The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-05 00:00:00

MANCHESTER and LEEDS RAILWAY.
CONTRACTS FOR WORKS.
The Directors of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company
will MEET at their Offices, No. 9, Brown-street, in Manchester,
on MONDAY the 11th day of Jnne, 1838, at Twelve o'clock at
Noon precisely, to RECEIVE TENDERS for the under-men-
tioned Contracts :

GAUXHOLNIE VIADUCT CONTRACT.—To make and
maintain the railway upon arches, with all its works, commencing
on the south-west side of the westerly crossing of the Rochdale
Canal at Guaxholme, and terminating on the north-east side of the
turnpike road from Todmorden to Haslingden, being a length of
about 320 yards.
SOWERBY CONTRACT (including the Sowerby Tunnel. )
—To make and maintain the Railway, with all the excavations,
embankments, tunnels, bridges, culverts, drains, fences, and gates.
complete, including the laying and ballasting the permanent way
and sidings, and furnishing the necessary stone blocks (but exclu-
sive of wooden sleepers, rails, chairs, and fastenings), commencing
in the field numbered 172, Sowerby township, situated between
Long Bottom Mill and Holling's Mill, and' terminating opposite
the Gas Works, in Sowerby Bridge, being a distance of about one
mile and a quarter.
COPLEY CONTRACT.—To make and maintain the Railway
with all its works, in like manner, commencing at a point opposite
the Gas Works in Sowerby-bridge, and terminating in North Dean
Wood, being a distance of about two miles.
COOPER-BRIDGE CONTRACT.—To make and maintain'the
Railway, with all its works, in like manner, commencing in Brad-
ley Wood, at a point about 1 chain from the western boundary,
in the township of Huddersfield, and terminating about 17 chains
to the east of the road to Batty Mills, in the township of Kirk-
heaton, being a distance of about two miles and 22 chains.
MIRFIELD CONTRACT.—To make and maintain the Rail-
way, with all its works, in like manner, from the termination of the
Cooper-bridge contrast, to a point about five chains, to the east of
the Calder Iron Works, in the township of Thornhill, being a dis-
tance of about two miles and seven chains.
THORNHILL CONTRACT.—To make and maintain the
Railway, with all its works, in like manner, from the termination
of the Mirfield contract, to a point about 26 chains on the westerly
side of Healey New Mill, in the township of Thornhill, being a
distance of about two miles and 4S chains.
Drafts of the contracts, with plans and specifications of the works,
will be ready for inspection, at the engineer's office, Palatine-
buildings, Hunt's Bank, Manchester, on and after Monday, the 21st
day of May, 1838. Printed forms of tender may be had after the
above date, at the offices in Manchester ; and no others will be at-
tended to. The tenders must be delivered at the Railway office,
No. 9, Brown-street in Manchester, at or before ten o'clock in the
forenoon, on Monday the 11th June, 1838, under a sealed cover,
addressed to the Chairman, and endorsed " Tender for works ;" and
the parties tendering, or persons duly authorised by them, must be
in attendance at the time of meeting. The parties whose tender is
accepted will be required .to enter into a bond, with two sureties,
for the due performance of the contracts, in a penalty not less than
ten per cent upon the gross sum contracted for; and the names of
he proposed sureties are to be specified in the tender. The.Diree-
tors will not bind themselves to accept the lowest tender.
JAMES WOOD Chairman.
Manchester and Leeds Railway Office, 9, Brown-
street, Manchester, 19th April, 1838.

NORTH BRITISH INSURANCE
COMPANY,
No. 4, New Bank-buildings, Lothbury, London ; aid No. 1,
Hanover-street, Edinburgh, for Assurance on Lives and Survivor-
ships, and likewise for the Purchase of Reversions and Annuities.
Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter.—Capital, One
Million.

PRESIDENT—His Graee the Duke of SUTHERLAND.
LONDON BOARD.
PRESIDENT—The Earl of CAMPERDOWN.
VICE-PRESIDENT—Lord Viscount STRATHALLAN.
HONORARY MANAGERS.

