The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-29 00:00:00

---- Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d.

HAIL, COLOUR WASH.—By damping the
head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in
seven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and
remains so by an occasional using. 10s. 6d. ; sent for
stamps.
_ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London,
arid all Chemists.

UJust published, 2d.; sent by the author for 3 stamps,
GLINESS and BEAUTY; being a Pamphlet
i descriptive of articles and means used for improv•
I_llg the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Hol.
`'urn, London. Had of all booksellers.

MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new de-
scription of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without
sPrings, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble
the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the ori-
nals by the closest observer ; they will never change
colour or decay, and will be found superior to any teeth
ever before used. This method does not require the
extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will
Support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is gua-
ranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed
teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in masti-
cation.

52, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5.

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CONTRACTS FOR COCOA, TOBACCO, AND WINE
CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY,
Somerset House, 17th February, 1868.
'rim 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 be 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. 1
pdeerre:loofoll b• a. t
Rates.
, CQCOA 400,000 lb.
TOBACCO ' lOO,OOO lb. j
".. ".IVILLTE WINE - 2,000 Gals. per Gallon.
yir*.enlto l* Delivered.—One half of each quantity in three
_weeks from date of Contract, and the remainder thereof
,ta three4eeks afterwards, or earlier if preferred by the •
Arty.telidering:
- Telidera2.o, ay be made for the whole or any portion of
the reticle 4 •
, •
..Separat.iljtenclers are to be made for each article.
'Their rdships reserve to themselves the power, when
tiftf'Tend s are opened, of contracting either for the
IL
whole; or : swill part thereof.only as tiro,. dirO'ideem fit.;
or for a greater quantity, or ef not contranting for any, and
also an unlimited power' of selection- in accepting the
Tendwrs: , --
The Cocoa, Tobacco, and Wine to be e-iemptig-dfretin the-
Customs' duties, and i arties tendering are to state where
they aro 13 iug.
Each Tender for Cocoa must rpocify 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 au average sample (not less than 21b. for each
import mark) must bo 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 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 fuund not bo of
the same mark, number, or quality as the sample 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 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-
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 be removed.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Seca ary of the
Admiralty, and bear iu 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-
FIERGMEATRAIBELSEAS,
AT WOOLWICH AND CHATHAM.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 17th February, 1868.
MBE COMMISSIONERS for executing the
Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Sing-
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,
MILS,

SOAP, YELLOW,
VEGETABLES.

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 the
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 Secinities.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—
His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G,

PresidentL-His trace the Duke of Bucaximu, K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent fer support on voluntary contributions
and legacies. .

It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown,_Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co, ;
Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-titreet ; and at
be Hospital, from 10 till 5.

TARTRIDGE AND COOPER'
WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192'
FLICET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANS), LONDON, E.O.
THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED
PRICES. AT WHOLESALE
CARRIAGE PAID TO THE COUNTRY ON ORDERS
OVER 20a.

Per ream.
Fine Cream Laid Note: a cheap paper 3 L d.
0
.....
Superfine Cream Laid Note: much approved ........... "•
4 0
Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note; especially recom-
mended ............................... - ....... ... ......................... 5 6
Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note 7 0
Straw Paper, " Patent ;" adapted for rapid writing
Large Commercial Note Papers .............. 35., 4s.,
.. bs.,
and 6 0
Foolscap Papers, blue or cream . ......
..10s. 6d. 12s. 6d., and 14 0
Outsides Foolscap, thick hand-made
Letter Paper for scribbling . ........
...plain, 45.• ruled ditto 4 G
Tinted Lined Note ..........five quires ls. 6d., or 5 6
per 1,000
Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes 48. 61, bs. 6d., and 6 6
Extra Thick ditto, "Registered Secure" 9 0
Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes 4 6
Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, itu
COLOUR STAMPING (Relief) reduced to Is. per 100. Polished
steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the
prices charged by the retail houses.
An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip-
tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands,
rit.in Stationeryg Cases, Cabinets,
Desks, Postageß aßags,
asce:
pl eoss,t Df
reesepa. t c h Boxes, Travelling
W

nNE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE
Ur ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the
ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate
of .£25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed.
CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary,
Office, 98, Cheapside, London, E.O

FfUNd DS
ITO.MreEeLarnEeSsStlyß.oollYeitSeaUtoFr LthOe NpurDcaNre.—of
and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Trsining Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, 13r3ad-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, Lothbnry, KC.; and by
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
are as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- ' 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48,_ Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland-street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John's-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside,
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee are deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three 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. D&NL. COOPER, Sec. ,
85, 9,ltemotreet Oheapside.

PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
NIESSRS. GABRIEL, DENTISTS (Established
1815), of
London 56, Harley-street, Cavendish-square,
64, Ludgate-hill, E.C.,
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 MODERATE ()Junoßs, which
may be had free by post for four stamps.

RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS BEFORE PARLIA
MENT.—Yesterday Mr. Palgrave, one of the examiners
upon standing order proofs of railway and other bills now
pending in Parliament, held a court in room 0 of the House
of Lords, and proceeded with the consideration of the op-
posed petition of the Metropolitan Street Tramways Bills,
the standing orders in which wore declared not to have
been complied with. The standing orders were declared
to have been complied with in the case of the unopposed
Crystal Balm) and soutlz London-Junction Itailwa7

AN AMEUICAN REVIEW ON 2HE BRI TISH

ARMY.

The Round Table has written an ar tide on the
British army—a subject, it asserts to be )2ot without
interest for the American people. If En glish news-
papers blunder egregiously about the Bri Itish army,
it is not likely that in an article on t his subject
an American paper will be free fr DM errors.
The Round Table is more accurate than 3 nost British
j )urnals iu its comments, yet it is not wh ally correct.
Indeed, it is very unjust to the service oa India. It
truly remarks that " unfortunately for th e British
army the people at one time were especidly jealous
of its prominence—especially watchful of its in-
crease. But for this jealousy the Dulze of Welling-
ton would have so arranged the bar, acks of Great
Britain and Ireland th it every sol liar would have
had long era now not a palace for a dwelling
place certainly, but a home truly- comfortable in
comparison with the den in which he is now
too often quartered. To keep. the army as
much as possible out of sight; of the people,
the policy of the Iron Duke was to scatter regiments
in twos and threes over Great Britain, so that in
scarcely a barrack could be counted at one time
more than 2,000 men." Long before the Iron
Duke died, with the exception of the Guards,
scarcely an infantry regiment v. as to be found in
the island. There was a great artillery station
at Woolwich, a station for marines and depot for
Indian regiments at Chatham, a garriscircompria-
' ing a few battalions at Portsinouth','ind except an
isolated regiment here and there, not a uniform
was to be seen in England and Scotland. The
regiments oil home service were for the most part
massed in Ireland, where they were liked both for
the conviviality they introduced and the money they
circulated. But in England the hereditary dislike
of armies remained in full strength, and the militia
continued to be, as it now is, the only constitutional
force. , The war in the Crimea changed public feel-
ing ; and the necessity for a well-organized military
body being • generally recognized, there arose such
camps as Aldershott, Shorncliffe, and the Curragh.
It is no wonder that English newspapers should have
been ignorant of a service whose members were
scarcely everseenby the people and quartered in gar-
risons scattered over the world. To understand the
British army, it is necessary to know something of
Canada and South Africa, of the West Indics and
China, and, above all, of India. Lately, the British
soldier has become a more familiar animal to the
English citizen, but in spite of the penny papers,
to which the Round 7able alludes as disseminating
truthful information about India, it is clear that the
Round Table itself knows little about soldiering in
the East. " The farm labourer," it says, "knows at
last that glory in India means ten years'service where
the thermometer in the shade is at 120 degs. ;
that almost all the barracks in which he may
be stationed are abominably constructed, and
situated in the unhealthiest part of unhealthy dis-
tricts ; that discipline abroad is even more severe'
than that at home; that the Articles of War, when
construed by courts-martial at a distance of 10,000,
miles from London, will be found to be against him
in every time of trouble. He knows, too, that many
in India are driven to drink in order to blunt the
sense •that steals upon them of , their being utterly
forsaken and ruined for life. Barracks, loathsome
from the first through abounding discomfort, be-
come more and more so as the tedious months collie
and go. Amusements, there are none. Ordinary'
comfort, it is rarely known in India. The soldier
knows that the horses on the farm he left are better
housed thou he himself is abroad." If service in
India were.what the .Round Table represents it to be
the two years it considers ought to be made the limit,
Would indeed be sufficient for an abcide " in wretch-
edly built barra,cke, ao_ horribly eloiny and lone-
' gong:Mac-Me at.ldl4r --ratadsoa, -.iist..49.lpatioa_the
moment he is outside the gates." We dare say our
contemporary will be surprised when we state that
with the exception of the forts at Calcutta and
Madras, in each of which there is but a single Bri-
tish regiment—there are no gates to Indian bar-
racks. The reader, whose philanthropic imagina-
tion was horrified by the loathsome picture conjured
up in the Round Table, would be amazed if he stood
in Meerut, or Umballa, Lahore, or Kurrachee,
Poonah, or Bangalore, to see the ranges of magni-
ficent buildings stretching away for miles, provided
for the soldiers, all facing the open country. Gene-
rally these barracks stand in eschelon with a vast
cleared space in front, where the men may be
seen stripped to their shirts, engaged at
cricket, foot-ball, pony races, quoits, or
jerking a heavy leaden ball, a sport singularly
fascinating to the British soldier. Mixed with the
men at cricket, so as to be indistinguishable from
them, are sure to be several officers, every company
having its own club, in which the greatest effort is
made to attain pre-eminence. Those who enter the
buildings, after :passing a wide verandah, see a
suite of rooms, in dimensions far surpassing any
in Europe, all supplied in the hot weather with
tatties and punkahs. Generally each company
has its separate building, each squad its apart-
ment, and each sergeant his room. Behind these
ranges, at some little distance, are the cook-
houses, where the work is performed by natives,
under the superintendence of orderlies detached for
the day, and the meals are brought in by the ser-
vants attached to each company. In the same line
are numerous lavatories, and often with these is
connected a swimming bath, under cover, built of a
cement called ch un am, which bears a polish like
marble. Still further to the rear are skittle-alleys,
gymnasiums, racket, and fives courts. Added to
these is an extensive soldier's garden, where most
liberal ;prizes are awarded by the Government for
excellence in the cultivation of whatever the indivi-
duals taste may be, and where those who like the
work can raise a plentiful supply of flowers and
vegetables. Among the buildings are certain to be a
theatre and a library and coffee-room. Few arts
flourish more in India than the drama. The British
soldier delights in tragedy. To strut upon the stage
as Captain Kidd, loaded with pistols and daggers,
to discharge the former in every direction,
and to declaim in a style that soars into extrava-
gant rant, charms his vanity, and enables his
comrades to pronounce him the greatest of living
actors. A grenadier in his attempt to glide
' gracefully on the stage as a princess of overpower-
ing beauty, and make tender speeches in a voice re-
dolent of whiskers, moustache, and tobacco, may fur-
nish a caricature, but is not the less amusing on that
account. Burlesque is often admirably acted; and
as every battalion has a good band, music adds its
charms, and music of a high order, to the entertain-
ment. In the reading and coffee rooms, chess and
backgammon are played, and not unfrequently a
billiard-table is there to be found. The thermometer
in the shade at 120 degrees is a thing unknown, at
these, the great stations of the British army in
India. Our contemporary is not aware that
the mass of the battalions are quartered to
the north-west of Meerut, which gradually in win-
ter becomes colder and colder till Peshawur is
reached, opposite which is the fatal Kyber Pass,
where an Indian army once perished from cold.
It is the custom in the winter months to gather on
the spot the supply of ice required for the summer.
This is done by placing water in innumerable shal-
low earthen saucers, where it freezes during the
night, and is packed in the ice-house at dawn.
From Luckcow to the end of the great military
line, the glittering snows of the Himmalayeh forms
a part of the landscape of almost every station.
Out of each regiment at the commencement of the
hot season a number is selected of those who have
suffered from the heat to be sent to depots formed on
the peaks of these mountains. The Indian Govern-
ment has gone to enormous expense in constructing
roads and building barracks at Darjeeling, Dalhousie,
Landour, Kussowlie, and Murree, besides regular
barracks for whole regiments at Dugshai, Kussow-
lie, and Subathoo. In the Madras Presidency there

