The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-16 00:00:00

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.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing

370 children.

£l5 will keep a boy or girl for ona year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank ,
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbnry, E.C.; and by
WILLIAM WrLLIA.MS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's inn-flo'.de.

ALDERSHOT.—ARMY CONTRACTS.—FORAGE.
Commissariat, Aldershot, South Camp,
September, 1868.
TENDERS will be received at this Office until
noon, on Friday, the 25th September, from persons who
may be willing to enter into CONTRACTS for the SUPPLY of
OATS, HAY, and STRAW,
between the Ist November, 1868, and 30th April, 1869, that is for
six months, at Aldershot, and within the command.
Parties may tender for any of the above separately, or for the
whole. _

Oats, per 1001bs.
Hay, per ton.
Straw, per load of 36 trusses of 361hs each.
Also, at the same time and place, Tenders will be received for
the aupply of the following Articles, when required in substitu-
tion for Foi age :
From Ist November, 1868, to 30th April, 1869.
Bran, per 1001bs.
Oatmeal, per 1001bs.
Carrots, per 1121bs.
From Ist April, 1869, to 31st October, 186?.
Green Forage, per 1121bs.

The deliveries will bemade into the Commissariat Barns or
Granaries as required, and the Commissariat will undertake the
issues to the troops.
Forms of Tender and conditions of Contract can bo obtained
on application at this Office, by letter or in person, between the
hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., where any further information that
may be required will be furnished. _ _

R. ROUT K,
Deputy Commissary-General,

CONTRACTS FOR SALT PORK.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, loth Sept., 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 ou TUESDAY, the
13th October next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will be
ready to treat with such Persons as may be wiling 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 season, viz.:—

Navy Pork.
DEPTFORD 4,800 tierces 4,800 barrels.
HAULBOWLINE l,BOO „ 1,800 „
Each tierce of Pork to contain 75 pieces of 41b. each, and
each barrel 50 pieces of 4lbs. each, instead of tho number
of pieces formerly contained in the tierces and barrels.
The Pork to be delivered into the respective Stores as
follows, viz.—one-third of each quantity for each place by
the 15th day of January, 1869; another third thereof by
the sth day of March, 1869; and the remainder thereof by
the 30th day of April, 1869 ; or any greater portion, or the
whole, at any earlier period, if preferred by the party ten-
dering, and to be paid for by bills at three days after date,
which will be 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 fit,
or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any,
and also au 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 cured, the Braud 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 one Port must give a
separate Tender for each Port.
Persons tendering must give a reference to a Banker for
each surety proposed ; and they aro 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 be seen in the Lobby of the Depart-
ment of the Controller of Victualling, Somerset House ; at
the Victualling Yards at Gosport and Plymouth ; or by ap-
plying to the Victualling Storekeeper at Haulbowline ; or
to the Collectors of her Majesty's Customs at Bristol, Lime-
rick, Belfast, Waterford, and Newry; or to the Secretary
to the Postmaster-General at Dublin; or to the Comman-
der conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool.
No Tender will be admitted for a less quantity than 100
tierces, or 1.00 barrels.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of
.treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the
printed form provided for the purpose ; but it will not bo
necessary that the party tendering, or an agent appointed
by him, should attend, as the result of the offer received
from each person will be communicated to him and to his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner of the enve-
lope the words "Tender for Salt Pork," and must also be
delivered at the Department of the Controller of Victual-
ling, Somerset House.
The Contractors will have to pay one-half the amount
of the stamps on the Contracts and Bonds.

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

THE MAJORI7Y OF THE MARQUIS OF
BUTE.

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(From Me Scotsman.)

