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London, England, 1868-02-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1868.

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BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND.
THE COMMITTEE OF TILE CORPORATION
OF LONDON, charged with the execution of the Act 30
and 31 Vic., cap. 38, intituled "An Act for the Preserva-
tion of Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, in the County of
Middlesex, as an open space, and for other purposes relating
thereto ;" hereby gives Notice to the relatives and friends
of those who have been interred in the said Burial Ground
that they are about to proceed, at an early date, with so
much of the said act as directs that the said ground shall
be laid out with ornamental and other walks in order to
its being used and enjoyed as an open space, accessible to
the public.
The Committee, before proceeding to lay out the walks,
invite all parties who may be interested, to visit the
Burial Ground for the purpose of recognising and iden-
tifying the Graves, Tombs, and Vaults in which their re-
latives or friends may be inter ed...
Persons desirous to visit the ground will -be permitted
to do so, free of charge, upon application to the Keeper
between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 o'clock p.m.
Any communications on the subject should be
addressed to the Buubill Fields Committee, at the Town
Clerk's Office, Guildhall.
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BARRACK CONTRACTS FOR THE SUPPLY OF
COALS, COKE, TURF, CANDLES, AND KIND-
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War-office,
tPh aFlle-tmraul,li,ryt:olnBtl6(t, n.w.,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
-LI SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is prepared
to receive TENDERS for the Supply of Coals, Coke. Turf,
Candles, and Kindling Wood at the various Barrack Sta-
tions in Great Britain and Ireland, for a period of Twelve
Months from the Ist of April next.
Tenders will not be entertained unless made upon the
proper printed form, which may be obtained with every
requisite information, upon application at this office, or to
the various Barrack Masters, between the hours of 10 and
4 o'clock each day, Sundays excepted.
The Tenders must be sent to this Office, addressed to
the Director of Contracts, marked on the outside " Tender
for Coals, &c.," on or before Saturday, 29th February, 1868,
after which day no Tender will be received.
The Secretary of State of War reserves the right of
rejecting any or all of the Tenders.
THOMAS HOWELL,
Director of Contracts.

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whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
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the kingdom.
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"Elements of Geology." Professor Tennant accompanies his
students to the Public Museums, and to places of Geological in-
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in his judgment on the Bth inst., said
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of ornament, but that they are servicable in protecting the
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PARIS, Feb. 19.

The sublime is closely followed by the ridiculous,
and mundane changes, however exalted the ideas
they originally represented, however practical the
results obtained therefrom, bear a strangely fan-
tastic resemblance to the travesties which, on
the arrival of Mardi Gras, will commence to
subvert all recognised notions of order in Paris.
The Exposition of 1867 has passed away, and
Egyptian temples and divinities have been put up
to auction by their present proprietors to sell for
what they could fetch as ornaments for the villas
and gardens of the spirituel Parisians. The Gates
of Thebes of a thousand years will adorn for the
future the domains of a French dramatic author,
and the Sphinxes frown from the porter's lodge of
M. Victorieu Sardoni ; and yet this, which at first
sight appears to the student of ancient history a
vandalism of the grossest character, is the imme-
diate effect of one of the greatest advances towards
progress and universal enlightenment that have dis-
tinguished modern times. Pursuing the illustration
still further, and reversing the hypothesis, are not
the very follies of the Carnival itself a link be-
tweeneven as the sales
ast
pe Cercle Internationale
awnhdi
conh
are theth etackhi taking
gm presentpp ade a
edAait
tha
m unite the past with theet h
present, communicating to the minds of the many,
with its tableaux vivants, an idea of that mytho-
logy, the educational acquisition of which forms
for others so long and arduous a study ? Have
they not even to a certain extent their uses, in
to
oreating commerce
employment and in giving an impetus
a short period, to bring a smile upon the lip of
labour and poverty ? " Blame me not, 0 Athe-
nians," said the runner who brought -to Athens
the false news of victory. " Have I not given
you three happy days ?" And though in look-
ing at the bright side of the approach-
ing festivity, one neither sanctions nor ignores
the dark, yet it would be as useless to
reckon the grains of the sand of the sea as to at-
tempt to trace or reason upon •the mysterious ways
with which Providerfce works out its ends, or be-
yond a certain extent to lay down human rules for
human guidance; and in so saying, I wish it to be
clearly understood that I am not availing myself of
sophisms in support of barbarism, folly, or worse,
but that I cordially concur in the strict and well-
digested regulations which have just appeared on
the walls of Paris, emanating from the Prefect
of Police, and which enjoin that, before a certain
time in the morning, or after a certain time in the
evening, no masked person shall appear in the
streets; that no person wearing a mask shall refuse
to lift it at the request of any one in authority, or
delay following him to the nearest police-station if
required ; that no masquer shall carry deadly wea-
pons, or in any way avail himself of his disguise as
a medium for insulting any kind of religious wor-
macluding, after many other fiimilar wise

