The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, I:llo_'‘`.,;DAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1868.

AFTER THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
COVENT-GARDUN—EVANS' TO SIV.
After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP.
After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP.
After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP.
After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP.
After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP.
London Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden.
Vocal Entertainment at Eight.

LONDON AND NORTH- WESTERN
RAILWAY.
RACES AND TROTTING MATCH AT SUDBURY.
On Saturday, April 25, a SPECIAL TRAIN will leave
London (Euston Station) for SUDBUJAY at 1.20 p.m., re-
turning from Sudbury in the evening at 7.20 p.m.
A TRAIN in connection will leave Broad-street (City
Terminus) for WILLESDEN JUNCTION at 12.40 noon,
Shoreditch at 12.33, Dalston Junction at 12.46, Camden-
road at 12.56 noon.
A TRAIN will also leave Kensington for WILLESDEN
JUNCTION at 1.10 p.m.
Passengers from Kensington, Broad-street, Dalston, and
Shoreditch will have to change carriages at Willesden
Junction both going and returning.
FARES TO SUDBURY AND BACK.
Covered Carriages.
From Euston

7/ Broad-street
11 Shoreditch
I, Dalston .
77 Camden Town
77 Kensington
By order,
W. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Enston Station, April, 1868.

ls. 6d.

COMYAGNIE GENERALE TRANS-
ATLA'NTIQUE, 8, Place Vendome, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS,
CHINA, JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC,
AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japan.
WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.
Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
NEW YORK
Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New
York.
From HAVRE.—ApriI 9th and 23d, May 7th and 21st,
June 4th and 18th, July 2d and 16th.
From BREST —March 28th, April 11th and 25th, May
9th and 23d, June 6th and 20th, July 4th and 18th.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From HATES or BREST to NEW YORK.
First Class
700 fr. j Cabin.
Second Class
Third Class 275 fr.
From Paris to Now York, via Havre or Brest, includ-
ing railway ticket, 850 fr. and 725 fr., according to cabin ;
second class, 440 fr. ; third class, 285 fr.
Hand-books, with full details of all the routes of this
Company, can be had of
STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and Co.,
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CONTRACT FOR VULCANISED INDIA, RUBBER,
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Contract Department, Admiralty, om9rset,„
House, April J, 1868.. ' •
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 TUESDAY, the
28th instant, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat
with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for
supplying and delivering into Store' at her Majesty's
several Dockyards, all such quantities of
VULCANISED INDIA RUBBER, and PACKING, and

T ÜBIN G,
as may from time to time be ordered under a Contract for
twelve months certain, and further until the expiration of
three months' warning.
The average annual expenditure for the last three years
may be ascertained, Patterns of the Articles may be seen
and a Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract may
be obtained at the above Department.
No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the
day of treaty, nor will any he noticed unless the party
attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
"Tender for Vulcanised India Rubber, &c. " and must also
be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-General,
Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed
by a responsible person, engaging to become bound with
the person tendering in the stun of £2OO for the due per-
formance of the Contract.

By ordel,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

CONTRACT FOR CANDLES.
'Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, Gth April, 1868.
riIHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
1. the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT 'BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on WE ONESDAY,
the 29th instant, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to
treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT
for supplying and delivering into Store at her Majesty's
Dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich all such quan-
ties of
CANDLES
as play from time to time be ordered, under a Contract for
12 Months certain, and further until the expiration of two
months' warning.
A Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract may
be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's Depart-
ment, Admiralty, Somerset House.
No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the
day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party
attends, or an agent for bim duly authiprised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for Candles," and must also be delivered at the
Department of the Storekeeper - General, Admiralty,
Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by a re-
sponsible person engaging to become bound with the per-
son tendering in the sum of £2OO for the due performance
of the Contract.

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

ARMY CONTRACTS.
War-office, Pall-Mall, London, S.W,
6th April, 1868.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
SECRETARY of STATE for WAR will be pre-
pared to receive tenders for the supply of
BREAD and MEAT
Fort he use of her Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the
following Districts, during a period of Six Months, com-
mencing Ist June, 1868, viz. :
N. Britain District, :Commissariat Office, 3, Hill-street,
Edinburgh.
Barrack-st., Hulmo,
Manchester.
The Camp, Col-
chester.
4, Castle-st., Dover.
20, E. Emma-place,
Plymouth.
St. Thomas-street,
Portsmouth.
109, Victoria-st.,
S.W.
The Barracks,
Chatham.
RoyalArtilleryßar.
Woolwich.
Grosvenor-street,
Jersey.
Printed Forms of Tender, initialed and numbered, and
conditions of Contract may bp obtained on application to
the. Senior Commissariat Officer of the district, and no
Tender will be entertained unless made upon the printed
form so obtained.
The Tenders must be sent to this office, addressed to the
Director of Contracts, marked on the outside, "Tender
for Commissariat Supplies," before Twelve o'clock, on
Tuesday, the 21st instant, after which day no Tender will
be received.
The Secretary of State for War reserves the right of
rejecting any or all of the Tenders.
THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts.

