The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-30 00:00:00

Queenstown and

Kinsale
Rathmullen
Valentia
Waterford
Westport

Foynes
11E11 Cove (Bare-I •
Galway haven)
N.B.—The Contractors are to supply good, fat, well-fed
Ox Beef, as NO HEEFER MEAT will be admitted.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders. _
__ _

Particular attention is called to the revised conditions
of the Sheerness Contract, which is to include supplies to
all ships and vessels between Chatham and the Great
Nore, both inclusive; also the Naval Barracks at Sheer-
ness.

Parties Tendering for Portsmouth, Plymouth, and
Sheerness, are to specify in their Tenders a rate per 100
lbs. for live Oxen, delivered in the usual manner; and also
a rate per 100 lbs. for fresh Ox Beef, delivered in the car-
case, should the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
think proper to demand the Beef to be delivered in the car-
case, instead of live Oxen, during any period off the con-
tract ; and no attention will be paid to any offers not so
made.
Separate Tenders must be made for each Port, and at a
rate per 1001bs., and no attention will be paid to any offers
not so made. Contractors, in -claiming payment for the
supplies of Beef, aro to make out their Invoices in Pounds
at per 1001bs.
The Cattle for Falmouth to be slaughtered on the spot,
and the Cattle for Portland to be slaughtered not farther
from that port than Weymouth ; the Contractors for
Portland and Dartmouth are also to deliver the Merl on
board ll.M.'s.'ships and vessels.
The Contractor for Gravesend is to be a resident there.
The Contractor for Portland and Weymouth is to re-
side at Weymouth.
The Contractor for any of the other places is to reside
on the spot, or to have an Agent resident there, whose
name and address must be given on the Tender.
No tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of Treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the
printed form provided for the purpose ; but it will not be
necessary that the party tendering or an agent appointed
by him should attend at this Office, as the result of tile
offer received from each person will bo communicated to
him and to his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be delivered at the Department of
the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House,
and signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become
bound with the person tendering in the sum of £1,500 for
the due performance of each of the Contracts for Sheer-
ness, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Queenstown and
Kinsale ; and in the burn of £3OO for each of the other
Contracts.
Conditions of the Contracts may be seen in the Lobby
of the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admi-
ralty, Somerset House, W.O. ; or by applying to the Super-
intendents of the Victualling Establishments at Deptford,
Gosport, and Plymouth ; the Superintendents of her Ma-
je. sty's Dockyards at Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, and
Pembroke ; the Agent for the Victualling at Haulbowline ;
the Officers conducting the Packet Service at Dover, Liver-
pool, and Southampton ; the Secretary to the Postmaster-
General, Dublin ; to the Collectors of her Majesty's Cus-
toms at
Aberdeen
Belfast
Berwick
Cowes
Dartmouth
Falmouth
Fleetwood
Fowey
Galway
And to the poste
Forms of Tender
at the Lobby of th
the proper officer al
The Contractors
on their Contracts
By Order,
Regis

Scilly
Shields
Swansea
Waterford
Westport
Wexford
Weymouth
Yarmouth

Greenock
Harwich
Hull
Jersey & Guernsey
Londonderry (for
Lough Foyle)
Newhaven
Penzance
Ramsgate
nasters at each of the other places.
may also be obtained on a?plication
e Department above mentioned, or to
t either of the above places.
to pay half the amount of the Stamps
and Bonds.

ANTONIO BRADY,
,mr of Contracts and Public Securities.

CONTRACTS FOR VEGETABLES.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 2d May, 1868.
ripHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
A. the OFFICE of LORD lIIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do heroby give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
Ist June next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will be
ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to
CONTRACT for supplying all such quantities of
VEGETABLES

as may be demanded for the use of her Majesty's Ships and
Vessels at the following places. from the Ist July, 1868,
to the 31st March, 1871, both days included, viz.:
ENGLAND.

Fleetwood I Newhaven
Fowey Netley
Lymington Scilly
SCOTLAND.
Aberdeen Ardrishaig
IRELAND.
Buncrana (Lough S willy) Killibegs,
Separate Tenders must be made for each port, and at a
rate per 100 lbs. instead of at par cwt., and no attention
will be paid to any offers not so made. Contractors in
claiming payment for Vegetables supplied aro to make
out their Invoices in pounds at per 100 pounds.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of sAeetion in accepting
the Tenders. _ _ _

Torquay
Wiveuhoo

Forms of Tender may be obtained, and particular atten-
tion is called to the Conditions of the Contracts, which
may be seen at the Lobby of the, Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House ; or by
applying to the Collector of Customs at Aberdeen, Fleet-
wood, Fowey, Newhaven, Scilly, or to the Postmaster at
each of the other place
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the
printed form provided for the purpose ; but it will not be
necessary that the party tendering, or an agent appointed
by him, should attend at this office, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and his proposed sureties in writing-
Every Tender must he delivered to the Department of
the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House,
and signed by two responsible persons, engaging to be-
come bound with the person tendering in the sum of
£lOO for each of the Contracts. _ _ _

The Contractors to pay half the amount of the Stamps
on their Contracts and Bonds.

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

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MIPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS-IAsT EVENING.

