The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUEsDAI EVENING, JULY 7, 1862.

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few doors from Bond-street).

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CONTRACT FOR SOU rII-WESTERS.
Contract Denartment, Admiralty, Somerset
lious, July 1, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD H[4l ADNILRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
13th instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be
ready to treat with such pers'ns as may be willing to
CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford all such quantities of
SOUTH-WESTERS

as may from time to time bo demanded under a Contract
for twelve calendar months certain, and further until the
expiration of three calendar months warning.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves an unlimited
power of selection in accepting the Tenders.
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-
tr her of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
the Conditions of the Contract and a pattern South-
Wester may be seen.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, and it will not be repired th.tt the
party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend
at the Office ou the day of Contract, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and to his proposed sureties in writing, when, but not
before, the rejected samples are to be removed.
Ey,ry Tender must he addressed to the Secretary of the
Mmiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
" Tender for South-Nesters," and must also be delivered
at the Department of the Controller of VictuAlling, Ad-
miralty, Somerset House, signed by two responsible per-
sons, engaging to become bout) I with the person tender-
ing in the sum of .CIVO for the due performance of the
Contract.

By order,
ANTONIO BR NDY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

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RATES OF PASSAGE.
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Second Class
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DOGS.

CRYSTAL PALACE. Sir E. NAPIER'S
tl VISIT.—The Directors have the gratification to an-
nounce that General Sirßobert Napier, U.C.8., with Lady
Napier and a brilliant Staff, will pay a Public Visit to the
Crystal Palace To-morrow, Wednesday, the 18th instant.
Sir Robert will arrive at Half-past One ; the Groat Foun-
tains will be played at Two. Dejeuner will then be served
in the Queen's Corridor. Sir Robert Napier will also at-
tend the Concert, which will be given on .the Great Or
chestra, commencing at Four o'clock. The Concert will
bo in Two Parts, ending soon after Half-past Six.
After the Concert Military Bands will Play in the
Grounds, and at a Qucirter to Ten there will be a Grand
Display of Fireworks, with devices appropriate to the oc-
casion, and a repetition of the magnificent Illumination of
the founta'ns anon Saturday last.
Officers in the Army and Navy and Volunteers in full
uniform will be admitted to the Palace free at either of
the Railway or the central Transept entrances.
To make this a great popular reception the admission
will be as usual, One shilling. Guinea Season Tickets
free. The doors of the Palace will be opened at Ten
o'clock. Extra trains will run from all stations, but
visitors are advised to come early. Reserved seats 2s. 6d.,
now ready, at No. 2, Exeter Hall, and at the Crystal
'Palace.

CRYSTAL PALACE—TO-MORROW
AFTERNOON.
VISIT OF SIR ROBERT NAPIER AND STAFF,
At the Ballad Concert, commencing at four o'clock.
The following and other popular vocalists will appear :
Mdlie. Carola, Madame Louisa Vining, Mdllo.
Mr. Sims Reeves, Signor Foli.
• Mr. SIMS REEVES will sing
When other. Lips" (Balfe),
"My pretty Jane" (Bishop),
and
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THE PLATFORM OF MR. CHASE.

(From the Anglo-American 2 lines.)

