The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-03 00:00:00

Drafts ef the onntract, with plans and specifications, will be ready
br inspection on and after the 28th instant, at Use offices of the En-
gineers-in-Chief, Store-street, Manchester.
Printed forms of tender may be had at the Engineers' office ; and
all tenders must be lodged previously to the hour of meeting, at the
Company's office, in Bond-street, Manchester, endorsed " Tender
for Works ;" and no tender, except the printed form furnished by the
Company, will be attended to.
The party whose tender is accepted will be required to enter into
a liond, with two sureties, for the due performance of the contract,
to the extent of 10 per cent. on the gross amount of such contract ;
and the name. and descriptions of the proposed sureties must be set
forth in the tender.

The Directorswill not consider themselves bound to accept the
owest tenths.; and they expect the several parties tendering, or
persons duly authorised by them, to be in attendance at the offices
a Boad-street, Manchester, at the time of meeting.
(Signed) THOMAS ASHTON, Chairmaa.
Manchester and Birmingham Railway Office,
V. Bond-street, Manchester.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Horses u well as Carriages are now conveyed by the Rail-
gray betwen Paddington and Maidenhead.
In addition to the usual Trains to Maidenhead, calling at Slough,
SHORT TRAINS will run daily ( Sunday's excepted)
TO WIST DRAYTON, mem WIST DRAYT•N.
Calling at Ealing and Hanwell, Calling at Hanwell and Ealing,
*l4 past Nine o'clock, morning, * 1 before Eight o'clock, morning
past One, afternoon, 14 before Eleven, ditto.
past Four, evening. 4 before Three evening.
past Eight, ditto. * 4 before Seven, ditto.
Those marked ' are the only short trains which run on Sundays.
The faros by omnibuses are reduced to 6d.

MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY.
CALL for an EIGHTH INSTALMENT of 101. per
SHARE, making 601. per Share called up.
Office, High-street, Leicester, Dec. 26, 1838.
The DIRECTORS of the MIDLAND COUNTIES RAIL-
WAY COMPANY having, in pursuance of the provisions of the
Act of Incorporation, passed a resolution, calling for an Eighth In-
stalment of 101. per Share, to be payable on or before the 21st day
of January next, the Proprietors are required, in conformity with
such resolution, to pay the sum due on their Shares to one of the
following Bankers :
London ...London and Westminster Bank
Liverpool.. The Bank of Liverpool
/llanchester The Bank of Manchester
Birmingham The Birmingham Banking Company
Leicester The Leicestershire Banking Company
Nottingham Messrs. I. and I. C. Wright and Co.
Derby ...Messrs. Crompton. Newton, and Co.
Loughborough—Messrs. Thorp, Middleton, and Oliver.
Should the call remain unpaid after the appointed day, the
Bankers have been severally required to demand interest thereon,
after the rate of five per cent. per annum from the 21st day of
January to the day on which the payment shall be actually made.
By order,

J. F. BELL Secretary,

THE METROPOLITAN BANK.
CAPITAL, ONE MILLION.
In Forty Thousand Shares of Twenty-five Pounds each.
Deposit 21. IN. per Share.
TR USTEES.
Major-General Henry Wyndham.
Charles Pelham Villiers, Esq., M.P.
John Ellis, Esq., M.P.
DIRECTORS.
CHAiamax—The Right Honourable Thomas P. Courtenay.
DEPUTY CH AIRMA N—John Ellis, Esq., M.P.
Henry Jelf Sharp, Esq. Charles Waite, Esq.
R. W. S. Lutwidge, Esq. Edward Winslow, Esq.
Joseph Wooler, Esq. Vernon Abbot, Esq.
Charles Francis, Esq. John Baines, Esq.
T. C. Granger, Esq. John Dangerfield, Esq.
With power to add to their number.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Murrays and Rymer, 59, Chancery-lane, London.
Messrs. Hope and Oliphant, 10, Rutland-square, Edinburgh.
This is a Bank of Discount and Deposit, at which every descrip-
tion of Banking business and Money Agency will be transacted.
Interest will be allowed on current accounts.
Deposit receipts will be given for sums left for a term ; the rate
of interest, and notice of withdrawal, to be the subject of special
agreement.
Cash credits, upon approved security, will be granted in sums of
1001. and upwards, in the discretion of the Directors.
The services of a Gentleman, possessing great practical know-
ledge in the operations and principles of Private and Joint Stock
Banking, have been secured as Manager.
Applications for Shares (post paid) may be made to the Direc-
tors, at the offices of the Solicitors, of whom Prospectuses may be
had.

JOHN MURRAY, Hon. Sec.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' AND
GENERAL FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
ADELAIDE-PLACE, LONDON-BRIDGE;
. GEORGE-STREET, EDINBURGH;
OLDHAM-STREET, MANCHESTER ;
And WASON'S-BUILDINGS, LIVERPOOL.
(EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.)