' The Low) aI4NCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
shortly before four o'clock.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

The Royal consent was given by commission to a num-
ber of public and private bills. The members of the Royal
commission were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Cado-
gan, and the Earl of Devon. The business of the house
was postponed until 5 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time :—Norwich
Union Life Insurance, Cork Gas, Cork Improvement,
Hrf Bill, Midland Railway, Merthyr
Stipendiary
Borough
i Magistrates Bill,
The Chairman of Committees moved that the time for
depositing petitions to be heard against private bills,
which would otherwise expire during the adjournment of
the house, be extended to Monday ne-xt.
RELIGIOUS TESTS.

The Earl of KEeIBERLEY presented petitions from the
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge against the impo-
sition of religious tests in those Universities. A groat
many of the colleges had subscribed to this petition.
There were only six colleges where there was a majority
against it. In some it was almost unanimous, in others
there was a majority of two-thirds. It was considered
a great hardship that in the Universities no
England.
personunless
co u
he could
bcomse a onemember
o f the government of the col-
legese wa
He could understand such a regulation if members of other
denominations were excluded altogether, but it appeared
become
of
the
Church
of
very arbitrary when they formed a portion of the consti-
tuent body. He had brought forward last session a bill,
which he was sorry to say was rejected, in which
he suggested that the restriction as to the tests in
the universities should be abolished, and, considering the
gieat number of the middle classes who would be ex-
cluded if it were not so, and who wore not members of the
Church of England, it would bo considered highly desir-
able. The religious instruction was really so little that
while he was a member of the great College of Christ-
church, all they had to de was to get up a short lesson in
the Greek Testament, and learn by heart the 39 Articles,
and then they were left to themselves.
Lord HOUGHTON said he hopod that the business of
the Session would not prevent a bill which was already
before the other house being brought before them before
long.
The Earl of CARNAIWON said that since he sat in
their lordships' house three distinct phases had been in-
troduced as to this question of University tests. He con -
sidered that it was an attempt to lower the Government
standard of tho universities, but never to effect that to
the utmost extent. It was an. attempt to hand young men
over at the age of 17, 18, and 19 to a system
where no religious securities would surround them.
It was much the same if yen removed the educational
Muria's, and to that rfery one would object 6a 031.abour-

dity. By such a removal he did not think that anything
beneficial would accrue. It would not be the right use Of the
moral power entrusted to the University. The religious
teaching might be very small, and some persons ear-
ned it farther and said that it .was only a
sceptical teaching. Ire denied in the first . ktistance
the fact, but even if it were so it was no argument why
the whole machinery should b 3 destroyed bee tdse
of this scepticism. When the sea went down
the great landmarks would reappear, and so it
would ix, when scepticism passed away. 'I he ques-
tion bad reached this pass, it was Ivit ther you in-
tended to remove all religions t3sts whatever; but for this
lie contended that the Um) had not yet arrived.

The Duke of DEVONSUIRE sad ho would make a
few remarks Lpon what was the state of the feeling of
the University of °Ambridge oa the subj Jct. 11, con-
sidered that there was a gradual' g,-owing
feeling that these tests should b 3 alielished. The
petition was signed by almost all the distiug ishKl body
of the members of the University.
Afw a few svor.ls from .Lord CAMPERDOWN and the
Bishop of Loxims, the discusAon terminatol
STATE OF PUBLIC BUSINESS.

Lord MALMESBURY having moved the adjournment
of the house till the Bth of June,
Lord RUSSELL rose to call attention to the state of
public affairs, and, after reciting the events which fol-
lowed upon the vote of the House of Commons respecting
the Irish Church, declared it was extraordinary and un-
precedented that a Minister, bin; in a minority in the
House of Commonsohouldretuain inpower for-six.mouths
after advising the Crown to dis3olve Parliament. He
admitted that the course pursued was convenient to the
Government and to the mornbers of the House of Com-
mons, but he imputed to the Government a desire to
protract the Reform discussions, which had needlessly
prolonged the present session. He sought from the
Government an assurance that measures would be
taken to expedite the Registration, and urged more rapid
progress witlythe Irish and Scotch Reform Bills and with
the Boundary Bill. It was also desirable, he urged, that
the Government should,. on its appeal to the country, de-
clare what were the principles upon which it relied for
public approval, specially referring to the questions of
odue4tion and.the state of Ireland, upon which no definite
policy has as yet been propounded. Quoting the Hyde
Park riots and the Manchester rescue as evidences of the
Government to preserve peace and maintain order, Lord
Russell reverted to the adverse majority of the House of
Commons, and asked whether the Government admitted
as a constitutional principle that it was wrong to hold
officecomn,on:iwits.hout possessing the confidence of the House of
Lord MALMESBURY admitted the constitutional prin-
ciple, but denied that it was proved the present Govern-
ment did not possess the confidence of the House of. Com-
mons merely because it was not supported upon ono ques-
tion by a majOrity: The test of a motion of want of con-
fidence had not been applied, and therefore it was reason-
able to assume that for the conduct of the general business
of the country the Government did possess the confidence
of Parliament. He attributed the backward condition of
Parliamentary business to the unnecessary introduction of
the question fold the Irish Church, to the destruction of
which he declared himself a determined opponent, and
concluded by stating that the Government were as anxious
for a dissolution as any of their opponents could be.
The house then adjourned until Monday, June 8.