The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, J 1868.

THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
-a- of PICTURES by FRENCH and FLEMISH ARTISTS IS
NOW OPEN at the GALLERY,I2O, PALL-MALL. Admission, is.;
Catalogue, 6d

THE MORTON TESTIMONIAL.
SEVER AL Gentlemen, friends of Mr. CII ARLES
MORTON, of "THE OXFORD," have formed them-
selves into a Committee for the purpose of raising FUNDS
for a TESTIMONIAL, to be presented to him, expressive
of the high sense entertained both of his public character
and private worth.

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ill be receiv'd and acknow-
JOHN WILTON,
. Secretary and Treasurer.
, 1868.

Hon.
St. James's Hall, March 10,

OLAPHAM.—APARTMENTS well Furnished
V and highly Respectable in a Gentleman's Private
Family, pleasantly situate, with large Garden. Attend-
ance and every comfort. Very convenient for Rail or
Omnibus to City and West-end. Apply at the Residence,
34, Lark Hall Rise, Clapham, S.W.; or to Mr. STEVENS,
The Pavement, Clapham Common.

rro BE LET, UNFURNISHED, a PARLOUR
and TWO BED-ROOMS, with Gas, &c., in the most
eligible part of St. Paul's-road, Camden-square, NAV.
Apply at 44, St. Paul's-road, Camden-square, N.W.

JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price Is. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper
Thames street, London.

Mutual Assurance without Mutual Liability.—Proflts may be
applied so as to make Policies payable in Life time, or so as
alternately to reduce the Premiums on Second-class Lives
to First-class Rates.
BRITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
4, QUEEN-STREET-PLACE,
SOUTHWARK BRIDGE, LONDON, E.C.
CAPITAL:—A QUARTER OF A MILLION.
Accumulating Fund exceeds £155,000.
New Policies issued
Amount.
£353,700
501,175
661,997

Years.
1865-6
1866-7
1867-8

No.
2073
2845
3839

Annual Prenis,
£10,899
15,318
20,303

3 ..• 8807 ... 41,511,872 £46,520
Policies in force, 14,474—£2,454,896.
19th March, 1868

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament,
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chairmln—General Sir FREDERIC SMITH, LH., F.R.S
Policies payable during Life—lndisputable-- Not liable to
Forfeiture.
The ROYAL, NAVAL, MILITARY, and EAST INDIA LIFE DE-
PARTMENT, affording Peculiar Advantages to Officers and others
in the Navy and Army. is under the especial Patronage of
Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
The EUROPEAN Society is specially authorised by the Im-
perial Parliament to Guarantee the Fidelity of Government
Officials.
New Premium Income in 1858, 1859, 1860 £76,000
1861, 1869, 1863 £117,000
41 ‘, 1864, 1865, 1866 ..£171,000
Annual Income exceeds Three Hundred and Forty Thousand
Pounds.
The Return of each Week's NEW Business may be obtained at
the Offices, or of any of the Agents.
The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants,
and full particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will
be found in the New Prospectus, which will be forwarded to
applicants post free.

HENRY LAKE, General Manager.
316, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

PL RR'S LIFE PILLS.—In the Spring PARR'S
PILLS are used by Thousands. They clear from the
system all hurtful impurities, promote appetite, aid digestion,
purify the blood, and keep the bowels regular. May be had of
any chemist.

TIEETH PAINLESSLY STOPPED, with
permanent enamel cement of the exact natural colour,
guaranteed not to turn black or make the teeth look unsightly.

MR. WEBB, DENTIST,
27, NEW BOND-STREET,
Many years with Mr. ESKELL, of 8, Grosvenor-street,
Bond-street.

STOOPING HABITS, ROUND SHOULDERS,
PIGEON CHESTS and other Deformities, are pre-
vented and cured by wearing CHANDLER'S IMPROVED
HYGIENIC CHEST-EXPANDING BRACE, for both sexes of all
ages. It strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves indi-
gestion, pains in the chest and back, and is especially re-
commended to children forassisting the growth, promoting
health and symmetry of figure, superseding the use of
braces and stays. Price from 10s. 6d. each.-66, Berners-
street, Oxford-street, W. Illustrated circulars forwarded.

