The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1868.

JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decry, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price Is. 6d.-1-tod Bull Wharf, 93, Upper
Thames. street. London.

NIETROPOLITAN AND ST. JOHN'S-
WOOD RAILWAY.
This Line will be OPENED for TRAFFIC in the
course of a few days.
The Stations are at
SWISS COTTAGE,
MARLBOROUGH-ROAD (near Eyre Arms),
ST. JOHN'S-WOOD ROAD (near Lord's Cricket
Ground).
TLr ugh Trains will run at intervals of 20 minutes 133-
tween Swiss Cottage and the City; and at intervals of 10
minutes between Swiss Cottage and Baker-street Station
at certain hours of the day.
Passengers will be booked through to and from all sta-
tions on the Metropolitan and Hammersmith Railways.
For particulars as to Season TicketF, &c., apply to
MYLES FENTON, General Manager.
Metropolitan Railway Offices, Gower-street
Station, April 4, 1863.

Mutual Assurance without Mutual Liability.—Profits may be
applied so as to make Policies payable in Life time, or so as
alternately to reduce the Plemiums on Second-class Lives
to First-class Rates.
BRITISII EQUITABLE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
4, QUEEN-STREET-PLACE,
SOUTHWARK BRIDGE, LONDON, E.C.
CAPITAL:—A QUARTER OF A MILLION.
Accumulating Fund exceeds £155,000.
New Policies issued:
Years. No. Amount. Annual Prems.
1865-6 ... 2073 ... £353,700 ... £10,899
1866-7 n. 2845 ... 501,175 ... 15,318
1867-8 3859 ... 661,997 ... 20,303

3 8307 ... £1,51.1,872 £46,520
Policies in force, 14,474—£2,458,896.
19th March, 1863

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANS-
ATIANTIQUE, 8, Place Vendome, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS,
CHINA, JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC,
AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
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Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca-
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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 Cubs, 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 HAVRE or BREST to NEW YORK.
First Class
91
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.,
Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C.

CONTRACT FOR NORWAY SPARS.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, March 20 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
14th April next, 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,
10,950 NORWAY SPARS,

by the 31st December, 1868.
The Spars (except such as may be rejected) to be
exempted from the payment of Customs duties.
A Distribution of the Spars, and the Form of theTonder
and Conditions of Contract, may be seen in the Lobby of
the Storekeeper-General's Department, Admiralty, Somer-
set 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 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 Norway Spars," and must also be delivered at
the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty,
Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by two
responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the
person tendering in the sum of £25 per cent. on the value
for the due performance of the Contract.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

IMPREGNABLE SAFES AND LOCKS.
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the Tubes by which they are held together being filled by
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of burglars, as well as the most scientific mechanicians.
LOCKS of every description for Mansions, Hotels,
Dwelling-house; &c., at moderate prices.
Descriptive Price Lists free, on application to
Messrs. HOBBS, HART, and CO.,
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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 one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank,
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, 1.C.; and by
WILLIAM WILLI AMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S lIOMES
%re as follows :
For Fallen Women..
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. I 48, Church-street, Stok
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
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For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Heustridge-villas, St. John's-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three 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") may be had on application.
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. COOPER, Sec.
85, Queen-street, Cheapside.

priE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL EXtIIBITION
of PICTURES by FRENCH and FLEIIISII ARTISTS IS
NOW_OPEN at the GALLERY, 120, PALL-MALL. Admission, la.;
Catalogue, GI

iILAPHAM.—APARTMENTS well Furnished
V and highly Respectable in a Gentleman's Private
Family, pleasantly situate, with large Garden. Attend-
ance and every comfort. Very convenieLt for Rail or
Omnibus to City and West-end. Apply at the Residence,
34, Lark Hall Rise, Clapham, S.W.; or to Mr. STEVENS,
The Pavement, Clapham Common.

MO BE LET, UNFURNISHED, a PARLOUR
I and TWO BED-ROOMS, with Gas, &c., in the most
eligible part of St. Paul's-road, Camden-square, N.W.
Apply at 44, St. Paul's-road, Camden-square, N.W.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
War-office, Pall-Mall, London, S.W.,
6th April, 1868.
XTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
SECRETARY of STATE for WAR will be pre-
pared to receive tenders for the supply of
BREAD and MEAT
For the use of her Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the
following Districts, clueing a period of Six Months, com-
mencing Ist June, 1868, viz. :
N. Britain District, Oommmissariat Office, 3, Hill-street,
Edinburgh.
Barrack-st., Hulme,
Manchester.
The Camp, Col-
chester.
4, Oastle-st., Dover.

Northern

Eastern

South-Eastern „
Western 71

20, E. Emm.a-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 maybe 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.

