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THE PRESS. OCTOBER 23, 1858. ARMY CONTRACTS FOR BREAD, MEAT, AND FORAGE. WAI: OFFICE. Pall-mall, London, S.W., 16th October, 18113. VOTICE is hereby given, that the Secretary of State for War will be prepared to enter into CONTRACTS in the ensuing Month for such quantities of BREAD, BEST SECONDS, MEAT, FORAGE, as may be required for her Majesty's Land Forces in Quarters • Barracks, or Hospitals, for Six Months from the let of 1)e cember next. The Contracts will be made for the Counties in England subject to certain modifications, hereafter detailed, for Wales, for North Britain, the Isle of Mau, and the Channel Islands. The exceptions to the County Contracts, will be as follows: Special Contracts will he required for tbe Troops at Aldershot, Plymouth, Devonport, Portsmouth, Chatham, Gosport, and Woolwich. Middlesex will be divided into Six Contracts. Purfleet will be included with the Tower, and Tilbury Fort with Kent. Scotland will be divided into Four Contracts. Printed Forms of Tenders, with the Conditions of the several Contracts, may be obtained on application to the Director of Contracts, at this Office, on or after the let of November next. All proposals to contract must be made on the printed form of Tender, which should be properly filled up, signed, sealed, and marked on the outside "'render for Army Suppl.es," and de livered at this Office on or before the 16th of November next, after which no Tender will be received. THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. FAREWELL SEASON of Mr. CHARLES KHAN as - .I4ANAO bit. On MONDAv and during the Week. will he presented Shakespeare's Histories' Trsgety of KlNti JOHN. King John, Mr. C. Keau : Constance, Mre. C. Keen. Prece•led by the Faroe of AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. On Monday, Nov, 1, Shakespeare's Tragedy of MACBETH will be revived. JIILLIEN'S CONCERTS.- ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. M.JULTJEN'STWENTIKTH and LAST ANNUAL SERIES of CONCERTS will eointnenee on the tat of November, continue for One Mouth, and will be given as JULLIEN'S FARR. WELL and " CONCERTS D'ADIEU." The full Prospectus is now published. All communications to be addressed to Mona. Amides, 214, Regent•atreet, W. CRYSTAL PALACE. ciiRYSANTHF.TdUbt SHOW. The FIRST GRAND KXHIRITTON of CHRYSANTHE• MUMS will be held on SATURDAY, the Bth, end MONDAY, the Bth of November next. On Saturday, Doors open at Twelve o'clock. Admission, 26.6 d. Children, One Shilling. On Monday. Doors open at Nine o'clock. Admission, One Shilling; Children, Sixpence. Season Tickets, Half-a-Guinea each, availuble for this Show, and on every occasion to 311th of April, 1659, may now be had. N.B. Schedules of Prizes troy be had on implication to the Secretary. GEORGE. GROVE, Secretary. Crystal Palace, Oct., 1858. QYDENHAM TOP-COAT, 425., for hard wear A.) during throe Winters. SAMUEL, BROTHERS, 29, Ludgate•hill. SY DENHAM TROUSERS,I7s. i:d.—A new and entirely unique pure wollen fabric, of very superior texture, is now applied to the Bydenham Trousers. Samuel, Brothers, 29, Ludgate•hill. SYDENHAM BUSINESS SUIT, complete for s;lit., the whole of the best material and workmanship. comprising Trousers, 17s. 6d.; Westcoat, As, Gd. ; and Coat, ;Ms. Samuel, Brothers, 29. Ludgate•bill. MYDENHAM TRAVELLING SUIT, complete for 425. SAMUEL, BROTHERS, 29. Ludgate.bill. FURNISH YOUR HOUSE WITH THE BEST ARTICLES DEANE'S, ESTABLISHED A.D. 1700. DEANE'S TABLE CUTLERY has been celebrated for more than 150 years for quality and cheapness. The Stock is extensive and complete, affording a choice suited to the taste end means of every purchaser. PRICES. Best Transparent Ivory-handled Knives— Per doz. Per doz. Per pair. Table Knives 34. 0 I Dessert ditto 244 0 Carvers .... 10 6 Beat ivory-handled Knives— Table Knives 29 0 I Dessert ditto 211 0 I Carvers .... 9 0 Fine Ivory•handled Knives— . _ . Table'Knives 23 0 I Dessert ditto 18 0 I Carvers .... 7 G Good Ivory-handled Knives— Table Knives 16 _O . l Dessert o ditto 12 . 0 I Carvers .... 5 6 Kitchen Knives and Fork's— Tabb Knives 10 0 I Dessert ditto 8 0 1 Carvers .... 