PHEASANTS, PARTRIDGES, and
POULTRY.—Landed Proprietors, Gentry, ecc., of
the United Kingdom wishing to rear Game for 1868 and
to be successful, are respectfully asked to send six stamps
for Mr. CHAMBERLIN'S new BOOK, containing 300
certificates of the utility of his FOOD. J. 0. supplies the
Crowned Heads of England and France and the chief of
the aristocracy. By the use of his "Spanish Meal" any
quantity of birds can be raised.
The hundreds of thousands of heads of Game reared on
my system during the last ten years proves its utility ; ;he
loss from every cause has not averaged three to the hun-
dred. Gapes and Roup (the two most fatal diseases which
attack game) the birds have been and always are free
from. This is attributable to their robust constitution
and excellent condition. Pheasants fed on my food show
their beautiful plumage with hardness and closeness of
feather to the greatest advantage; they cannot be sur-
passed.

- The magnificent Foreign and English Pheasants at the
Zoological Society's Gardens, London, and his Imperial
Majesty's Pheasantry at Compiegne and St. Germains, are
fed with my food.
Address, Mr. JAMES CHAMBERLIN, Post-office-
street, Norwich, England.

Eastern

London

Chatham

METROPOLITAN AND ST. JOHN'S-
WOOD RAILWAY.
This Line IS NOW OPENED for TRAFFIC.
MYLES FENTON, General Manager.

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANS-
ATLA 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 month for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, 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. Nazairo on tho 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 and Brest, for New
York.
From HAVRE.—ApriI 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
If ... 7OO fr.f Cabin.
Second Class
Third Class 275 fr.
From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brost, 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.
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 TUESDAY, the
28th instant, at Two o'clock, they will be rearly 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 bo 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 may 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 for 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, eec. " 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.

CONTRACT FOR CANDLES.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 6th April, 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 WE DNESDAY,
the 29th instant, at Two oclock, they will be ready to
treat with such persons as maybe willing to CONTRACT
for supplying and delivering into Store at her Majesty's
Dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich all such (pan-
ties of

ARMY CONTRACTS.
WAR OFFICE, Pall-mall, London, S.W.,
6tl: April, 1868.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the
SECRETARY of STATE for WAR will be pre-
pared to receive TENDERS for the supply of
FLOUR, BREAD, and MEAT,
for the use of her Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the
following places, from Ist June to 30th November,
1868 :

Chatham District—Commissariat Office, the Barracks,
Chatham.
1. Chatham.—Flour (two qualities, and Rice Flour for
dusting), Live Cattle and Sheep, or Dead Meat.
2. Gravesend, including “New Barracks,"
Tilbury Fort, Coal House Point, and
Shormead Bread and
3.
4. lipner Castle..... ....
Isle of Grain .••.•••..•••••,•••••••••••.•••.......
Meat.
5. Sheerness . ...................
6. Slough Fort .............................
Separate Tenders for Flour Bread, and) Meat must be
made for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Barracks,
as separately numbered.
Printed Forms of Tender, initialed and numbered, and
Conditions of Contract,
Clay be obtained on application by
letter addressed to the Senior Commissariat Officer of the
district, and no Tender will be entertained unless made
upon the printed form so obtained.
The Tenders must be sent to this office, addressed to
the Director of Contract
for Commissariat Supplies" before Twelve o'clock on
Tuesday, the 21st inst., after which day no Tender will bo
received. 8, marked on the outside "Tender

