The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-27 00:00:00

PORT OF PORTSMOUTH FLOATING
BRIDGE.
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CONTRACTS FOR WORKS.
Notice is hereby given that the Directors of the Port of Ports-
mouth Floating Bridge Company will meet at the Fountain Hotel,
Portsmouth, at One o'Clock precisely, on the Tenth day of JULY
next, to receive Tenders for the following Contracts, via.:—
CONTRACT for piling, building, and excavating the Landing-
place, and for building the Balance Weight Shafts on the
eastern or Portsmouth side of Portsmouth harbour.
CONTRACT for pilinc, and building the Landing-place, forbuild-
ing the Balance Weight' Shafts, and for excavating a Canal on
the western or Gosport side of the said harbour.
CONTRACT for building No. 1 Bridge or Vessel.
CONTRACT for building No. 2 Bridge or Vessel.
The plans and specifications of the several works will be ready
for inspection at the office of Mr. James Hoskins, solicitor, Ports-
mouth ; and at the office of Mr. J. B. Wakefield, solicitor, Gos-
port, on and after Tuesday the 26th day of June instant.
Tenders (made according to a given form, to be supplied by the
solicitors) must be delivered at the office of one of the Solicitors
and Clerks to the Company, at Portsmouth or Gosport, on or be-
fore Twelve o'Clock on Tuesday, the Tenth day of July next,
under a sealed cover, addressed—" To the Chairman of the Board
of Directors," and endorsed—" Tender for Works ;" and the par-
ties tendering, or persons duly authorised by them, must be in at-
tendance on the Directors at the time of meeting aforesaid.
The party whose tender is accepted will be required to enter into
a bond, with two sureties, for the due performance of the Con-
tract, and the names of the proposed sureties are to be specified in
the tender. . . .

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The Directors will not bind themselves to accept the lowest tender.
Further explanations and particulars may be obtained, on appli-
cation, at the offices of Mr. James M. Bendel, the Company's
Engineer, No. 34, Great George-street, Westminster, and at
Plymouth.
The Contractor will be at the expense of the contract.
JAMES HOSKINS, Portsmouth Solicitors and Clerks
JOAH B. WAKEFIELD, Gosport S to the Company.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
OF HOUSES AND GOODS FROM FIRE,
No. 21, LOMBARD-STREET
(Established by Royal Charter in the Reign of King George the
First),
For Assuring Houses, Buildings, Goods, Farming Stock, &e., from
Loss or Damage by Fire; and also for the Assurance of and Grant-
ing Annuities on Lives.
Sir JOHN WM. LUBBOCK, Bart., Governor.
THOMAS TOOKE, Esq., Sub-Governor.
BARTHOLOMEW JEFFERY, Esq., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. The Hon J. T. L. Melville.
George Pearkes Barclay, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
Wm. Brown, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq.
Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq. Thomas Poynder, Esq.
John Deacon, Esq. Abraham George Robarts Esq.
John Ede, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
James Gibson, Esq. William Sampson, Esq.
William Tetlow llibbert, Esq. Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.
Lancelot Holland, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
G. G. de Hochepied Larpent, Esq. Robert Thorley, Esq.
John Christopher Lochner, Esq. John Fam Timins, Esq.
Charles John Manning, Esq. Octavius Wigram, Esq.
Persons whose Annual Premiums fall due on the 24th instant
are hereby informed that Receipts are now ready to be delivered at
the Company's Offices, 21, Lombard-street, and in Pall-Mall, as
well as by their respective Agents in the several counties ; and the
parties assured are requested to apply for the renewal of their policies
on or before the 9th of July next, as the usual fifteen days allowed
for payment, beyond the date of each policy, will then expire.
June, 1838. SAMUEL. FENNING, Secretary.
In consequence of the destruction of ROYAL EXCHANGE,
by Fire, the business of the Company in all its branches, is carried
on at their New Premises, No. 21, LOMBARD-STREET, until
their Offices on the Royal Exchange arc rebuilt.

riIHE REAL CHELTENHAM SALTS,
made from the Waters of the Montpellier Spas, the pro-
perty of the late Henry Thompson, Esq.
These Salts, which are obtained from the Cheltenham Spa
Waters, by a simple process of evaporation, and contain all their
medicinal qualities, are the only Genuine Cheltenham Salts offered
to the Public,—the numberless articles sold as such, by the Che-
mists and Druggists throughout the Kingdom being merely artifi-
cial imitations of them ; not containing a single particle of Chel-
tenham Salts in their composition. The Proprietors, therefore,
feel called upon to caution their friends against the purchase of
such factitious compounds, under the idea of their being the natu-
ral productions of the Spa Waters, the medical effects of which
they vainly attempt to imitate.
The Real Cheltenham Salts are Sold in Crystalized and Efflo-
resced States, in Bottles, at 2s. 6d., 45., and 9s. each. and may be
had either at the Laboratory or Montpellier Pump Room, Chel-
tenham, and at the Depot, 7, Throgmorton-street, London ; also,
at most of the respectable Medicine Venders throughout the
Kingdom.