The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1868.

THIRD EDITION.—In 2 vols., Bvo., with Portrait,
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SPIRITUAL WIVES.
By W. HEPWOItTH DIXON,

Author of "New America," &c.
"Mr. Dixon has treated his subject in a philosophical spirit,
and in his usual graphic manner. There is, to our thinking,
more pernicious doctrine in one chapter of some of the sensa-
tional novels, which find admirers in drawing-rooms and eulo-
gists in the press, than in the whole of Mr. Dixon's interesting
work."—Examiner.

Just published, price ls. 6d., by post ls. Bd., the Second Edition,
with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus-
tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks,
REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND
QUACKERY. By DETECTOR Reprinted from the

"Medical Circular."
London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street.
The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday
Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, and other
journals, recommending its univqrsal perusal, are reprinted with
this edition.

TEETH PAINLESSLY STOPPED, with
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guaranteed not to turn black or make the teeth look unsightly.

MR. WEBB, DENTIST,
27, NBW BOND-STREET,
Many years with Mr. &KELL, of 8, Grosvenor-street,
Bond-street.

DISCOVERY OF GUNPOWDER (TEA.)-
Large quantities of the very finest descriptions have
been discovered in Great St. Helen's, at the Warehouses of the
" EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY,"

and are going off rapidly at importers' prices. Also the most deli-
cious Kaisows and Monings ever shipped from China, from 2s. 6d.
upwards. Family Tea, 25.; in half-chests, ls. 10d. Tea for the
million, ls. ld. Price Lists post free on application at 9, Great
St. Helen's Church-yard, Bishopsgate-street.

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For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine,
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create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the
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London, ind by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lid., and
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which have sprung up in consequence of the success of
11 Norton's, Camomile Pills."

THE OXFORD HOTEL REFRESHMENT
BARS and SUPPER ROOMS are now Restored, and
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Taames- street, London.

EULOGY.-KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.
X.)l PROFE'SOR TENNANT, F.G.S., COMMENCED A
COURSE of LECTURES on GEOLOGY on FRIDAY, January
24, at 9 a.m. They will be continued on each succeeding Wed-
nesday and Friday at the same hour A shorter course is also
given on Thursday evenings, from Bto 9. Text-Bock, Lyell's
"Elements of Geology." Professor Tennant accompanies his
students to the Public Museums, and to places of Geological in-
terest in the country,

R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal

CONTRACT FOR RUM.
CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY,
Somerset House, 17th February; 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 THURSDAY, the
27th inst., at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will be ready
to treat with such persons as may be willing to CON-
TRACT for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's
Victualling Stores at Deptford •
50,000 Gallons of RUM,
to be delivered within three weeks from date of Contract.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of
the Rum.

All 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 ac-
cepted.
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 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 gallons
to one-tenth of a gallon, the liquid contents being ascer-
tained to the half gallon.
Samples 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 be obtained on
application in the lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, 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 tire 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 to2his 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 Rutn," and must also be delivered at the De-
partment of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House. _ _

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

CONTRACTS FOR FRESH BEEF, MUTTON, BREAD,
VEGETABLES, &c., FOR THE ROYAL MARINE IN-
FIRMARIES AT WOOLWICH AND CHATHAM.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 17th February, 1868.
TAE COMMISSIONERS for executing the
Office of Lord High Admiral of the United King-
dcm of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby Give Notice
that on THURSDAY, sth March next, at Half-past One
o'clock, they will be ready, at the Office of the Director-
General of the Medical Department of the Navy, Stmerset
House, in London, to treat with such persons as may be
willing to CONTRACT for the SUPPLY of all such
quantities of all or any of the following ARTICLES as
shall from time to time be required for the use of either
one or both of the Royal Marine Infirmaries at Woolwich
and Chatham, from the first day of April next to the 31st
day of March, 1869, viz.:—
BEEF and MUTTON, I SOAP, YELLOW,
BREAD, • VEGETABLES.
MILK,
Samples of the Soap, together with the Conditions of
the Contracts, may be seen at the Office of the Director-
General of the Medical Department, or by applying to the
Purveyor at the Infirmaries at Woolwich and Chatham.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained
on application in the Lobby of the Medical Department,
Admiralty, Somerset House, and to the Purveyors atWool-
wich and Chatham.
No Tender will be received after Half-past One o'clock
on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the
a
party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend
the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear, in the left hand corner the words
" Tender for ," and must also be delivered at the
Medical Department, Somerset House,
accompanied by a
letter, signed by a responsible person, engaging to become
bound with the person tendering in the sum of £lOO for
the due performance of the Contracts for Beef and Mutton,
for Bread and for Vegetables, and in the sum of £5O for
each of the other Contracts.

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

IMPERIAL PARLI A KENT

HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING.

The LOAD CHANCELLOR took his s9at on the Woolsack
at five o'clock.

THE PROMISSORY OATHS BILL.