The delegates to the Democratic National Con-
vention will this day organise ; and conjecture and
suspense will soon be at an end. Neither the nomi-
nees nor the platform are as yet mo-e than vaguely
conjectured. Never was a great party so completely
at fault—never was a race run wherein the public
were less able to select a favourite. I'ENDLETON is
unsound on Finance—CHASE is a Republican and
unsound on suffrage-110RATIO SEYMOUR will not
stand—indeed it is said that he dare not, having
been warned by his physicians against subjecting
his mind to the furious excitement of a Presidential
campaign. If Mr. SEYMOUR could and would stand
ho beat answers the Democratic requirements.
ANDREW JOHNSON is talked of ! but in a recent
interview with CHASE lying rumour tells us he ex-
pressed himself as favouring the nomination of the
Chief Justice, and desirous of aiding it with the
means at his disposal. Generals HANCOCK, INI`CLEL-
LIN, SHERMAN, and THOMAS ; Admiral FARRAGUT ;
Messrs. HENDRICKS, HOFFMAN, and hundreds of
others are suggested ; but CHASE, whether he has a
chance or not, is still the man most talked of.
Many of the leading Democratic journals have pro-
nounced against him ; and the World, on the 15th
June, opposed him on the ground that he regarded
Negro Suffrage as a blessing instead of as an atro-
cious though perhaps inevitable blunder. The
platform of the Chief Justice has been given in an
authoritative manner by the Springfield Republican,
and it is said to have been drawn up by Mr. CHASE
hi,nseif.*

The first plank is thoroughly well put in, and shows
a Master hand. We would like fully to under,tand
what the word Democratic, as it there stanch, is
intended to moan. No Republican denies that
Universal Suffrage is a recognied Democratic prin-
ciple, to be qualified only by known unfitness, say,
from vice or dense ignorance. Indeed we may go
further, and maintain that it is an acknowledged
principle among all that suffrage should be universal,
wherever mankind is qualified to exercise it. To
state, then, that it is a recognized Democratic prin-
ciple, of which each State must define the limita-

tions, is not to say much ; and although it looks
liber
it
scope,aliumight b
and
addborpotaed by
broad and general in applica-
tion, any clique of Old
World Tories. All the people of the United States
might stand on the rest of the platform, with the
exception of the " War-horses," whose extreme Re-
publicanism enters the confines of despotism. If
the Convention accepts the platform, and nomi-
nates the Chief Justice, it will go to the country
with a good man and a good cry. No one can
doubt what Mr. CHASE means by " fulfilling na-
tional obligations honestly and exactly." Old Green-
backs
is committed to advocate the payment of the
National Debt in gold, and, as far as the bond-
holders are concerned, the best President they
could have would be SALMON CHASE. No
special privilege should be allowed to any classes of
individual corporations. If such are permitted they
may as well establish an oligarchy at once. Were
certain cliques in the United States granted powers
enabling them to mulct their fellow citizens no
American could discuss with scorn the condition of
society in the old country, which permits the social
distinctions of a titled class. SMITH is not injured
by JOHNNY RUSSELL being called a " lord," but
SMITH is injured if JOHNNY RUSSELL levies a tax
upon him for his Lordship's own benefit. What the
special privileges are to which the Chief Justice
alludes, we can only guess at. The holders of the
United States Debt are not an individual corpora-
tion, and as he himself fixed the terms whick gua-
ranteed interest payable in gold to the lenders, he
cannot class the observance of the National Con-
tract as a " special privilege." But what about the
manufacturers ? Can the iron-masters of Pennsyl-
vania bo called " individual corporations," and be

said to enjoy " a special privilege" in the protection
of their industry ? It looks uncommonly like the
gauntlet of Free Trade. 'We believe that the
best card of the Democrats next to the Northern
prejudice against the negro is the open advo-
cacy of Free Trade. If CHASE'S platform
means the obliteration of every vestige in the
ruin
nth wrought, oftheth
iv
and the hatred en-
gendered, which cannot be obliterated by any legis-
lation—if it means the reform of the Civil Service,
ceil blood wa
sr except the individual,
spit
the better distribution of taxes, the payment of the
the National Debt in gold, the inauguration of
free trade, and the most earnest endeavours of the
Government so to
.harmonise the white and black
races in the South that they may live together in
peace, and find the position that nature intends for
each, with the guarantee of freedom and equality
before thelaw—then, we say, that if itbe the platform
this day erected in New York it is a solid and en-
during structure, and the flag unfurled is one under
which all shades of Americans, both as to cpiuion