regulations, with ordering the discontinuance of
masquing in the public streets after the midday of
Mercredi des Cendres. The four &cut's Gras have
been already selected Nivernais on this occasion,
carrying off the palm from Normandy, and the
well-known butcher Duval, the cordon bleu of
Bouillon, obtaining the prize in preference to tho: e
hitherto victorious. Returning, however, to my
subject of the present state of the Champ da Mars,
with its saddening panorama of shattered shrines
and ruined temples, one cottage still remains
to mark the section given to ;Holland ; whilst
in that of Belghrin, the Palace of the
Fine Arts is yet untouched, Helvetia, Sweden,
and Russia yet retain their charming habitations,
and the C'ercle Internationale and the Chalet .31-oc&le
presented to M. Leplay complete buildings
which remain intact amidst the mass of debris on
every side. The scene, nevertheless, presents some
resemblance (setting aside the ruins which recall too
forcibly the contrast between present desola-
tion and past splendour) to th it when the vast
area was first taken possession of ; the same large
numbers of workmen and vehicles, formerly en-
gaged in elevating and sinking various parts of the
soil for the aquariums, lakes, foundations, mimic
rocks, &c., are now as actively engaged in restor-
ing to the plain its primitive appearance. The sale
takes place daily at the Cercle lnterationale, the lots
being considerable; the shell itself has been sold to
a foreign -company for the sum of 1,100,000 francs,
and ere long, there will remain no vestige to mark
the place of rendezvous of all the nations of the
globe. The law for the regulation of the Press
still re nains under discussion at the Legislative
Assembly, the moderate views and language of the
principal members of Government—their Excel-
lencies M. Pinard and Rouher—contrasting to
marked advantage with the insubordinate eloquence
of the Opposition ; even M. Thiers so far forgetting
himself on discussing article 17 (the power of con-
trol by the magistrates) as to charge the President
—M. Schneider—. with partisanship. The argu-
ments of the Government supporters, however, pre.
vailed, and the amendments proposed, including
that of M. Berryer, were not taken into considera-
tion. The racing season bas commenced in France
with the courses at Porche Fontaine and the
steeplechases of La Marche. It may be interesting
to some of our sporting readers to know that the
racing copartnership known under the designation
of Major Fridolin's stakes has been broken up and
the horses sold. It is said, however, that nearly
all have been purchased by one of the partners.
As regards theatrical intelligence, the new opera by
Auber, " Un jour de Bonheur," has been most fa-
vourably received, and the venerable composer,
who is now in his 87th year, has been honoured
by the congratulations of their Imperial Majesties
the Emperor and Empress. The piece is lively
and sparkling, and the musical compositions, of
course, the principal attraction. As regards the
plot, some of the French journals describe it as
bring plagiarized from various authors, going back
as far as an old American romance, and stopping
there for fear of continuing up to the deluge. On
Wednesday last the Comedie Francais brought out
the " Don Juan, or Festin de St. Pierre," of
Moliere, whose portrait by Mignard, recently pur-
chased for the sum of 6,500 f., novv adorns the
foyer. " Paul Terestier" is to be translated into
German route de suite.• No less than three
burlesques are already announced at as many
theatres. Upon the new Parisian favourite, the
crayons of Gill, Cham, and a host of others have
been already employed to a similar end. The
Odeon has replaced on its stage the drama of
Alexander Dumas, entitled, " Kean, or Disorder
and Genius." The drama has, of course, reference
to the elder Kean, whose eccentricities were so
well known, and who visited France at the period
of the Restoration. At a time like the present
the good taste of its reproduction is, to say the
least, questionable. The delay accorded for the
retirement of certain pieces of coin by the mone-
tary convention entered into between France, Bel-
gium, Italy, and Switzerland, will expire on the
31st of December next, and our readers will do
well to get rid of pieces of the value of 20 and 50
centimes respectively struck previous to the date of
1864. A new and very important edict of the
Prefect of the Seine inaugurates a new tariff, in
accordance with which cab fares will be calculated
according to the distance actually traversed ; every
cab proprietor being bound to furnish himself with
a machine adapted to reckon at once hours and
kilometres, the pace allowed being at the rate of
eight kilometres the hour. It will be useless for me
to give the new scale of prices in Jny present letter,
as some delay is likely to occur in the provision of
suitable machinery. Crime of every description is
at present prevalent in and around Pdris. A rich
proprietor, who left his country house last week for
a couple of days, returned to find that a fire had
taken place, in which his wife had perished—more
recent information affording him the proof that the
incendiary had been his domestic servant, who had
made the fire the medium of robbery. A young
gentleman escorted a young lady from a ball, and
contrived en route, from motives of jealousy, to
blow her brains out ; whilst swindling dodges and
robberies (especially at the masked balls) are legion.
Single ladies, living in hotels garnis beware how
you allow strange packages to be left for you, as the
other day one was left which, like the jars of
Ali Baba, contained a robber ! discovered only by
the sagacity of a dog. Young men beware how
you give your arm to a young lady who slips on the
pavement. In one instance a gallant militaire has
had his pocket picked, in another the swain escorted
the fair damsel to her residence only to find himself
in a cabinet particulier face to face with three
masks and revolvers. Servants beware how you
leave a parcel with a strange commissionaire loiter-
ing about the door of the house to which you are
bound. But as lam not like the fat boy in " Pick-
wick" who said to Aunt Rachel, " I want to make
your flesh creep,"
_I will wind up with a lighter
anecdote explaining how husbands take matters in
Paris. A young married lady, surrounded by a
crowd of admirers, was one day deprived of a valu-
able ring, the gift of her husband, by a mustachioed
Adonis under the plea of requiring a keepsake. The
lady in great tribulation acquainted her husband
with the affair, who, however, only laughed, under-
taking at the same time to arrange it satisfactorily.
Next morning, accordingly, our hero presented him-
self at the abode of the Petit Creve, whom he ad-
dressed in the following manner—" Monsieur," he
said, "you find my wife pretty, which is a proof of
your good taste. I can understand also that you
would liketo have a souvenir of her; only in such a
case the object iu itself is nothing, and as I value
that ring very much,:which cost me 50 louis, I
should be obliged if you would accept instead this
rose which my wife has worn in her bonnet all last
winter." It is scarcely necessary to add for the
benefit of my lady readers that such eloquence was
successful, and the ring restored accordingly. A
great treat is looked for at Haner's concert on the
25th. A cliange has been made in the programme
since its publication, and Beethoven's name substi-
tuted for that of Lebouc. On Wednesday last a
grand dinner reception and ball was given by the
Minister of the Interior, as also one by the Tuni-
sian Envoy at the Champs Elysees.

