The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-21 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY- EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1854.

LIVERPOOL CORPORATION LANDING
STAGE.
TO CONTRACTORS, SFIIPBUILDERS (WOOD AND IRON),
IRON FOUNDERS, BOILER MAKERS, &c.

The Corporation of Liverpool are prepared to receive lenders from
parties willing to undertake to construct, fix in place, and complete
ready for public use, a new Floating Landing Stage, to be moored in
the. River Mersey, in front of and parallel to the Prince's Dock
Parade or Quay wall.
The contract will comprise 63 floating pontoons of the very best
boiler work, in length v zyinz f orn SO to 109 feet, and weighing
1,200 tons or thereabouts ; five Wrought-iron kelsons or hollow rect-
angular beams, each 1,000 feet long, from 4 to 5 feet in depth, and 2
feet in thi knees, the gross weight or which will he about ~200
tons ; eight other hollow beams f wrought iron, forming the girders
of tour bridges connecting the Stage with the shore, and weighing
about 260 tons, 00 tons, more or less, of cast-iron : and about 17
tons of smith's work in knees, straps, bolts, spikes, mooring-chains,
&c., &e. ; together with about 05,0?0 cube feet of timber in deck
beam,=, decks, &c , wrought, fixed in place, and tainted.
A specification of the works and conditions of contract, with dupli-
cate schedules of quantities for the parties to tender upon, together
with an atlas of detailed drawings, will he supplied to any party
making application for the same at the office of the Surveyor, Town
Hall, Liverpool, between the hours of I() and 4 o'clock, on and
after the first day of September next. No copies of the specification
and drawings will be allowed to be made, but a payment of ten
guituas will be required for the whole set.

Sealed tenders ICir the above works, on the duplicate schedule of
quantities which accompanies each specification, are to be delivered
at the Town Hall, Liverpool, in sealed covers addressed to The
Finance Committee (and marked on the outside "Tender for Landing
Stage"), on or before the 13th day of October, by 11 o'clock a.m.,
after which hour on that day no tender will be received. Parties
or their agents to be in attendance on that day at 12 o'clock.
Each tender must contain a sealed letter with the names of two
responsible parties who are wiling to become bound, jointly and
severally, with the party tendering for the contract, in the sum of
twenty thousand pounds for the due performance tliereof.
The Corp-oration will not be bound to accept the lov4st tender.

WILL lASI SHUTTLEWORTH, Town Clerk.
Town Hall, August 18, 1854.

mony of putting the image of the Virgin Mary into
mourning, and the priests and all on board appeared
to feel the loss of the admiral, as he was much re-
spected. These ships, from the effects of the gale, had
to go through a through refit ; when completed they
sailed again, and on arrival at their port of destina-
tion they found the admiral there, all safe and sound,
which occasioned general satisfaction. The officers,
who were very gentlemanly men, were much annoyed
by civilised Plymouthers, and by their rude remarks
as they passed through the streets.

Commander Benjamin B. Priest, lately come home
from the Leopard steam-frigate, in the Baltic, is to
succeed Commander El(man in the command of the
Salamander, paddle-sloop at this port. Commander
Priest came home on his promotion.