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ROYAG GENER.4L THEATRICAL FUND.

The twenty-third anniversary festival of thi3
fund was held yesterday evening at the Freemasons'
Tavern, when Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens, M.P., pre-
sided. There were also present—Major C.- Wright,
Dr. Hastings, and Messrs. T. Swinbourne, J.
INlatthew, It. Churchill, W. J. Faraell, Briggs, T.
\\'illiams, Bandinann, E. Smith, Irving, Ballantine,
W. Campbell Sleigh, It. Miller, A. Maddiek, J. B.
Thompson, T. Bishop, Martin Pratt, D. Nicholson,
G. Murray; W. Cowell, F. Toole, J. A. Barthwick,
COlonel A. B. Richards, &c.
Grace having been sung, and the cloth removed,

The CHAIRMAN gave the first toast. He said—lt
is usual to give the Queen's health upon the strange
plea that it is customary to do so. I have always_
thought that that was a very bad reason for
drinking the toast of long life to the first lady of the
land; but in this room and on this occasion it is
hardly necessary for me to question the impropriety
of the reason. I give you the health of one of the
oldest supporters of your valuable institution, of one
who has subscribed liberally and handsoniely to
promote the object you have in view. We, there-
fore, will drink not only to the health of our Sove-
reign, but to the benefactress of this charity.

The toast was drunk with the usual honours.

The CHAIRMAN---I now give you " The Health
of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest
of the, Royal Family." The Prince of Wales is well
known throughout the country for the geniality of
his manners and the sympathy which he readily
shows for all that is most useful and most interest-
ing in the occupations and pastimes of the people.
(Hear, hear.) And if there is one thing with which
his name is more associated than another, I think it
is the honourable profession to Which so many
around me belong. (Cheers.) There is no species
of public amusement, whether musical or otherwise,
which the Prince of Wales is not only ready to
appreciate—l will not say to patronise, for I do
not like the word—but I will say to appreciate,
than that which now more especially concerns us.
(Hear, hear.) The Prince of Wales has on every
occasion shown himself prompt to sympathise with
whatever may be unfortunate in the calling in
which we are interested on this occasion. In a very
recent calamity he was one of the first to show his
sympathy, willingness, and promptitude to afford
his support and succour. (Hear, hear.) I am
quite sure of thls, that whenever his Royal High-
ness—and without any disrespect to his Royal
Highness I hope it may be a long time off—shall
succeed to the high position occupied by his illus-
trious relative, this institution will not lack in him
a real and truly and noble friend. (Cheers.) With
regard to her who is identified with him not only in
name but in the sympathy of the people, I m ay be
permitted to say that we rejoice to see the Princess
of Wales again appear in public, and I trust that
she and her children will be long spared in health
and happiness to remain amongst us. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN—The next toast I have now to
give you is the health of the three professions among
which we number many friends. I have to give
you " The Health of the Army, Navy, and Volun-
teers." (Cheers.) I dare say there are present a
large number of the last-named branch of the service.
I associate the toast with the name of our gal-
lant friend Major Wright. (Hear, hear.) It has
been my duty in Parliament to take part in a vote
for a very large sum of money for the support of
the gallant branch of the service first named, and I
only wish that the amateur service—the volunteers
—would take the place to a greater extent of the
older branch of the army. The volunteer force has
rapidly increased from a mere nucleus to be a great
army, anclr speak the sentiments of the best-trained
veterans when I say that there is no feeling of jea-
lousy on the part of the army in reference to the
volunteers; on the contrary, the volunteer force is
regarded as the best means of disciplining the youth
of the country, and fitting them to be soldiers when-
ever they may be required. (Cheers.)
Major WRIGHT responded to the toast. He said
that the chairman in prOposing it had left very little
for him to do. In regard to the Abyssinian force he
observed that it was in every way admirably con-
stituted. The commander, Sir Robert Napier, was
a first rate general officer, and there was every rea-
son to hope that the hostilities in that country
would be brought to a successful and speedy termina-
tion. No portion of the community felt more pride
or took greater interest in the national drama than
did the soldier. In our vast Indian empire it was
very seldom that they had the advantage of seeing
a member of the theatrical profeaiion ; but he
might say that whenever at a new military station
the barracks and the church were completed, the
next thing thought of was the theatre. (Hear, hear.)
It was therefore not to be wondered at that most
military men when they returned to the metropolis
of their country regarded with feelings of admiral
tion those of the theatrical profession, who by their
great talents had acquired a world-wide reputation,
many of whom, ladies as well as gentlemen, he was
proud to think he had the honour of addressing that
evening. (Cheers.)
The CHAlR3l2l4.—Gentlemen and Ladies—
When I recollect who have filled this chair at for-
mer anniversaries I am truly sensible of my own
unworthiness to address you on the present most
agreeable, and I trust it will be found most benefi-
cial, assembly. In this chair have from time to
time presided some of the most eminent men of
our day and generation. Their wit has not been
forgotten by you, although it cannot be emu-
lated by me. But I trust you will take the will
for the deed on my part. I belong to another
class of actors, whose theatre is not perhaps licensed
by the Lord Chamberlain. In that profession there
are benefits occasionally, and they are very large,
only they are for the few and not for the many, the
rank and file going hungry and empty away. (A
laugh.) We have, however, the power of putting
our hands into the people's pockets. I was very
much amused at a very large meeting held not very
far away from this spot, the object of which was the
promotion of financial reform. I went to the meet-
ing, I confess, with heart beating and hope high, for
I have found, as you probably have found, that our
taxes are heavy, and the way to lessen them would
be a most desirable discovery. One of the speakers
there stated that the case of the House of Commons
was like that of the man who had painted a portrait
of a celebrated solicitor, which it was alleged was
not true to nature. " What is the matter ?" said
the artist. " Simply this, that you have drawn
him in the unnatural position of putting his
hands into his own pocket." (Laughter.) I have
related this story not so much because it is apropos
-of the House. of Commons, but because I think
it is apropos of the great and noble purposes of your
gathering here this evening. Unlike other institu-
tions founded for the support of those in misfortune
or overtaken by premature old age, you do not ask
others to support those who are in need, but you
put your hands into your own pockets for this pur,
pose. This is the noble principle of this institution
that has sweetened its breath, and kept it healthy,
and I am quite sure it will always preserve for itself
the support and sympathy of the other portions of
the community. (Cheers.) I have read with great
interest the details of the excellent uses to which
the institution has been put, and learnt the way in
which numbers have been befriended when over-
taken by calamity, without undergoing the humi-
liation of exposure, and I mean exposure in the most
limited sense of the word. (Hear, hear.) In a
country which depends so essentially on enterprise
and industry such a provision as this fund makes it
absolutely necessary amongst all classes, and those
who contribute to the instruction and amusement
(if the rest of their fellow-citizens are not exempt
Prom this general rule. I only wish that in other
iastitutions there was the saute esprit de corps which
has supported this 'noble institution "now for more
than twenty years in vitality and vigour. You are

