The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-24 00:00:00

GlianlV;lVii ial,
.
benartment of the Comptroller for Victuaillog and
Transport Services, Somerset Hou,e, 19th October, 1154. ,
T" Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord high Adinfral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on S tTUII.DAY,
the 28th instant, at One o'clock, they Lein he ready to treat with
such persous.as may be willing to contract fcir supplying and delivering
into ter Majesty's Victualling St rcs at Deptford and Plymouth, the
Undermentioned quantities cf 11 E, viz.: .
When tO be delivered. :
Quarters. j Hair o' each in 14 days.. and the re-
-200, . mainder in 14 days afterwards, or
201) . earlier :f 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 quar.tity, or
of not contracting for any ;.and also- am unlimilted pow,-r of eel, ction.
Tenders ,May be made for tha whole,or any portion of the aboVe
quantities ; and every tender must speed- in words, as well as in
figures, the mires at which the flyi may be offered.
Samples; not less than 4 quarti;putst he produced by the parties
tendering. .

DEPTFORD-.
PIA-mourn._

The samples produced by persons whop ten 1, s are not accepted
1 are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the con-
tracts Inve been decided.
No tender will be received unless mede on the printed form pro-
vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application it!
the said Office, a' the Victualling Yards at Plyinouth, or to Comman-
der Bevis, conducting the Packet .service at Liverpool.
The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten-
tion is caPed, may he seen at the said Office, at "the sa,d Victualling
Yard, ant at Liverpool. No tenderwilP ho received atter One o'clock
On the day at treaty, and it will not oe required that the party ten-
dering or an agent 'on lilt behalf. a' mild attend at the office on the
day of contract, a- the recut of the offer received from each person
'ill be commutee,ated to him in writinr.
- Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and-bear lir the left-hand corner the words " Tcnder for Rye," and
must also be delivered at 9 merset Rouse.

GUERNSEY, OLD GOyERNNIENT HOUSE.
THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of HER MA-
.T F,ST Y'S ORD • ANC E tIEIESS GIVE ovcr., that they ire
prepared to re-eive tenderslor the purchase of the said house, on or
before the 15th Sevember nex..
Tend,rs are to be ma ter separately for the House and Land and for
the Pubic offices.
Particulars a d Pltns of the Property tniy be Otalned on applica-
tion to the ecre ary to the Board of Ordnance, I ord‘m, or the Bar-
rack-master at Guernsey, who will show the premises to any persons
desirous of viewing them.
The envelopes of the tenders to be marked," Tender for Govern-
ment House, Guernse."
By Order of the Board. •
C. PuIGNAND, pro Secretary.
Office of Ordnance, 25th ,cpt., 1854.

REAT-NV ESTERN RAILWAY. -CHEAP
I EXCURSI• Nto BATH and BRISTOL—A Train will leave
Paddington on SUNDAY, Octo•,er 29th; at. 7,4- s.m., for Path and
' Bristol, and will return the same eveninr at.6o pen., from Bristol,
and 7 o.m. from Bath. Fa, es —Bristol, 1014aridiv. ; Bath, 9t, and
ss. Tickets rosy he previously obtained at the 44reat- Western Book-
ing °fades, 27, King-street, Cheapßlde; 63, Bridge-road, Lartheth;
351, Oxford-street; 269, Strand ; and at the Paddington Stall n.

THE. DIRECTO'?FI OF T iE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY REQUEST ATTENTION TO THE; A DV-As TA-OE
OF JOUSTING THE COMPANY -BEFORE THE CLORE OF
• THE BOOKS FOR THE PRESE T YEAR orr 15Tri NovcArata,
WITH REFERENCE TO THE DIYI ,lON •OF PROFIfS.E.,7
1855.
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 eo on, increasing their claim at EACH PERIOD. •
The principle on which the Profits of. the Company are divided 1,
similar to a TONTINE, and the Directors have been enableid to con-
fer very large benefits on the Policyholders at the tornpr Divisions
of Profits in 483% 1840,- 1,45, and 1850 ;some of the earliest Assur-
ances having been increased at the. rate of 871. 6s. for each 1001.
assured, gips making an original 1,0001. policy equal to 1,8731.
The Directors -confidently aseert that no Life Assurance Institution
holds out greater advantages than the STANDARD to persons who,
looking forward to long life, effect-Assurances for the benefit of their
families.
The Company's large Accumulated Funds are invested on the
security of land and in Government securities. The Income is con-
siderably upwards of Two Hundred Thousand Pounds per annurts ;
ant for some years the ave,•age number of persons who have joined
the Institution has b•-.ten 825. and the corresponding annual amount
of New Assurances, 460,0001. _
_

