The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-25 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

Aberdeen
Ardrishaig
Granton

Queensferry

Greenock
Leith, Leith Itoids,
& Frith of Forth
[RELAND.
Bantry Kenmare
Belfast Kilrush
Buncraua (Lough Killibegs
Swilly) Kingstown awl
Castletownsend Dublin
Crookhaven Lough Foyle
Foynes Mill Cove (Bore-
Galway haven)
N.B.—The Contractors are to supply (rood, fat, well-fed
Ox Beef, as xo HELFER MEAT will be admitted.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders. _ _ _

Queenstown and

Kinsale
Rathmullen
Valentia
Waterford
Westport

Particular attention is called to the revised conditions
of the Sheerness Contract, which is to include supplies to
all ships and vessels between Chatham and the Great
Nore, both inclusive; also the Naval Barracks at Sheer-
ness.

Parties Tendering for Portsmouth, Plymouth, and
Sheerness, are to specify in their Tenders a rate per 100
lbs. for live Oxen, delivered in the usual manner; and also
a rate per 100 lbs. for fresh Ox Beef, delivered in the car-
case, should the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
think proper to demand the Beef to be delivered in the car-
case, instead of live Oxen, during any period of the con-
tract ; and no attention will be paid to any offers not so
made.

Separate Tenders must be made fo'r each Port, and at a
rate per 1001bs., and no attention will be paid any offers
not so made. Contractors, iu claiming payment fur the
4upplies of Beef, are to make out their Invoices in Pounds
at per 1001bs.
The Cattle for Falmouth to be slaughtered on the spot,
and the Cattle for Portland to be slaughtered not farther
from that port than Weymouth ; the Contractors for
Portland and Dartmouth are also to deliver the Me..t on
board H. M .'s. ships and vessels.
The Contractor for Gravesend is to be a resident there.
• 'The Cotieractor for Portland and Weyrilouth•js to rer
side at Weymouth. '
The Contractor for any of the other places is to reside
on the spot, or to have an Agent resident there, whose
name and address must be given on the Tender.
No tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of Treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the
printed form provided -for the purpose ; but it will not be
necessary that the party tendering or an agent appointed
by him should attend at this &ice, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and to his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be delivered at the Department of
the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House,
and signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become
bound with the person tendering in the sum of £1,500 for
the due performance of each of the Contracts for Sheer-
ness, Porte mouth, Plymouth, and- Queenstown and
Kinsale ; and in the cum of £3OO for each of the other
Contracts.
• Conditions of the Contracts may be seen in the Lobby
of the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admi-
ralty, Somerset House, W.C. ; or by applying to the Super-
intendents of the Victualling Establishments at Deptford,
Gosport, and Plymouth ; the Superintendents of her Ma-
jesty's Dockyards at Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, and
Pembroke ; the Agent for the Victualling at fia.ulbowline ;
the Officers conducting the Packet Service at Dover, Liver-
pool, and Southampton ; the Secretary to the Postmaster-
General, Dublin; to the Collectors of her Majesty's Gus-
toms at
Aberdeen Greenock S ci 11 y_
Belfast Harwich Shields
Berwick Hull Swansea
Cowes • Jersey & Guernsey Waterford
Dartmouth Londonderry (for Westport
Falmouth Lough Foyle) Wexford
•
Fleetwood Newhaven Weymouth
Fowey Penzance Yarmouth
Galway Ramsgate
And to the postmasters at each of the other places.
Forms of Tender may also be obtained on application
at the Lobby of the Department above mentioned. or to
the proper officer at either of the above places.
Tho Contractors to pay half the amount of the Stamps
on their Contracts and Bonds.
By Order, ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

THE
QUEEN'S
GROUNDS,
" QUEEN OF ENGLAND,"
NEW ROAD, lIAM3IERSMITH.
These splendid and capacious Grounds, more easy of access
than any Grounds near the Metropolis, OPENED
ON WHIT-MONDAY. WILL BE

THEQUEENS GROUNDS,
within Ten minutes' walk of the Metropolitan Railway to
the Shepherd's Bush Station; within Five minutes' walk of the
North London; the same distance from the New Kew and Rich-
mond Line, which will shoitly open. The Richmond 'Buses pass
within a Quarter of a Mile of the Ground.

TiiE QUEEN'S GROUNDS,
the most fashionable ride out.of London, through Bays-
water, on the road to Richmond.

THE QUEEN'S GROUNDS,
OPEN FOR SHOOTING.

THE QUERN'S
GROUNDS,
OPEN FOR CRICKET.

THE QUEEN'S GROUNDS,
OPEN FOR QUOITS.

THE QUEEN'S GROUNDS,
OPEN FOR FOOTBALL.

THE QUEEN'S GROUNDS,
OPEN FOR ALL ATHLETIC SPORTS.

TuE

QUEEN,s GROUNDS,
OPEN FOR BEAN FEASTS.
ARTHUR CRUX, Proprietor.

UNIVERSITY IN7ELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, May 23.

. _
In a Convocation held this day, at 2 p.m., the
Vice-Chancellor was authorised to do any acts which
may be necessary for the completion of the sale of
premises in Carter's-passage. The statute changing
the time for appointing masters of the schools was
submitted to the House and approved ; and a de-
cree was passed authorising the Vice-Chancellor to
nominate, on the first day of Trinity Term next, a
master of the schools to act for one term only. The
statute establishing a Professorship of Comparative
Philology, at a stipend of £6OO a year, was sub.
mitted and approved.
In a Congregation held immediately after, the
statute on the subject of " pass" examinations,
having been amended by the Hebdomadal Council,
was re-promulgated. In the absence of the Dean
of Christ Church,
Mr. GRIFFITH, of Wadham, explained the altera-
tions that had been made.
The PRINCIPAL of ST. MARY HALL was glad that
orators were restored at "Moderations" and philo-
sophers allowed at the final examination. He asked
why certain clauses were placed in brackets, and
expressed himself in favour of allowing the
amplest liberty with respect to the books and authors
taken up.

