The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX ELECTION.
The Committee for conducting the Election of Lord
ROBERT GROSVENOR sit daily at the Central Committee Rooms,
British Coffee House, Cockspur-street.
S. C. WHITBREAD, Chairman.

January 22, 1847.

CONTRACT FOR LIGNUM VIT2E.
Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 19th Jan., 1847.
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 Tuvasoar, the 4th February next, at One o'clock,
they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to
Contract for supplying and delivering into Store at her Majesty's
Dockyard at Portsmouth, TWENTY TONS of WHITE BAHAMA
LIGNUM vrriE, of from VA to 514 inches in diameter.
A Form of the Tender may he seen at the said Office. No Tender
will 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 addressed to the Secretary of the Admi-
ralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for Lignum
Vita=," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by
a Letter signed by a responsible person, engaging to become bound
with the person tendering, in the sum of 251. per cent. on the value,
for the due performance of the Contract.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PROFESSOR SCHCENBEIN'S GUN COTTON, and other
Explosive Compounds, with brilliant Experiments, LECTURED on
y Dr. RYAN, daily at Halt past Three o'clock; and on the Evening,
of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
The principle of the various EL .':CTRO-MAGNETIC TELE •
GRAPHS explained daily by Professor BACHHOFFNER, including
the Patent of Messrs. Cook and Wheatstone, in use on the railways, and
the more recent Patent of Messrs. Nott and Gamble ; the various
Models explained. :Magnified Specimens of DISEASED POTATOES,
exhibited by the OXYHYDROGEN MICROS,OPE, with the DE-
S TRUCTIVE INSECT, supposed by A. Smee, Esq., F.R.S., to be
:he cause of the disease. A beautiful Series of NEW DISSOLVING
VIEWS. The DIVING-BELL and DIVER, with Experiments.
The PHYSIOSCOPE, new CHROMATROPE, &c.. &c.

Admission Is. Schools, half-price.

HJ. and D. NICOLL, Registered Paletot
• Manufacturers and Tailors to their /loyal Highnesses
Prince Albert, Prince George of Cambridge, kis Grace the Duke of
Wellington, &c., beg respectfully to announce that the celebrated
Llama Cloth is made by them also in warmer substances to suit the
approaching season. The above firm with confidence anticipate that
this introduction will receive from the public an equal approval with
the well-known gentlemanly light overcoat, called the Registered Pa-
letot, for summer wear, which is already honoured with the constant
patronage of all that seek an unaffected gentlemanly appearance.
It is respectfully suin, ested that moderato prices are strictly main-
tained for every article of dress, supplied at either of their London
establishments, viz., 114, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhill.
The Registered Paletots, 6th and 7th Vic., cap. 0, of both the
winter and summer substances, are kept ready, in every colour, for
immediate wear ; these can only be obtained in the metropolis as
above, and of their recognised agents in the chief provincial cities of
the United Kingdom ; also of the principal Stores in the United
State, British India, and America ; but in Bombay, only of Messrs.
Waghorn and Co., and at Liverpool, of Messrs. Dawbarn and Son.

THE ERA GRAND DERBY and ST. LEGER
SWEEPS.
For 11. Gs.you have the PAPER for_TWELVE MONTHS, with
the CHANCE in 2,0001. for NOTHING
On payment of 11. Gs., Subscribers will be supplied with " THE
ERA" regularly for Twelve Months, and in addition be presented
with A CHANCE GRATIS in " The Era" Grand Sweeps.
The first twenty thousand names which shall be inscribed by the
News Agents iu Town and Country, or at the Office, will be entitled
to a chance, and receipts duly signed and numbered will be delivered,
the number indicating the Chance in the Sweep.
Should the Subscriptions not retch the said Twenty Thousand
(which the Propriet-r cannot anticipate), the Prizes will be reduced
in proportion; should they exceed that number, the Prizes will be
augmented in the same ratio.
The Drawing will take place under the sudervision of a Committee
of Subscribers on the 3d el May, 1847.
Immediately after the Drawing, due Notice will be given, by
Advertisements generally, and in "The Era," of the Names of the
Horses, and the Numbers to which they stand registered at the
Office.
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N.B. Post-office Orders of One Pound Six Shillings, to be made
payable at 180, Strand, Post-office, to Mr. Frederic Ledger, Era
Office, 5, Catherine-street, Strand, London. All Newsmen in Town
and Country will receive ,übscriptions.
Subscriptions received till the 30th of April.
Office, 5, Catherine-street, London.