2 6 Ladies' Scissors of the finest steel, the most finished work manship, and in choice variety. Scissors in handsome cases adapted for presents. Penknives and every description of Pocket Cutlery. lleane's Monument Razor has beeu 150 years before the public, and is a plain, thoroughly good old English Razor.— Price 2s. lid. ifOMES TIC BATHS. A large variety of Shower Baths of the most improved construction; also. Vapour, 11+p, Plunging, Sponging, Nursery, and every description or Baths for domestic use. Deane's Baths are distinguished for their superior finish, strength of material, sad goat durability; while the prices are on that low scale for which their Establishment has so long been celebrated. For Illustrations and Prices see their pamphlet on" Baths and Bathing," to be bad gratuitously, ou application. nRAWING-ROOM STOVES. 1.7 A large and handsome collection of bright stoves, for the drawing or dining room, embracing all the newest designs. Deane and Co. have applied to these and other classes of register stoves patented improvements, economising the con• gumption of fuel, for which the highest testimonials have been given. Hot-Mr stoves in new and ornamental patterns, with ascending for descending flues, suitable for cburches, public buildings, halls, shops, &c. ELECTRO-PLATE, comprising Tea & Coffee L'j Sets, in all the moat approved and elegant silver patterns, Lien.•nr-stands, Criets. Candlesticks, Cake-baskets, and every artlicle usually produced in silver. LONS and FORKS.—Silver-pattern Spoons and Forks.—All the newest and beat designs of these cheap, useful, Ind elegant articles in Xlectro Silvered and DeanemPlate. PRI JES OF ELM fRO.PLATKO SPOONS AND FORKS. Best. 2nd Quality. Table Forks per doz. 38s .. SI s Table Spoons 4os .. 334 Dessert Forks 41 Dessert Spoons It Tea Spoons Mustard and Salt, por pair, 3s. Sugar Bows, 3s Cd OPENING TO THE MONUMENT, LONDON BRIDGE, •»" Send for DEANE'S f4:71 LIST. FREE ON APPLICATION. THE SEVENTH YEAR. fiIHE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY, j. enrolled under 6 and 7 Will. IV., cap. 32, as the C unserva. Live Benefit Building Society —The Sixth Financial Year having been completed on the 29th of September, 1838, the NEW PROSPECTUS (explaining the mode of Investment in Shares and in the Deposit Department, and also the terms on which Loans and Building Advances, for short or long periods, will be granted) is NOW READY, and will be forwarded free of charge . to any part of the world. CHARLES LEWIS ORUNEISEN, Secretary. Offices, 33, Norfolk•street, Strand, London, W.C., October, 1858. THE most successful Article ever known in the growth, improvement, and in beautifying the human Hair Is ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL, proved beyond question by its results for more than half a century peat, and when other specifics have failed.--Sold by A. ROWLAND and SCNS, 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. VENDERS, STOVES, and FIRE IRONS. Buyers of the above are requested, before finally deciding, to visit WILLIAM S. BURTON'S SHOWROOMS. They contain such an assortment of Fenders, Stoves, Ranges, Fire Irons, and General Ironmongery, as cannot be approached elsewhere, either for variety, novelty, beauty of design, or exqui likeness of workmanship. Bright Stoves, with bronzed orna mentsand two sets of bars, 41. 14s. to 181.138.; ditto, with ormolu oniaments and two sets of bare, 51. ss. to 881. '-Os.; Bronzed Fenuere, with standards, from 7e. to 51. 12s. ; Steel Fenders from 21. 15s. to Ill.; ditto, with rich ormolu ornaments, from 21.155. to 181.; Fire-irons, from 18.9 d. the set to 41. 4s. The BURTON and all other PATENT STOVES, with ra diating hearth plates. BEDSTEADS, BATHS, AND LAMPS. WILLIAM S. BURTON has SIX LARGE SHOW ROOMS devoted exclusively to the Separate Display of Lamps, Baths, and Metallic Bedsteads. The stock of each is at once the largest, newest, and most varied ever submitted to the public, and marked at prices proporti 'nate with those that have tended to make his establishnseutthemost distinguished iu this country. Bedsteads from l2s 6d to 20105 each Shower-baths from Lamps (Moderateur) from Os 04 to 71 is each (All other kinds at the same rate ) Pure Colza Oil is 3d per gallon CUTLERY WARRAN TED.