The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-18 00:00:00

NTRACTS for COALS for the ROYAL

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MARINE BARRACKS and INFIRMARIES.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport
Services, Somerset-place, March 16, 1848.
ommissionors for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral
nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give
hat on TLIERSDAY, the 23d instant, at One o'clock, they will
to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract
lying the Royal Marine Barracks at Deptford, and the Royal
Barracks and Infirmaries at Woolwich, Chatham, Ports-
and Plymauth, with all such
COALS
,r other of the following sorts, as shall from time to time be
(NI, between the let of April next and the 31st of March, 1849.
'ord. Woolwich. and Chatham —Lambton's, or Stewart's, or
1, or Russel's lietton's Wollsond.
rnouth—Lambtotio, or Stewart's, or Hetton's Wallseud.
outh—Russel's High Main, or Stobart's Wallsend, or Spring-
Pallsend, or Usworth's Main Coals.
ins tendering must state what sorts they intend to supply.
xinditions of the Contracts may be seen at the said Office,
application to the Barrackmaster at the respective ports.
der will be received after One o'elock •u the day of treaty,
7 noticed, unless the party attends, or au agent fur him,
thorised in writing.
9 Tender mast be addressed to the Seoretary of tke Admiralty,
gx in tke left hand corner the words " Tender for
sat also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a
signed by a responsible person, engaging t• become bound
to person tendering, in the sum of 2001. for the due perform-
f each of the Contracts for Deptford and 'Woolwich, and in the
4001. for each of the other places.

tEE EMIGRATION to the AUSTRALIAN
COLONIES and the CAPE of GOOD HOPE.
Majesty's Colonial and Land Emigration Commissioners bay-
pointed the undersigned their Principal Agents in the Southern
as of England, for receiving applications for and on behalf of
Kilo may be desirous to Emigrate, and the selection of suitable
s for a Free Passage to Sydney, Port Phillip, Adelaide, or the
)f Good Hope ; full information as to the classes eligible, and
nelitimui on which free passages are granted, together with all
117 aid in arranging for the same in accordance with the Com-
ners' regulations, will be gratuitously and generally afforded on
ittion, either personally or by letter, to
JOHN MARSHALL and CO.,
Agents for Government Emigration, at Southampton ;
and at 26, Birchin-lane, Cornhlll, London.

BOWYER GALLERY.
rRs. M. PARKES begs to intimate that she
L has fixed on the 29th of May to meet her subscribers and
3. at Exeter nail, for tke purpose of delivering the Sit tree in
tub subscription. Orders for Shares, One Guinea each, and
Particulars, to be had at the above Gallery, 22, Gulden-square;
'eugh Mrs. Parkes's Town and Country Agents.

?ECIMENS of the newly-discovered mode of
SKETCHING from NATURE may be seen at Ne. 60, Wel-
street, Cavendish-square, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri-
till Twelve o'clock. Mr. Walker has had the honour to in-
several of the Royal Academicians, and many of the first ar-
)f the day, and also Use nobility an-A-gentry. Parties in the
r 7 are supplied with the whole of the materials, prepared paper,
Ind a full and easy explanatisii of the mode, on application to Mr.
.er,—_7.B. This mode of Drawing is most rapid and effective.

DING SAUCE, for FISH, GRAVIES, HASHES, STEAKS, &c
OHN and CHARLES COCKS, the Sole Pro-
prietors and Manufacturers of the celebrated READING
CE, beg most respectfully to Caution the Public against the
frauds and impositions practised by many Loudon and Country
I. who aro offering for sale their own spurious compositions as
lenuine liteading Sauce.
is SAUCE is patronised and recommended by most Families in
ingdom, and as a Sauce for general use it stands unrivalled. It
ailed by all respectable Oilmen and Fish Sauce Venders in the
dom. Be particular in asking for
"COCKS'S READING SAUCE,"
h is prepared Only by John and Charles Cocks, at their Menu-
Ty, Duke-street, Reading.—All others are Counterfeits.—Obserye
lame " J. and C. Cocks, Reading," on the Seal and Label of each
It ; without this none are Genuine.

EASING of the NORTH BRITISH
RAIL WAY.
TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF TILE NORTH BRITISH
RAILWAY.

GENTLEMEN,
r. Hudson offered 8 per Cent. for this line as a minimum tlivi-
I, with the option of amalgamating with the York and Newcastle
ar. This offer was refused by your Directors as inadequate.
ere, then, we have the opinion of such a judge as Mr. Hudson
this line is werth 8 per Cent., or rather 9, as the York and New-
le are paying that rate of dividend, and we have the opinion of
Directors that it is worth more.
'e have further, in corroboration of both estimates, the fact of
line having iu the second year of its existence, paid a dividend
Per Cent., besides laying by a considerable sum as a deprocia-
, fund, and this when the communication with England is inter-
led at Berwick, and again at Newcastle, by the non-completion of
bridge., a result from which, in the space of a year or two, a (H-
-ind fully equalling Mr. Hudson's expectations may rationally be
icipated, if the h'story of the progressive development of traffic on
I line is at all analogous to that on other lines.
tow, in these circumstances, we hare the shares quoted in the
rket at 41. discount, when the York and Newcastle, with which
eraalgamation at par was actually offered, is at 51. premium, ex.
dividend, only recently paid Ween, if we were to estimate the
hit British as a stock guaranteed 8 per Cent., which it might have
the discrepancy is still more extraordinary, when compared
lines in that position.
%Pen the whole there must be some vary egregious misconception
atistake relative to this stack. Either Mr. Hudson and the North
fish Directors must have been quite mistaken in their calcala•
ii, cautiously and elaborately as they were gone into, and sup-
ted, as they apparently are, by the nascent success of the under-
:lag, or else the public must have altogether overlooked the merits
the line.
:n these circumstances, could not the North British Proprietors
Lew the negotiation with Mr. Hudson, and even offer him the line
a guarantee of 7 per Cent. There can be little doubt he would
:opt of such an offer, being 1, or rather 2 per Cost. under his own
innate ; and although it might be sacrificing the ultimate valne of
shares, still as such a guarantee would centraand 41. premium,
I shareholders might prefer the present advantage thus secured to
lni, to the probability et a greater profit at a future period.
I um, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,