000, in Shares of £lO each, and Stock in sums
varying from £lO each upwards.
Deposit upon Shares £1 per Share, with liberty to
pay up the remaining £9 or a le.,s amount in advance of
Calls.
Deposit upon Stock £lO per cent. upon application, and
the remainder within three months of the allotment.
Interest at Five per Cent. will be paidu2on all payments
from the day of payment.
In the allotment of Shares and Stock, a preference will
be given to those who shall have paid in full, or in advance
of Calls.
Directors and Officers tte same as set forth in the Orissa
Undertaking Advertisement.
The scheme of works to be executed bas been tho-
roughly investigated and carefully re-planned on behalf
of the Company, and particulars submitted to and ap-
proved by the Government, so that there will be no delay
in making preliminary surveys, plans, Sm., all of which have
been effected, and everything made ready for immediate
constructive
.operations, a great advantage not possessed
heretofore by any other undertaking of a like character,
because the realisation of profits has been thus brought so
mud' nearer.
'-'•gorno_shares lo.° been already allotted in,
The shave capital will be called up slowly, an l so as.
with the stock, to maintain an expenditure at the rate of
about £130,000 per annum. £2 per share during each
year will be ample for this.
Applications for shares may now be sent to the Com-
pany's Offiees, 8 and 9, Qaecu-street-plaee, Southwark-
bridge, London, E.G. (where a full Prospectus and
Forms of Application and all information may be
had) ' • but it is necessary that it should he under-
stood that no application will be consider,d, unless
a deposit of £1 ou each share, or .of 10 per cont. upon
the amount of stock applied for, has been made either to
the Bankers of the Company, Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie,
and Cc., No. 1, Pall-mall East, or at the Offices, 8 and 9,
Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge, Loudon, E.C.
deposit will be returned without deduction if the applica.
• ton is not acceded to.

THE EAST INDIA IRRIGATION and
CANAL COMPANY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all APPLICA-
TIONS for SHARES or STOCK in the ORISSA and
BEHAR UNDERTAKINGS of the above company should
bo DELIVERED at the Head Offices, 8 and 9, Queen-
Street Place, Southwark Bridge. in the city of London, on
or before TO-MORROW, the 17th instant, after which the
directors will proceed to an allotment.
For particulars see former advertisements and pro-
spectuses, which can be had at the company's offices.
By order,
JOHN WESTWOOD. Secretary.
8 and 9, Queen Street Place, Southwark Bridge,
London, June 6, 1868.

CONTRACT FOR RUM.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
Hous© June 11, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIR A.l, of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN arid IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notice, that on \VEDNESDAY,
to
readyTtßo CONTRACT
t forw isthu
pps earnsdo ndso ai
rmi
nagy
the 24th inst., at Twelve o'clock at Noon they will be
Ma-
jesty's Stores Deptford, 'binetovriblleirng

50,000 Gallons of RUM,
ttorabc.at delivered within three weeks from date of Con

Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion 01
the Rum.

AU the casks, except such as may be required for her
Majesty's service, are to be taken away from the said
stores by and at the expense of the party whose Tender
is accepted.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the
whole, or of 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.
The Rum to be exempted from. the Customs' duties, and
parties tendering are to state where it is lying.
Payment for the Rum will be made for the Proof Gal-
lons to one-tenth of a gallon, the liquid contents being as-
certained to the half gallon.
Sample of the Rum to be sent in pints for each import
mark, and the average strength of each mark Ex to
be stated, and not an average of different marks or
strengths of several imports, and any parcel of Rum that
is found not to be of the same quality, mark, or average
strength of the sample tendered and accepted, will be re-
jected by the officers.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may lie obtained on
application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset Rouse, 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 to his proposed sureties in writing, when, but not
before; the rejected samples are to be removed.
EverY Tender must' be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
"Tender for Rum," and must also be delivered at the De-
partment, of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
••"J,,• :Registrar of Contro.ctf and Public Securities.

Ti E . RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
%re as follows
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hemp- 150, Now Kent-road.
stead. 48 Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, llenstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.-
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's. street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapsido.
In addition to the aboie-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which aro admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Groat Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee axe deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. CQUEII, Sec.
85, (Neon-street) Claeapeidel

t; PAINLESS DENTISTRY !"
A NEW PAMPLILET,
Free by post for four stamps.

nESSRS• GABRIEL,
(Established 1815.)
London 56, Barley-street,
Cavandish-spare, W.
64, Ludgate-hill, E.C.,
Liverpool 134, Duke-street, and
Brighton 3B, North-street,
ATTENDANCE DAILY.

