The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-06 00:00:00

MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY.
CONTRACTS FOR WORKS.
The Directors of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Com-
pany will meet at their Offices, No. 2:3, Bond-street, Manchester,
on WEDNESDAY the 20th day of June next, at Eleven o'clock in the
Forenoon precisely, to receive TENDERS for the execution of
the following Contracts :
CONTRACT No. 1, or FAIRFIELD-STREET CON-
TRACT, commences at the north end of the north abutment of
a Bridge intended to be erected to carry the Railway over Fairfield-
street, in the town of Manchester, and terminates at the distance
of 50 yards south of die centre of Chapel-field Road, in the town-
ship of Ardwick. This Contract comprises the erection of a Via-
duct between the above-mentioned points, a distance of 1,155 feet.
CONTRACT No. 2, or CHANCERY-LANE CONTRACT,
commences at the distance of 50 yards south of the centre of Cha-
pel-field-road, in the township of Ardwick, and terminates at the
distance of 270 yards south of the centre of the road called Chan-
cery-lane, in the same township. This contract comprises the
erection of a viaduct between the above-mentioned points, a dis-
tance of 2,136 feet.
CONTRACT No. 3, or HYDE-ROAD CONTRACT, com-
mences at the distance of 270 yards south of the centre of the road
called Chancery-lane, in the township of Ardwick, and terminates
at the south end of the south abutment of a bridge intended to be
erected to carry the Railway over the turnpike-road from Manches-
ter to Hyde. This contract comprises the erection of a viaduct
between the above-mentioned points, a distance of 1,773 feet.
CONTRACT No. 4, or HEATON NORRIS CONTRACT,
commences at the south end of the south abutment of a bridge in-
tended to be erected to carry the railway over the turnpike-road
from Manchester to Hyde, and terminates about 176 yards from
the right bank of the River Mersey, and 120 yards on the west side
of the Wellington-road, in the township of Heaton Norris, in the
county of Lancaster. This Contract comprises the whole of the
earth-work, bridges, archways, cult erts, and other necessary
works ; also the ballasting and laying of the permanent way be-
tween the above-mentioned points, a distance of 344 chains. It
comprises, also, the ballasting and laying of the permanent way on
the first, second, and third Contracts, an additional distance of
nearly 77 chains.
Drafts of the Contracts, with Plans, Drawings, and Specifications,
will be ready for inspection on and after Monday, the 28th day of
May instant, at the offices of the Company's Engineer, Fairfield-
street, Manchester ; and the quantities of the works contained in
the several contracts, will at the same time be furnished by the
Engineer.
Printed forms of Tender may be had at the same place, and at
the Company's Offices in Bond-street, Manchester, at which latter
Offices all Tenders must be lodged previously to the hour of meet-
ing, endorsed " Tender for Works ;" and no Tender, except the
printed form furnished by the Company, will be attended to.
The party whose Tender is accepted will be required to enter into
a bond, with two sureties, for the due performance of the contract,
to the extent of 10 per cent. on the gross amount of such contract;
and the names and descriptions of the proposed sureties, must be
set forth in the Tender.
The Directors will not consider themselves bound.to accept the
lowest Tender; and they expect the several parties tendering, or
persons duly authorised by them, to be in attendance at the Offices
in Bond-street, Manchester, at the time of meeting.
ROBERT BARBOUR,
Chairaman of the Board of Directors,
Manchester and Birmingham Railway Offices,
23, Bond-street, Manchester, 18th May, 1838.

32, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMSBURY, and
No. 16, PRINCES-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE.
MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM
FOR FILLING DECAYED TEETH,
LOOSE TEETH FASTENED,
AND LOSS OF TEETH. SUPPLIED.
Monsieur MALLAN, and Son, Surgeon Dentist's, 32, GREAT
RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMSBURY, and 16 PRINCES-STREET,
HANOYER-SQUARE, continue to restore 'DECAYED TEETH
with their MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM, (of which they are the
Sole INVENTORS and POSSESSORS), without pain, heat, or
ressure, and FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, whether arising
from age, neglect, disease et the Gums, the use of Calomel, or
any other cause. They have also discovered a NEW COMPOSI
TION for ARTIFICIAL TEETH. A peculiar advantage attending
Teeth made from this SUBSTANCE is, that they are totally imper
vious to acids. ARTIFICIAL TEETH have hitherto been found ob-
jectionable by INVALIDS taking MEDICINES which have a tendency
to DISCOLOUR them, and by persons of bilious habits. Messrs. M. have
been successful in obviating these objections by their NEW DISCO-
VERY, and they can tix the above without extracting the STUMPS, er
causing any incumbrance,,and even en GUMS of the most tender nature,
protecting the adjoining 'leech, however loose No WINES or LIGA
TURES are used, and they MAT CH the ORIGINAL TEETH in point
of Shape and Colour. GUARANTEED for MASTICATION and AR.
TICU LATION. In consequence of their improvements in the mocha.
nical department of Dentistry, they are enabled to reduce their charges to
he following scale:7
A Single Artificial Tooth
£0 10 0
ASet ......................................
A Sat of Natural Teeth, on fine gold plate ..............
A Set of Messrs. Mallan's Incorrodible Teeth, highly
finished, with fine gold sockets, in the first style
Filling a Decayed Tooth with Mineral Succedaneum
N.B.—Mons. MALLAN, Sen., may be consulted daily as usual, at :32,
Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, where he has been established since
1826, and Mona. EDWARD MALLAN, at 16, Princes-street, Hanover-
square.

" DR. GRANVILLE'S de:ightful work, 4 The
SPAS of GERMANY,' will no doubt induce many
persons to visit those celebrated springs who stand in need of reno-
vated health. In cases, however, where the baths are not indis-
pensable, and when the chalybeate properties of the Seidlitz waters
are only required internally, the GERMAN SEIDLITZ POW-
DERS, manufactured by Mr. WRAY, Chemist, of Holborn-hill,
will no doubt answer every purpose, as we understand that a correct
analysis by several eminent professors of chemistry, has proved that
these powders contain the valuable mineral tonic of the celebrated
real waters."----Court Journal, July 27, 1837.
These celebrated powders are prepared only at 118, Holborn-hill,
and 9, Agar-street, Strand, in boxes, containing powders for 12
glasses, at 2s. each ; and in bottles fitted in cases, with spoon,
measure, &c., complete, at is. 6d. and 10s. 6d. each, very con-
venient for travelling or exportation.
Also Wray's Improved Sodaic, Ginger Beer, and Lemonade
Powders, in packets for 18 tumblers, ls. and Is. 3d., or in cases
complete for travelling, at ss. 6d. and 7s. 6d. each. Common
Seidlitz to make 24 glasses, 35. per packet.
A liberal allowance to merchants and captains.
Be careful to have " Wray's Chalybeate German Soldlitt
Powders."

FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF
COPAIRA.
Within a period of Two Months upwards of Three Hundred Patients
were successfully treated at the Metropolitan Hospitals with Fll A NKYS
SPECIFIC SOLUTION of COPA 113 A.
By Joseph Henry Green Esq., F.R.S., one of the Council of the Royal
College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and Professor
of Surgery in the King's College, London.
" I have made trial of Mr. Frank's Solution of Gepaiba, at St. Thomas's
Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the male and female, and
the results warrant my stating, that it is an efficacious remedy, and one
which does not produce the usual unpleasant effects of Copaiba.
(Signed "JOSEPH HENRY GREEN.
"46, Lincoln's-Inn-fields, April 15, 1535.
By Bransby Cooper, Esq., F.RS., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Lec-
turer on Anatomy, &c. &c., and others most eminent in the Medical
Profession.
Bransby Cooper presents his compliments to Mr. George Franks,
and has great pleasure in hearing testimony of the efficacy of his Solution
Copaiba in Gonorrhoea, for which disease Mr. Cooper ha prescribed
the Solution in'ten or twelve cases with perfect success.
New-street, Spring-gardens, Aprill3, 1835."
This invaluable Medicine is confidently recommended In all cases of
tionorrhcea, Gleets, Urethral Discharges, Spasmodic Strictures, Irrita-
tion of the Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra, and Prostate Gland;
effects upon the gent :al health render it particularly applicable in all
cases of relaxed fibre and nervous debility.
Prepared only by George Franks, Surgeon, 90, Blackfriars-road, Lon
don, and may be hid of all Medicine-venders in the United Kingdom, in
Bottles at 23. fid., 4c. fid., and 1 Is, each its purify-
CAuTtoN.—Unhsss George Franks, Blackfriars-road," is engraved on
the Government Stamp, it cannot be genuine.
•• * hir.-4anlcs may be consulted until Two o'clock daily.

The oldest Lifting Friction Pump, acts without 'Valves, having
several flat solid Pistons. The top Piston which takes the weight
of the column of water, hassnearly as much Friction as a Piston in
a Common Pump, the other Pistons have some Friction, and so
have the joints of the Chain Sprocket Wheel, &c. The water
constantly repassing the Pistons in a Chain Pump, renders it an
unsteady Machine, varying its effect according to the speed it is
worked at, and the height to which it raises the water. A better
machine for a 15 than for a 30 feet lift, because the greater the
altitude, the faster the water re asses the Pistons. I have not seen
a Chain Pump, but from the drawings, it is, without doubt, an ex-
pensive and very precarious Machine.
Dare England assist in fairly testing this National Tax of defec-
tive lumber, against the Fountain Pump, by a mode of trial, avoiding
nautical tricks till after decision, upon these the most frugal terms.
If Government will command a best Chain Pump, to be fixed with
a stage for twelve Men to stand and pump upon at Norwich ; the
Patentee will lend a Room 56 feet by 27, and 23 feet high, with a
fleet Well near the proposed stage, and fix a Fountain Pump by
the side of the Chain Pump, in order that both Machines may be
accurately tested, against Time, Man for Man, to the best altitudes
for the Chain Pump, as not exceeding 24 feet.
The Patentee's reward to graduate with tlie comparative merits
of his invention
If the old pump
beat the new Pump, the Patentee to
keep his Machine and bear the expense of fixing the same.
If both Pumps prove equal, the new Pump to be taken
at the price of the old P But if the Fountain-pump surpass
the Chain-pump one
per cent.um. the Patentee to receive a bonus of
501., and the like sum for every one per cent. when the gain is
exemplified before the powers that be.
A superior effect is all that wants demonstration in this case.
For as regards economy, simplicity, portability, conveniency, non-
liability of choaking or deranging, durability and easy reparation,
these properties the Fountain-pump possesses in a very high degree
over the Chain-pump. And for steadiness of action, the new
frictionless Pump stands alone, commonly performing, without
the slightest diminution of effect for many years, whether in raising
of water four feet or forty yards high. Thus in a very brief space
of time, have the discerning portion of society practically annihilated
its every imaginary objection. Whilst the real defects of the old
Friction-pump have continued for thousands of years, and under
every possible modification must remain for ever.
As life or death hangs upon the efficiency of Pumps, humanity
will aid the progress of the only efficient machine. Delivering of
the water from Ships in a sinking state at sea is a work of such
vast importance, that even crowned heads would do well in excit-
ing competition for the beet productions for that purpose. For
constant exhibition it would show benevolence towards their sub-
jects, and guard the poor mariner by demonstration from fatal
imposition, from which to protect the public is the duty of the
world's

Obedient servant and i nstructor,

Patentee, Bank-place, Norwich, June 4,163 W : SHALDERS.CL