The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, IS4I.

CONTRACTS FOR VARIOUS ARTICLES FOR HOS-

PITA!, SERVICE.
P:l' A ItTMENT PHYSIc I A :;..GENERAL OF
IHE NAVY, SordEß SET-PI. ACE, JAN. 7, 1941.
rri HE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT-
ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of
the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Oe Notice, that on Titu It.SDAY, the 14th
Instant, at One o'clock, they wi'l he ready to treat with such
Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and de-
livering, within One Calendar Month, into the :‘ ledical Stores
at her Majesty's Victualling Yard at DEPTFORD, the under-
mentioned Articles, viz. :
CALICO 10,0':0 Yards
LINEN PILLOW CASES ...
FEATHERS
FLANNEL WAISTCOATS luo No.
SHItiTS '2oo „
GOWNS B3 „
BEBE CLOTH COATS lOO ~
SHORT TOWELS „
LINEN SHEETS
Samples of the Articles, and the Conditions of the Contract,
may be seen at the said Office.
No Tender will be received after one o'clock, on the day of
Treaty, user any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent
for him, duly authorized in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi-
ralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for
," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, ac-
companied by a Letter signed by a responsible Person, en-
gaging to become bound with the Person tendering in the
sum of 25/. per cent. on the value, for the due performance of
the Contracts.

T4ONDON and WESTMINSTER WATER
COMPANY.

Offices, No. 7, St. Martin's Place, Trafalgar-strive.
Capital 600,0001. in Shares of 501. each.
Deposit (in order to comply with the Standing Orders) Si.
per share.
Applicants for Shares in this Company are respectfully re-
quested not to transmit cash with their applications, as the
same, when the shares are allotted, must be paid at the Bankers,
Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., or Messrs. Drummond. The
Money already sent for Shares has been returned to the parties
who have sent it. _

The allotment cannot bemade immediately, but will be made
very speedily, in order to complete the arrangements in time
to comply with the standing orders of Parliament.
In the mean time applications for Shat es may be made to any
of the following Members of the. Sub-Committee appointed by the
General Committee for considering them—Wm. Chaplin, Esq.
Lad-lane and Euston-square; Thomas Do Vear, Esq.,
street, Kensington ; and Captain MacDougal, Fir-grove, North
Brixton ; or to Ourselves, No. 18, Bedford-row; the Secre-
tary. No. 7, St. Martin's Place; W. S. Northhouse, Esq.,
Parliamentary Agent, No. 4, Parliament-street ; or to M.
E. Wilkinson, Esq., Guildhall.yard. Of all whom Mr. Ste=
phenson's Report may be had.
WINTER, WILLIAMS, and WILLIAMS;

Solicitors to the Company.
1 AONDON and BRIGHTON RAILWAY
COMPANY.

Notice is hereby given that the next HALF-YEARLY
'JUTTING of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY
will be held, pursuant to the Art of Incorporation, on Wnio-
NESDAY, 27th January, 1841, at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street, at One o'clock precisely, w hen Five Members of the
present Direction will go out of office, who, being duly qualified,
will offer themselves for Re-election, and at which Meeting cer-
tain Shares upon which the Seventh Call has not been paid, and
have been in consequence thereof declared forfeited under
minute •f the Board of Directors of 19th June last, will be
submitted for confirmation of such forfeiture ; and at, which
Meeting there will be laid before the Proprietors certain arti-
cles of agreement entered into between this Company, and the
London and Croydon, and the South Eastern Railway. Clip-
panies, relative to the joint purchase, enlargement, alteration,
and proprietorship, use, and management of a station for the
said three Companies near London-bridge, in the parish of St.
Olave, Southwark, in pursuance of the Resolution of the General
Meeting held on the 30th •f January, 1840.
The Transfer Books of this Company will be closed on the
16th inst., and remain shut until after the Meeting.
Under prevision of the Act of Parliament no person can
vote at this Meeting who shall not have paid all Calls due. •
JOHN HARMAN, Chairman.
THOMAS WOOD, Secretary.
London and Brighton Railway Office, 10, Angel-
court, Throgmerton-street, .lan. 6, Is4l.

ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.

STOLEN from the VICTORIA TAVERN,
HOLLOWAY, on the sth day of September, 1840,
the under-mentioned NOTES, payment of which has been
stopped at the Bank of England :
£2OO
100
50
50
5
5
5
Four Si., Nos. 79,757, 79,758. 79,759, 75,760, July 1, 1840.
No. 22,591, April 1, 1840, 51., has been paid into the Bank
of England.
_...

The- above reward will be paid upon the recovery of the
property, or in proportion, according to the amount returned,
by applying at the above house.

UNREDEEMED PLEDGES.
NIESSRS. DEBENHAM and STORK
will SELL at their Rooms, King-street, Covent-gar-
den, on THURSDAY, Jan. 14, and following day, at Eleven,
An ASSEMBLAGE of Valuable FORFEITED PRO-
PERTY, consisting of gold, silver and gilt watches, elegant
jewellery, ancient and modern plate, double and ,single guns and
pistols, superfine cloths, kerseymeres, and waistcoatings' linen
drapery, silk mercery, hosery, a profusion of Ladies' and Gen-
ilemen'slexcellent apparel, table and bed linen, window and
Led curtains, household furniture, feather beds, carpets, looking
glasses, and other effects pledged in months prior to February,
1640, with the following pawnbrokers, viz., Walter, High Hol-
born ; Thomson, late Ross, East-street, Marylebone, and others.
May be viewed, and Catalogues had at the Rooms.

nSLER'S ANEMOMETER, at work at the
N(../ ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, where
the most ingenious Novelties in Practical Science, and the
most interesting Works of Art, aro exhibited in the EVEN_
INGS as well as MORNINGS. The New Philosophical
Experiments are beautifully simplified. After the Chemical
Lecture, a Band of Music performs ; also in the evenings.
Admission, Is.

The Chemical Classes, the Laboratory for Assays and Ana-
lyses (under Mr. Maugham), and the School for Engine..
Drivers, are departments separated from the public exhibition.

TO WATCH AND CLOCK MAKERS.
/110 BE DISPOSED OF, an Old-established
JL BUSINESS in one of the Leading Thoroughfares of
the City. It is in excellent repair, and has a handsome Plate-
glass front, doing a good business, which can be much im-
proved. The Stock, which is very good and fash!onable, may
be taken or not. This will be found well worth the attention
of any person commencing in the above line, as it can be had
on moderate terms.

For Particulars, apply to 92, Quadrant, Regent-street.

PUBLICATION S.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM INDIA AND CHINA.
rir E ASIATIC JOURNAL for JANU-
ARY, to be published on Mortnnv, the 11th inst., will
contain very full Intelligence from all parts of India, China,
and Australasia.

London : W. H. Allen and Co., 7, Leadenhall-street.

rfiHE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM
11 RAILWAY and the RAILWAY MAGAZINE. The
10,000/. and the State of the Road. See the RAILWAY
MAGAZINE and COMMERCIAL JOURNAL of THIS
DAY. Price 5d., stamped; goes post free.
Office, 3, Red Lion-conrt, Fleet-street, and to be had of
all Booksellers and -Newsmen.

Now ready, in One Vol., post Bvo.,
THE SECOND EDITION OF
R. COCHRANE'S MORE A.
To which is added

MEDITATIONS of OTHER DAYS.
The " Meditations of Other Days" may be had separately.
Saunders and Otley, Publishers, Conduit-street.

PAUL PERIWINKLE.

In One large Volume, Octavo, embellished with 40 spirited
Etchings by PHIZ. Price 21s. bound in fancy cloth.
PAUL PERIWINKLE; or, THE PRESS-
GANG. In Three Books. By the Author of " Ca-
vendish," " Flying Dutchman," &c., Sze.
N.B. The Covers may be had separately, Price 2s.
London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, Cheapside.

FROM LAST N1G111"S GAZETTE

FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 8.
It is hereby notified that her Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs has received a despatch from her
Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople, dated the 9th of
December, 1840, transmitting a note from Reschid Pacha,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ottoman Porte, of the 9th
of the same month, announcing that, in consequence of the
Syrian ports being now occupied by Ottoman troops, his
Imperial Majesty the Sultan had given orders that the blockade
of the ports and harbours of the coast of Syria should be dis-
continued.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 7, 1841-
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. William
Carwithen, D.D., to the Rectory of Stoke Clymesland, in the
county of Cornwall and diocese of Exeter, void by the death
of the Rev. Charles Lethbridge.

WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 8.
13th Regiment of LightDragoons—Lieut. H. H. Kitchener
to be Captain by purchase, vice Rosser, who retires ; Cornet H.
Hamilton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kitchener ; C.
P. Ramer, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hamilton,
Jan. 8.

Bth Regiment of Foot—Gentleman Cadet W. T. Granville,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice M'Murdo, promoted in 22d Foot, Jan. 8.
22d Foot—Ensign C. Dakers, from the 72d Foot, to be En-
sign, vice Smith, promoted, Jai.. 8.
24th Foot—Brevet Major J. Stoyte to be Major, without
purchase, vice Stack, who retires upon full-pay ' • Lieutenant
N. Leslie to be Captain, vice Stoyte ; Ensign C. R. Harris to
be Lieutenant, vice Leslie ; J. H. Lutman, Gent. to be
Ensign, vice Harris, Jan. 8.
36th Foot—Lieat. H. Bristow, from half-pay 38th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice A. Connor, who exchanges, Jan. 8.
41st Foot—Ensign T. M'L. Farmer to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Carden, promoted in the 2d West India Regi-
ment ; H. Smith, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Farmer, Jan. 8.

45th Foot—E. Boys, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Lambert, appointed to the 62d Foot, Jan. 8.
48th Foot—Lieutenant M. Emmett to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Dalzell, promoted ; Ensign D. Fullerton to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Emmett ; W. Fetherston,
Gent., to be Ensign, b 7 purchase, vice Fullerton, Jan. 8.
56th Foot—Lieut. 'I. Bateson, from half-pay unattached, to
be Lieutenant, vice H. Holliasworth, who exchanges, receiving
the difference; Gentleman Cadet R. Anderson, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Mae
pherson, promoted in the 22d Foot, Jan. 8; E. F. Hare, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Deshon, promoted in 22d
Foot, Jan. 9.

Gist Foot—Gentleman Cadet J. F. Brickdale,f rom the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Smith, promoted in the 22d Foot, Jan. 8.
62d Foot—Ensign C. Lambert, from the 45th Foot, to be
Ensign, vice Dane, promoted ; Gentleman Cadet H. S. M. D.
Fulton, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Gubbins, promoted, Jan. 8.
64th Foot—Ensign F. H. Kilvington to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Lys, who retires ; G. L. Maddison, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Kilvington, Jan. 8.
78th Foot—Lieutenant E. H. Ffinney, from half-pay 46th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice A. Grierson, who exchanges,
Jan. 8.

81st Foot—Lieut. W. F. Nixon to be Paymaster, vice A.
Thompson, who retires upon half-pay, Jan. 8.
Rifle Brigade—W. Wake, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Law, who retires, Jan. 8.
Ist West India Regiment—Ensign M. Matthews to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Lucas, appointed to the 22d
Foot, Jan. 8; Ensign S. Ballantine to be Lieutenant by pur-
chase, vice Foster, appointed to the 22d Foot ; Sergeant-Major
J. Aggas to be Ensign, vice Matthews; J. H. Clds, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Ballantine, Jan. 9.

MEMORANDUM.—The date of the exchange of Lieutenant
T. Gaisford, from the 22d Foot, to be Lieutenant in the 79th
Regiment, is the 4th, and not 6th, January, 1841.

kly Liabilities and Assets of the
3th of October, 1840, to the sth
sive, published pursuant to the
)8.

Quarterly Average of the Wee
Bank of England, from the L
of January, 1841, both inclu:
Act, 3 and 4 W. IV., cap. f.
LIABILITIES, ♦SSETS.
Circulation £16,112,000 Securities ........£22,362,900
Deposits 7,049,000 Bullion .... 3,557,000

£23,161,000
Downing-street, Jan, 7, 18.

£25,919,000

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

JOSEPH FEARNLEY, wool-stapler, Bradford, Yorkshire.
THOMAS WATKINS, grocer, Tredegar, Monmouthshire.
GEORGE HANDIER BAL LER, commission agent,
Bristol.