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

LoNnom and. NOR TR-V/ E 8 TETI N
RAIL •t ALT.—CON-TRACTS for STORES for the Year, 1855.
Toe Hi rectors are prepared to receive TENDERS for the SUPPLY
of the undermentioned STORES,
No. of Contract-
1. Brass Sheet and Tubes for
Locomotives
3. Copper
4. Canvas
5. Carpet and Rugs
6. Cl,,th
7. Ages
9. Crucibles
10. Curled Hair
11. Carriage Furniture, Brass
12. Co ours
12a Hrysaltery
13. Coaill Trimmings
14. Cotton Waste
15. Bags, Rope, Hemp, Scc,
16. Glass, Plate
IFL. Glass, various
17. Hardware and Station Stores
17a. Brushes and Pencils
Is. Leather
18a. Leather, various
Specifications and Forms of Tender may be had on and after Mon-
day, October 23d, on application, in %Ming, to the Secretary, Eust n
station, Lonoon.
Forms of Tender for each Contract are printed separately, and
parties aprdying should state the particular Contract or Contracts for
which they propose to tender.
Page:us may also be inspected on and after day, October 23d,
from Ten till Four o'clock, at the Company's Pattern Room, Fusion
Station ; and any further information required may be obtained on
application to the Heads of the several Departments.
Tenders may be sent in on or Lefore Ten o'clock on Monday,
November 6th.
By order of the Directors.
CHAS. E. STEWART, Secretary.
Liston Station, October, 1854.

''o of Cor tract
19. Lead, White and Red
19a. Lead, Sheet and Pipe
20. Iron, 'Yorkshire
20a. Iron. Staffordshire
20b. Iron, Pig
21. Iron Castings
22. Iron Work
23. Wheels
:4. 011, Burning, &e.
25. Oils (various), Tallow, and

Turnentin,
26. Oil Cloth
27. Steel
2R. S,eel Springs and Files
29. Tin Blocks
30. Tin Sheet and Spelter
I . Varr&hes
,2. Sundries
34. Bats
3 i. Caps

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE CJMPANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street, London.

DIRECTORS.
Sir WALTER R. FARQUHAR, Bart., Chairman.
FRANCIS HART DYKE Esq., Deoty-chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. S'tewart Marjoribanks, Esq.
John N actin, Esq., M.P.
John. Dixon, Esq.
Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Bart. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
T. Hankey, jun., Esq., M.P. James Morris, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
John G. Hubbard, Esq. Henry K. Revno,ds, jun., Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq. James Tulloch. Esq.
John Loch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.

(TORS.
Lew. Roberts, Esq. ' Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Lloyd, jwt., Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq.
George Keys, Esq., secretary.
Griffith Davies, Esq., F. 11.1., Actuary.
LIFE DEP ARTNI gNT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par-
liament, this Company now offers to future insurers Four-fifths of
the Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium
Without participation of Profits.
The next division of Profits will he declared in June, 1855, when
atparticipating Policies which shall have subsisted at leat one year
Christman, 1554, will be allowed to share in the Profitss
At the several past divisions of Profits made by this Company, the
Reversionary Bonuses added to the Policies from One-half the
Profits amounted, on an average of the different ages, to about One
per Cent. er Annum on the sums insured, and the total Bonuses
added at the Four Septennial Divisions exceeded 770,000/.
FOREIG RISES.—The Extra Premiums required for the East
and West Indies. the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the
United states of America, have been materially reduced.
INVALID LIVES.— Persons who are not in such sound health as
would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums,
may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums.
LOANS granted on life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 501.
ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received
and registered.
Medical fees paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for
Policy Stamps.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances effected upon every descrip-
tion of property, at the usual rates.

♦IIDI'

THE DIRECTORS OF THE STAND &RD LIFE A SQ.URANCE
COMPANY REQUEST ATTENTION TO THE ADVANTAGE
OF JOINING THE COMPANY BEFORE THE CLOSE OF
THE BOOKS FOR THE PRESEN T YEAR ON 15TH NOVEMBER,
WITH REFERENCE TO THE DIVI4ION OF PROFIJS IN
1255.
THE FUND to be Divided in 1855 will be
derived from the Profits which have arisen since 1850, and
those persons who effect Assurances at this time will secure TWO
YEAR': Participation in that Fund, while they will rank at the
division in 1860 for seven years' bonus; in 1865, for twelve years
bonus and • o on, increasing their claim at EACH P ERTOD.
The principle on which the Fronts of t 1 ,e Company are divided i
similar to a TONTINE, and the Directors have been enabled to con-
fer very large benefits on the Poli,wholders at the former Divisions
of Profits in 1835, 1840, 1445, and 1850: some of the earliest Assur-
ances having been increasd at the rate of 87/. fis. for each 1001.
assured, thus making an original 1,000/, policy equal to 1,8731.
The Directors confidently aSFet t that no Life Assurance Institution
holds out greater advantages than the STAND ARD to persons who,
looking forward to long life, effect Assurances for the benefit of their
amities.
The Company's large Accumulated Funds are invested on the
security of land and in Goverament securities. The Income is con-
siderably upwards of Two Hundred Thousand Pounds per annum ;
and for some years the average number of persons who have joined
the Institution has been 525. and the corresponding annual amount
of New Assurances, 460,000/.
LONDON.
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD.
The Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen.
ORDINARY DIRECTORS.
F. Le Breton, Esq., 3, t rosby square.
John Lindsay, Esq., 26, Laurenze Pountney-lane.
Thomas IL Brooking, Esq , Old Broad-street.
John Griffith Fri-h. Esq Austin-friars.
.A'exander Gillespie, Esq.. 3, Billiter•court.
Ale.. Macgregor. Esq., Arlington-street.
J, hn scott, Esq., 4, Hyde-nark-street.
Further information will be supplied at the Company's Offices and
Agencies.