FLORENCE, Feb. 17.

Admiral Farragut's vi,it has been the absorbing
incident. The flag-ship is at Spezzia, and the Ad-
miral and some of his officers have run down here
to have a look at Florence. Our Consul-General
gave him a splendid dinner, and the King honoured
him with a grand banquet at the Pitti Palace,
where all the great dignitaries both of the navy and
army were invited to meet him. A number of
members of the Italian Parliament also did him
this honour at Doney's, where Admiral Ribotty, the
Minister of Marine, presided, and Colonel Law-

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rence and Hr. Marsh were of the party. The Ad-
miral adjourned to the Countess of Menabrea's
weekly reception, which was crammed with persons
anxious to see the American hero. As every person
here is full of the Admiral, I may as well settle a
point on which there had been much dispute touch-
ing the country whence his family c.tme. His
father, George Farragut, was born in Cinda-
della, on the west end of the island of Minorca,
where he was baptized in 1755. Ile married
Miss Sline, of North Carolina, and settled in East
Tennessee, where the Admiral was born. Farragut
recently visited Minorca, and was received by the
people of Ciadadella wfth such warmth as visibly
to affect him He visited Italy 50 years ago when
he was but a youngster of 17. He spent his life
in the navy, which he entered before he was nine
years of age. He returns to Spezzia to-day, and
will sail for Naples. Admiral Ribotty, in propos-
ing Farraguee health, happily alluded to his words
at Mobile, in referring to wooden ships versus
iron, where the hearts of those who bought
them were of iron. Prince Demidoff tele-
graphed from Paris, expressing regret that he
was not at San Donato personally to show the Ad-
miral over his villa, who visited it last Saturday.
That evening a magnificent fete took place at the
American Legation outside the Porta della Croce,
where many assembled to see the last of tWdis--,
tinguished sailor. The Farragut originally
came froni Catalonia, and it is not known how long
they were settled •at Minorca, but there is a farm
called by that name on the island.

NAPLES, Feb. 14.