The rejoicings in Bute in honour of the majority
of the Marquis of Bute commenced on Friday, were
resumed on Saturday, and from early morning till
late in the evening there was a continual succession
of festivities. The weather was brilliantly fine, and
the proceedings were entirely s uccessful. About
half-past nine o'clock the Bute tenantry, numbering
about 120, assembled on horseback at the village of
Killiecroy, and, under the superintendence of Mr.
Henry LStuart, Mr. C. G. Shaw, and Mr. Baxter,
were marshalled in processional order. They then
marched to Mountstuart House, passing through a
grand triumphal arch of flowers and evergreens
which bad been erected at the foot of the avenue.
On their arrival in front of Mountstuart, they
formed sqLare, in the centre of which Lord Bute's
carriage was drawn up. About ten o'clock the
Marquis of Bute appeared at the front door of the
house, and was received with loud cheers by the
assembled farmers. His lordship entered his car-
riage, which was approached by Mr. Charles Dun-
can, president of the Bute Farmers' Society, who
read a congratulatory address from the Bute
tenantry.
The MARQUIS, in accepting the address, said—
Gentlemen, I receive from you with a pleasure
which is not formal, but sincere, the address which
you have just offered me, and I rejoice to know
that the feelings which it expresses are those with
which you really regard me. I feel towards this
island all the proud affection which has for centuries
bound my fathers to its soil, and I know how many
there are among you whose attachment to it is not
less hereditary than my own, and I am glad to feel
that our family and it have been from generation
to generation connected together. I trust and be-
lieve that the bond is one which it will never be my
doing to weaken or destroy. On the contrary, be-
lieve me that it is my desire, by following the ex-
ample of my father and mother which you set
before me, to knit it closer and closer.
Three cheers having been given for the noble
lord, his carriage drove off, escorted by the mounted
farmers. The procession arrived at Millhole, the
boundary of the burgh of Rotbesay, at 11.15, and
the noble lord was there received by the provost,
magistrates, and council of Rothesay, and detach-
ments of volunteers. A procession was then formed,
and proceeded at a slow pace along the beautiful
road which skirts the bay, entering the town by
Bishop-street, and as it passed the various coigns
of vantage where crowds of people had taken up a
position, the marquis was greeted with lou.l cheers.
The procession arrived shortly after 12 o'clock at
Victoria Hall, where the freedom of the burgh was
presented to the Marquis of Bute at a banquet.

In the afternoon there was a distribution of £2OO
among the poor people of the town, the schnols
were entertained to fruit and cake at Lord Bute's
expense, and the volunteers were regaled in the
Bute Hotel.

An address from the Commissioners of Supply
of the county of Bute was presented to his lordship
in Mountstuart House during the afternoon, and
briefly acknowledged.
About four o'clock the marquis entertained about
five hundred of the county gentlemen, tenantry,
and chief inhabitants of Bute to a grand banquet,
in a splendid pavilion erected for the purpose in
front of Mountstuart House.

The Hon. GEORGE FREDERICK BOYLE, wh) was
received with .oud and prolonged cheers, pro-
posed " The Marquis of Bute." (Loud cheer-
ing.) He said—That name, 'gentlemen, is
associated in our minds with the past, with
the present, and with the future. With ttie
past because it brings to our memory recollections
of his revered father—the friend of his tenants, the
treasurer of the poor, the banker of the unfortu-
nate. (Loud cheers.) That expression will recall
to the recollection of some of you his extremekind-
ness of heart to certain less affluent depositors—it
will recall to your recollection that he rekindled the
fire on many a humble hearth, and restored joy and
energy to many a life. (Cheers.) As to the pre-
sent, I would remind you that we are now drinking
the health of one who, in the localities with which
he is connected, potently touches three of the
greatest interests of the country--agriculture,
manufacture, and the mercantile interests. (Cheers.)
As to the agricultural interest, it is needless for me
to remind you of his lordship's large estates in
Bute, Ayrshire, and Galloway ; and as to the manu-
facturing interest, I need scarcely remind you of
the very intimate connection of the house of Bute
with the manufactures of Rothesay, which were the
precursors of so much of the manufacturing prospe-
rity of Scotland. (Cheers.) Of his connection
with the mercantile interest, I will only remind you
of those great docks at Cardiff, which recall to
our recollection the days of ancient Venice,
where high and ancient nobles had the most
personal and intimate associations with the
mercantile prosperity of the great republic.
(Cheers.) Having glanced at the material
interests associated with the name of the Marquis
of Bute, I would say one single word in reference
to the seat which he will have in the Senate of this
nation. It will be in your recollection that his an-
cestor filled the highest and first place in the Legis-
lature as Minister of the Crown—(cheers)--and,
gentlemen, I am sure that I only express the hope
that, without necessarily treading in the footsteps
of his ancestor, he will at least follow him in taking
a leading place in the deliberations of the nation.
(Loud cheers.) Some of you may be inclined to say
to me, " You have dwelt upon what is material in
his position—you have dwelt on what is social and
political, but you have said nothing about his per-
sonal endowments." Now there are two reasons why
I have not done so : the first is, because of his pre-
sence amongst us to-day ; and the second is, be-
cause of the modesty which has been so singularly
characteristic of him, and which I myself hold to
be the first presage of the ability with which he
will fill his distinguished position. (Cheers.) The
larger that the foundations of a building are made
the sounder and higher is the superstructure. (Re-
newed cheers.) We are now at the close of a day
which I am sure will never be banished from our
recollection. It has been marked on the part of
our noble host by an act of hearty benevolence re-
ferred to in the Victoria Hall. This day has
been marked by unselfish enjoyment, having its
source in the prosperity of another—such unsel-
fish enjoyment having its roots in all that is
highest and finest and noblest in human nature.
(Chum) And now one parting word 0,11 to

