The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-14 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR RUM.

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and
Transport Servius, Somerset House, 11th September, 1854.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord IIi41; Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, DO lIEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on WEDNESDAY,
the 200 instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
such persons as may be willing io contract for supplying and delivering
into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford,
When to be delivered.
Gallons. Ralf in 3 weeks, and t.le remainder in 3
RUM . ... 5,000 weeks afterwards, or earlier if preferred
by the party tendering.
Their, Lordships 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 contracting for any; and a so an unlimited power of selection.
The Rum to be exempted from the Customs Duties, and parties
tendering are to state where it is lying.
Tenders will be received from any firm for any portion of the total
quantity not 1e...s than 2,000 gallons.
Samples of the Rum to be sent In pints for each import mark, and
the average strength of each mark ex to be stated, and not an
average of different marks or strengths of several imports, and any
parcel of Itum that is found not to be of same quality, mark, or
average strength of the sample tendered ani accepted will be rejected
by the officers.
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-
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, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol.
The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten-
tion is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and
Bristol. No tender will be received atter 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 con-
tract, 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 Rum," and
must also be delivered at Somerset House.

MIDDLESEX LUNATIC ASYLUM at HAN-
WELL—Persons willing to TENDER for SUPPLYING
the above INSTITUTION with Meat, Flour, Malt, Hops, Hay and
Straw, Butter, Cheese, or Bacon, for six calendar months, from the
Ist October next ; or with any of the undermentioned articles for
twelve calendar months from that day, viz., Groceries, Soap, Oil,
Oil Colours, Brooms, Brushes, NVindow Glass, Lead and Leaden
Piping, Hosiery, Linen and Woollen Drapery, Blankets, Rugs, Straw
Hats and Bonnets, Tobacco, Snuff, Cloth, Boots and Shoes, Leather,
and Wine and Spirits for the sick, are requested to deliver sealed
Tenders to me, by Eleven o'clock, on TIIIIIISDAY, the 21st inst.,
at the Sessions Douse, Clerkenwell-green, and to attend there
personally on that day, at Twelve o'clock. Blank forms, in which
Tenders must be made, may be obtained, mad the form of contract
may rbe seen, either upon applicatl al to me at this place, or to the
Storekeeper at the Asylum, and patterns and samples, to which the
contractors will be required strictly to conform, may be seen at the
Asylum at Hanwell. The Committee of Visitors will not bind them-
selves to accept the lowest or any iof the tenders.
_ _

Dated this 7th September, 1854.
CHARLES WRIGHT, Clerk to the Visitors.

•
DR. DE JONGH'S LIGHT BROWN COD-
LIVER OlL.—The most effectual remedy for CONSUMP-
TION, BRONC HIT IS, AST MA, GOU I', RHEUMATISM, and all
SCROFULOUS COMPLAINTS. Pure and unadulterated, contain-
ing all its most active and es,entialprinciples—eftecting a cure much
more rapidly than any other kind. Prescribed by the most eminent
medical men. and supplied to the leading hospitals or Europe.
lialf-
pintbottles, 2s. Gd. ; pints, 4s. 9d., IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wholesale and Retail depot, A.NSAR, BARFORD, and CO., 77,
Strand.
ly Four Half-pint Bottles sent (carriage paid) to any part of
England on receipt of a remittance of Ten Shillings.

APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED.
lEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
U SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops,
and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad,
and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to
perfectly digest the food.
The daily useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe-
guard to health.
Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrino, 19, Fenchurch-street,
London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by bWsrs. Barclay
and Sons, Messrs, Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and
cemer-
chants, London ; and generally by tel principal des.lers in sau.
/.1.11.---To guard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA
and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle.

GR AVESEND STAR
PACKETS.
No other Packets call at the Greenhithe and PliffiCet Piers.
NOTICE.—DAY TICKETS are issued upon the Gravesend Star
Packets, available for return by them or by the London and Tilbury
Railway; the Return Tickets by the Railway will also be available
for return by the Star Packets.
The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting::.
FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.

SUNDAY:

WESIS DAYS.