Dr. PeSEY hoped that the various alterations pro-
posed would be .made the subject of separate votes.
lie noted an error in the English recapitulation of
the chief provision; of the statute. There was no-
thing in the statute to prevent a grammar paper
from being still set at " Moderations."
Dr. ACLAND inquired whether there was any in-
tention of making modern languages a necessary
poi lion of the " pass " examination. The College
of Physicians now required of all candidates either
natural philosophy or French or German, and either
French or German was required by the Apothe-
caries'-hall.

Dr. PUSEY said that the modern languages be-
longed rather to the honour than the " pass"
schools.
Dr: ACLAND dissented.

Mr. AFGRATII, of Queen's, suggested that me-
chanics should be made an alternative, instead of a
necessary subject in both examinations. If this
were not done, he asked that the " compulsory
mechanics" clauses should be made the subject of
separate votes. He put in three amendments.
Mr. WARD, of Magdalen Hall, agreed generally
with Mr. M'Grath,- but would prefer uniting
mechanics with elementary mathematics in both
schools.

Mr. SANDFORD, of Christ Church, hoped the sta-
tute would be divided "liberally" into a large num-
ber of votes. He could not regard it as satisfactory
or final, but thought some parts might be passed
with advantage, He regretted the absence of any
provision for a matriculation examination.
Mr. SIDGWICK, of Merton, was dissatisfied with
the omission of any requirement of philosophy in
the final school, and proposed to add " Aristotle's
Ethics" and " Politics" to the optional subjects. He
strongly objected to make " mechanics" a necessary
subject in either school.
Mr. BRAMLEY, of Magdalen, proposed, as an
amendment, to retain the present requirement of a
philosopher and a historian in the final school- He
agreed with all that had been said against making
mechanics a necessary subject. Mathematics did
not humanise, and required a special faculty which
many fairly clever men did not possess.
Professor H. SMITH said that, seeing how strongly
college tutors were opposed to compulsory mecha-
nics, he would advise that the point should be
yielded. In lieu of mechanics, he would make ele-
mentary geometry compulsory in Moderations, and
he would then give an opinion between mechanics
and logic. In the final school he would make me-
chanica one of the optional subjects, but would re-
quire the candidate to take up two such subjects.
Professor BURROWS agreed with the general run
of speakers in regretting the discouragement of the
study of " Aristotle's Ethics" and the proposal to
make mechanics compulsory.
Mr. CLARKE, of St. John's, thought the only
valuable provisions of the statute were the allowing
men to go in for "Moderations" in their fifth
Term, and the acceptance of a fourth class in the
honour schools as a sufficient qualification for a
degree.
Professor BERNARD expressed a hope that all the
suggestions made would be sent in as amendments
'to council. He was sure they would be carefully
considered. Ile believed the principle of the statute
was that an examination should be offered suitable
to a variety of minds.
Mr. WicKilitm, of New College, objected to a
diminution in the number of the pass examinations.
Professor CLIFTON said that, as mechanics could
not be profitably studied without a knowledge of
elementary mathematics, he was in favour of the
amendment of Prof. Smith. • _

A short statute was then promulgated on the sub-
ject of the Indian L•tw Reader.
Mr. LIDDON, of Christ Church, explained the
provisions of the statute. The object was to give
to such of our students as were going to India every
opportunity for continuing their studies here. The
moral benefit which they thereby gained was great
and most important for India. He regretted that
more bad not been done by the law and Modern
History School to encourage the study of Indian
subjects, and he still more regretted that the Civil
Service Commission set their faces against .the
selected candidates continuing their studies in Ox-

PRICE.... 4d.
STAMPED 53.

ford. Oxford, however, ought not to yield, but to
persevere, trusting that in time the Civil Service
would cease their opposition.
Professor B unnows thought the Law and 11iodern
Jiistory Examiners were not open to any reproach.
They had given the subjects of Indian Law and
History the place in the examination which they
were entitled to.

Mr. M'GRATH., of Queen's, thought a 112 W pt in-
ciple was involved in appointing a Professor to
teach subjects, not on their value per se, bat be-
cause a knowledge of them was necessary to certain
persons. Ile proposed, as an amendiu;nt, to omit
the reference to persons about to be employed in
the Indin service.

Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH', of University, sail that,
though he did not believe England c )uid ever
govern India satisfactorily, it was most important,
while the experiment was still continued, that those
who went out to engage in the Government should
possess the highest character, tae, and refinement.
It was, therefore, very desirable that the selected
candidates should remain at Oxford. If there was
any unfair opposition on the part of the Civil Ser-
vice Commissioners au appeal should be made to
the Indian Minister.

Professor BERNARD supported the provisions of
the statute, and observed with respect to the
Civil Service Commission that he believed their
objection to the residence in Oxford of the
selected candidates was owing to the fact that those
who resided generally continued their academical
studies, instead of giving their full attention to the
work necessary to qualify them for India ; and
that, further, they were often tempted to relinquish
their Indian prospects and remain at Oxford alto-
gether.
The Junior Proctor has published the list of can-
didates for Moderations. The number in the clas-
sical school is 308, in the mathematical 15. The
number of candidates for classical honours is 87.

The Professor of Political Economy (Mr. Bonamy
Price) will deliver a lecture on Metallic Currency
at the. Taylor Institution on Friday, May 29, at 2
o'clock.