DIRECTORS.
CHARLES BLEADEN, Esq., Chairman.
THOMAS POWELL, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Sir John Cowan, Bart. John Harman, Esq.
Stephen Child, Esq. Henry Jackson, Esq.
Andrew Clark, Esq. William Knott, Esq.
Charles Elley, Esq. John Lund, Esq.
Francis Fuller, Esq. Robert Main, Esq.
William Fleat, Esq. S. J. Waley, Esq.
William Game, Esq. Joseph Wood, Esq.
DIRECTORS CHOSEN IT THE COMMITTIsz.
Mr. Benjamin Bingley. Mr. Joseph Morgu.
Mr. John Lloyd. I Mr. Thomas Osborn.
ACTUARY—Mr. J. T. Clement.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Direetors beg to remind their friends whose premiums be-
some dee at Christmas, that no extra charge is made at this office
for the transfer of policies, mid that they will be rated en terms
which are peculiarly favourable to parties insuring.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
While this Society enables a person to provide for his family after
his death, it also affords the power of making provision for himself
during life, by granting annuities, either immediate, deferred, er
survivorship.
Every member assured for the whole term of life, whose policy
shall have existed three years, will be entitled to a propel-timid
share of the quinquennial profits, which may be applied either by
additions is their reAtective policies, or in reduction if the pre-
miums thereafter to become payable.
Assurers may pay their premiums in any way meet suitable is
their circumstances, either quarterly, half-yearly, or' annually.
N-B.—A Committee of Directors. attended by a medical officer,
sit at the Company's house every Tuesday, from Twelve to Two
•'clock, to grant Assurances, but ens Director is daily in attend-
ance to render every facility to these to whom despatch may be an
*act.

39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.
SIGHT AND HEARING.
TESTIMONIALS on the Messrs. S. and B.
SOLOMONS' Newly Invented SPECTACLE LENSES
and VOICE CONDUCTOR for Deaf Persons.
From James Blundell, Esq., M.D.
" I have now tried for some time the Messrs. Solomons' newly
invented Spectacle Lenses, and have experienced much benefit ;
they are far preferable to my vision than any other lens ; the relief
is very great, in particular by candle light, end in course of use for
a length of time the clearness of the transparency brings every object
Very distinct ; they can be fully appreciated only by those who, like
myself, may stand in need of them.
" JAMES BLUNDELL, M.D.
" No. 1, Great George-street, Westminster."
'We, the undersigned, have been making use of the Messrs. So-
lozons' newly invented Spectacle Lenses ; the comfort they afford
t,,cdefes,:tive vision gives them the decided preference to every other
o od, Thomas
Esq., J
kind of lens, we agree in everyview
point of in the above state-
lalent--Johu Elliotson, Esq., F. R.S., Conduit
t street
Pettigrew, Esq., F. R. S., Saville-row ; Geo. G. sgn ;n
24, Dovr-street • Robert Noble, Esq., Surgeon, 36, Albe-
Inarle-street ; W. Jones,' Esq., Surgeon to the Infirmary, 15,
Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square; William English, Esq.,
-Surgeon, Denmark-hill ' • Thomas Griffiths, Esq., Surgeon, Haem:
12n.,.ersmith ; H. Colbourn, Esq., M.D., 28, Harleyford-place,
Kn
itlgton ; T. Day, Surgeon, Isleworth.
in placing these Testimonials before the public, the Messrs.
r4k rnons feel desirous to state that their Voice Conductor, for
af parsons ,is so small it fits into the cavity of the. ear, not the
heardepb, and the faintest whisper at a public. assembly is
tr with distinctness. These important new inventions are pa-
ti°r!'sed by their Majesties the King
S'eeaier„Rral Highnesses the Princesses Augusta. and Sophia, her
and Queen of Hanover,. and
•e Highness the Princess Esterhazy, the Princesses Mary and
Rose,t • and his Grace the Duke of Manchester, &C. l-C'e•
requisite to observe, 39, Albemarle-street.

HERE is
.. Semper nocuit differre paratis."—Luca N.
themselves
perhaps no situation in life so full of
to,nt, , embarrassment as when the over-sensitive f-c I
tinnie led to reveal their moral indiscretions, or their 1 t sical imperfec-
zin th,_ to others. Day after day does the horroi of exposdre accumuiLaete.
in..
_t!. Morbid imagination while increasing disease augments the v. ft:
5e...:1
—^q and the irritability of the mind. Sensible of the aqui n
z'.._ Protracted, we have adopted a system which long practical experience
e,;.°Ptroved to be highly successful, and which precludes the absolute ne-
w ~Y of personal communication with those who recoil from such mode
_,aeosutation. A full and minute description of the case, written in
plain
st.i "Ilia"'
will enable us to treat the patient with delicate secrecy;
,„., L hem been the peculiar nature of our practice, einuracing every
„,".`e.tY piss
circumstances that the most timid may feel toceurage-
Inwtin the opportunity th,ls afforded them.
rrm'inntd);:tive Years of practice, exclusively devoted to diseases arising
boco ecretion, gaiety, .or climate, whereby the constitution may have
4,,,_
jinn enfeebled, enable us to promise a restoration to health? without
";interference with the ordinary diet and habits.
tbir F.
ar er it
ds i esn°cSeS; and Co. Cr. to be consulted, as usual, every day, at
and Patients In the remotest.parts of
.the country can
,o.in uecessfully on their describing minutely tha case, and en-
,,, the 2); remittance for Advice and ttedicine. No elifficultY On occur,
io edieinse will be securely packed, and carefully protected from
aservation.
GOSS and C 0.,. M.R.C. Surgeons,
No. 7, Lanc,ster-po,ce, Strand, London.
4 14.2'„. ..Just published (Twenty_third Edition), Ist. The X,GIS of LIFE,
~ .L.inar commentary on the above Diseases.-2d. HYGEI ANA, ad-
t'seet sett exclusively to the female iieF, ..Id. The SY PHI LIST, a Tree
'rt.._ oo rues Verierea, Gonorrhoea, &c. May be had at 23, Paternoster-
'w LA3340)11 and of all Booltsellers. Pnge bs. Pact).