Tho LORD CHANCELLOR said that he should brier y
move the second reading of this bill. Their lordships wou'
be aware that many oaths had been abolished which we
very cumbrous. But there still existed oaths which we ?!ei
obligatory upon persons who were appointed to the higher it
and lowest official positions in the realm and which oaths',
whether serious or frivolous, it was never intended
should be carried out. There was one oath taken by a
gentleman-at-arms—(and he might. state at this point th
the oaths to be taken occupied 300 pages of the Appendi
of the;Report of Commission on:Promis3ory Oaths)—whicri
declared that he would keep three double horses and two
men, and would with himself and servants be always rzadj
in harness to servo the King. This was never, of course,
intended to be acted upon, but he had in frivolous oaths a
much more striking example. It appeared that tho beadle
of a parish was, besides going to public-houses and beer-
shops, to take all the pigs in the district to the pound if
they were found straying. The Commission on Oaths had
advised the oaths of allegiance should be retained, and oaths
of office should ba abolished. With this he agreed. He
thought that the military, judicial, and official oaths ought
to be abolished, although some of the greater oaths might
be retained. Judicial oaths only to be taken by the highest
functionaries, and those taken by members of the house,
which oaths should be turned into declarations. Of
m wereo to proposed
b e
turned to
course secret oaths had to be taken ; for instance, by
the assessors of the income tax. All oaths by this
bilii)ecaxbe
into oeritshdeelio
tdhcoawraantdhnetsh. those
il That mentioned,wasretainedware
the purport of the
bill.

Lord LY VEDEN, who was very indistinct, was un-
derstood to say that he thought it was perfectly absurd to
ask a man to take an oath to do acts which it was per-
fectly impossible that he could perform. He considered
himself that the oath of allegiance and supremacy was
perfectly absurd. • Of course, there could be no doubt of
the. loyalty of men in office to the Sovereign. He
considered that the official oath was entirely
unnecessary. With regard to the military oath, the officer
had as much right to take it as the private. On the ground
of religion and morality he should support it.
Earl RUSSELL said that he approved of the bill as in-
troduced by the Lord Chancellor. He must, however,
remark that for those oaths which were to remain it would
be much better that they should be in a substantive form.
With these observations he would say that he heartily con-
curred in the bill.

The Bishop of OXFORD said that what he, as ono of
the Commissioners on Oaths, thought was, that the noble
lord had been wrong when he said that oaths were use-
less. He considered that they elevated the moral mind of
the nation, and that the Coronation Oath, whereby a Chris-
tian Sovereign swore to observe the duties of his position
in presence of his spiritual lord, ought to be reverenced
by all.
After some observations from Lord WESTBURY, the
bill was read a second time, and referred to a select com-
mittee.
The house adjourned at 25 minutes to 7.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BILLS.

Mr. DODSON called the attention of the house to, its
legislation with respect to private bills, and moved
certain new standing orders on the subject. • He said
the proposed changes would in no way affect the
proceedings of that house, but that they would only
come into operation after the bills had been
considered thereon. The new orders would he felt be Of the
greatest convenience, and tend to simplify and facilitate
the passing of measures of a really practical nature, and
prevent, to a great extent, the prosecution of bills,
the objects of which were to harass established companies
and create expense merely for the sake of incurring those
expenses, the interests of the public being of very little or
no consideration.

Mr. 0. CAVE approved of the proposed alterations. He

thought the subject was one of such importance that ho
proposed to ask for leave to bring in a bill to re-enact
the provisions of the act of 1847 and 1848, which gave the
Board of Trade the power of sanctioning bills for the
abandonment of railways, and also for the granting of an
extension of time for their construction. He thought also
that if the subject of competition was left for the considera-
tion of Parliament instead of being left for consideration of
theßoarxl of Trade much good would result from such an ar-
rangement. He thought that the last order with respect
to estimates had better not be insisted upon at the present
moment. He might just say that it was the purpose of
the Board of Trade also to introduce a bill, enacting that
the Wharncliffe meeting should be held before the bill a as
introduced into Parliament, instead of, as at present, hold-
ing the meeting of shareholders between the time of the
passing of the bill from that house to the House of Peers.
Lord HOTHAII asked that time might be allowed
before the assent of Parliament was given at once to the
proposed alterations.

Mr. C. FOSTER moved the adjournment of the debate
for a fortnight, by which time the house would have had
ample time to consider the now orders.
Mr. BOUVERIE beconded the motion for the adjourn-
ment. If the now orders were agreed to they would cause
a complete revolution of the private business of that
house.

Mr. DODSON said he should not object to the motion
for postponement on condition that that day week they
would come to a decision on the part of the proposed now
orders.

Mr. Sergeant GAZELEE hoped that the whole matter
would be adjourned for the period mentioned by his hon.
friend.
The debate was ultimately adjourned for a fortnight.
BRITISH SUBJECTS.
Mr. FOSTER gave notice of his intention on an early
day to cull attention to the subject of the allegiance of
British subjects v, ho had emigrated to foreign countries.
DUNKELD BRIDGE.
' Mr. BAXTER asked the Lord Advocate if it was cor-
rect that tolls both on foot passengers and carriages
continuo to be levied at the bridge of Dun-
keld by the Duke of Athol°, although his right
to do so had lapsed, and although the Post-
office authorities had for some time refused to pay for
their cor.veyances which now pass free: if in consequence
of that illegal imposition great excitement prevailed in the
neighbourhood, resulting on Monday night in the destruc-
tion of the toll-gate; and, if her Majesty's Government in-
tended to take any steps in the circumstances.
The LORD AD VOCATE said it was correct that tolls
were still levied, but ho could not admit that the Duke of
Athole's right to do so had lapsed. There had been a
litigation between the Duke of Athole and the Postmaster-
General, but it was thought the Duke was entitled to still
take the toll, and he did not think Government ought to
interfere. Those who thought the tolls were illegal ought
to contest the matter. He begged to say ho gave no
opinion upon the legality of the matter.