—The most vari e d Assortment of TABLE CUTLERY in the world, all war ranted,is on Sale at WILLIAM S. BURTON'S,at prices thatare remunerative only because of the largeness of the sales. 34-inch ivory-handled tableknives,with high shoulders, 125.6 d. per doz.; desserts to match, 10s.; if to balance,Bd.per dozen extra; car vers, 4s.3d.per pair; larger sizes,from 20s. to 275. 6d. perdozcn ; extra fine,ivory, 335. ; if with silver ferrules, 40s. to 505.; white bone table knives, Cs. per dozen ; desserts, 55.; carvers, 2s. 3d. per pair; black horn table knives, 7s. 4d. per dozen ; des. Bens, 65.; carvers, 2s. &I.; black wood-handled table knives and forks, Bs. per dozen; table steels, from is. each. The largest stock in existence of plated dessert knives and forks, in cases and otherwise, and of the new plated fish cervers. WILLIAM S. BURTON'S GENERAL FUR NISHING IRONMONGERY CATALOGUE may be bad gratis, and free by post. It contains upwards of 400 Illustra tions of his illimited Stock of Electro and Sheffield Plate, Nickel Silver and Britannia Metal Goods, Dish Covers and Hot water Dishes, Stoves, Fenders, Marble Mantelpieces, Kitchen Ranges, Lamps, Gaseliers, Tea Urns and Kettles, Tea Ttays, Clocks, Table Cutlery, Baths and Toilet Ware,Tumery, Iron and Brass Bedsteads, Bedding, Bed Hangings, 6:o. dc., with Lists of Prices, and Platte of the Sixteen large Show Roems at 39, Oxford-street, W.; 1, Ls, 2, and 3, Newman-street; and 4,5, and 6, Perrylpplace,Loudon. Established 1829. I ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE AND GUARANTEE COMPANY. Established Principal Office, 11, Waterloo•plece, Pall-mall, Loudon, sm. City Branch, d 3, filoorgate.street, E.C. DittEcroas. William Beattie, Esq., M.D. leorge Goldsmith Kirby, Esq. Capt. the Hon. b. T. Carnegie, James Nichols, Eeq. RN.. C.B. Rear-Admiral the Right Bon. Lieut.-Colonel Jas. Croudace, Lgrd George Paulet, C.D. lI.E .1 .C.S. Captain Thomas Porter, R.N. Swynfen Jervis, Esq. George Raymund, Esq. William King, Esq. Assurances, Annuities, and Endowments granted, and every other mode of provision for Families arranged. Half the Annual Premiums for the first tire years may remain on credit for any pet iod until death, on payment of interest at five per cent, per annum. Parties allowed to go to, or reside in, most parts of the world without extra premium. Naval and Military Lives, not in active service, assured at the ordinary rate. Policies forfeited by nonpayment of Premium, revivable at any time without Six Months, on satisfactory proof of health, and the payment of a trifling fine. No charge for Policy Stamps, Reverskaary Interests in every description of real or per sonal Property purchased. Security to Employers, Guarantee fur Fidelity in situations of Trust. Forms of Proposal, with every information, may be obtained et the Office of the Company, or by letter, addressed to HENRY WILLIAM SMITH, Actuary and 3ccretary, IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, 1, Old Broad-street, London : Instituted Id2o. DIRECTORS. MARTIN TUCKER SMITH, Esq., M.P., Chairman. GEORGE WILLIAM °OTTANI, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Thomas George Barclay Esq. George Hibbert, Esq. James C. C. Bell, Esq. Samuel Bibbed, Esq. • James Brand, Esq. Thomas Newman Hunt, Fag. Charles Cave, Esq. James Gordon Murdoch, Esq. George Henry Cutler, Esq. Frederick Pattison, Esq. Henry Davidson, Esq. William R. Robinson, Esq . George Field, Esq. Newman Smith, Esq. SECURITY.—The existing liabilities of the Company do not exceed 3.000,0001. The Investments are nearly 1,000,t0i1., in addition to upwards of 600,0001., for which the shareholders are responsible, and the income is about 120,0001. per annum. PROFlTS.—Four•fifths, or eighty per cent. of the profits, era assigned to Policies every fifth year. The next appropriation will be made in le6l, and persons who now effect insurances will participate rateably. BONUS.—The additions to Policies have been from it. 10s. to 631.165. per cent on the original sums insured. CLAlMS.