The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1868.

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'FLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.-
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SHARES,

Further extension of time to the 10th day of March for receiving

Subscriptions for the Five B-Junci Shires,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That, in consequ3nee of the Post-
ponement of the Resolutions for creating the New Preferential
Shares in this Company, the Directors have decided to EXTEND
the TIME for RECEIVING APPLICATIONS for the REMAIN-
ING SHARES to TUESDAY, the 10th day of March, 1858.
Upwards of eight hundred and thirty thousand pounds worth of
this capital has now been applied for. Another meeting will
shortly be called to sanction this new issue of shares.
By order.
GEORGE SAW ARD,
Secretary and General Superintendent.
12, St. Helen's-place, Feb.2s, 1863.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the ANNUAL GENE-
RAL MEETING of the Proprietors will be held at the Com-
pany's Office,' 61, Prinee's-street, Edinburgh, on MONDAY, the
2nd day of March next, at Two o'clock p.m., in terms of the
Charter and Act of Parliament. In accordance with the r..so-
lotion of the last general meeting of .the Company, the meeting
will not proceed to the transaction of any business until a reso-
lution for its adjournment has been moved; and, if the same be
carried, the meeting will stand adjourned until Tuesday, the 21th
day of March, at the same time and place.
The Transfer Books will be Closed from Monday, the 17th inst.,
to Monday, the. 2nd March, inclusive. —By order.
F.- W. LANCE, Secretary.
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ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
Lombard-street, London, and North John-street,
Liverpool.
CAPITAL, £2,000,000.
LIFE BONUSES hitherto among the largest ever de-
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SPECIAL NOTICE.—AII new participating Life Assur-
ances now effected will share in an INCREASED propor-
tion of the Profits, in accordance with the Resolution of
last Annual Meeting.
FIRE. Moderate Premiums.
ANNUAL INCOME nearly £BOO,OOO.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTONE, Secretary in London.

BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND.
THE COMMITTEE OF THE 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 interred.
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 Bunhill Fields Committee, at the Town
Clerk's Office, Guildhall.
WOODTHORPE.

CONTRACTS FOR COCOA, TOBACCO, AND WINE-
CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY,
Somerset House, 17th February, 1868.
THE 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 MONDAY, the 2d
March next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will bo ready
to treat with such persons as may be willing to CON-
TRACT for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's
Victualling Stores, at Deptford, the undermentioned
articles, viz.:—
To be ten-
Quantities. dered for at
Rates.
COCOA 400,000 lb.
TOBACCO
WHITE WINE 2,000 Gals. per Gallon.
When to be Delivered.—One half of each quantity in three
weeks from date of Contract, and the remainder thereof
in three weeks afterwards, or earlier if preferred by the
party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of
the articles.

Separate Tenders are to be made for each article.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the
whole, or for 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.

The Cocoa, Tobacco, and Wine to be exempted from the
Customs' duties, and patios tendering are to state where
they are lying.
Each Tender for Cocoa must specify the mark and land-
ing number of each cask or package, the ship in which im-
ported, and the country or place of their growth or pro-
duce, and an average sample (not less than 21b. 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 samo mark or
average quality as the samples tendered and accepted, will
be rejected by the officers.
Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several trade
marks and numbers, and the countries or places of its
growth or produce, and a fresh-drawn dock sample of
each cask or package must be produced by the parties ten-
dering ; and any cask or package that is found not be of
the same mark, number, or quality as the samplo tendered
and accepted, will be rejected by the officers.
Samples of the Wine (two pints) for each import mark
must be produced by the parties tendering.
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.

No 'fender 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-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
the conditions of the Contracts 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 bo removed.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secra'ary 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.

