The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-28 00:00:00

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY.
26, COItNIIILL, LONDON, 23d Dec., Mt.
NOTICE IS lIEREBT GIVEN. That the BALE-YEARLY IN-
TEREST on the CAPITAL ST,'CK of this SOCIETY, at the rate of
8 per cent. per annum. due on the 31st instant, will become. payable
on the 10th January rent, and proprietors may receive the same at
this Office on that or any subsequent day, between the hours of 11
and 3 o'clock.
And notice is hereby further given, that the Transfer Books of the
Society will close on the 31st inst., and open en the 11th January
next.

By order of the Court of Directors.
J. LE. ENDER STARR, Manager.
N.B.—^n and after the 29th Jan,,ary next, the business of the
Scclety will be carried on at their new premises, 142, Strand.

TO BUILDERS and OTHERS.—Sealed Ten-
ders for the following Services at Bull-point, viz.:
1. Building Cottazes for a foreman and 10 labourers ;
2. Building tf Co,k-house and Wash-house for the crews of the two
powder vessels, wi h Privy and ;
3. Building an Ofilcu for the Ordnance Storekeeper ;
4. Building a Civil \Vetch-house awl a Shed for Waggons;
5. Bulding a Warder's Lodge and a S: ercho•Ae ;
6. Building an Engine-house;
7. Building a Boat-house :
8. Removing the present Wooden Filling and Examining-house at
Keyham to Bull-pcint
For specific sums, will be received at the Ordnance Office, Pall-real,
London, on or before the 27th of January, 1855.
Detailed specifications of the above 8 services, and every requisite
information, may be obtained at the Royal Engineer Office. Bill-
point, daily (Sundays excepted) between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock,
from the 9th January next to the 25th January, both day. Inclusive.
Royal Engineer Office, Devouport, 19th December, 1854.

CONTRACT FOR SHOFS.

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Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and
Transport Services, Somerset-place, 25th Decem,cr, 1854.
THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral'of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain
and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on F.; ATU • DAY. the "Ith of
January, 1855. at One n'elnek., they will be ready to trent with snob
persons as may he willing to Clntract ;or conniving and diNver-n;
into her Ntaiesty's Victualling Stores at D EPTFORD, the und-3rmen-
tioned articles, viz.:
.5,500 pairo, size N. 0.10/ suous.
5,500 „ „ No.ll
One half thereof within sx weeks; and the remainder within six
weeks afterwards, or ea: tier, if preferred by the parties t7oulering.
Terriers may be made for the whole or any portion of the Shoes.-
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when t.,e ten-
ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such
part thereof only as they may deem fit.
Patterns of the Shoes and the colic-lint:ins of the Revised Contract
nay be seen at the said orlice. No tender will toe received after one
o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, imicss made on the
Printed form provided for the parp,e, and which may be obtained
on application at the said Office.
Every tender must be addret,cd to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Shoes,"
and must also be delivered at Somerset-place.