The Secretary of State for War reserves the right of re-
jecting any or all of the Tenders.
THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
War-offiee, pall-Mall, London, S.W.,
NOTICE IS HE 6th April, 1868.
REBY GIVEN, that the
SECRETARY of STATE for WAR will bo pre-
pared to receive tenders for the supply of
BREAD and MEAT
Fort he use of her Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the
following Districts, during a period of Six Months, com-
mencing Ist June, 1868, viz.:—
N. Britain District, ;Commissariat Office, 3, Hill-street,
Edinburgh.
Barrack-et., Hulme,
Manchester.
The Camp, Col-
chester.
4, Castle-st., Dover.
20, E. Emma-place,
Plymouth.
St. Thomas-street,
Portsmouth.
109, Victoria-st.,
S.W.
The Barracks,
Chatham.
RoyalArtilleryßar.
Woolwich.
Grosvenor-street,
Jersey.
Printed Forms of Tender, initialed and numbered, and
conditions of Contract may be obtained on application to
the Senior Commissariat Officer of the district, and no
Tender will be entertained unless made upon the printed
form so obtained.
The Tenders must be sent to this office, addressed to the
Director of Contracts, marked on the outside " Tender
for Commissariat Supplies," before Twelve o'clock, on
Tuesday, the 21st instant, after which day no Tender will
be received.
The Secretary cf State for War reserves the right of
rejecting any or all of the Tenders.
THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts.

Northern

South-Eastern „
Western f),

Sonth-Westorn „

Woolwich „

Chan. Islands „

Hj_OMELESS 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.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank,
214, High Holborn, and 41, ury, ,E.o. • and by
•wILLIA.II wDLLIAMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-flelds.
Isothb

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
%re as follows :—.
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, HarnP- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland-street. with.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Homo—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapsido.
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.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DPI,, (70X3EF, sec.
8; ClllOOll-10004 chengide•

PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
nESSRS. GABRIEL, DENTISTS (Established
1815), of
London 56, Harley-street, Cavendish-square,
17
Liverpool 134, Duke-street, and
Brighton
have just published a NEW PAMPHLET explaining
their Painless System of Dentistry, and self-adhesive Artifi-
cial Teeth without springs, at MonEnit.TE OffAuGEs, which
may be had free by post for four stamps.

A ROMAN CA71101,10 BISHOP ON

EDUCATION.