CONTRACTS FOR FRESH BEEF, MUTTON, BREAD,
VEGETABLES, &c., FOR THE ROYAL MARINE IN-
FIRMARIES AT WOOLWICH AND CHATHAM.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
• House, 17th February, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for executing the
Office of Lord High Admiral of the United King-
dcm of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby Give Notice
that on THURSDAY, sth March next, at Half-past One
o'clock, they will be ready, at the Office of the Director-
General of the Medical Department of the Navy, Somerset
House, in London, to treat with such persons as may be
willing. to CONTRACT for the SUPPLY of all such
quantities of all or any of the following ARTICLES as
shall from time to time be required for the use of either
one or both of the Royal Marine Infirmaries at Woolwich
and Chatham, from the first day of April next to the 31st
day of March, 1869, viz.:—
BEEF and MUTTON,
BREAD,
MILK,
Samples of the Soap, together with the Conditions of
the Contracts, may be seen at the Office of the Director-
General of the Medical Department, or by applying to the
Purveyor at the Infirmaries at Woolwich and Chatham.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, and which may be obiained
on application in the Lobby of the Medical Department,
Admiralty, Somerset House, and to the Purveyors atWool-
wich and Chatham.
No Tender will be received after Half-past One o'clock
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 his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words
" Tender for ," and must also be delivered at tho
Medical Department, Somerset House, accompanied by a
letter, signed by a responsible person, engaging to become
bound with the person tendering in the sum of £lOO for
the due performance of the Contracts for Beef and Mutton,
for Bread and for Vegetables, and in the sum of £5O for
each of the other Contracts.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

SOAP, YELLOW,
VEGETABLES.

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CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear
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NA'FIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of
the kingdom.
The object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng-
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suitable situations for them.
The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is
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HENRY KINGSCOTE, Treasurer]
W. EL WavaCE, Secretary,
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THE LATE LORD WENSLEYDALE.

The death of Lord Wensleydale on Tuesday last,
in his 86th year, severed one of the few remaining
links between the last and the present century.
Contemporary of Campbell, St. Leonards, Lushing-
ton, and Pollock, and but a few years junior to
Lyndhurst and Brougham, he belonged to a still
older school of legal thought, and represented a type
which now becomes extinct. Like so many of our
greatest lawyers, ho was born (on the 22d March,
1782) in the north of Eng Lull, and educated in one
of those north country grammar schools from which
Cambri lge has derived her very sturdiest mathe-
maticiars. In October, 1799, he entered Trinity
College as a pensioner, but was elected Scholar in
the next year, and in 1803 gained the double honour,
which few have since rivalled, of the fifth place,
among the Wranglers and the Senior Chancellor's
Medal. In 1804 he became Fellow of Trinity; and
soon afterwards commenced reading for the Bar, a
profession for which his remarkable industry and
rare subtlety of intellect peculiarly fitted him. lie
was not, however, called to the Bar until the year
1813, but in the meantime he had acquired a con-
siderable practice below the Bar as a pleader, .and
retained to the very last that partiality for prece-
dent and form to which the interests of justice were
too often sacrificed in the good old days of " special
demurrer." Four years later he married, and after
15 years' experience on the Northern Circuit, but
without attaining the dignity of a silk gown, suc
ceeded Mr. Justice llolroyd as a Puisne Judge in
the Court of Queen's Bench, over which Lord Ten-
terden then presided. From this period until Jan.,
1856, he was a distinguished member of the Judicial
Bench, being transferred in 1834 to the Court of
Exchequer, where he sat, as Baron Parke, for no
less than 22 years. It was often said, indeed, that
Baron Parke ruled the Exchequer, and it is certain
that its decisions were influenced, if not coloured,
by an habitual deference to his authority, always on
the side of adherence to the letter, even where it
conflicted with the spirit, of the law. We can
well imagine the disgust which the sweeping in-
novations and vernacular phraseology of the Com-
mon Law Procedure Acts, passed in 1852 and
1854, must have inspired in a mind so constituted ;
nor did he long retain his seat upon the Bench
after they had transformed the whole system of
pleading and practice. At the beginning of 1856
Lord Palmerston conferred upon him the celebrated
life peerage, which is likely to be associated with
his name when the memory of his long judicial
career and profound learning shall have faded into
obscurity.
' •

