The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-03 00:00:00

ICON DON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1854.

CONTRACT FOR OFFICE STORES.
Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 2d Nov., 1854.
THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, PO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, ,that on TU4BDAY,
the 28th instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and deli-
Tering at the Admiralty, Somerset-place, all such

OF PPM STORES,
cowistlng of Brushes, Brooms, Baskets, Crockery, Glass,;Mati,
Tin Ware, &c., &c., &c., as shall from time to time be demanded under
a Contract, for 12 months certain, and afterwards until the expira-
tion of 3 months' warning.
Patterns of the Articles may be seen, and the Conditions of the
Contract and a torm of the Under may be obaained at the said office.
No tender will be received after one o'clock on the day of treaty, nor
will any be noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly
authorised 'writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for 0 r ce Stores,"
and must a'so be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a
lstter signed by a responsible person. eneaging to become bound
with the person tendering, in the sum of 1001. for the clue performance
of the contract.

CONTRACT FOR MUSTARD SEED.
P'partment of the Comptroller for Victualling and
Transport Services, Somerset Hou•te, 30th October, 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 Mo!max, the 6th
November iestant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and deli-
vering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at
he DEPTFOItD
Wn to be delivered.

Quarters. Half of each in 3 weeks.
MUSTARD SEED (White).- I'4) and the remainder in 3
Ditto (Brown)., 150 weeks afterwards, or
earlier if pre rerred by the
party tendering.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, ashen the ten-
ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such
part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or
of not contracting for any ; and also an unlimited power of selection.
Tenders will be received for the whole, or any portion of each
description of Seed.
Samples (not less than 2 quarts of each) must be produced by the
parties tendering.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted
are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the con-
tract h is been decided.
No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro-
vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at
the said Office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service
at Liverpool.
The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten-
tion is called, may be seen at the said Office, and at Liverpool. No
tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, and it
will not be required that the party tendering or an agent on his behalf,
should attend at the office on the day of contract, as the result of
the offer received from each person will be communtcated to him in
writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Mustard
Seed," and most also be delivered at Somerset House.

CONTRACTS FOR SUGAR, TEA, PEPPER, AND TOBACCO.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transpo rt
Services, Somerset House, 2d November, 1854.
TUE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on W DNESD AY,
the 15th instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
such persons as may he willing to contract for supplying and delivering
into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned
Articles, viz.:

Tons.
5UGAR.......... 100

lbs.
TEA (Congou) •• .. 50,000

PEPPER (Whole Tons
81ack).... • • • • •• 5
TOBACCO.• •• .. 10

When to be delivered.
Half of each in three weeks, and
the remainder in three weeks
afterwards, or earlier if pre-
ferred by the party tendering.

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Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the articles.
Their Loriships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten-
ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part
thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of
not contrac,ing for any ; and also an unlimited power of selection.
The articles to he exempted from the Customs Duties, and parties
tendering are to state where they are respectively lying.
Samples of the Sugar (not less than 2lbs.), of the Tea (not less
than Ilb.), from the bonded warehouse, of the Pepper (not less than
21bs.), an 1 of the Tobacco (not less than 1 lb ), must be produced by
the party tendering,
The Samples produced by persons whose Tenders are not accepted
are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the Con-
tracts have been decided.
No Tender will be received unless made on the Printed Form pro-
vidf d for the pur lose, and which may be obtained on application to
the said Office or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Ser-
vice at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol.
The conditions of the It ,vised Contracts, 0 which particular at-
tention Is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool
and Bristol.
No lender will be received after One o'clock, on the day of treaty,
and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on
his behalf. should attend at the office on the day of contract, as the
result of the offer received from each person will be communicated
to him in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for
and must also be delivered at Somerset House.