guided by a noble principle, and in your society I
am happy to see a representation of all that is
noble, persevering, and thrifty in our great commu-
nity ; 'and I do trust that that variety or diversity
may never be abridged. Ido trust and Ido firmly
believe that the drama will not want sympathetic
aid from without. (Hear) lam sorry on account
of Mr. Dion Boucicault's absence, who presided at
your festival last year. (Hear, hear.) Having ven-
tured to take the post as chairman this year, I wrote
to that gentleman for advice, and I received from
him a note, which your secretary will read by-and-
by, enclosing a cheque for £lO 103. for the fund.
He states that it is bodily illness alone that prevents
his being present. I can only say this that I wish to
be authorised by you to convey to him your sym-
pathy in his suffering and your regret at his ab-
sence. (Hear.) This will do much to console him in
the privation which he states he is compelled to
endure. Lord Arthur Clinton has expressed his in-
ability to attend, and the regret which he experi-
ences on that account. I know also Mr. Buckstone
regrets that his engagements at the Haymarket pre-
vent his being present on this occasion. I need
not enumerate other names to you. We have in
this'roam many distinguished men in various walks
of life, an I I trust that when the list is read over,
and Mr. Swinbourne, whom I shall call upon to re-
spond to the toast, shall have stated the condition
of the society, you will not think we have met toge-
ther in vain. (Hear.) Without further preface I
give you " Prosperity to the Royal General Theatri-
cal Fund." (Cheers.)
Mr. SWINBOURNE, after a few preliminary obser-
vations, said they had now 30 annuitants, of whom
19 were ladies, and during the last year the fund
had paid £1,350. Several other persons were eli-
gible, and would be claimants during the next ye ar.
There was great pressure on the resources of the
institution, and he made an earnest appeal in its
behalf. Those who saw the actor playing his part
little dreamt how he had to mask a sad heart with
a smiling face in his struggle to support the dear
ones at home, or to put by something for a time
of sickness or some unforeseen accident. In
the profession the blanks were numerous,
and the prizes but too few. That insti-
tution, however, was open to all who had passed
three years' probation, and as a proof of its utility
he would mention a conversation he had lately
with one of the members. On a recent provincial
tour he happened to be walking with a young actor,
and said to him, "By the way, you belong to the
General Theatrical Fund, I believe ?" Tue reply
was, " Yes, thank Heaven, I do. Three weeks ago
I put.my wife upon it, and my brother also; and
but for the existence of the fund he and I would
have to support our parents, instead of which,
through it, they live independently in a snug cot-
tage standing on an acre of land, and when we visit
them we have a spare room at our disposal."
(Cheers.) Such a picture struck him in forcible
contrast with the case of a, worn-out actor, nearly
70 years of age, who a few weeks ago called upon
him for assistance, and who dragged out a wretched
existence by means of the charity of a few friends
who knew him in his earlier days. (Hear, hear.)
This was an instance which stimulated the genero-
sity of every actor and actress, and all present that
evening, towards the fund. Her Majesty the Queen
had again forwarded her annual donation of £lOO.
(Cheers.) This Royal munificence elicited their
deepest gratitude. His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales had also sent his subscription. An
eminent actor had lately made a proposal which
much redounded to his credit. In answer to a
question put to him, Mr. Dion Boucicault said, " I
cannot act for you on the occasion referred to, but
I will have my name put up for a benefit, and the
entire profits shall be divided among your annui-
tants." (Cheers.) They felt deeply obliged to the
founders of that fund, many of whom, alas had
gone to that "bourne whence no traveller returns ;"
but some remained who freely gave of their time
and money to support it through its infancy to man-
hood, and he sincerely trusted that they would not
desert it now. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN next gave the toast of " The
Drama," associating with it, he said, the name of
one who had not been long known amongst them—
Mr.Bandinann—but who in the short space of time
he had been contributing to their instruction and
amusement had made himself thorOughly honoured
and respected. (Cheers.) The drama was one of
those callings in which sympathy and fraternity were
not limited by country—it was an art alike known
and valued over the civilised world. (Hear.)
Mr. BANDMANN, in reply, observed that the
chairman had said so many kind words of him that
he rather feared to address the assembly, lest he
should not come up to their expectations. As re-
garded the drama he did not think that it needed
any mouthpiece, it spoke for itself. (Hear, hear.)
As a German by birth, and education, and appren-
ticeship, he felt as well as any of his brother artists
the great power which this wonderful art exercised
over every nation. In Germany the drama was re-
garded as a State institute ; and it was only the
other day that he read in a German newspaper that
the Crown Prince of Prussia had produced a five-
act tragedy which he himself had written. (Hear,
hear.) It might be interesting to English people
to know that in Germany Shakspere was
more acted than Schiller or Goethe, and
that the Germans claimed Shakspere as much as
the British nation did. One of their poets had even
asserted that Shakspere belonged to Germany,
and not to England. (Laughter.) He justified
this assertion from the circumstance that when
Shakspere's genius was sent from heaven to earth
it was directed to Germany, but unfortunately the
wind blew very strongly in a westerly direction.
(Laughter.) He (Mr. Bandmann) cared little
where Shakspere was born ; for he belonged to the
world, and the world had taken him up. He then
dwelt upon the generosity with which the English
people received foreign artists, and expressed his
desire to help forward the progress of the drama.
The. CHAIRMAN then briefly proposed the toast
of " The Bar" coupling with it the name of Mr.
Campbell Sleigh. (Cheers.)
Mr. SLEIGH expressed his thanks for the manner
in which the chairman had been pleased to propose
the toast of the English Bar, and the very kind
manner in which it had been received.
Mr. CULLENFORD then read the list of subscrip-
tions, which amounted to £327, and the following
letter from Mr. Dion Boucicault