Yesterday was a Derby-day for Naples. The
long-promised tournament and military fete at the
Bagnoli came off at last, and proved a splen-
did success. Every drag obtainable was put
into requisition so much that during the day the city
was deserted as if there had been a cab strike.
The Duke of Aosta made - his appearance on the
ground at half-past twelve, and the business of the
day was over beforesunset,but it was long after dark
before the thousands of carriages had been able to
find their way homewards. •
This day's amusement will make an excellent
effect on the masses who in this country, even more
than elsewhere, want a little amusement as well as
bread, and both have been rather scarce lately.
Her Majesty's ironclad frigate Lord Clyde, Capt.
Roderick Dew, is in the roads. Her officers give
a " The dansant" this afternoon, and as the sky
is cloudless, the temperature warm as summer, and
the bay smooth as a glass, their hospitality will be
eagerly availed of by the beauty and fashion at
present in Naples, whether American or English.
We have had a great many notabilities lately,
foremost amongst them General Hooker, of fighting
fame.

Of Vesuvius nothing new to report, but the ab-
sence of rain has enabled the so-called " fumarole"
to produce sublimations of various kinds,
interesting as well to scientific as to amateur
travellers.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 1868.

The President has succeeded in bespattering
General Grant with some of the mire which is now
so plentiful in the neighbourhood of the White
House. It was almost impossible for Grant to
escape, standing as he did in so conspicuous a posi-
tion, with the contending parties always fighting
around him. The correspondence which has set
the country by the ears has been made public by a
resolutiot of the House. The general forgot his
" reticence," in a measure—lost his temper, and has
come down from his perch to join in the mud-
throwing process —a fact over which the country
mourns. All hope now of nominating the General
on a national ticket, freed from party, is 10-d. Ile
has fairly taken his place in the Republican ranks,
and will be the candidate of that party. The In-
telligencer came out yesterday, with columns upon
columns of abuse. The Democrats circulate stories
that Chief Justice Chase backbites Grant. All
Washington is divided into sides on the Johnson-
Grant quarrel ; but in the confusion only one thing
is clear, that either the President or the Command-
ing General is, to say the least, untruthful. The
President has a letter ready, in which he reiterates
the charge of perfidy, and reproduces the state-
ments of the four Cabinet Ministers. He is hound-
ing on the Press and the Conservative party to
rake up every circumstance of the General's career
which can bear distortion. Grant's reception last
evening was an ovation, though a storm raged.
The Republicans congratulate him warmly ; and
Thad. Stevens says he is a bolder man than
he thought him ; "we will let him into the church
now." General Banks has been confined for the
last three or four days to his apartments, ill.
General M'Clellan and Mayor lloffman are added
to the names of those likely to succeed Mr. Adams.
The Senate has passed a resolution to send a naval
delegation to the Maritime expedition at Havre.
Sherm in's Finance Bill has been thoroughly revised,
and will pass the Senate in its present form. It
authorizes the issue of Five per Cent. Bonds run-
ning 40 years, but redeemable in 10—interest and
principal in coin—to be exchanged for Five-Twenty
Bonds, or sold at par--the proceeds to redeem the
present Debt. The Bonds to be exempt from tax,
and to be known as "The Consolidated Debt of the
United States." Five-Twenty Bonds will be ex-
changeable at option five years from date of issue,
and those now redeemable must be presented before
next November. Senator Henderson's Bill on the
National Bank Law will also pass, as it will be sup-
ported by the West, and not objected to by the
East. There are rumours that the Reconstruction
Committee have Impeachment again under consi-
deration, and that the House Republicans held a
caucus yesterday morning on the subject. Also
that the President has recalled General Rous-
seau to relieve General Meade in command of
his district. Another is that at a private reception
Mr. Thornton met Mr. Seward, when some remarks
passed regarding the Alabama claims, not of a very
friendly nature. This is mere rubbish. The Pre-
sident received Mr. Thornton very cordially this
afternoon. The Minister, attended by Mr. Ford,
was presented by Mr. Seward ; none but officials
were present, and very few of them. The ante-
rooms were crowded with persons desirous of
witnessing the ceremony, in which they were dis-
appointed. The Appropriation Committee have
cut off as superfluous sources of expense, the Second
Assistant-Secretary of State, William Hunter, of
Rhode Island, the Statistical Superintendent Benj.
F. Hall, of New York, and the Examiner of Claims.
Mr. Chanler, of New York, spoke in the House on
the Rights of American Citizens' Bill, which he
likened to Niagara, the title beingthtehreoraero. It is
,fandthe
bill the fall, and great was the fall
not long since Mr. Chanler did a little roaring on
spe
his own account, when he rudely interrupted a
Representative whom hecaolnlewdhiach
the coward,
Speaker
er
re-
peating the obnoxious epithet,
interfered, when he announced to the House his
intention to test the gentleman's courage by way
of establishing the assertion. Surely this was a
loud roar, and the fall was as deep when he told
the House that he had settled the affair satisfac-
torily to himself and to his friends, while sneering
members were warned that theyw'erei
ntleßeenprgea-1
pre-
sence of a real " Striped" and "Streaked"

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