NOTICE.-DIVISION OF PROFITS.-All
Persons Assuring their Lives (on the Participating Scale)
In the PROVIDENT CLERKS' LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, be-
fore the end of the present year, will be ENTITLED to MIA ..E in
the Next Quinquennial Division of Profits to Dec. 31,1857.
Bonuses paid in Cash, or Added to the Policy, r applied to Re-
duce the Annual Premium, at the option of the a'surer. The great
and continuous increase of busine,s, and the extremely favourable
rate of mortality among their assurers, ful y justify the Bo ird in con-
fidently anticipatinz a still further improvement upon the liberal
amounts formerly decl red by way of bonu4.
For prospectuses showing the peculiar advantages of the Associa-
tion, and for all puffier inrormation, app'y to the local agents, or at
the Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, Lond
Nov. 3, 1.54. WM. TILOS. LINFORD, Secretary.

TO LOVERS OF FISH.-
100 real YARMOUTH BLOATERS for Gs., package included.
The above forwarded to all parts on receipt of penny postage stamps,
or P. 0. 0. (preferre l) for the amount. Send plain address, county,
and nearest station.—Address, Thomas Lettis, Juu., Fish-curer, Great
Yarmouth.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGE.NU.

The Neptune, 120, Captain T. Hutton, bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral Piumridge, and the St. George,
120, Captain H. Eyres, arrived at Spithead yester-
day afternoon from the Baltic. The other sailing ships,
including the Prince Regent, 90, and Monarch, 84, are
reported as- not far from Spithead. As the Neptune
came to an inchorage at Spithead she saluted the flag of
the Coinmander•in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir T. J. Coch-
rane, .which the Victory, flag ship, returned. Sir Thomas
Cochrane was out on the water in the cutter Fanny, and
signalled from her to the Neptune, inviting Admiral
Plumridge to dinner to-night. The Neptune and St.
George came up to Spithead with almost all sail set, and
the spectacle presented by these magnificent three-
deckers was truly grand and imposing.
The Hannibal, 91, screw, Captain the Hon. W. F.
Grey, C. 8., took in her full supply of coals yesterday at
Spithead, and now only awaits sailing orders.
The Powerful, 84, Captain Massie, attended by the
Salamander, 6, steam sloop, Commander Priest, left
Spithead yesterday morning for Greenock, the former to
complete her complement. On the return of the latter
she will be paid off, and her commander, who has only
had her a few weeks, appointed to another vessel.
The Curaeoa, 31, screw frigate, Captain the Hon. G.
F. Hastings, steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yester-
day morning, and, running the measured mile at Stoke's
Bay, anchored off Spithead.

The Hecla, 6, paddle sloop, Captain W. H. Hall,
hauled alongside the Dryad receiving-hulk at Ports-
mouth yesterday to hulk her crew while she is docked to
refit. Captain Hall will be appointed to the Blenheim,
60, on the return of that ship from the Baltic.
The Harrier, 14, Commander Story, was paid wages
at Spithead yesterday, and will leave to-day for the West
India station.

The Austerlitz yesterday commenced coaling to enable
her to proceed to Cherbourg for permanent repairs to her
machinery. It is oxpected that 'the necessary repairs
will take four or five days. The captain who commands
her last visited Sheerness in command of the Gomer
steam-ship of war in 1844.
Orders have arrived at Sheerness from the Curlew to
proceed to Portsmouth, where she is to receive her final
orders. She left yesterday. . _

The crew of the Cuckoo were paid down yesterday,
and were granted 14 days' leave of absence.
The Horatio, Commander Jenner, is now all ataunt
in Sheerness basin ; internal fitments are being pro-
gressed with all possible despatch.

West, is reported a deserter from the depot recently in
Limerick,

David Vandeleur Roche, Esq., is appointed captain in
the Clare militia.

The army in Ireland lost 35 men by desertion lase
month.

Lieutenant-Colonel Stack, who came home in com-
mand of the reserve battalion of the 71st, from Canada,
brought home the first battalion from Barbadoes in 1847.

Wednesday being the Ist of the month, the Royal Sap-
pers and Miners, together with the Royal Marine?, re-
ceived 10. per day extra, in lieu of rations. This has
created some unpleasantness with those belonging to the
regiments of the line not receiving the same allowance.