At the laying of the foundation-stone of new
schools at Stockport, on Monday, by Mr. Watliin,
M.P., the Right Rev. Dr. Browne, Roman Catho-
lic Bishop of Shrewsbury, delivered an important
address on the subject of education.
He said he believed that if it had not been for the
other great question which was now engrossing the
attention of the whole world, the vital question of
the session would have been that of education; and
though it had been postponed, it must be brought
forward again in a very short time. They were
told again and again that it was one of the prin-
ciples of the Catholic Church to repress the develop-
ment and improvement of the human mind. They
were also told that they were lovers of ignorance and
darkness, and that they loved ignorance and dark-
ness because their works were evil. lie trusted that he
need not in that room reprobate all such nonsense.
It was their first duty to instruct their people in the
principles of their holy faith, and it was held by
the Church as their second duty to see that their
minds were trained usefully and profitably accord.
ing to the state of life in which God might have
placed them. Whatever there was in this country
that had the glory and the honour of ages upon it
in reference to education—all those seats of learn-
ing, for instance, of which the country was justly
proud—would speak from their venerable age of
the spirit which built them, and that was the spiri
of the Catholic Church, for the oldest and noblest
educational establishments were, as they all knew,
Catholic institutions, founded by Catholic money,
founded in a Catholic spirit, founded under the
guidance of a Catholic Church, and a greater por-
tion of them founded for Catholic purposes. He,
therefore, repudiated, as a bishop of the Catholic
Church, the assertion which was made that that
Church was adverse to education. (Hear, hear.)
It would easily be understood that, when they
spoke of the Church as patronising education and
as desiring to promote education, that that educa-
tion must be connected with religion. The Church
could not recognise education as severed from reli-
gion, for it considered that the real education of
man was the education of his soul. The
soul of man, without religion, was blank, and
void, and worthless, and the Church, therefore,
could in no way recognise any system of
education which would sever the two. They
knew perfectly well that the basis of society
if laid upon sound principles, must be laid upon
principles that were sanctioned by religion, and
that if the people were to be educated to form use-
ful and profitable members of society that educa-
tion could only be accomplished by creating those
early impressions which afterwards developed them-
selves into the true form of a Christian, upright,
and honest man. It was for them, one and all, in
watching the present educational movement, to see
that it was conducted in accordance with that spirit,
because they knew full well that under a mistaken
view, under views which they could not for a mo-
ment sanction, there was a disposition on the part
of many to sever the two. It was perhaps a feeling
which originated in a desire somewhat to conciliate.
It was felt that one of the greatest difficulties which
had to be contended with was the conflict in the
difference of religion, and many had advocated
education without religious teaching, as a means by
which they might bridge over those difficulties. He
most certainly protested against those means of con-
ciliation. They (the Catholics) could admit no
system of education which did not recognise along
with it the duty of religious training, accompanied
by secular training, which was perhaps the most
expedient, but far less important. (Applause.)
It was not for him to enter into the various pro-
jects and schemes which were being set forth
in different quarters in reference to this sub-
ject; but be thought that that was an occa-
sion when some slight reference to them might be
expected. Amongst the many educational projects
there were some which had reference to the point
to which he bad just alluded, which would alto-
gether ignore religion in the training of our chil-
dren. They must at once be altogether rejected by
them, and rejected without qualification or limita-
tion. There was another scheme, however, which
found many supporters. It had been brought for-
ward with good feeling; but it was a scheme which
he could not receive. He alluded to the scheme of
building up a new code, without extending what
was called the operation of the conscience clause.
They were aware that the operation of the con-
science clause was this—if it was made obligatory
in all schools receiving Governtnent assistance, it
would be perfectly competent for the parents of
any number of children who were not Catholics to
send their children, for instance, to a Catholic
school, and then to enforce the conscience clause in
this way—to insist, in consequence of their children
having a right to be in that school, that there should
be no Catholic teaching there, that there should
be no reference made to Catholic doctrine, and that
there should be no Catholic practice adopted
there ; but whatever hid to be done in regard to
religious teaching and religious practices should
be done during extra hours. He was quite
sure that all present would see at once that they,
as Catholics, could not for one moment counte-
nance such a system as that. It would destroy
what they felt to be the life of their own schools,
namely, their own Catholic teaching, their own
Catholic practice, and their own Catholic spirit.
On that ground they could not accept that system,
and if it were to be enforced, the end would be that
they would rather trust their schools to be carried

on in hedges and ditches than submit to such re-

straints and exclusions. (Applause.) With regard
to another educational theory he felt rather un-
willing to say anything, because he was just then
on the borders of the neighbourhood from which

that particular theory had originated. He spoke

of what was called the Manchester school—the

school of theorists and practitioners who advocated
an educational rate. Though he had no doubt that
the gentlemen who advocated that plan did so with
the best intentions, and though he had no doubt
that they saw in it advantages which they thought
would be for the general benefit of the community,

yet he could not but think that there were dangers
in it which would require to be very carefully
considered. Those who had had far more expe-

rience than himself in such matters would see that

one great objection to that system was the man-

ner in which it would have to be worked. If

local rates were enforced those rates would have

to be administered by local boards, and those gen-
tlemen who were acquainted with the general
working of education must be very well aware

that if a national education was to go on

on it must go on upon a general and
universal principle, and be placed in the hands of
well qualified persons. It should be in the hands

of those who could enter into the whole merits of

education and deal with it as a great and important

subject. Those whom he was addressing must
know very well how difficult it would be to consti-
tute local boards all over the country who would

possess those qualities. Local boards might answer

very well as sanitary boards, burial boards, &c.,
but he felt quite sure that it would be impossible to

form local boards who would be competent to deal

with the education of the town. He felt that what

they would have to do would be to support the

Government, urging that there should be a proper

centre, more Axed even then the centre which they