—Upwards of 1,250,0001. has been paid to claimant under policies. Proposals for insurances may be male at the chief office, as above; at the branch office, 16, Pall Mall, London ; or to any of the agents throughout the Kingdom. SAMUEL I NGALL, Actuary. BANK OF DEPOSIT, Established A.D. 1e44. ii, PALTOMALL EAST, LONDON. Parties desirous of INVESTING MONEY are requested to examine the Plan of the Bank of Deposit, by which a high rate of interest may be obtained with ample security. Deposits ma.:e. by Special Agreement, may be withdrawn without notice. The Interest is payable in January and July. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. Forms for opening Accounts sent free on application. DAVIES'S CANDLES, Clid. and 7d per lb ; genuine Sperm, 2s. ; Transparent Was, 2s. 2d.; best Wax, 25.6 d.; fine British Wax or Sperm, Is. sed. ; German Was, Is. 30.; Botanic Wax, Is. Old.; Patent Wax or Sperm, Is. Old,. per lb. ; Composite, Sid., 91d., and 100.; Moulds, 81d.: Pal, mere Metallic, one or two wicks, 9d. ; Magnums, 90.; Yellow Soap, 595., 425., 465., and 00s. per 1121bs. ; old Brown Windsor le.9d. per packet; common Brown Windsor. Is.; Honey, 13.4 d.; White Windsor. ls.ed.; Rose, 25.; Almond, 2s. 63.; Colza Oil (a. 6d. per gallon ; French, 4s. ; genuine Sperm, Bs. 6d. for Cash, At M. P. DAVIES and SON'S, 69, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, Charing•cross, London. 1S C. pEAD'S APERITIVE FOUNTAIN, &c. — Il THE DOUBLE.ACTION FOUNTAIN, invented by B READ, produces a constant stream without the possibility of admitting air. It is acknowledged by the highest medical authorities in this kingdom, the Continents of Europe, India, and America, as the best instrument of the kind ever offered the public.— Vole the " Life of Sir Miley Cooper," rte.) CAUTION.—As instruments stated to be improvements on Read'e Patent are advertised and circulated throughout the country, please observe that Read's Instruments have tho Royal Arms and address, " 35, Regent's circus, Loudon." ••• De' scrlptions Post tree. DR. DE JONGIUS LIGHT-BROWN COD LIVER OIL, Prescribed by the most eminent Medicsl Nfen throughout U.S world as the safest, speediest, and most effectual remedy for CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, GOUT, RHEUMATISM , NEURALGIA, DISEASES OF THE SKIN, INFANTILE WASTING, RILRRTS, OUNERAL DEBILITY, AND ALL SCROFULOUS AFFECTIONS. OPINION OF THE LATE Dr. PEREIRA, P,R.S., Professor at the University of London, ,te. "Whether considered with reference to its colour, flavour, or chemical properties, I am satisfied that, for medictusl purposes, no finer Oil can be procured." Sold ONLY in lUPERIAT. HaltPlnts, 23. 61; Pints. 4s. 9d.; QUILT'S, 9a., espsuled, and labelled with DR. DE JONOH'S stamp and signature, WITHOUT WHICH NORM CAN POISIBLIC BB oimillism, by respsoisble Chemists. - SOLE BRITISH CONSIGNEES, ANSAR, HARFORD, and CO., 7 7 , STRAND , LONDON, W.O. .4. * Purchasers are earnestly cautioned against Fro Posed substitutions. CONTRACT FOR SMALL ARMS FOR HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE. THE SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is I. prepared to enter Into CONTRACTS for a supply of SMALL ARMS, complete for her Majesty's Service, consisting of ARTILLERY CARBINES, SAPPERS' OVAL-BORED CARBINES, And SHORT RIFLES. Forms of Tender, including the Specifications, can be ob tained on application to the Director of Contracts, at the War Office, Pall-mall, Loudon. Patterns can he inspected on application to the Inspector of Small Arms, at the " Tower," Bagoott street, Birmingham, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, in each week. An Officer of the Small Aims Department will attend on the above days at the " Tower," Baggott-street. Birmingham, in order to give full Information to any parties dealrons of tendering. The last day for receiving Tenders will be the Ist of Novem ber, DWI. Such Tenders to be addressed to the Director of Contracts, War Office, London, marked in the corner " Tender fur Anna." THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts. War Office, 16th October, DM.