Northern.

Eastern

South-Eastern „
Western !„

South-Western „

London

Chatham

Woolwich „

Chan. Islands „

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
91 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing]

370 children:
£l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank,
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, E.G.; and by
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
are as follows --
For Fallen Women. •
28, Church-row, Hatay- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland-street. with.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Ilenstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, 13nekhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's- street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate 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

In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge throe homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself 'to my mind and awoke my
sympathy"). ma.y.be bad on. application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very esznestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. CO )PER, See.
85, Queen-street Cheirpsidee

AFTER II Elt MAJESTY'S
DRURY-LANE—EVANS' TO SUP
Alter Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to. SUP.
After Drury-lane Opera Eve's'. to SUP.
After Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to SUP.
After Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to SUP.
After Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to SUP.
London Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden.
Vocal Entertainment at Light.

OPERA,

THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
of PICTURES by FRENCH and FLEMISH ARTISTS IS
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of LECTURES on GEOLOGY, having especial reference to the
application of the Science to ENGINEERING, MINING, ARCHITEC-
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on each. succeeding Friday and Wednesday at the same hour.
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opposed perhaps the most important step which has
been taken during the expedition, and which has so

ar conduced most to its success—namely, the re-

duction of the followers, and the coneqnent esta-

blishment of the force upon an European instead of

an Anglo-Indian footing, and it could never have
been properly carried out if one, who is not merely
an Anglo-Indian of a bygone age, but is even with-
out the advantage of having seen active service in
the field since he was a subaltern, had been dis-

charging the influential duties of Quartermaster-
General. It is to be hoped that Colonel Phayre
will not be called on to resume the post which he
has wisely relinquished. It is at once creditable to

him and fortunate for the force that he has selected

work for which his abilities eminently qualify
him, and in which the gravest error of judgment
he can commit is to take a bad instead of a good
road.

In consequence of news received from Mr. Mtn-
zinger, who has gone ahead on a diplomatic mission
to Gobaze, and is now only some 40 miles from Mag-
dala, an order was sent off at 12 o'clock last night
that the troops which were to have left Antalo on
the 25th inst. should come up as soon as possible. The
news was to the effect that Theodore,emboldened pos-
sibly by our slow progress, had ceased to fear being
overtaken and attacked on the march, and had re-
sumed his efforts to reach Magdala, with the full in-
tention of making a stand there. Ile had crossed
the Bashilo, and was within about ten miles of
Magdala. It is very difficult to know how far to
believe any Abyssinian intelligence. It is sus-
pected that even the letters from the captives—at
any rate, from those with Theodore—are written
at his dictation. But still, if any one is now
likely to get correct information, it is Mr.
Munzinger, as well from his present position
near Magdala as from his intimate knowledge of
Abyssinian customs and character, and as the news,
moreover, is not in itself improbable, except, per-
haps, on the principle that " it is too good to be
true," it is generally believed here, and has put
the force into high spirits. They are even ready
to believe in the prospect of reaching Magdala
before the end of this month, as our Cemmander-
in-Chief seems bent upon it. It is not easy
to tell what the distance is. The maps are
little to be relied upon, and the Abyssinians them-
selves have the most hopelessly vague notions of
distance, usually estimating the length of a jour-
ney by the time which they happen to take in get-
ting over it. But still, from a comparison of van--
;oils accounts; there is good reason to believe 'that
:Magdala is not now,. at the outside, more than -120
miles off. Marching at the average rate of 10 miles
a day, the army would thus have, between this and
the end of the month, five days to spare for breath-
ing halts or accidental stoppages. This rate would
be child's play over ordinary ground, or even
through a country in which sufficient supplies were
procurable; but it is no joke when roads have to be
made and supplies carried over an incessant series
of rugged, precipitous hills. Our troops declare
that if this is the " table land of Abyssinia" the
table has been turned wrong side up, and that we
are marching over the legs, and Mr. Laing will be
gratified to know that the Bombay army could
scarcely have better training for "keeping it in
wind" than its present occupation of toiling up one
side of a hill in order to toil down the other. How-
ever, it is expected, nevertheless, that Magdala
will be reached before the end of this month, if
the Commander-in-Chief pushes on without wait-
ing for the elephants and big guns, and this is pup-
posed to be his present intention. 'I here is even a
talk of tents and everything but arms and two or
three days' rations being discarded, as the force
gets very near Magdala, in the hope of surprising
Theodore by a sudden rush and forcing au engage-
ment, but this must of course depend upon what
intelligence is received further on:
All this has put the army into excellent spirits,
and it is in no less excellent health, the climate im-
proving, if anything, as we get further on. The
sickness, both among officers and men, is far below
the usual average. I myself know of only one
officer whose health bas failed him, though unfor-
tunately he is one of the last who could be spared.
Captain Hozier, who came out here•as Sir Robert
Napier's aide-de-camp, but soon proved so useful
he was made Assistant Military Secretary, has been
obliged by acute rheumatism to remain behind,
and it is feared that he will have to abandon the
expedition altogether. His departure is felt as a
great loss by all who knew his abilities as an officer,
or his genial qualities as a companion, but more
especially by Colonel Dillon, Sir Robert's inde-
fatigable secretary, whose arduous labours and
responsibilities Captain Hozier shared. The public,
too, have lost in him the man most competent, from
his rare combination of professional knowledge with
literary power, to write the history of the Abys-
sinian campaign.