PRICY 4d.
STAMPED sd.

the future. Be yours, my lord, a distin-
guished place in the councils of the nation, be
yours the respect and amity of an ancient royal
burgh ; and at the close of a long and prosperous
and an honoured life may your name be embalmed
in the affections and traditions of a grateful
tenantry. (Loud cheers.)
The Marquis of BITE, who was received with the
most enthusiastic cheering—the whole company
rising to their feet and waving thir handkerchiefs
—in reply, said : Your kindness has already given
me to-day more than one opportunity of express-
ing to you with how much feeling it is that I re-
ceive from you all the signs of attachment which
you are good enough to afford me; therefore I
will not say much to you now. There is nothing
I have to say. I can only thank you very
warmly for the way in which yoa have just drunk
my health, and I hope that this occasion will only
be fhe first of many acts of kindness which will pass
between us hereafter—(cheers) —a series of acts of
kindness which I am privileged to know are a tradi-
tion here now from my father. I can only hope
that by endeavouring to follow him whom you
have set before me as au example, I may some day
or other be considered by you to have earned for
myself the good feeling which you give me now
for the sake of those who are gone. (Loud cheers.)
There was a grand display of fireworks on the
lawn after dark. The effect of the fireworks, which
were prepared at great expense by Mr. Barlow, of
Glasgow, was very grand.

A RCIIIEPISCOPA L ARITIIIIIE7 IC.

(From the Examiner.)

