The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-29 00:00:00

ARMY CONTRACTS.

Commissariat Office,
Aldershot, 2d September, 1863.
TENDERS will be received at this office, until
noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863,
from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for
the supply of
FORAGE.

in such quantities as may be required, from
Her
November,
1563, to 3'st October, 1865, for the use of
Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and withinr Majesty's
mand. the com-
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on application at this office, by letter or in person,
between the hours of ten and four o'clock.
The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and
delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the
outside " Tender for Forage"). and no Tender will be noticed
unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered
by the hour appointed.
HENRY B. MORSE,
Deputy Commissary-General.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
TENDERS will be received at this Office until
12 o'clock noon on the 3d of Oct ober, from persons who
may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply
FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW,
in such quantities ,s may be required, for the use of Her
Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places,
from 'st November, 1863, to 31st October, 1861 :
FORAGE.
1. Hyde-pa-k, Kensington, Regent's-park, and' Horse
Guards.
2. Hounslow and Kneller Halt
3. Hampton Court.
4. Windsor.
5. Brighton.
6. Sandhurst.
7. Enfield.
PAILLASSE. STRAW.
1. Brompton House. Ilyde-park, and Kensington.
2. Regent's-park, St. John's-wood, and Portman-street
.Barracks.
3. New Barracks, Chelsea.
4. Wellington and St. George's Barracks.
5. Thi, Tower.
6. Hounslow and Kneller
7. Hampton Court.
8. Windsor.
9. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore-
lam. .
10. Croydon.
Separate Tenders must be made for Forage and for Pail-
asse Straw for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Bar-
racks as Grouped and numbered.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on application at this office, by letter or in person,
between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock.
'Fenders on the printed limns must be properly filled up
and cf.:fled, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered
at the under-mentioned Ithee, under closed envelope (marked
on the outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies "), before
12 o'clock noon on the 3d October next.
W. 'l'.PComOraWE;s,4 (Sic.;ned)
Y-General
Deputy Commissary-General's Office,
5. New-Street, Spring -gardens.
London, S.W,, 10th Sept, 1883,

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXIIIBITED IN TDE GREAT
ExtirurrioNs OF 1851 AND 1882), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective
.nvention in the curative treatment of HEItN I A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects,
Is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
m co-Main pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
sent to the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228,

A Single Truss, 168., 218., 265. 6d., and 31s. Bd. Postage, ls.
A. Double Truss, 31s. 6c1., 428., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 428. and 528. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d.
post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
office, Piccadilly-
NEW PATENT

ELASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all oases of
Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &o. They are
porous, light ins texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn
ton
111 ean ordinary ocking. Price 4s. 6d., 75. 6d., 10s., o
ea:b. Postage 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228. Piccadilly.

KEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY-
ING POWDER, for which a Prize Medal was awarded
to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862,
This Powder is quite harmless to animal life, but is un-
rivalled in destroying Fleas, Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches,
Beetles, Gnats, Mosquitos, Moths in furs, and every other
species of Insect.
Sportsmen will find this an invaluable remedy for destroy-
ing Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies for their Pet Dogs.
Being the original importer of this now invaluable article,
which has found so great a sale that it has tempted others to
vend a so-called article, the public are therefore cautioned to
observe that the packets of the Genuine Powder bear the
autograph of THOMAS KEATING.
Sold in packets, ls., 2s. 6d., and 4s. 6d. each, or post free for
14 or 36 postage stamps, by Thomas Keating, chemist, 79, St.
Paul's-churchyard, London, E.C.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Fsq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DRPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
the beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
for which_ services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£lB,4Bcash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-carriages and Boat-houses.
Committee The —ommittee desire" to express their grateful sense of
the
generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and i's Crews practised in the management of their
boats, will q, can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
Committeef gratefultY acknowledge the following con-
tributions

Tier Majesty the Queen X 14. d
Campbell, the Tlon. Mrs. G. :: •• •• annual if' 0 0
Clerk. Colonel, R.A. .• .. • • •• annual 50 0
Coats and Co.,Messrs., Bankers .... ' • annual 11 0
Currie, Win. Esq., • • ..
.. . •
I,i‘daon. 25 0 0
annual 10 0 0
Erie, Lord Chief ustice „
.. -. 41h don.lo 0 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.G.B. •••• !_,17”. 10 10 0
• • • • .•
annual 2 0 0
Fenwiek, G. .1., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat. and
•• 250 0 0
.. •
.. don.
sporting Carriage . •
3 0 0
nhdon.lo 0 n
Moore, Rev. G. B. • • • . .. ~. dm. _
1- -
Martin,
iI 't
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Sirile vI. IGe
n. rGy G. .•
Smith, Dirs. George, Greenwich • . .. . 15 5 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. • • .. • 30 0
Thom t, s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her
Ladyship • • • • " • • • • • • 16 16 0
Willoughby, d'Eresby, Lord .. • . •• annual 50 0
Donations and Annual t'!,ubscriptions will be thankfully re-
, eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Banacrltl‘•lrs'
..
..
..
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. "terries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St,
James's-street, London ; by al the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the United Ring,dom ; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Inetitution, If,
John-street, Adelphl, Lonflcon, iv .C. :