CHATHAM, Wednesday.—A garrison order was issued
this day by the commandant for an especial parade of
the troops, comprising the provisional battalion, to as-
semble at two p.m. At half past two o'clock Colonel
Henry Jervis, commanding the battalion, with Major
Henry Jackson, appeared in front of the troops. The
colonel read a War-office circular, which he had received
that morning by express. The order in question was to
the effect that a return was required to be made to the
Horse Guards of the number of men in the British and
East India regiments serving over 19 years' service, and
the number of men recently returned from India, and
capable of serving in other countries, and that 450 sol-
diers are now required to be embodied as medical or-
derlies to take charge of the sick in the Crimea, and
during the Eastern war ; and for that service the Com-
mander•in•Chief will allow men to volunteer. As soon
as the preceding had been read the volunteering com-
menced, and it must have been pleasing and gratifying
to Colonel Jervis to see the noble feeling displayed by
60 soldiers volunteering, each of whom had completed
his 19 years' service. There were also 134 men volun-
teered. Those who volunteered are to undergo medical
inspection at the garrison hospital on Thursday. The
56th, Bth, and 25th depots volunteered almost to a man;
the men to be approved must bear a good character for
sobriety and attention. The volunteers are to go out to
Turkey, and to be embodied as an ambulance corps, and
to be under orders and directions of the chief medical
inspector. In consequence of detachments belonging to
the provincial battalion being on duty away from this
garrison, the volunteering is not closed.

THE MILITIA.
On Wednesday the Essex Rifles underwent their half-
yearly inspection at Windsor by the Deputy-Assistant
Adjutant-General, who minutely inquired into the
general economy of the regiment, examining the men's
accoutrements, kits, and barrack-rooms. At 2 p.m. the
regiment, preceded by its band and followed by an
immense crowd, marched to the Home-park, and were
put through the usual movements by Major Spitt, the
commanding officer. Skirmishing, the principal feature
of the review, commenced with the advance of the left
subdivision of the flank company, in charge of Lieu-
tenant Dunbar. This movement was followed by a series
of others, in which the whole regiment took part. At
the conclusion of the inspection the Deputy-Assistant
Adjutant General Pipon addressed the regiment, com-
plimenting the officers and men upon the high state of
discipline in which he found them, and stated that he
would report to the Commander-in-Chief that they
were fit for any duty upon which a line regiment
was employed. The review lasted three hours. The
men all wore the ne w grey uniform, with black felt
helmets and horse hair plumes.
The Hon. Colonel Maynard, of the West Essex
hasbeenappointedtotbev Jocelyn.acauc
yin the Essex Rifles
caused by the death of Lord

MALTA, OCT. 27.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Candia, which arrived from Alexandria on the 23d, did
not leave for Southampton until the evening of the 24th,
having had to embark thirty-nine artillerymen, with ten
women and eleven children. _ _ _

The overland India mails for England, to hand by
this vessel, were sent on to Marseilles on the 23d, at
noon, by the Valetta steamer, belonging to the same
company. The Ardent steamer, having in tow the
barque Lebanon, coal laden, left for the Crimea on the
24th. The Ottoman steam-frigate Tezi Bahri, for Tri-
poli and Alexandria, left at the same time. The Maro-
cain French steamer, which left Malta on the 22d for
the Crimea, baying on board 300 French troops, put
back on the 24th, in consequence of damage to her
machinery, which occupied until the 26th to repair,
when she again proceeded on her voyage. The Saxon,
screw steamer, laden with Government stores, arrived
from Southampton on the 24th, and left for Constantino-
ple on the 26th. The Sinai,French postal steamer, having
on board 501 rank and tile, arrived from Marseilles on
the 25th, and left for Constantinople the following
morning. The Valorous steam-frigate is this moment
entering the harbour from England.
A steamer from Messina reports that intelligence bad
been received thereat, from the allied camp in the
Crimea, to the 18th of October, when, and for two days
previous, the siege was going on with great carnage on
both sides, with little doubt as to the result. A shed
had been thrown into the Ville de Paris, from the
enemy's fortress, which occasioned the loss of many
lives, and such serious injury to the French Admiral's
secretary that his life was despaired of. Some half-dozen
English steamers, besides several French,' had left Con-
stantinople for Marseilles, to convey more troops to
the seat of war. The d (Buffs) are ordered from
Malta to the Pirwus, to relieve the 97th, ordered to the
Crimea.