THE REPOR7' OF BUTLER'S INVES7I-
GA? lON COMMITTEE. •

,
The report of the Committee appointed by the 1
House to investigate the charges made against cer- ,
tain Senators of having sold their votes to the
agents of Andrew Johnson was presented by the
Chairman, General Butler, on the 25th May. As
the members were strictly partisan, none but those
strongly favouring Impeachment being appointed,
the inquiry is wanting in the characteristics of a
judicial investigation. The Committee was clothed
with almost despotic authority, which it fully exer-
cised, but we are glad to say not without a protest.
The telegrams in the Washington offices were
seized, as well as letters from th 3 mail bags and
from the desks of suspected persons, and the whole
was sifted so as to suit Mr. Butler and his col-
leagues. Under these circumstances it is not
surprising that the report affirms the existence of
a conspiracy to purchase a verdict of acquittal.
The main facts alleged by the report are that Mr.
Thurlow Weed was consulted a few days before the
first vote on Impeachment by Charles W. Woolley,
a Kentuckian lawyer, residing
in Cincinnati, upon
the subject of buying votes. Mr. Weed consider-
ing the plan impracticable, and the person an ad-
venturer, and suspecting a design to entrap him,
declined to consider the proposal. A person named
Adams, who:some say had been in the Confederate
and some in the Union army, made the same pro-
position to Mr. Smythe, who replied that he would
consult Thurlow Weed, which consultation took
place, when the collector introduced Adams to Mr.
Weed. Although Mr. Weed advised Mr. Smythe
not to meddle with the business, he had an inter-
view in his room at Astor House with Sheridan
Shook, a collector of internal revenue in New York,
Webster, a revenue agent, and
,Wwashheirriegt°tnh'e
was there made that pope,
would be sufficient to purchase three votes. Some
of the party proceeded to
with these per-
sons thVlciaelYcualnadtioAnir.
said to be connected
hired
and Samuel Ward,
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spiracy i
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matured.
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a speculator in gold. Mr. Adams, if the report be
coortreesc t
of, originatedrs om Offering Woolley the
v
board
ry ; to Andrew Johnson,
Nye, and Tipton.
Dinner parties were given, for it seems that in
'Washington the vilest conspiracies are always
hatched at theo o
p genialCooper,
c senatother plot,eroy , N
and among the guests
w
General Hancock, Mr. Evarts, Mr. Groesbeck,
ere
li
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Judge Dunlay, "Sun-set" Cox, and others. Tele-
grams were constantly passing between the con-
spirators in Washington and in New York. " Andy
se breat
all right." "Johnson stock above par." "Senate)
will acquit." t, Nineteen votes for acquittal on
Eleventh Article." Othera were forwarded in
cypher, and some couched in language impossible
for the uninitiated to understand, but they clearly
referred to speculation in gold. One, for in-
stance, from Mr. Ward runs thus :—" Potter
will be quiet all the week, advocate my cause,
measure low enough," which, being interpreted,
means, " M'Culloch will not sell gold all this
week, buy me $50,000, gold is low enough." Mr.
Weed admits that Adams offered to buy the three
Senators, and although the report accuses Mr.
' Weed of being the had of a disreputable plot, yet
through the columns of biz paper (the New York

