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DR. sco rrs LIVER and BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER-FAILING REMEDY.—Pre-
pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe
of Dr. Scott, Bromley, Kent, will bo found invaluabla to
all who suffer front bilious and liver complaints, indiges-
tion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, ece.
For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine,
and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ;
mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they
create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the
whole nervous system.—Prepared only and sold by W.
Lambert, chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing cross,
London, and by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lid., and
three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for
Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. Tho genuine are a
square green package, with "William Lambert" engraved
on the stamp.

N- ORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi-
dently recommended as a simple but certain
Remedy for Indigestion, which is the cause of nearly all
the diseases to which we aro subject, being a medicine so
uniformly grateful and beneficial that it is with justice
called the " Natural Strengthenev of the Human Stomach."
" Norton's Pills" act as a powerful tonic and gentle ape-
rient; are mild in their operation, safe under any cir-
cumstances, and thousands of persons can now bear testi-
mony to the benefits to be derived from their use, as they
have been a never-failing Frimily_ Friend for upwards of
20 years.
Sold in bottles at Is. lid., 2s. 91, and Ils. each, in
every town in the kingdom.
-CAUTION.

Be sure to ask for " NORTON'S PILLS," and do not
he persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations
which have sprung up in consequence of the SUCCEbB of
" Norton's Camomile Pills."

. CONTRACT- FOR WHEAT, PEPPER, RAISINS,
,;-;•', AND SUGAR.
Contratta)teihrtintent, Admiralty, Somerset 11011 SP,
• , April 18, 1868.
THE CdIINIISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE OF LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of
the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and
IRELAND do hereby Give Notice, that on MONDAY,
the 4th May next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will
be ready to treat with such persons as maybe willing to
CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her M.-
jesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned
articles, viz.:—

To bo tendered
Quantities. for at rates.
WHEAT 15,000 Imp. Bushels
PEPPER
Per 100 lbs.
RAISINS 50,000 „
SUGAIt 500,000 ~When to be delivered—One half of each quantity in
,hree weeks from the date of Contract, and the remainder
hereof in three weeks afterwards (or earlier if preferred
by the party tendering). ,
Tenders' may be made for the' ivh leiar any portion of
the articles.
Separate Tenders aro to be Made• for'each artiolo
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders aro opened, of contracting either for the whole,
or fur 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 in accepting the Tenders.
Tho Pepper, Raisins, and Sugar to be exempted fr m
the Customs duties, and parties tendering are to state
whore they are lying.
Samples of the Wheat ot less than 2 quarts), of the
Pepper (not less than 21bs.), and of the Raisins (not less
than Sibs.), must be produced by the parties tendering.
Each Tender for Sugar must specify the mark and land-
ing number of each cask or package, the ship in which im-
ported, and thkconntry or place of its growth or produce,
and en average sample (not less than 21bs. for each import
mark) must be produced by the parties tendering, and not
an average of different marks or several imports, and any
parcel that is found not to be of the same mark or average
quality as the samples tendered and accepted, will be re-
jected by the officers.
No Wheat tendered is to be of less weight than 601 b. per
bushel.

No Tenders will be received unless made in accordance
with the above denomination of quantities and rates ; and
Contractors in claiming payment for articles supplied are
to make out their invoices in accordance therewith, both
as to quantities and rates, excepting those for wheat, which
aro to be in pounds, at per 100 pounds.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed,
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained
on applicatietir in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of ViatiMincr, 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 the
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 to his proposed sureties in writing, when, but not
before, the rejected samples are to be removed.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secrettfry of
the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for ," and must also be delivered at the
Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

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

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.--FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship,
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing
370 children.

£l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
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The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
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cants, whose histories aro recorded in the applicant's book
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge throe homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually. •
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IMPERIAL PARLIAXENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING.
Tim Lonn CILMELLoIt took his seat on the Woolsack
at five o'clock.