WELL. THOR. THOMSON, Manager.
H. JONES WILLIAMS, Resident Secretary.
London, 82, King William Areet.
EDINBVILON• • 3, George-street.
LONDON ....82, King Willi an street.
DIIELIN.• • . Upper sackville• street
GLASGOW • • ..35, St. Vincent-place.

COSMORAMA OF ST. PETERSBURG,
ROYAL PANOPTICON, r eicestvr-square.— 4. COS MOR AM A
of ST. PETERSBURG, including a Portr !it of tho Empe' or tii,hela4,
has been added to th, many attractions at the Royal Panopticon of
14clen e aid Art. Amongst these are :—the Lu limos and Chromatic
Fountain. thro,ing Diuminat,d Water 100 feet high—Panorama and
Dioramic Views of "Verona—A splendid Collection of 'Thromatropes
Heincke's Diving Apparatus, the Subaqueous icht, &c. —Scientific
Lectures and Demonstrations by en anent Professors —and Perfor-
m• nces on the Grand Organ by M. Best, and I,4stin's Fugel Horn
Union every evening. Hours of exhibition rnnrnin .12to 5 ; even-
ing, 7to 10, Saturday evenings excepted. Admission, Is. ; schools
and children under 10, half-price. Season admission, one guinea ;
life admission, ten guineas.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
309, REGENT-ATREET.—Under the sole Direction of J.
H. PEPPER, Esq., A. Inst. C.E.
GOOD DRAMATIC READINGS are now added to the other
attractions of the Institution.
Miss GLYN will read ROMEO and JULIET on the 4th of Novem-
ber, at Eight.
LECTURE specially addressed to the INDUSTRIAL CLASSES
on Monday Evenings.
Every NOVELTY in GENERAL SCIENCE will be secured tothe
Public.
An ever-varied succvsion of LECTURES, MECnANICAL and
COSMORAMIC EXHIBITIONS. MUSIC
in NXICROSC,
DISSOLVING VIEWS, &c , is maintaed daily, from TwelveOPE till
Five ; Evenings, Seven till Ten.
Admission, Is. ; -tails, 2s.
Open on CATURDAY EVENINGS from half-past seven till ten,
for Miss GLYN'S DRAMATIC READINGS ONLY.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.-
Now Open for the eason.—The Orchestra will perform during
the week—The Overture to Le Pre aux Clercs ; also, for ,he first
time, the following novelties—Quadrilles, Le Demon. and Salami ;
Waltzes, Germania and Wiener Lust ; Polkas, Les Polies, and Mos-
cow; Schottische, Dona Maria; also, by desire, The Etoile du Nord,
Polka, Vilikins, Waltz, and Glory Galop. Principal Corset a Piston,
M. Boulcourt.—Alteration of Time—Doors open at 8; commence at
half-past. —Admission, One Shilling.

G R A VESEND
PACKETS. ST AB
No other Packets call at the Greenhithe and Purfleet Pinders.kat'
NOTICE.— Day Tickets are !ssued upon the
Orave se
Packets, available for return ',y them or by the London and Tilbury
Railway ; the Return Tickets by the Railway will also be available
for retain by the Ster Packets.
The Packets call at the P,ers as underlined (weather permi,
FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.

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Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of Loudon
every quarter of an hour.
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Ain direct.
Fore Cabin. Saloon.
To or from Gravesend and London.• • ..• •• ••
10d, .. Is. 2d.
Gravesend and Blackwall or Woolwich Bd.
.. Os. 10d.
Between Gravesend and Intermediate mere.. 6d. .. Os.
3/ . BOscl.
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BOAT TICKETS.—Twelve Months, .Os.; Six Months, .
Three Months, V. Os.; to be had of the Collectors on board the
Packets; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend.
Oct. 23, 1854.

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