It is but twelve years since this great constitu-
tional question was raised and discussed with great
ability, yet of those who took a leading part in
those famous debates how few are still to be found
in their places ! Lord Lyndhurst, who, though
past four-score, was the real hero of the day, passed
away from among us four years ago ; Lord Camp-
bell, who on this occasion sided with the Conserva-
tive Peers, had preceded him two years before :to
the grave ; Lord Brougham survives, but with
shattered powers, after a life of activity unprece-
dented for its duration in modern times ; Lord
Derby, by far the youngest among the prominent
opponents of the bill, has just been compelled
by failing health to resign office. The import-
ance of the principle at stake was not unworthy of
the interest which it excited. Lord Wensleydale
had no sons, and known to be far advanced in years.
Nothing, therefore, was to be gained by limiting his
peerage by patent to the term of his natural life
but the creation of a precedent vitally affecting the
constitution of the House of Lords. The real con-
troversy was felt, and justly felt, to be, not between
the prerogative of the Crown and the privileges of
the Upper House, but rather between an official
and an hereditary peerage. This is not the place
to revive the argument upon its merits, bat no one
can blame the spirit of the House of Lords, what-
ever may be thought of their policy, in resisting a
claim which threatened ultimately to place their in-
dependence at the mercy of the House of Commons.
The result was, as is well known, that a new patent
was granted, under which Baron Parke, instead of
taking his scat as Baron Wensleydale, of 'Wensley-
dale, for life, took the title of Baron Wensleydale,
of Walton, in Yorkshire, with the remainder to
himself and his issue male. As he died without
such issue, the barony is now extinct.
The appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords,
which it was the professed object of his elevation to
strengthen, has since been reinforced by Lord
Westbury, Lord Cairns, and Lord Romilly. his
mature and penetrating judgment, however, will be
sensibly missed there, as well as at the Privy Coun-
cil, of which he was a member for 33 years. A
Liberal in politics, he never took a conspicuous
share in political movements, and seldom made a
speech on any but legal questions in the House of
Lords. It is, perhaps, more remarkable, in an age
when authorship is the foible of public men, that
he never wrote a book even upon a legal subject,
or edited a single volume of Law Reports. On the
other hand, the scholarship of his earlier years
ripened into a higher culture in his old age, while
the geniality of disposition which had made him a
favourite with the Bar never failed to characterise
his manner in private society. If he cannot be
numbered among the brightest luminaries of Eng-
lish law, he at least earned and maintained for half
Ia century the respect of his profession, and leaves
behind him a spotless reputation.

TRADE TVITII JAPAN.

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)

iIIOGO, Jan. 2.
Yesterday the ports of iliogo and Osaka were
formally openedto European traffic. This ceremony
ought to have taken place long ago, but on one
pretext or another the Japanese authorities have
hitherto successfully opposed it. Now, however,
all restrictions are removed, and all the advan-
tages—real or supposed—resulting therefrom are
only waiting for enterprising speculators to gather
them.

Osaka, one of the five imperial cities, is situated
in Niphon, on the banks of the river Jodogawa, at
the north-eastern extremity of the inland sea. No
vessels larger than -barges can approach within two
miles of it. It is intersected by canals cut from the
river deep enough to be navigable by small boats,
which bring the goods to the merchants' doors.
Upwards of 100 wooden bridges, many extraordi-
narily beautiful, span these channels. The town is
certainly the most important commercial entrepot in
the empire. It abounds in manufactures of every
kind, and is also the resort of rich people from all
parts of the country, who are attracted by the num-
ber of theatres and other diversions which have made
some writers call Osaka the Paris of Japan. It is
also celebrated as being the place where the best
saki is brewed. This, the only intoxicating liquor
made in Japan, is sent to all parts of the empire,
much as Burton ale is with us. It is very superior
to the samshu of the Chinese, but latterly many of
the Princes have taken to bitter beer and cham-
pagne, so we may reasonably entertain hopes of
their ultimate civilisation.
Hiogo, also a large and important city on the
sea coast, about 18 miles from Osaka, possesses the
inestimable advantage of good and secure anchorage
for ships of any size and in any number at a short
distance from the shore. It is built on a plain be-
tween the sea and the mountains, which from a
sheltering background to it, as Monreale does to
Palermo. Yesterday there were present the line-
of-battle ship Rodney, bearing the flag of Vice-
Admiral Sir H. Keppel, Commander-in-Chief ;
Ocean (ironclad), Basilisk, Rinaldo, Cormorant,
Sylvia, Serpent, Salamis, Adventure, Manilla, and
Snap, four American sloops of war, and one Japa-
nese frigate. The ships Rattler, Laplace, and
Shenandoah represent English, French, and Ameri-
can interests respectively at Osaka, or rather as