PARTITION BILL.
This bill was committed and passed.
LOCAL GOV.ERNMENT SUPPLEMENTAL ACT.-
This bill was comtnittel and passed.
THE PROMISSORY OATHS BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
RITUALISM.
In answer to Earl SIIAFrESBUitT,
The Earl of MALMESBUItY said that the report of
the Royal Commission on Ritualism had been presented
to her Majesty, and that he would answer his lordship's
question in a day or two.
TIIE IRISH CHURCH-.
The Earl of DERBY said that he was quite aware that
if he were to enter into any-
of the Resolutions which were
now befereti
the "-.°114e of Commons he would be out, of
ord'or. 'lint befeit ,tho' Eistei.recess there was alereat'
Agestion bzlought fwee,e;;.
'wniCh. he might advert \
Vfiera were three 'resOliitron4 which were .to be pro-
posed—the first, the expediency of disestablishing the
Irish Church ; 2ndly, that no new appointments should
be made with regard to that Church; and 3rdly, that an
address should be submitted tothe Crown that its patronage
as to the Treat dignitaries of the Church should be placed
at the disposal of the Ifouse of Commons. The noble
earl then adverted to the course pursued by a certain emi-
ninent person in the House of Cemmons, and also to the
enunciation of opinion which had been made by the noble
earl opposite (Earl Russell) as to the position of the Irish
The was one
Church, and stated that the views of the noble earl had
changed from time to time, and since he left office no less
than four changes had come over him.
of the most important, it was whethlr or net the State
should connect itself with the religious education of the
country, but the noble earl had said that he was
question
'quite willing that no religion at all shoal I be
supported. The question ho desired to put to the
noble earl was what would be the course pursued in that
house if, as he thought it would be, that the resolutions
were passed in the other house, whether it was the inten-
tion of the noble earl to bring this unexpected subject
before their lordships' house for their opinion upon it ?
Lord Derby then adverted to the speech of Earl Russell
at St. James's Hall. He thought that, during this Par-
liament, which had but a few months to live, his right
hon. friend who was at the head of the Government
and who certainly had not anything to do with this pre-
sent Parliament, would not through any factious oppo-
sition resign their offices until they had the opinion
of a more extended constituency than that which at
present existed. He again adverted to the conduct of
Earl Russell in 1835 when Lord Melbourne introduced
a bill as to the question of tithes, and ho said that he
was quite prepared to imagine that he would give Mr.
Gladstone the same advice as to his course as the one he
that year, but there was no parallel
and this was a case in which it
lbleimtwseelefnathdoartte,
tud
ejsption,
would be' better to call upon the Crown to act upon
Resolutions of the House of Commons in dafianee of Acts
of Parliament, wbich could not be done, and in this matter
the noble earl was wrong. lie would not impute motives! but
in 1835 the noble earl ousted Sir R. Pool from Witco, and
although defeated remained in office, and hal the satisfac-
tion of settling the Tithe question, and those who opposed
had for 33 years the pleasure of remaining unable to
do anything in the matter, which the noble earl
himself had opposed. He hoped that during
the short time that Parliament should last that
there should not be the introduction of a bill which, in-
stead, of promoting concord, would introduce discord
'and irreligious rancour and animosity, and he trusted there
would not be the formation of a new Ministry founded
upon the rejection of a measure upon which the two
Houses of Parliament must be divided.

Earl RUSSELL said that• he thought the course
pursued by the noble Earl was somewhat
extraordinary. Ire said that ho would not bring
forward the Resolutions, but that he would discuss the
effect of those Resolutions. If a member of the Must) of
Commons did so, he would bo quite in order, but in this
house, while the debate was going on in the other
house, it was quite unusual. For himself ho must say that
his motive was that ho wished to see the Union of Ireland
with England become a complete combination, and that
was what, in his political career, he had always sought to
effect.

Lord MALMESRI.JRY warmly condemned the attack
which bad boon made upon Lord Derby and the conduct
of the Duke of Argyll, Lord Russell, and Lord Granville
(who had left the house) in leaving it before it could be
replied to. While ho was speaking the Duke of Argyll
and Lord Granville came back and took their places. Lord
Malmesbury then continued his remarks, and maintained
that the course the Government had taken was right, and
that it was within the province of any independent peer
to bring any topic which he thought worthy the attention
of the house under its notice.
Their 19rtiohips then adjourned.

Mr. EYKYN asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland
whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Governmlnt,
in consequence of the bar'earous murder that recently took
place in the county of Westmeath, to apply to Parliament
for extension of their powers under the suspension of the
Habeas Corpus Act, as to enable them to adopt against
Ribbonism and agrarian outrage the same course that had
been so successfully adopted for the suppression of Fenian-
ism in Ireland.
Letarl MA:Yoiiatit.l44lcl itink--the State
the cotintry would justitY4hiriCloiiernment-ln extending
the suppression of the Habeas Corpus: -Act to any other
offence than Fenianism.
FEVER IN THE MAURITIUS.