• .
LOA DON. •
CHAIRMAN OP THE BOARD.
The Right liononrablo the Earisaf Aberdeen.
ORDINARY DIRECTORS.
F. Le Breton, Esq., 3, , rosby squ'ire.
John Lindsay, Esq.. 26, Laaren:.e Pountney•lane.
'flimflam d. Brooking, Esq, Old Brold•street.
John Griffith Frith, Esq , Austin-friars.
A'exander Gillespie, Esq., 3, Thlliter .court.
Ale.. Macgregor, Esq., Arlington-street:
J, he .cott, Esq., 4, Ilyde-park-street.
Farther information will be supplied at the Company's Offices and
A.gencits

WILL. THOS. THOMSON, Manager.
H. JONES WILLIAMS, Resident Secretary.
London, S 2, Wng William strret.
EDINBURGH. • 3, George-street.
LONDON ....82, Kin 4 street.
DUHLTN.• • . • •66, Upper `tekviile•,treet
Gisadoa, • • ..35, St. Vincent-place."

rro -LOVERS •0F,..F1511.-
110 real Y ARIIOUTiI BLOATERS for Gs., package included.
The above fa warded to all parts on receipt of penny postage stamps,
or 0. 0. (prererre I) for the amount. send plain address, &linty,
and nearest station.—Address; Thomas Lettis, jun., Fish-curer, Great
Yarmouth.

GR AVESEND ST A r:
PACKETS.
No ether Packets call at the Greenhlthe and Purfleet Piers.
NOTICE. - Day Tickets are !awed upon the r)ravesend Star
Packets, available for return y •hetn or by that London and Tilbury
Railway ; the R.-turn Tickets by the Railway will also be available
foireturn by the Star Packets. .
The Packets ,;all at the eters a.s underlined (weather permitting
FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAYERw.ri)

Wsca Days. ,4ILINDATEI.
2. I'. .;!.
Terrace • . y,
74.1 2 •••-•
Pier ' o 4 "a'
23..
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t 9
11% - - 314 _
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Direct trains front the Boats marked 1*
Omnibuses from F•-nchurch-street Station to all parts of London
every quarter of an hour.
ORUN3WICK kr.,T., on the arrival of the fol-
lowhag Trains from the Fencharch-street Station.
mrsilc DAYS.
Fen- •=1 „. *7- tco !.4
church churchrer
Streetstreet g
9 954
10 - - t 1 - -
12% - 214 -
214 5
414
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'I are run direct,
Fore Cabin. Saloon.
To or from Gravesend and L0nd0n.......... 10d. .. Is. 2d.
„ Gravesend and Blackvvall or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. 10d.
Betweec Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd..
BOAT TECKETS.—TweIve Months, 5.. Os.; Six Months, 31. Os. ;
'Three Months, 21. Os.; to be had of the Collectors on board the
:Packets ; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend.
Oct. 9. 1854.

Passages marked

DR. CULVERWELL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, AND
INDIGESTION. • •
Also, on Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and limmorrholds, Is.
each. by post Is fAI.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
" Abstentia multi curantur morbi "
A popular exposition of the principal causes (ever and careless
feeding, &c.) of the above harassing and distressing complaints,
with an ,aqually intelligible and popular e position of how we should
live to get rid of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal
in the day. and full instructions for the regimen and observance of
every in via out of the twenty four. Illustrated by numerous
cases, &c..

TA GUTS AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE.
"He which that bath no wif, I hold.him lost,
Help les% and all desolat. Ile that hath no child,
Like aun and wincle."—Chancer.
Subject: ht %Triage, its expectations and Necessities—Development
of the Affection's—Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded
Unions—matt., I Inc,mgruities—Mutual Unsuitableness—Mental
Incompatibility end Physical Defectivenes3—Advantages of Inter-
marriage— t heor3 • of Gestation--Hereditary Resemblance—Mode of
determining Legit,tr.qacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas-
limitable Alliances Law of Divorce, &c., Soc.

CEIASTIVY AND ITS INFRINGEMENTS.
A Lecture to Tonna Men.
" What pass tons butt the body—what improve,
Truths as r e tt'•ed as Athens ever heard."