* Universal suffrage is a recognised Democratic prin-
ciple, the application of which is to be left iu the several
States under the Constitution of the United States to the
States themselves. Universal amnesty and the complete
removal of the late rebellion, is not only a wise and just
measure of public policy, but is essentially necessary to the
beneficial administration of the Government in the States
recently involved in civil war with the United States, and
to the full and satisfactory re-establishment of the practi-
cal relations of those States with the other States of the
American Union. No military Government in any State
of the Union, in time of peace, is compatible with the prin-
ciples of civil liberty established by the Constitution, nor
can the trial of private citizens by military commissions be
tolerated by a people jealous of their freedom and deserv-
ing to be free. Taxes should be reduced, as far as prac-
ticable, collected impartially and with strict economy, and
so apportioned as to bear upon property rather than upon
labour, while all national obligations should be honestly
and exactly fulfilled, and no special prlvilego should be
allowed to any classes of individual corporations.

and as to colour, may range themselves in earnest
advocacy. The wording of the document must
leave the impression on the mind of the reader that
this is what was intended, and it is neither more
nor less than what might have been expected from
the political capacity of its announe3d author. We
can gather nothing from the press of what the dele-
gates will do ; and so ignorant were the electors of
what their leaders had decided upan—if they are
not yet awaiting circumstances—that none are
publicly pledged to the support of any candidate, and
almost the only restriction was in the few cases they
were directed on no account to vote for PENDLETO:s.T.
We have given at length, and thus commented on
the platform cf the Chief Justice, because we be-
lieve it to be drawn up by himself, and to be there-
fore a document of great importance which cannot
fair whether adopted in part, in whole, or appa-
rently left unnoticed by the Convention, to have
its influence on the delegates ; and the closer we
look into it the better we like it. Every indication
shows that the party must drop " dead issues,"
and make a great advance. At present they are
almost without a platform, and although they may
be truly represented in the article on Democracy in
last Saturday's Spectator —if so they ought to drop
the name of Conservative which rather belongs to
their opponents, and take up their proper desig-
nation of Radical. If they would not merely adopt
CHASE'S platform, but show their intention of work-
ing on it when they come into power, there would
soon be a grand resuscitation of Democracy, and
living and enduring principles would be substituted
for " dead and obsolete issues."

PONTIFICAL BULL OF CONVOCATION.

ROME, July 1.

The publication of the Pontifical bull convoking
an ecumenical Council of the Bishops of the
Catholic Church on the Bth December, 1869 (festi-
val of the Immaculate Conception), took place yes-
terday morning, in the atrium of the Vatican
Basilica. Thp College of Apostolic Protonotaries,
accompanied by a Pontifical chamberlain and the
Apostolic messengers, were present at this cere-
mony. One of the protonotaries ascended a pulpit
erected near the great gate of the- Basilica, his
colleagues sitting within, and after a fanfare of
trumpets read aloud the Pontifical bull of convoca-
tion, two copies of which were afterwards affixed
by the messengers to the columns of the principal
entrance. The same ceremony attended the publi-
cation of the bull at the Lateran Church, the
Liberian Basilica, the Palace of the Curia Inno-
cenziana, the Apostolic Chancery, and the Campo
di Ficri.

The text of the Pontifical Ball is as followa

"Pius, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of GA for

fut.ire Memory.

"The only bt,gotten Son of the Eternal Father,
out of the great love which He bore unto us, de-
scended from His celestial throne, in order to redeem
in the fulness of time, the whole human race from
the yoke of sin and from bondage to Satan and the
darkness of terror into which, by the fault of their
first parent, they had long Since miserably fallen ;
and He, not declining froni the paternal glory, was
born of the Immaculate and Most Holy Virgin
Mary, and manifested His doctrine and the rule of
life brought from Heaven, .attesting it with so
many excellent works and giving Himself up as an
offering for us and as a victim to God iu the odour
of sanctity ; and, having vanquished death, He,
before ascending into Heaven to sit upon the right
hand of the Father, sent His Apostles into the
world to preach the Gospel to every creature, and
gave to them the power of ruling the Church pur-
chased by His own blood, and thus constituted
what is the column and firmament of truth ; and,
enriched by celestial treasures, shows the certain
path of salvation and the light of true doctrine
to all people. In order, then, that the govern-
ment of the Church should be ever maintained in a
right and well ordered course, and that the whole
Christian world should uphold one sole faith,
doctrine, charity, and communion, He promised