In reply to Mr. WHALLEY,
Sir J. PAKINGTON said tho fever, happily, was do-

creasing, as was also the mortality, up to the date of the
latest intelligence. There had been a great deal of illness
but happily very few deaths. The mortality had affected
women and children more than man.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. •

Mr. VERNER said he had heard it rumoured that the
debate on the Irish Church was to close by arrangement
to-night. Now he wished to know if such was the case
what opportunity would be offered to those who repre-
sented northern constituencies in Ireland of expressing
their opinions on the subject of the Irish Church ?
Mr. DISRAELI said there had been some talk on the
matter last night, but he found that the attempt to regu-
late the debate was a subject of great difficulty. It was
wished that a decision should be taken to a distinct
issue—(hear, hear)—and he should offer no obstacle to
that being done. But it appeared that several hon. mom•
bers wished to express their opinions, and therefore it
would be for the house to express its view of the matter.
Mr. GLADSTONE said there was no desire to unneces-
sarily prolong the debate on his side of the house, because,
as far as the specific question was concerned, it had been
practically and thoroughly debated.
THE IRISH. odußcEr. .

1%6 adjourned debate on the resolutions submitted by
Mr. Gladstone was resumed by
Colonel BAUTTELOT denying that the great mass of

the Irish people were discontented with the state of the
Established Church as it at present existed in Ireland.
The agitation was got up by others from interested
motives rather than from any other. circumstance.
lie contended that tle quietness of the north part of Ire--
land, which had remained loyal, whilst Fenianistn w.ts
rampant in the south, was solely to be attributed to the
existence of the influence of the Established Church. The
great panacea for the pacification of Ireland would be the
passing for hor of laws as liberal as those enacted for other
parts of. Great Britain. He hoped the great Conservative
party would to a man vote against the resolution proposed
by the hon. gentleman opposite.
Mr. BUXTON said ho really had to offer his sympathy,
to the right hon. gentteman the First Lord of the Trea-
sury in his being compelled to march through Coventry with
such a ragged regiment of reasons us those paraded by his
supporters. (Laughter.) The house had been also inun-
dated with the Lord Plunkett argument and others abut
the coronation oath, but the only one that he had heard
that had the smallest show of respectability about it was
that the precedent set in Ireland would certainly
'result in the same course being followed with
rezak,d • to England. , In answer to that, ho had
only to say that the Cotirse;tpuitsued>vith respect' to the
Established Church in Ireland was dictated solely by
justice. (Hear, hear.)
The debate was brought to a close by Mr. Bearden, who
made a few observations (interrupted by an ineffectual at-
tempt to count out the house), and it was then adjourned
until Thursday, Sir M. Beach, as *as understood, being in
possession of the house.
Some other business was disposed of, and the house
adjourned at 1 o'clock.

TIIE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

The finale of the Abyssinian expedition com-
bines every feature that could render it dramatically
complete. A t the same time it disconcerts almost
every previous speculation on the probable issue.
There were some who believed that King Theodore
would meet us in the open field and submit to his
fate if defeated, and some who believed that he
would shut himself up in Magdala without fighting,
while others maintained that he would refuse to
deal with us as enemies at all, but would give up
his prisoners as an act of grace. However this
might be, a fear was very generally entertained, if
it was seldom expressed, that in any event he
would take a cruel revenge on the captives for
whatever success might be obtained by our troops,
or hurry them off at the last moment to some fast-
ness iu the far west of his rugged territory. None
of these predictions has been verified, and what has
actually come to pass exceeds not only our expecta-
tions, but our most sanguine hopes. Our country-
men, though released spontaneously instead of being
massacred, were not the less rescued by the British
army. Not until the guns in which the Abyssinian
Ruler trusted were found powerless against our
artillery, and the means of escape were cut off, did
be send all the Europeans in his power into Sir
Robert Napier's camp. Not even then did he con-
template surrender, and it is possible that, but
for the desertion and treachery of his followers, the
capture of Magdala would have been delayed for
days and cost us far more dearly. The desperate
courage which sustained him in his extremity,
whether he fell, like Saul, by his own hand, or,
like Tippoo Sultan, was killed in the melee of the
storm, was not unworthy of his earlier exploits and
extraordinary fame in Abyssinia. After the defeat
of Good Friday, and the subsequent loss of an im-
portant post, he can scarcely have expected to hold
Magdala permanently against us ; but he did not,
even in his despair, wreak his vengeance, as he
might, upon Mr. Rassam and his companions. This
forbearance seems to give us a new insight into
his character. It appears inexplicable, unless we
suppose that his conduct has throughout been dic-
tated by a certain barbarous sentiment of honour,
which, had we understood it, might have been
satisfied in the first instance, without loss of dig-
nity, by pacific; explanatiOns:
These considerations, however, must not be al-
lowed to obscure our appreciation of the signal
results achieved. Never, perhaps, in our military
history was a most arduous campaign more skilfully
planned or more vigorously carried out, and the
merit both of conception and execution is due, by
universal consent, to one man. Sir Robert Napier,
if he had not absolutely carte blanche in respect
of expenditure and organisation, was certainly in-
trusted with a larger discretion than Wellington or
A.lFO9rough ever obtAineirl. _ Unlike Wellington or