Archbishops Trench and Beresford, like certain
seaside forts, have been left us as legacies by Lord
Palmerston. That distinguished Minister did
many good things in his day, but he likewise did
some very unwise ones. He made some excellent
appointments in the English Church ; but from
the fatality which seems to rest upon all unreal
and unreasonable institutions he could not escape
when he came to fill up vacancies in the anti-Irish
archiepiscopate. Aristocratic himself in his lean-
ings, he understood Ireland too well to make over
again the mistake cf nominating philosophers like
Dr. Whately or fanatics like Dr. M‘Ghee. He
knew that the former could never obtain either a
popular following or a r opular hearing, even from
his own privileged sect ; and he knew that the
zeal of men like the latter could only serve to make
the seething cauldron of religious animosity boil
over. Ile thought his first duty was to keep the
peace,—at least not to run the risk of a breach of
it in Ireland; he therefore refused to allow the
formation of volunteer corps, thinking that their
blank cartridge practice might lead to bloodshed;
and he therefore resolved to dispense Church
patronage solely with a view to political interests,
for which alone he regarded it, in a country like
Ireland, as capable of any use. The family of
Beresford had had the primacy for a possession for
forty years ; and possession is nine points of the
law where equity is out of the question. The
house of Curraglimore, time out of mind, had never
been without rich dioceses as part of its means of
noble livelihood. Lord Palmerston was a gentle-
man, and so, wheu the Most Rev. Lord John
Beresford died, he thought the best thing he could
do was to make the Rev. Marcus Beresford Arch-
bishop of Armagh. The mitre of Dublin soon
afterwards fell into his hands, and, by way of being
consistent and impartial, he bestowed it on the
scholarly son of the house of Trench, whose heredi-
tary skill in appropriating episcopal "fat things,"
and capitular " wines upon the lees well refined,',
had hardly been outshone by that of the Bourkes,
or even of the Beresfords. The Establishment in
Ireland, as Sir Roundell Palmer reminds us, was
part and parcel of " the sword-in-hand lantation "
begun by the Tudors and finished by the Stuarts.
Its richest prizes and most splendid emoluments
had been kept for generations among the heirlooms
of the great families. They said they had a right
to them—at least a better right than anybody
else ; and, while they arc allowed to last, we do
not distinctly see wh Lt other use there is for them.
Like the costly and massive fortifications already
referred to, they looked the thing admirably—these
archiepiscopal thrones of Dublin and Armagh ; and
seemed admirably manned withal, so long as there
was no enemy in sight. But how do they stand
their first attack ? Do those in command know
what to do or which way to fire? Within the la,t
few days mitred manifestoes have been put forth
by the most reverend authorities in these be-
leaguered places, inspired apparently by the Chinese
hope of frightening away assailants by holding up
pictures of all that is fierce and formidable. They
do not exactly say that they are more numerous
than the besiegers ; but they go as near to it as
long-sleeved logic will allow, by roundly asserting
that, as their flags and uniforms are the same as
those of a great army beyond the sea, they ought
to be treated with as much respect, and regarded
with as much fear, as if all their religious relations
at a distance were actually within the walls. Arch-
bishop Trench appeals to history, and tries to ac-
count for the smallness of his available force by a
series of stories founded on fact, bat very ill-
founded thereon. He would have us believe that
Anglicanism, as preached by the freebooter cap-
tains of Elizabeth and James 1., was fast becoming
a prevalent and popular faith, when in a fit of
desperation, treacherously and unprovokedly, the
Catholic population rose on their benignant con-
verters and swept them in 1641, for the most part,
into the sea. What Cromwell did to repair the
mischief soon afterwards, and how the penal laws
prolonged the hope that, by dint of pitiless cruelty
and brutalising oppression, religious disaffection
would be at length stamped out in the land, the
most reverend father in God of the Dublin garri-
son does not say. He has taken care to put that
down in what the Dutch used to call " The Forget
Book." But it is not forgotten. The injured, in-
sulted, persecuted, and plundered people have
grown and multiplied in Egypt. That they ought
not to have done so Archbishop Trench makes out
clearly to his own satisfaction. Sectarian ascend-
ancy laughed for glee when Drogheda and Wex-
ford fell; it shouted for joy on the bloody fields
of Aughrim and the Boyne ; it chuckled at the
cheat practised in the treaty of Limerick ; and
sipped its ecclesiastical claret in sanguine idleness
during the whole of the eighteenth century. As
its plethoric limbs grew numb, it let slip some of
the cords wherewith recusancy and nonconformity
were bound ; and these, intoxicated wish their new
liberty, and impatient at what was still withheld,
broke out in 1798 in United Irishism. Presby-
terians and Catholics were once more put down,
and the fears of ascendancy laid to rest by the so-
called Act of Union, which declared the uu-national
Establishment in Ireland to be henceforth part
and parcel of the national Establishment in Eng-
land. On this miserable make-believe of a guaran-
tee, which does and can guarantee nothing that is
false in fact and repugnant to justice and reason,
the planter Church has relied from that day to
this ; and Archbishop Trench is unwise enough to
think that its invocation will deter Parliament
from dealing with the subject. Archbishop Beres-
ford is hardier still in his angry assertions. He
plunges into statistics as blindly as his metropolitan
brother takes a header into history. In astound-
ing defiance of the notorious figures of the case,
the parliamentary successor of St. Patrick asserts
that, if to the minority of Churchmen in England
we add the insignificant minority of Churchmen
in Ireland, the two minorities will outnumber the
demonstrable majority ou this side the Channel,
and the obvious and overwhelming majority on the
other. This is archiepiscopal arithmetic—the
algebra, we presume, of the orthodox astronomy
that insisted on Galileo cknyiug that the earth
went xound the sun,