"My dear Torrens—lllness prevents me occupy-
ing a seat near you to-morrow evening.
" ff asked to speak to the toast of the Drama, I
should feel like Gladstone if he were asked to return
thanks for the Irish Church.

" I am a sacrilegious iconoclast, the arch-de-
stroyer of sacred traditions and vested opinions. I
am one who believes in the living drama and the
drama of the future; and I no more desire to see
the defunct dramatist occupying the stage than I
wish to see my grandfather rise out of his respected
tomb and reclaim my inheritance.
" Now, all this is very profane and heterodox.
It would shock the digestion of many at a Free-
masons' dinner, and Freemasons' wide requires
encouragement. So I apprehend you are well rid
of me. .

" I enclose ten guineas. Will you kindly receive
this subscription to the fund?"

The toast of "The Ladies" concluded the pro-
ceedings.
The dinner was in every respect admirable, well
sustaining the credit of the cuisine of the hotel.

The annual report of the New York Commis-
sioners of Emigration has been presented, and from it we
learn that of the 222,632 emigrants brought from Europe
in 464 steamers, in 1867, 255 died, while of the 49,038
brought in 282 sailing vessels 461 died. From January 1
to March 18, 186., 0,631 emigrants arrived at CAstle-
gardeir in NeW YOI-14 being 8,582 less than during the
similar portion of 1867.