His aid unto the end of time, and chose Peter,
whom He had declared to be Prince of the Apos les,
His Vicar on earth and head, foundation, and centre
of the Church, so that, invested with this rank and
honour, and with amplitude of chief and full autho-
rity, power, and 'jurisdiction, he should feed the
sheep and lambs, confirm the brethren, rule the
universal Church, and be the gate-keeper of Heaven,
and arbiter to bind and to loose ; the effect of his
judgment remaining unaltered in Heaven. (S. Leo,
Senn. 11.)

" And that the unity and integrity of the Church
and government might remain perpetually immut-
able, therefore the Roman Pontiffs, successors of
St. Peter, sitting in this same Roman chair of Peter,
inherit and possess in full vigour the very same
supreme authority, jurisdiction, and primacy of
Peter over the whole Church.

" Hence the Roman Pontiffs, using their pastors
care and authority over the whole flock of the
Lord divinely intrusted to them by Christ Himself
in the person of the Blessed Peter, have spared no
fatigue in making every possible provision in order
that, from the rising to the setting sun, all people
and all nations should have knowledge of the evan-
gelical doctrine, and by walking in the way of truth
and justice attain eternal life.
"It is known to all with what unwearying care
the Roman Pontiffs have sought to preserve the de-
posit of the faith, the discipline of the clergy, and
their holy and learned teachings, and the sanctity
and dignity of matrimony, and to promote and ex-
tend the education of the youth of both sexes, to
foster the religion and piety of the people and vir-
tuous manners, to defend justice, and to assure the
tranquillity, order, prosperity, and rights of civil
society. Nor have the Pontiffs omitted, when they
deemed it useful, especially in times of great per-
turbation and calamity for our most holy religion
and civil society, to convoke general councils, to
the end that, by consulting with all the bishops of
the Catholic world, whom the Holy Ghost has ap-
pointed to rule the Lord's Church, they might, by
their united strength, providentially and wisely or-
dain all those things that would chiefly serve to de-
fine the dogmas of the faith, dispel errors already
propagated, or that might thenceforward be propa-
gated, illustrate and elucidate doctrine, uphold and
reform ecclesiastical discipline, and correct the cor-
rupt manners of peoples.
" It is already known and manifest to all how
horrible a tempest now agitates the Church, and
what grievous ills afflict civil society. The Catholic
Church, her salutary doctrine, her venerated power,
and the supreme authority of this Apostolic See,
are opposed and set at naught by the bitter enemies
of God and man. All sacred things are contemned,
ecclesiastical property is plundered, bishops and
honoured men attached to the Divine ministry, and
men distinguished for their Catholic sentiments,
are troubled in every way, and religious families
suppressed. Impious books of every kind, pestilent
journals, and multitudinous and most pernicious
sects are spread abroad on all sides. The educa-
tion of the unhappy young is nearly everywhere
withdrawn from the clergy, and, what is worse, is
in many places confided to masters of impiety and
error.

Thus, to our poignant grief, and that of all
good men, and with mischief to souls that can never
be sufficiently deplored, impiety and corruption of
manners have everywhere propagated themselves ;
and there prevails an unbridled license and
a contagion of depraved opinions of all kinds,
and of all vices and immoralities, and so great
a violation of Divine and human laws, that not only
our most holy religion, but human society also, is
thereby miserably disturbed and afflicted. In the
heavy accumulation of calamities whereby our heart
is thus oppressed, the supreme postal charge con-
fided to us requires that we should ever increas-
ingly exert our strength to repair the ruin of the