The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-11 00:00:00

JOHN WHITE, Manufactttror, 228. Piccadilly.

ARMY CONT RACTS.
Commissariat Office
Aldershot, 2d September,, 1863.
TENDERS will he 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 Ist November,
1863, to 31st October, 1861, for the use of Her Majesty's
Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com-
mand.

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.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co., bankers, London,
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their ski and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT —7
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONEss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F,R.S.
CDAIRmAN—Thos. Baring, Esq„ M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPuTT-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
he 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, nnd other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,(00 on Lae-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-carriages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
rests on
1' ,
ow; gernestly
the generous support which they have received from the
Bdtish 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, hoyieyer, of the great responsibility that
them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
t Crews practised
alpnpetahle management
00
ft their
their
, „1.,0, can only be effected by p, large and permanent
them hi upholding' and p,.,rpctuating, ao
to aid,,
al _
woor
d truly nation *,, .
great an t ratefuily Aulmowledge the fll
coabnouanntusta,rcinnlceonnu ,
con-
The Commit ee g • 0 owing
tributionst—
.Z, s. d
tier Majesty the Queen G • • • • .. annual 50 c 0
G.
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:. :: annualttn nal 61
4)1
00
Campbell,
Clerk,
Colonel,the lcon.t. A .
.. •• , • 4th don.lo 0 0
Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers' .‘ ~ annual 10 0 0
Currie, Wm., .I::sq., • •
Mrs...
• don 10 10 0
Erie, Lord Cief Justice
Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of aand IPails haw e G.
Vice-Admiral
Lifeboat, K :C, B. ... ..72:dniindduPonani.. 21'
2: t /00
000-
• • • • ~ 250 0 0
Tran-
sporting Carriage • • • •
.. .. don. 3 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs.
Martin, Sir Henry, art. • , • •
.. don. 15 15 0
Moore,
v Stirling,m°Dizi°oreohngiip3lbysy: Col. Gde rS,liorßrr
ell
be. Anthony, tyn; Greenwichoi n.
..oy Lord
dl i..e • B ' I.' ::. , . • • 30 0
Thom. a, Lady, Weston-super r-Mare, collected by her
Pe .. • • 16 0
Ladyship
~ annual 5 0 0
•eived by the Eapirers of the Institution,
Messrs. Willis,
and Asine,sntu.raszl. Sirmuebhrrisacrriedvp:sttiroenest:
oc. ,
Customs
mS ts.
CO., 59, Str"and;
Percival, and Co, '',l
James's-street, London ,• by ail tFhaerce obllaecr.toarnsdoCf
13111ebses rtsb.aCtiolUbt tlBl7 ande-
and Banice*s in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis. Esa
„ at the Office of the Institution, 11,
09124-,fitregt;•4o9 lqgdon, W.C,.;