he positively declined to state what he did with
the funds he was known to have used in lobbying.
The Report concludes with a request that Woolley
be brought to the bar of the House for contuma-
ciously refusing to tell what he did with the 25,000
dollars, and punished for contempt. When ar-
raigned on the next day he still declined to answer,
and was again consigned to the custody of the
Sergeant-at-Arms. All that could be extracted
from him was that the money belonged to his
clients, and was not used to bribe Senators. After
being confined for two days in the committee room
of Foreign Affairs he 'vas removed, and is likely to
remain in custody during the session if he continues
in the same obstinate state of mind. Several ques-
tions have arisen out of Mr. Butler's action.
Woolley maintains that he cannot legally be com-
pelled, as an attorney, to violate the confidence of
clients; while the Managers assert the right of the
House to arrest citizens and enforce answers. On
the 28th May the day was wasted in Woolley's
affair, which gave rise to one of those scenes so
detrimental to the dignity of the House. Mr.
Brooks, of New York, attempted to read a declara-
tion of Woolley's describing Butler's treatment of
him as rude, abusive, and insulting, and a bitter
controversy passed between him and Mr. Butler,
in which other members joined. Several of those
whose telegrams have been s ized have commenced
actions against the Western Union Telegraph
Company for giving up their private messages to
try the right of a Congressional Committee thus to
deal with the prosperity of the citizens. It is said
to be a monstrous offence as well against the Con-
stitution as against the most sacred rights of the
people. The telegraph is but a speedier Post-
office, and the message can be regarded by the law
in no other light than a letter. " The fourth amend-
ment to the Constitution declares that the right of
the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects against unreasonable searches
and seizures, shall not be violated ; and no war-
rants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by oath or affirmation, and particu-
larly describing the place to be searched, and
the persons or things to be seized." But this
demand of the committee is not on oath, it
decrees an unreasonable search, and specifies no
particular offence or crime, and no particular thing
to be seized. If the telegraph company abuse con-
fi.ience by disclosing the private correspondence of
citizens, it is liable for each breach of trust, and it
cannot plead the unconstitutional proceedings of the
Congressional Committee. We rejoice that the
case will be brought before a judicial tribunal, and
we hope that the usurpation of Congress will meet
with the punishment it deserves. Mr. Ward, who
was sharply dealt with in the report, writes as
sharply in reply a letter published in the World of
May 26. He states that he gave Butler the
key to his telegraphic cyphera under protest, and
he was " absolved by these conspirators from any
complicity with the phantoms they are pursuing."
Senator Butler produced one of his telegrams,
which by itself looks suspicious, but that he did not
produce the one following which explains it. He
denies baying received any information from Mr.
M'Culloch as to the sale of gold by the r3l-overn-
ment, that be sold short "at the coruscations of
the Butler-Wade conspiracy," but " took it in"
when he heard Senator Grimes was worse, and
made hardly enough on it to pay for the box of
cigars, of which he gave Butler one. Tbuching
those cigar?, he complains that Butler smoked his
baczy in token of peace, and with every appearance
of goodwill to the donor, professing friendship for
him during the examination, and afterwards belied
these professions. So indignant was Mr. Ward
Mr. Butler's statement to the House, that he scut
the following card to the _National :
" Rejoicing for your sake that my previous commu-
nication of this date should be crowded out by
advertisements,' I would say that whenever
Manager Butler shall restore to the Franklin
Company their stolen telegrams, I will pro-
duce one dated almost immediately after the
despatch I am told he has cited as referring
to Secretary McCulloch, in which I say to the cor-
respondent to whom it was addressed, My last de-
spatch meant that Senator Grimes is again indis-
posed, and may be unable to vote on Tuesday.' I
am aware that it is a waste of time and effort to
nail lies to Manager Butler's counter ; but I owe it
to Secretary McCulloch to say that I have never
had the faintest intimations of his financial inten-
tions. Nor can I claim the honour of being a gold
gambler,' although Dr. Ben. Butler's application of
the epithet to me might entitle me to the glory of
having done ' something or other' to thwart his de-
moniacal plot to treat our magnificent Government
as he failed in treating Fort Fisher.
" SARI WARD."

A LEOPARD ON THE RAMPAGE.—Yesterday during
the removal of the cages containing the animals still re-
maining in Ames' Museum, on St. Charles-street, the one
containing the leopard was overturned and the bottom
broken on'. Quick as lightning the terrible beast leaped
through the opening and dashed down the street. Pe-
destrians and vehicles gave him a wide berth. One would
have thought, from the facility with which room was made
for him to pass, that ho was the pestilence in propria per-
sona. Scared, and utterly surprised at the strange situation
in which he found himself, his object appeared, more to
escape the crowd than to attack it. Hb crossed Canal-
street, and, continuing his career, finally brought up in a
china store on Charles-street. Oa his entrance the place
was immediately vacated, and he was left undisputed
monarch of the premises. The keeper here overtook him,
and the animal promptly submitted himself again to cap-
tivity. The damage done to the store was liquidated, and
Mr. Leopard returned to his old quarters.—New Orleans
Picayune.;,May 17.
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In tins at is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 41, ; 5 lbs.. lls.,
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tions against the position held by the We'St on the
finance question be dropped out of sight ? Con-
sidering the great weight of the West in the
councils of the United States, the importance of
these proceedings to the bondholders cannot be
exaggerated. To cur mind they are decisive of the
question, and prove that Messrs. Butler, Stevens,
and Pendleton, made a gross blunder, one they are
perhaps now beginning to perceive. The injury
done to the credit of the United States may be
estimated by millions upon millions of dollars, but
in our opinion the national loss is almost counter-
balanced by the national gain, in the evidence
afforded that those who most loudly proclaimed
American dishonesty, who made so strong a point
of stigmatising the unreliability of Democratic in-
stitutions, the small sense of honour entertained by
the masses, and the certainty that any amount of
future benefit would be sacrificed by the people for
an immediate relief, have been shown to be false
prophets, and that the citizens may be relied upon
to meet and argue out such questions on their
merit=. It was natural for the people at the first
glance to be fascinated by the doctrine that what is
good enough money for the payment of labour is
good enough money for the payment of bond-
holders. And so it is ; provided that the nation
had not stipulated to pay in coin. The whole
question is simply resolved into this agreement ;
auy evasion of which reflects on the national
honour as it would on the honour of any indi-
vidual, and would be attended with much the
same results. It is now clear that the subterfuge
is seen through by the masses, and the bondholders
may make themselves easy about the result.