MAKHAN, March 17.

We marched here yesterday from Attala, a dis-
tance of about lb miles, The march was a very
difficult one, over a series of ascents and descents,
which so severely tried the baggage animals that
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many broke down and had to be relieved of their
loads, a greater number did not arrive till this
morning, although they left Attala very early yes-
terday, and four have died. A halt is in conse-

quence necessary to-day, only the 33d going on to
make the road, which is said to be a fearfully bad
one, between this and Lake Ashangi. It is a ques-
tion whether these long marches do not waste more
time than they save ; but in this campaign so many
points have to be considered before a suitable halt-
ing-place can be selected that it is easier to denounce
long marches than to avoid them. Yesterday's
march, too, like the blunder about the Muzno road,
had done good service by causing a severely
minute inquiry into the state of the Transport
Train. It speaks volumes for the improved con-
dition of this corps that not one mule bad to
be rejected altogether, and only 26 were declared
unfit, for the present, to carry loads. Only one
muleteer had to be sent into hospital, and two pro-
nounced unfit to pursue the march on foot. The
journey began by an ascent, very steep, but not
difficult, of I,looft. up a road part of which had,
oddly enough, been made by Theodore during an
invasion into Tigre, for some of his famous guns.
The Abyssinians will no doubt consider our use of
it a judgment upon him, and special sign of the
objection entertained by Providence to road making.
The next ascent must have brought us not very much
less than 11,000 ft. above the level of the sea, and
although it was only half-past 3 o'clock, the tempe-
rature was bitterly cold. The view was more than
usually magnificent, even for Abyssinia, and had,
moreover, a peculiar and singularly striking charac-
ter of its own. Instead of the ordinary tangle of
mountain chains, intersecting each other in every
variety of form and elevation, with nothing but a deep
ravine here and there to vary the monotony of the
scene, we saw immediately beneath us a splendid
series of richly-cultivated terraces, sinking in gra-
dual succession until the last disappeared in a forest
of junipers, some 2,000 ft. or more below the peak
on which we stood, while far away eastwards, to-
wards the country of the Azobo Gallas, there
stretched a vast expanse of plain, with fantastic
groups of rocks and hillocks scattered over it in wild
confusion, and looking like the ruins of some old
mountain range. Upon the very summit of the
nearest rock, and running round it exactly like a
coronet, was an Abyssinian village of huts, coni-
cally-shaped, and compose I of wooden palisades,
thatched with grass, and fenced in as a protection
from the Gallas. With the exception of a few
caves high up in one of the mountain slopes,
this village was the only sign of human habita-
tion that I saw on the march. The country ap-
peared thinly peopled. We met, however, a num-
ber of women carrying grain in the direction of
Attala, but scarcely any men. It is said that the
Gallas kill every man they meet, but spare the