Subject :LlleViipTlcr t nage, from infancy to old ,ge. The advent
of the passions. Chest i e7i and its,infringement. The cas al ies of
licentiousness and disst, tion, With illustr .tiens, graphic, narrative,
and reint Waive. Advt ,c.acy of early marriages, &c.
4.

On Secret DI.VIS, es. their Self-management and Cure.
The GREEN BOOK-- comprehensiv. arid popular expos,tlon
of genito and urinary di scases—their nature and treatmeto, corn-
prisizig especially primal 7 and secondary s% mptoms, all forms of
urinary deramementl, vs: •/ cture and spermatorrhma ; with 250 di-
gravin s and prescription. 5.

5.
The BLADDER, UR t THRA, ant RECTUM—Comprising
Urinary Derangements. Col t3tipation, and Haemorrhoids.
Vole 6 a• d 7, oo mpanions to the pteeeding.
ME ENJOYMENT .0F LIFE. POW TO BE HAPPY.
,uchnde Vivere."
"Few words t ,o fair filth "—Shakespere.
Sherwood, 23. Patent, s 'ter-row; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or of
DR. RI H. 11111 CULVERW EA.!,
Brother, Successor, and Tw, Silty Years C.nsulting Colleague of the
late author of the above 10, , trgyll-,lace, Regent•street, Mind"
who may be <tdvised with Ott ,1 to above matters daily, trom Ten till
Five, and in the evenings, toil t Seven tll Nine.

THE SECRET INFIRMT 'IE3 OF YOUTH AND MATURITY

Just 'published, price 25., 111 u. orated with cases; free by post for 30

NBRv 0 Er ,Citamps,- _ , .
.1
Its Causes, Sympt DEBILITY;
mg,- and Cure.—An Essay on Sper-
matorrheea, with Practical Observationseu on a safer and more
succeestui mode of -treatmei if ,
of
the diseases of the Generative
System, obtained by the IllieMicroscope in detecting and
distnguishing, by urinary exa rr. ination, the real rAuse and effect of
every variety of complaint, ‘ sit ,ether aris'
aatcmucal remarks, mbilded
excesses, accident, or climate. te .!lowed by
17 from solitary habits',
of Impuissance
en twenty years' experience, in the treatment
Local Weak I less. ,permatorrehnt
Nervous Debility,
are added, Co mnentaries on t tt. a Physiology of hTft, &c. To which
cautionary hints on the evils: emanating from empiricalztage, with pre-
and on the dangerous remed 3 es advocated by practice,
various writers on
these importam disorders.
By SAMUF L LA'MERT, M.D.
37, BEDFORD-:3 QUARE, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, Matricult at 4 Member of the University of Edin-
.burrh. Honorary Member of 'the London Hospital Medical Socie--ty,
Licentiate of Apothecaries' 8 all, Loudon, &c., &c.
The essential object of this i r eatise is to point out the fearful con-
sequences resulting from carte t i habits, irregularities, and excesses,
which have proauced more nil.eery in youth, degradation in Man-
hood, and premature decay a ill stages oathfe, Watt, perhaps, any
other class of disease known to modern pologists. It.' perusal is
Particularly recommended to lc errons entertaining secret doubts of
their physical condition, and N V ho are conscious of having hazarded
the health, happiness, and pair lieges to which ore*, Litman being is
entitled.
It Is aheolutely necessary ti s -stall non should know, that there an
Principles of personal manage; i cut which cannot be violated without
Incurring grievous penalties, ac d when wisdom and regret succeed
the heyday of inconsiderate. i ielf-indulgence, how these penalti,r
nLaY be mitigated, bow the s ti .1g of their bitterness may be remove 1,
and how the evil and its con, to uences may be avoided, end above ail,
that there is scarcely any der f ee of. physical infirmity or function&
TheAcerangement to which the tin Lay aid of science cannot apply
a cure.
uthor has for a series ( f years been engaged in an
extensive
Practice in the treatment of t.t eso delicate complaints, which h
unfortunately teen too gene' is fl confided to ties care of ignorant
mete'
- --es. who inflict great Jai re ry on those who are induced to place
e aith in their pretensions.
NERVOUS DEBILITY w s.y bo had, price ts, of Messrs. Piper,
Brothers, and Co., o. 23, /stem uster-row; Hannay, C 3, Oxford-street,
Borne, 19, Leicester-square; Diann, 39, Cornhlll ; or free by post foi
thirty stamps to any address, from the Author's residence, 87, lied,
ford-square. ..
At home for consultation dally from Eleven till Two, and from
ix till Eight,