Marlborough, too, he was an Engineer officer, and
this circumstance, though it caused many great
authorities to shake their heads at his appointn,ent,
has assuredly exercised a most beneficial influence
Upon the conduct of the expedition. Our most
formidable difficulties were engineering rather than
strategical difficulties. No commander, unless qua-
lified by engine;ging experience, would have ven-
ture I to overrule the judgment of his staff on thc:o
matters, to assume duties which properly devolved
on his subordinates, and to place himself virtually
at the head of the pioneer force. Yet it is now
evident to all that Sir Robert Napier was right in
. the main from first to last, and that his personal
' energy, guided by his professional sagacity, has
alone enabled him to capture Magdala in time to
get back to Zoulla before the rainy season. Every
letter from our correspondents has contained fresh
evidence of his wis loin in disregarding some tradi-
tional rules of regular campaigning. The French
. officers accompanying the march seem io have been
astonished by the rapid progress made in the face
of obstacles which it is probable that no European
army would have surmounted with equal facility.
The training acquired in Indian hill warfare has
proved of, inestimable service in the Abyssinian
Mountains, while the encutubrances which Indian
regiments had come to regard as necessaries were
cheerfully shaken off without injury to health or
efliziency. This' experiment has taught us, as our
Special Correspondent points out, " that an Anglo-
Indian army, under an Anglo-Isictian General, can
actually take the field without provoking any earth-
quakes, plagues, coughs, catarrhs, or any other
manifestations of the Divine displea.sure, minus
five sixths or thereabouts of the Anglo-Indian al-
lowance of followers." It is, on the other hand,
far frbrn certain that without elephants it would
have been possible to carry Armstrong 12-pounders
at all across such passes, much less to carry them
at the rate of 10 miles a day, or that without
guns of that power and calibre the approaches to
Magdala could have been cleared for the attacking
column. Now that we can look back calmly at the
whole enterprise from its inception to its virtual
termination, we see no reason to conclude that its
magnitude or its risks were overrated. All these
risks, except that of an unhealthy climate, have been
encountered, and some have proved worse than we
had foreseen, but the resources of our General and
the spirit of our men have risen to the emergency,
and a smaller body of troops than failed to over-
awe two or three thousand Maories has sufficed
to penetrate and conquer the so-called Empire o.
Abyssinia.

The expenditure has, of course, been enormous
—how enormous, we have yet to learn—but it is
gratifying to know that we have been prodigal of
nothing but treasure. Our object has been attained
with the greatest possible economy of European life,
and, let us add, with the least possible slaughter of
the innocent Abyssinian people. Strict discipline
has been enforced on the march, no outrages have
been committed by our soldiers, and our punctua-

ity in paying for everything required for their sub

sistence is said to have excited the contempt of a
race accustomed to estimate power by oppressive
rapacity. The only measure on which the most

scrupulous philanthropist can feel a\ momentary
qualm is one of which the slightest reflection will

show the justice and necessity. If any one doubts
whether Magdala need have been stormed after the

prisoners bad been given up, let him consider the
consequences of the alternative. How could we
have turned back, leaving Theodore's boasted

stronghold untaken, himself nnsubdued, and the

chiefs whci have aided us at his mercy ? Nothing

short of this decisive blow would have broken the

spell of his marvellous prestige, or persuaded the
Oriental world that we had not bought him off
by a bribe. The fall of Magdala, defended by the
renowned Theodore himself, at a distance of four
hundred miles from the coast, before a British

force despatched flout Bombay, will produce a

deep impression in every baz tar throughout Cen
tral Asia. Its prompt evacuation, and our retire-

ment from Abyssinia, will convince the most seep
tical of Anglophobists that we have indulged in no
projects of annexation, or even of protection. The
Abyssinian war is a war, if there ever was one, " for
an idea," and its only tangible fruits will have been
the liberation of 60 Europeans and the valuable ex-

perience of some months' campaigning in a countrf
heretofore deemed inaccessible. It has been, in
short, a modern Crusade, but a Crusade sullied by
no incidents of which England need be ashamed,
and not stultified by the foundation of a mock
kingdom of Jerusalem, only to be maintained by
fresh expeditions.-7 imes.