are the stations of Ootacamund and Jugpartulla,
on the Neilgherries, and in Bombay, Marbuleshawar
and Mount Aboo. In the canteens, even at the
peaks of these hills, Bass or Allsopp's beer is sup-
plied to the troops, the main portion of the expense
being borne by Government. When a regiment re-
turns to England, the men are generally allowed to
volunteer to remain in other battalions, and
large numbers avail themselves of this privi-
lege in spite of the strong inducement after a
few years' service always contained in the word
home. Those who know the efforts of the British
Government in India to benefit the soldier could
not be guilty of the injustice of describing the
work in the words of the Round Table. We do
not hesitate to state that in no other country on
earth is there anything like the degree of govern-
mental solicitude for the welfare of the employed, as
is bestowed on the English army in India. They
inhabit the finest barracks ever constructed ;
they are fed, clothed, nursed in hospital, and
amused as no other troops can even hope for, and
provision is made for the care and instruction of
their children. Such stations as Calcutta and
Bombay cannot be taken as samples of Indian
Cantonments, being used merely as points of
arrival and departure. The Round Table is
more just in its description of the army in
England. Regiments arriving from abroad are, as
a rule, ordered to Plymouth, Portsmouth, or Dover,
where they stay a year before they, proceed to
Aldershott. Although','the foliowini,r-assertion is
too sweeping, it is not without a basis of truth :
" The commander-in-chief is evidently afraid of
making the army too comfortable. In considering
the case of the -private soldier, the Duke regards
justice as a privilege, ordinary comfort as an em-
barrassing luxury, and the slightest relaxation as a
stride on the road to revolution." No doubt great
concessions in noway of liberty could with advan-
tage be made to the soldier. The strict roll-calls
for breakfast and dinner, and at tattoo, might well
be dispensed with. The ridiculous regulation
that a man found a mile away from his
barrack might be arrested as a deserter, although
obsolete, is a proof of the absurd principles on which
the regulations were formed. The Round Table con-
siders the severe plainness of the dress as a chief
difficulty in the way of recruiting. " Formerly the
style of dress displayed the figure of the soldier to
advantage, but-the cloth was bad. Now the cloth
is better in quality, but the style of dress is such as
to make handsome men look awkward and clumsy,
and men of ordinary appearance seem very ordinary
indeed." We do not agree in this with the Round
Table, as we think the present style a vast improve-
ment on that of olden days. Comfort and con=
venience haverilainly been sought in the alterations ;.
the clothes are better cut, the cloth is superior in.
quality, though still bad, and we consider that the
appearance is• far from what the Round Table calls
it, " hideous ;" and it certainly is not " repulsive ".
or " uncomfortable."—Anglo-American Times.