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near as they could get to it with safety. At eight
in the Morning the Union-jack was heisted in the
plot, of ground which has been assigned by the au-
thorities for the European settlement, and the ships
were dressed with mast-head flags, flying the
Japamese Imperial ensign—a red ball on a white
ground—at the post of honour, the main. At noon
all ti to ships fired a royal salute, and this was the
whole ceremonial ; but it may well be doubted if
such a numerous war-fliet will ever again be assem-
bled in the waters of Iliogo. Later in the day
steamers arrived from Nagasaki and Yokohama
with men of all nations on board, and stores, or
,c go-downs" as they are c tiled in the far cast, will
doubtless rapidly spring into being. The weather
has been generally fine, with au averne tempera-
ture of 52 degrees lahrenheit during the day.
The nights are, of course, much colder, and to-day
the tops of the well-wooded hills for the first time
this winter are whitened with patches of snow.
There is game, but not much of it, in the imme-
diate neighbourhood of Iliogo. Nevertheless,
pheasants and woodcocks are sufficiently abundant
to attract many shooting parties from the officers
of the fleet. For the last three weeks these gen-
tlemen have been permitted to land as they please,
and not the faintest indication of ill-feeling on the
part of the native population has ever been observed.
On the contrary, the right hand of fellowship has
nowhere been more unmistakably proffered than by
the trading and lower classes of iliog,e-.,who seem
rejoiced to welcome the stranger. What their
rulers the daimios think is another matter. Admiral
Keppel has thought it prudent for the present not
to allow the blue-jackets to go on shore, but they
have leave to visit their friends who may be serving
in other ships.
One is half inclined to wonder that neither the
Russians nor the Dutch considered the opening of
these ports of sufficient importance to demand the
presence of a man-of-war. And yet perhaps they
were right. A London or Liverpool merchant hear-
ing of the opening up of a new country is apt at
once to suppose that he will find for his goods a new
market there. But really it is difficult for any one
who knows these Japanese to believe that any trading
of much consequence will be carried on with them,
at any rate for a long time to come. A few articles
of luxe for the very upper classes, with which, by
the way, the markets out here have been literally
deluged lately, are all we can expect to sell them.
All the things of every day use and consumption
they make cheaper and very often better than we do.
No doubt some day, when the enormous mineral
wealth of the country is developed by the employ-
ment of European skill and capital, Japan may be-
come of the very last importance to us. But that
will hardly be in this generation. At present a few
bales of silk, a few loads of timber, and certain
bronze and china curiosities are about all she is
likely to give us.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR STEEPLECITASES—TuunsDAY.

The Military Steeplechase of 5 sovs each, with 25 added,
for horses the property of officers of the army ; winning
penalties ; to be ridden_ by officers ; winner to be sold
for £lOO. About three miles. _ _ _

Medhurst's Kingfisher, by Kingfisher (h b), aged,
list (Mr. Pritchard) 1
Colonel Knox's Stiff, aged, list 71b (Owner) 2

The following also ran:—Quicksilver, The Vet, and
Martin.

Betting —7 to 4 on Stiff, 5 to 1 agst Kingfisher, and 6
to 1 agst any other. Won by twenty lengths.
The Borough Members' Plate of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ;