The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-15 00:00:00

ENEB,AL POST-OFFICE, NOVEMBER, 1849.
CONTRACT FOR WASTE PAPER.
Notice is hereby given, that the Postmaster-General will receive
Tenders for the purchase of the WASTE PAPER of this Depart-
ment.

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The Tenders must be addressed to "Her Majesty's Postmaster-
General," and must be superscribed " Tender for Waste Paper."
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock Noon, on the Ist
of December next.

Full information on the subject may be obtained at the Dead Letter
Office of this Department, upon application being in de there, be-
tween the hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

IMPROVED DWELLINGS for the TOUR
At the present moment, when a day of National- Thanks-
giving is appointed, it cannot be out of pace to bring before the
minds of the Christian pubic so:ne of the efforts which have been
made, and are still making, to remedy the deplorable evils which
endanger both the lives and the morals of the poorer classes of
society.
The SOCIETY for the IMPROVEMENT of the CONDITION
of the LABOURING CLASSES has now been occupied for more
than four years past with these objects :
It has built a range of Dwellings for the Industrious Classes, on
sanitary principles, at Bagnigge-wells, Gray's Inn-lane. Here
tweaty-three families and thirty single women are accommodated.
It has repaired and rendered fit for healthy occupation four houses
In King-street and Charles-street, Drury-lane, wherein 108 working
men are accommodated.
It has built, in George-street, St. Giles's, a Model Lodging House
for working men, where 104 persons of this class find a comfortable
habitation. .
It has repaired and fitted up, at No. 76, Hatton-garden, a house
for the accommodation of fifty-eight females of the working-classes.
It is now building. in Streatham-street, Bloomsbury, a', range of
dwellings for mechanics and their families, wherein about 48 such
families will find good and healthy habitations.
At Tunbridge Wells it is aiding to raise a series of cottages for
agricultural labourers, of which six and a lodging-house for single
men are already completed and occupied.
Besides these various works, it is in constant correspondence with
a great number of benevolent persons in all parts of the kingdom ;
who apply for its aid in the building or improvement of cottages, or
the setting-out of cottage allotments.
In these various works it has expended, and is expending, more
than Twenty-three Thousand Pounds. For the works now in hand
a further sum of between Three and Four Thousand Pounds is needed ;
towards which the Committee now solicits the contributions of the
benevolent.
The following are the sums already subscribed towards the house
now erecting in Streatham-street :
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert - - -
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager -
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent -
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
The Right Hen. Earl Spencer
Sir Joseph Copley, Bart. -
The Right lion. Lord Feversham
S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P. -
Itcv. E. Hollond - - -
11is Grace the Duke of Bedford -
Miss Portal - -
Messrs. Barclay and Co
Kosmos - - -
Abel Smith, Esq. - -
Lord Willoughby de Eresby
Fr'end, by L. Sullivan, Esq,
Total, to Jan. 1, 1849 - - -
Donations since received :
W. S., a Tribute for the Thanksgiving Day -£lO 0
Mrs. Blair
Mrs. Lambert Blair - • - - - 25 0
The Rev. Dr. Ellerton
A Friend
R. B. Cooke, Esq. - - - 5 0
Major Cruik shank
A., per Nisbet
Y. T.
C. Saver, Esq.
A. Palmer, Esq.
A. H. Bradshaw, Esq.
R. C. Kidd, Esq.
W. S. Angell, Esq.
The Dowager Lady Cooper - - - - 10 0
J. E. Denison, Esq., M.P. - - - - 10 0
Rev. J. Ware - - - - - 20 0
Mrs. Charles Pym - - - - - - 5 0
Geo. Pearce, Esq.
J. Sperling, Esq.
R. H. V. Walpole, Esq.
R. A. Hornby, Esq.
Viscount Brackley
H. B. Hickman, Esq. - - - - - 10 0
Miss A. M. Cotton
Marquis of Blandford
Rev. Dr. Pacey
J.:O. Harris, Esq.
H. Unwen, Esq.
Rev. Dr. Cotton. Principal of Worcester College 5 0
John Hardy, Esq. - - - 20 0
Mr. Hargraves
W. E. Hubbard, Esq.
Lieut.-Colonel Seymour - - - - - 5 0
Mrs. 'lngham
Major Little
M. 0., one who has read Lord Ashley's Letter
in the Times" of the 19th ult., as a Thank-
effering of herself and family from the late
Epidetoic
Lady Murray
W. Jennings, Esq.
R. Wilkinson, Esq.
- J. Beaufort, Esq.
Hon. lkiountstuart Elphinstone - - 10 0
Miss Ware - - - - 10 0
:
Edward Strachey, Esq. - - 2 2
Mrs. Dumaresque - - - - 5
Thomas L. Ward - - - 10 0
T. H. Bastard, Esq.
E. Gardner, Esq.
T. Twining, jun., Esq.
T. H. Parker, Esq.
C. V.
Mrs. Bird
J. J. Smith, Esq.
W. Penny, Esq. - " 5 0
W. Sparkes, Esq. 5 0
Christians
E. Smith, Esq.
G. Harding, Esq.
J. C. Hall, Esq.
E. B. Bastard, Esq.
Members of Rev. Dr. Cumming's Congregation 10 0
W. P. Angell, Esq.
Mrs. Schaal
Miss Catherine Stuart
E. W. M. L.
Donations and annual subscriptions will be received by Messrs.
Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lane ; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar,
and Co., St. James's-street ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; Messrs.
Straiten, Paul, and Co., Temple-bar; and by liatchards, Piccadilly;
flealeys, Fleet-street- and Hanover-street ; and Nisbet, Berners-
street ; or by the Secretary, at the Office, 21, Exeter Hall.

- - - 4 300 0 0
- - - 150 0 •
- - 100 0 0
- - 50 0 0
- - 100 0 0
- - "ld donation 110 0 0
- - - 100 0 0
- - 100 0 0
- - 100 0 0

100 0 0

100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
- - 100 0 0
- - 100 0 0
- £5,663 3 6

ANOTELTY for the approaching season is in
preparation to which a distinguishing name has not yet been
Irtven, but which the inventors, Messrs. NICOLL, can recommend
"' one of the most useful, warm, comfortable, and graceful articles
Ifgentlemanly attire ever produced. Specimens can be seen at 114,
6, and 120, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhill, as also THE TREBLE
anent, or PALETOT, called THE NICOLL, which retains all the
?racteriatics of the famed Paletot (registered 6 and 7 Vie., cap. 65)
ite exterior, and has the additional advantages of being convertible
4°41 a warm to a light Overcoat, or vice versa, at the pleasure of
e earer, or as the mild or cold nature of the weather may re-
This garment W
This garment must be seen and worn to be properly appre-
ihl4_ed ; it will be found, perhaps, the best preservative of health in
variable climate. THE NICOLL has been secnred by Royal
'-'etters Patent in ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, and the
11)?:l'ONIES ; it can, therefore, only be purchased in the country, or
.`,?aci, of Messrs. NICOLL'S (the patentees) recognised AGENTS,
in LONDON only of themselves, viz., at 114, 116, 120,
ENT-STREET, and 22, CORNHILL.

6,,PrRE NICOLL PALETOT (Regd. 6 and 7
Vict., cap. 65) WAREROOMS, 114. 116, 120, REGENT-
'IIZEET. and 22, CORN HILL.
for Also for Nicoll's Morning Coat, now in almost universal request
the Country, Riding, Walking, Seaside, Bcc. Shooting Jackets
4uapted for the Moors, &c.
~..)1411)- have assumed the use of the word PALETOT, but Messrs.
m4COLL are the sole Patentees of the design and material.

MESSRS. NICOLL'S Wholesale and Counting
House Departments for the London Branches in the Ship-
ping and Woollen Trades aro in CHANGE-ALLEY, CORN HILL,
ilnd 120, REGENT-STREET.

SFENCER' S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE.
1,3 The thousands of individuals who for upwards of twenty
rears have used this eelebrated liquid, pronounce it to he the only
article extant which effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or
IV hair, whiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black,
Without trouble (by simply combing it through the hair), and pro-
ckes by one application a pleasing and permanent change.
, • While other dyes destroy the hair by their pernicious properties,
this liquid promotes its growth, nourishing the roots to the latest
Period of life. Persons who have been deceived by preparations
Which have a horrible stench (dangerous to the head), troublesome
fa their application, and unsatisfactory in their colour, will find
Spencer's Chinese Liquid Hair Dye a distinct article, agreeable in
every respect, and that " none but itself can be its parallel." Price
Zs. 6d., Gs.. and 10s. per bottle.
To be had of Spencer and Co., 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate-
Street, Whlteehapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn-
hill; Mr. Prentice, 84, Edgeware-road ; Butler, 4, Cheapslde ;
?rout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Barclay, Far..
Ilngden-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond-itreet; Hooper, 43,
~„-I',lllg William-street, London,bridge ; llannay, 63, Oxford-street;
711115°m-street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham ;
Roberta, 23, Church-street, Liverpool ; and of most Perfumers and
Medicinei Vendors in town and country. Sent to any part of
-"e kingdom. by receiving a remittance, pest paid.
?lease to s:sk for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye."
Observe—Spencer's and Co.'s address is on the wrapper.

CONTRACTS for FRES II BEEF.;
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport
Services, Somerset-place, Nov. 14, 1849.
The Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give
notice that on THURSDAY, the 29th instant, at One o'clock, they will
be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract
for supplying (under separate Contracts) all such quantities of
FRESH BEEF
as may be demanded for the use of. her Majesty's Ships and Vessels.
at the following places—from the Ist January to the 3154 December,
1850, both days included, viz.:—
Chatham !Kingstown and Dublin
Cork and Kinsale !Leith, Leith Roads, and the Frith
Cowes of Forth
Deptford to Erith (both inclu- Limerick, Torbert, and Kilrush
sive) . !Milford and Pembroke
Deal and Downs !Portsmouth
Falmouth Plymouth
Guernsey and Jersey 'Sheerness
Galway Waterford.
All parties oho& to Tender are particularly desired to read atten-
tively the Conditions of the Contracts, which may be seen either at
this Office, or an application t,) the Superintendents of the Victualling
Establishments at Deptford, Deal, Portsmouth, and Plymouth ; the
Superintendents ofher Majesty's Dockyards at Chatham, Sheerness,
and Pembroke ; the Agent for the Victualling at Ha:xlbowline ; the
Agent for Transports at Leith ; the Secretary to the Postmaster-Go-
neral at Dublin; :or to the Collectors of her Majesty's Customs at each
of the other places.
Every Tender must specify the price it words at length, and no
Tender Swill be: received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor
any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him, duly
authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be delivered at the above Office, and be accom-
panied by a letter addressed to the • Secretary of the Admiralty, at
Somerset-place, and signed by two responsible persons, engaging to
become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 1,50)1. for
the due performance of the Contracts for Sheerness, Chatham, Ports-
mouth, and Plymouth; and in the sum of 5001. for each of the other
Places