The armour-plated screw frigate Caledonia (in-
tended to carry 35 guns), which has been in No. 3
dock at Woolwich since October last for the pur-
pose of being plated, was yesterday undocked. The
great accumulation of mud and refuse in the river
opposite the dockyard rendered this an operation of
great difficulty, as the draught of water of the ship
was 16 feet 6 inches forward, and 20 feet 6 inches
abaft. A slide of hard wood has been laid under
the keel of the ship, and powerful " purchases"
were attached to her sides and the falls brought
to the capstans, so that as much artificial strain
might be brought to bear on her removal as was
found necessary to lift her over the shallow shelf of
the basin, which it was expected she would barely
clear. Precisely at two o'clock the word was given
by Mr. Turner, the master shipwright of the yard,
who had charge of the arrangements on one side of
the dock, and Mr. Thornton on the other, when the
whole of the men at the capstans started to the
work, and the great ship, resembling a huge block
of shaped or carved iron, instantly moved. After
floating about 40 feet outwards, her sternpost caught
the mud in the bed of the river, and at this juncture
the towing hawser from the Sheerness tug snapped
like a piece of thread, and the vessel was brought
up. However, by dint of unusual exertions
she was again moved astern through the
mud, and was taken in tow by the Bustler,
Adder, and Sheerness tugs, and was removed to
temporary moorings down the river, to await the
early morning's tide. She will this morning go up
to the Victoria docks, and be placed under the
shears to receive her boilers and machinery of 1,000
horse power, to be supplied by Messrs. Maudslay.
The armour plates, consisting of 41 inch rolled
plates, from Messrs. Brown and Co. of Sheffield,
and Messrs Beale of Rotherham, have been all bent
to the form and fitted in their places with the most
admirable nicety by the shipwrights, without a
single accident or mishap. The smoothness of sur-
face and finish are deserving of great praise, more
especially when it is remembered that the armour
casing of the ship has been accomplished by ship-
wrights only, who till quite recently were utterly
unaccustomed to work on iron.

Her Majesty's 6.gun paddle sloop Hydra, ordered

:o replace the surveying ship Medina in the Med

terranean, was yesterday taken ont of the fitting
basin at Woolwich and moored in the river to be
completed ; and the 5-gun vessel Speedwell, Com-
mander Cottam, commissioned for service on the
West Coast of Africa, was yesterday unlocked and
was made fast alongside the receiving hulk for the
transfer of her crew.

The iron frigate Tamar, 3, 500-horse power, fit-
ting at Sheerness for commission, =has completed
coaling, and is being pushed forward as rapidly as
possible in her fittings, &c. There is still a great
amount of work remaining to be executed on board
before she is fit for sea.

The Salamander, 6, paddlewheel steamer, has
been fitted with her engines and boilers in the great
basin, Chatham, and on Saturday steam was got
up on board for the first trial of her machinery,
which was found to work very satisfactorily. She
is intended for immediate commission.

The paddlewheel steamer Rhadamanthus, 4, 220-
horse power, Master C')mmander G. Raymond, is
being fitted with new boilers and having some tri-
fling defects to her hull made good.
The following screw gunboats, attached to the

three divisions of the steam reserve at Chatham, are
ordered to be sent round from that port to Deptford
dockyard, where they are to be broken up by the
artificers at that establishment—viz., the Fidget, 2,
20-horse power; the Dwarf, 2, 20-horse power ;
the Manly, 2, 60-horse power ; the Spey, 2, 60-horse
power; the Thistle, 2, 60-horse power; the Mastiff,
2, 60-horse power; and the Tickler, 2, 60-horse
power. The high-pressure engines and machinery
with which they are fitted are, if arrangements to
that effect can be carried out, to be removed from
each vessel before it is sent to Deptford. The follow-
ing will be the only gunboats remaining in the
Medway after the above are removed to Deptford,
viz., the Carnation, the Sepoy, the Spanker, the
Erne, and the Bullfrog, all of which are attached
to the first division of the Steam Reserve, and are
fitted with condensing engines ; the Louisa, also
fitted with condensers ; the Thrasher, which is now
being fitted as a tender to the Cumberland, 74, Capt.
Hall, C. 8., guardship of the Steam Reserve, and the
new gunboats Wizard, Linnet, and Pigeon. The
whole of the gunboats directed to be broken up were
originally ordered to be sold, but the terms offered
for them were not deemed satisfactory by the Lords
of the Admiralty.
A notification has been received at Chatham that
the paddlewheel steamer Cycloin, 6, 1,195 tons,
320. horse power, the Phoenix, 6, 809 tons, 260-
horse power screw sloop, and the screw ganvessel
Victor, 6, 859 tons, 350-horse power, belonging to
the steam reserve, have been disposed of by the
Admiralty to Mr. Gibson, of London, with their
engines, machinery, and the whole of their gear
complete, and their names will consequently disap-
pear from the new Navy List. The Victor is to be
docked in one of the vacant docks, in orler to have
her hull examined before being taken away at the
expense of the purchaser.
The Cumberland, 74, Capt. W. K. Hall, C. 8.,
guardship of the Chatham steam reserve, has taken
up her former moorings at the entrance to the har-
bour, having been removed from the steam basin,
where she had her jury lower masts taken out, and
heavier spars put on board, to adapt her for mut-
ing the smaller descriptions of vessels of war, ac-
cording to a plan submitted to the Admiralty by
Captain Hall.
The Duke of Somerset returned to his official re-
sidence at the Admiralty yesterday evening from
Maiden Bradley, the family seat, in Wilts.
The following appointments were made yesterday

at the Admiralty :—W. Wright has been nominated
to a naval cadetship ; J. L. Rastrick, of the Mi-
randa, promoted to acting first-class assist.-engi-
neer; and W. Stratton, assist: engineer, to the
Scylla.