The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1868..-:

VIETROPOLITAN AND ST. /
JOHN'S-
WOOD RAILWAY.
24"

This Lino IS NOW OPENED for TRAFFIC.
MYLES FENTON, General Manager.

fIOMI'AGNIE GENERALE TRANS-
ATLAN TIQUE; 8, Place Vendome, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS,
CHINA, JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC,
AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each mouth for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Gnayra' Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo,
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 do Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
NEW YORK
Leave every 14 days, from Havre snd Brest, for New
York.
From FavitE.—April 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
of
Second Class
Third Class 275 fr.
From Paris to gew York, via Tlavre 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 VULCANISED INDIA RUBBER,

• &c.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
.House, April 9, 1868.
IHE 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
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 mly 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 fur 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 Public Securities.

lIE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL EXIIIBITION
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NOW OPEN at the GALLERY, 120, PALL-MALL. Admission, ls. ;
Catalogue, Gd

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PRICIe 4cl.
STAMPED 51.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

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The Dutch screw frigate Adolph lietz Von Nas-
sau, 51 guns, Capt. De Mann, arrived and anchored
at Spithead on Saturday, from Toulon, bound for
Texel, short of coals.. On arriving she exchanged
the usual salutes with the flagship of Sir T. Pasley,
the Victory, in Portsmouth harbour. Captain De
Mann and his officers were during the day intro-
duced officially to Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley and
Lieut.-Gen. Sir G. Buller, the naval and military
Commander in Chiefs, by Chevalier Vaudenbergh,
the Dutch Consul at Portsmouth.

The troopship Countess Russell, Commander Pen-
fold, reached Kurrachee on the 2d inst., all well,
with 309 non-commissioned officers and men, and
36 wives and children, belonging to the 7th (Queen's
Own) Hussars, 21st Hussars, Royal Artillery, 36th
Regiment, 104th (Bengal Fusiliers) and 106th
(Bombay Light Infantry) Regiments, under the
charge of Captain Gore Campbell, Lord Marcus
Bereaford, Lieut. Baron, Lieut. Prinsep, Lieutenant
Stuart-Menteth, Cornet Thomson, and Ensigns
Pride and Rose ; Staff Assist.-Surg. J. R. Croker
in medical charge.

A detachment of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artil-
lery, numbering 61 non-commissioned officers and
gunners, under the command of Lieutenant H. W.
Rooke, arrived at the headquarters of the First Di-
vision, Chatham, from Woolwich, on Saturday, to
augment the strength of ;the batteries attached to
the division.

Major W. E. Warrand, late of the Royal Engi-
neers, has been ordered to be attached for duty to
the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham. The
Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief has authorised
the following officers to be struck off the strength
of the Royal Engineers at headquarters on the com-
pletion of their course of field work and other in-
struction at Brompton:—Lieutenant G. R. Walker,
Lieutenant D. M. N. Campbell, Lieutenant W. R.
Purchas, and Lieutenant W. Merriman.
Route marching by the troops forming the divi-
sion at Chatham having terminated for the season,
divisional orders have been issued by Major-General
F. Murray for the trooping of the guard on certain
days each week during the summer. The utmost
activity- now prevails in the various corps for pre-
paring the young officers and recruits for the perio-
dical brigade and other field days, which will shortly
be commenced for the season.

Colonel Farren, C. 8., of the 4th Depot Battalion
at Colchester, has been granted a good service pen-
sion of £lOO per annum. Colonel Farren served in
the Crimea with the 47th Regiment from the com-
mencement of the Russian war to its close, and be
was in command of his corps at the battle of Inker-
mann. The gallant officer has 31 years' full pay
service.

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Biddulph,.R.A., who
was distinguished for his services both in India
and China, has been appointed Deputy-Assistant
Quartermaster General at head quarters, Wool-
wich, in succession to Captain Naugle, R.A., who
vacated the office upon the termination of his staff
service.

Col. G. B. Johnson, who is on his way to Eng-
land from India, will on his arrival assume the com-
mand of the Depot Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery,
at Maidstone, vice Col. Turner, who has proceeded
to India to join his brigade.
A deputation from the Woolwich Local Board of
Health, headed by Alderman Salomous, M.P. for
the borough, waited upon the Lords of the Admi-
ralty last Friday, to represent the hardships in-
flicted upon the workmen in the dockyard who are
being discharged weekly, and suggest that their
lordships should communicate with the War-office,
and recommend that as vacancies occurred in the
Royal Arsenal they might be filled up by the dis-
charged workmen from the dockyard if found quali-
fied for the employment. It happens, however,
that their fellow workmen in the Royal Arsenal
are suffering in a similar m2nner, so that there can
be no opening for them. The hundreds of work-
men that will be thrown out of employment in the
course of a few weeks from the Royal Establish-
lishments (dockyard and Arsenal) at Woolwich
must ultimately become a serious burden upon the
poor-rates of the parishes of Woolwich and Plum-
stead.

A captain's good service pension is vacant by the
promotion of Lord Frederic Herbert Kerr, who ob-
tains his flag rank by the death of Rear-Admiral
Thomas Harvey.

A second vacancy occurs among the naval aides-
de-camp to the Queen by the death of Capt. Henry
Caldwell, C.B.

The following apoointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Navigating sub-Lieutenant
Richard J. Rogers, additional, to the Rodney, for
disposal ; Alexander W. C. Batten and Frank
William Wyley, midshipmen, to the Rodney ;
Dr. William M'Mahon, assist.-surg., to the Prince
Consort.