The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-19 00:00:00

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. Dee. 11, 1854.
TrHE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of HER MA-
JESTY'S ORDNANCE Do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that
they will Sell by Auction at the Tower on THURSDAY, 21,t Dec.,
11;54, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, the following
Stores, viz.:—Great-co ts, Clothing, Bedding, Saltpetre Bags, Rags
(linen and woollen), Fire Engines, hose Pipe, Copper and Mixed
Metal, Old Steel and Iron, Tools of all sorts, Leather Scabbards, an
various other Attic es.
The whole of which may be Viewed at the Tower from 10 till 4
o'clock three days previous to the sale.
Catalogues may be had at the Ordnance Office, Tower.
Ey Order of the Board.

J. WOOD, Secretary.

PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of
Chancery, made in tha matter of the Estate of Benjamin
John Chapman, late of Old Ford, in the County of Middlesex, recti-
fier of spirits, deceased, between Benjamin John Chapman. Florence
Jane Chapman, Herbert Charles Chapman, Ferdinand Robert Chip-
man, Blanche Helena Chapman, Henry La Grange Dougan Chap-
man, and Isabella Maria Mary Chapman, infants by Mary Harriet
Chapman, their next inland, plaintiffs, and Sarah Isabella Chapman,
defendant. The Creditors of the said Benjamin John Chapman, who
died in or about the month of July, 1854, are, by their Solicitors,
on or before the twenty-seventh day of January, 1855, to come in
and prove their debts at the Chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Kin-
deraley, No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln s-inn, Middlesex, or, in de-
fault thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded lrom the benefit of
the said order.
Thursday, the Ist day of February, 1855, at 12 o'clock at noon, at
the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the
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Dated this 16th day of December, 1854.
FREDERIC E. ED WARDS, Chief Clerk.

SOUTHWARK BRIDGE. - NOTICE IS
A... 7 HEREBY GIVEN, That a Dividend will be Payable on the
16th of JANUARY, to the Proprietors of the New Shares, and to the
Subscribers of the 131. advanced on the Old > hares of the Southwark-
bridge, and that the Transfer Book of the Company will be closed
from the 25th inst., until the 16th of January next.
JAM ES LEITH, Secretary.
Once, Queen-street-place, 19th Dec., 1854.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. DAY TICKETS
issued on SATURDAY. 23d December, and intervening days, will
be available until TUESDAY, 2Gth December.
By order. MARK lIIIISII.
General Manager's Office, Euston Station, December, 1854.

A.D. 1720.

.;" ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION,
-• • (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First),
' • -- For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES.
OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
' BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL.
- Octavius Wigram, Esq., Governor.
' • The Hon. J. T. Leslie Melville, sub-(3 wernor.
. •
. r.
• George Pearkes Barclay, Esq., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Sir John Wm. Lubbock, Bart.
• Edmond ES-. P. Calvert, Esq. Charles John Manning, Esq.
- • John (Jarrett ('attley, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
Alexander Colvin, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq.
Edward Maxwell Daniel, Esq. Sir John Henry Telly, Bart.
William Davidson, Esq. Abraham George Roberts, Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Robert Hanbury, jun., Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somcs, Esq.
William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq.
James Stewart Hodgson, Esq. William Wallace, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq. I Charles Baring Young, Esq.
MEDICAL REFEREE--Samuel Sony. Esq., F.R.S.
Notice.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pres
Whims falling due at Christmas will expire on the 9th of January.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Cor-
poration on advantageous terms.
The Assured are exempt from the liabilities of partnership, and
payment of their claims is guaranteed by a large invested capital-
' stock.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation
In proflts. or, at lower Nrerniums, without such participation.
The Reversionary BONUS on Life Policies has averaged 2 per
Cent. per annum on the stun assured, or 46 per cent. on the Premiums
paid.
Any sum not exceeling 10,0001. may be assured en one Life.
The Corporation bears the cost of l'olicy Stamps and Medical Fees,
and requires no entrance-money. The Assured are subject to no
expense but the Premium. No extra charge is made for service in the
militia.
• LOANS are granted on Life Policies to their full va'ues.
This Corporation affords all the advantages of modern practice,
with the stability of an office safely constituted under Royal Charter
and Special Acts of Parliament, and tested by the experience of
nearly a century and a half. There is but one older life office in
existence.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
70EIN A. HIGIIA.3I, Actuary and Secretary.

.4FARL FITZWILLIAM'S COLLIERIES, on
the Smith Yorkshire ltailway.—SAMlJEL ri-Am OLL, of
:Sheffield, begs to announce chat the arrangements lie has been
honoured to make for carrying a portion of the produce of these ex-
tensive Collieries, and also of the Silkstone Coll'erle+, to London,
via the London and North-Western Railway, are sufficiently ma-
tured to enable him to commence delivering from Camden and Ken-
sington Stations on New Year's Thy. Price p,..r roil, within four
miles of either Station :—Silkstone,* 21s. 8.1.; Elsecar, 235. CI., cash
• on delivery, or on giving the order —Temporary Offices wdl be
. ' opened at both Stations on December 18th, 'or booking orders, which
in the meantime Mr. Plimsoll will be it id to receive at Sheffield.
* These same Coals are now being supplied by the Great Northern
• Railway, at 275., tots Company having at present, and mitil Decent-
. ber 31st next, a monopoly of the supplies on the South Yorkshire
Railway.