J. Evan Baillie, Esq.
Lieut. -General R.)bert Bell.
Vice Admiral Sir J. P. Beres-
ford, Bart.
The Right Hon. Henry Ellis.
Hon. Archibald Macdonald.

The Right Hon. Jas. A. Stewart
Mackenzie.
James Mackillop, Esq.
W. A. Mackinnon, Esq., M. P.
George Traill, Esq.

Sir Peter Laurie, Ald. Chair- ['John Irvine Glennie, Esq.
man. !Charles Hertslet, Esq.
Francis Warden, Esq., Deputy IJohn Pirie, Esq., Alderman.
Chairman. Isaac Sewell, Esq.
Robert Cockburn, Esq. ,Walter A. Urquhart, Esq.
Archibald Cockburn, Esq. George Webster, Esq.
John Connell, Esq. • Benjn. Boyd, Esq.
W. Petrie Craufurd, Esq. Mark Boyd, Esq. Resident.
Physician.—John Webster, M.D., 56, Grosvenor-street.
The advantages offered to ie Public by this Corporation are-
1. Ample Security from their large capital.
2. Rates of Premium nearly 5-per Cent. lower than most other
offices acting on the system of participation of profits.
3. Premiums may be made payable either in a single payment,
or by annual, half-yearly, or quarterly payments.
4. The assured may either participate in the profits secured
againtt all responsibility by the capital of the Corporation, or may
pay a less premium for securing a specific sum without periodical
additions.

5. When policies effected •by parties on their own lives are
assigned to others for onerous causes, the 'holders are assured
against the risk of the original assured dying by suicide or duelling.
6. Every facility given on moderate terms to persons going be-
yond the prescribed limits of the policy.
7. Advances made on security of policies of more than three
years' standing to the extent of their value.

8. A liberal price given for policies to parties wishing to sur-
render them.
9. Persons resident in the country can effect Insurances by cor-
responding with the resident Members of the Board, Messrs.
B. and M. Boyd.
Attendance daily at the Office, No. 4, New Bank-buildings,
Lothbury, London, from Ten o'Clock in the Morning till Four in
the Afternoon, where Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal may
be obtained.

PREMIUMS
For the Assurance of £lOO on a Single Life, either by Annual,
Quarterly, or Half-yearly Payments.

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For Seven For the Whole Life, For the Wh Ic Life,
9. For One
Years, at without Profits, with Profits.
an Annual
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20 1 9 3 1 4 3 117 6 019 40 9102 1 01 1 1010 9
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50 ; 2 610 213 0 4 3 3 3 3 5 I 2 2 4 711 2 5 100 :1 `f
601 3 7 9 317 8 6 0 9 3 8 61 12 7,6 7 2 3 610 !'l4 5
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COMFORT FORTENDER FEET, ,S;c•—•
HALL and Co., Wellington-street, Strand, Patentees for
the LEATHER-CLOTH, or PANNUS CORIUM Boots and
Shoes, the softest and most comfortable ever invented ; they resem-
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corns, bunions, rheumatism, gout, or who suffer from tender feet
from any other cause, will find immediate relief in wearing these
shoes. They are well adapted for warm climates, being more flexi-
ble and more (hirable than any other kind of shoes.
HALL and Co.'s PATENT INDIA RUBBER GOLOSHES
are the lightest,
.most useful, and economical article of the kind
ever invented for keeping the feet dry.
Their WATERPROOF DRESSES for ladies and gentlemen
also deserve particular notice. They are so portable that the whole
suit may be carried in the pocket or retieule. Gentlemen's
dresses, comprising cape, overalls, and hood, 21s. ; ladies' cardinal
cloaks, with hoods, from 18s.
N.B. Ladies and gentlemen at a distance may he fitted with
shoes and goloshes by sending a shoe, and the dresses by forwarding
the height of the figure.
Hall and Co., 'Wellington-street, Strand, London.