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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1868.

AFTER THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
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Alter Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP.
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After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP.
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Vocal Entertainment at Eight.

LONDON AND NORTH.. WESTERN
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Shoreditch at 12.33, Dalston Junction at 12.46, Camden-
road at 12.56 noon. _

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CONTRACT FOR VULCANISED INDIA. RUBBER,

Contract Department, Admiralty, Sotnetset
House, April 9, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTLNG
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

TUBING,
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 be 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 sum of £2OO for the due per-
formance of the Contract.

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

CONTRACT FOR CAND,LES
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 6th A pril, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of -LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
TN i_Tyrt r rirusv.s cat u.A.31 11111TAt_and_111.m.-
LA.N D do hereby give Notice, that on NVP_;!).NESDAY,
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 ber Majesty's
Dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich all such quan-
ties of

CANDLES
as may from time to time be ordered, under a Contract for
12Anonths 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 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 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., Hulme,
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.
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conditions of Contract may be obtained on application to
the Senior Commissariat Officer of the district, and no
Tender will be entertained unless made upon the printed
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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.

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AFTER HER MAJESTY'S OPERA,
DRURY-LANE—EVANS' TO SUP.
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opposed perhaps the most important step which has
been taken during the expedition, and which has so
far conduced most to its success—namely, the re-
duction of the followers, and the consequent 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 forttmate for the force that he has selected
work for which his abilities eminently quality
him, and iu 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. Mun-
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
the2sth 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 bad re-
sumed his efforts to reach Magdala, with the full in-
.tention of making a stand there. He 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 fro,n 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 Commander-
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 vari-
ous 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 an 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 has 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.

MA KIIAN, March 17.
We marched here yesterday from Attala, a dis-
tance of about 15 miles. The march was a very
difficult one, over a series of ascents and descents,
which so severely tried the baggage animals that
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,
has 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 had to
be rejected altogether, and only 26 were declared
unfit, for the present, to carry loads. Only one
muleteer lad 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, anti
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 bad,
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 composed 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
Ciallm kill every mau they meet, but quo the

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lives and often the property of women ; though pos-
sibly this theory is a convenient invention, devised
to escape work, by the lazy lords of the creation.
Some of the women were very pretty, with delicate
features and rich olive complexions, not much
darker than that of a Spanish brunette; but their
charms were marred in British eyes by the usual
Abys,inian taste for grease and dististe for soap.
As the Americans say, we -are a sadly prejudiced
people.

_News came in here from the captives to-day,
dated Feb. 3, but only to the stereotyped effect
that they were well, and that Theodore was drag-
ging his heavy guns and baggage on to Magdala.
I forgot to ask whether Gobaze was " watch-
ing" him. He has been plundering the people of
Dalanta, despite all his oaths and promises of
friendship, so they are again in revolt. Probably
h;s army must have supplies, and can only get them
by plunder.
The country in this immediate neighbourhood
does not seem very fertile, but by a dexterous stroke
of diplomacy Captain Speedy, late " Basha Fellaka"
to Theodore, now chief interpreter in our Intelli-
gence Department, diverted a quantity of grain on
its way to a neighbouring market into our camp,
so that the horses and baggage Animals have been
well supplied. A little further on, at Lake Ashangi,
supplies are, said to abound. Major Grant, the
African traveller, who has gone on ahead to open
the market, gives in his official report a most satis-
factory account of the fertility of the country, and
of the eager, enthusiastic reception with which the
inhabitants have welcomed him.