The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-02 00:00:00

No. 16,834. LON DON, WEDNESDAY EVENING

CONTRACT for the SUPPLY OF WOOD
for Lighting Fires at the following BARRACKS, in and near
Londm : Croydon; Hotu.slow and Hampton Court; Hyde Park and
Kensington ; Regent's Park, Portman Street, and St. John's Wood ;
Tower ; Wellington, St. George's, and Horse Guards ; Woolwich.
Sealed Tenders, addressed to " The Secretary to the Board of Ord-
nance, Pall-mall," will be received at this (Mice until Thursday the
3rd Sept. next, :rom such persons as may be willing to contract for
the supply of Split, Dry, Sound, Fir Wood, or of Split Birch,
Ash, and Hazel, mixed, made up into bundles of one and a half,- and
three pounds weight, and nine inches long ; to be firmly bound with
Rope Yarn, and delivered free of every expense (except the Contract
price) into the Barrack Stores, at the respective Stations, at such
times and in such quantities as the Barrack Masters may require,
from the Ist October, 1846. to the 30th September, 1849.
Blank forms of the Tender, and other information relating to the
Contract, may be had on application at the Barrack Office, 83, Pall-
Mall, or to the respective Barrack Masters.
The Terms for each station are to be stated separately.
It is to be clearly understood that the Board of Ordnance reserve
to themselves the power of accepting or rejecting any of the Tenders,
without assigning any reason or entering into any correspondence on
the subject.

By Order of the Board of Ordnance,
R. BYIIAM, Secretary.

Office of Ordnance, 19th August, 1846.

NVENTORS and DEPOSITORS of WORK-
INGG MODELS and of other Specimens of the Useful Arts (as
well as the Visitors ofthe ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION)
are respectfully informed that the Directors have given their anxious
consideration to the new appointment of DEMONSTRATOR in
MECHANICS, whose duty will be to explain to thco Visitors the
Principles and Uses of the above Specimens with clearness and
simplicity. The Lectures now comprise the ELECTRIC TELE-
GRAPH, as well as other objects of present interest. The beautiful
Optical Instruments, &c. &c.
Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

HALL OF
STREET ROME,IAGREAT . WINDMILL-

The great attraction and enthusiastic applause which honoured the
GRAND REHEARSAL of the MOVING POSER PLASTIQUE
en Wednesday and Monday last, induce Professor TURNOUR to
repeat the same TABLEAU every Morning and Evening this week.
Stalls. 2s. ; Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, is. Performances at a Quarter
past Three in the Afternoon, and Half-past Eight in the Evening.

BEARD'S COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC
PORTRAITS.
" A great improvement has been effected by the patentee ; the
method of colouring renders the portraits agreeable and lite-like."
—Times.
" Mr Beard's portraits are most brilliant in effect."—Spectator.
Establishments, at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent-
street ; 34, Parliament-street, Westminster ; and 85, King William-
street, City.

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.
FATE OF THE LINCOLNSHIRE LINES.
In December last we published a list of the thirty-nine
Lincolnshire lines(projected)for which applications were
to be made to Parliament; now that the session is over,
and the warfare closed, the result of the contest will be
interesting.

Of these thirty-nine lines, twenty-two were intended
to come to or through Lincoln; out of these, seven lines
have been passed, and the branch of No. 12, and of these
three lines only come to the city.
GROUP I.
No. 1. The London and York.—Passed in its in-
tegrity. Loop included. The SheffieM and Wakefield
Branches (separate Bills) were rejected.
No. 2. The Direct Northern.—The shares amalga •
mated with the London and Yolk. The line itself aban-
doned.

No. 3. The Cambridge and Lincoln.—Rejected in
Committee of House of Commons.
No. 4. Eastern Counties.—Extension from Cambridge
to York, rejected with No. 3.
No. 5. Eastern Cc unties.—Extension from Lincoln to
York, rejected with No. 3,
No. 6. Eastern Counties.—March and Lincoln Exten-
sion.—Terms made with the Wisbech and St. Ives.
No. 23, line passed from March to Spalding.
GROUP H.
No. 7. Lincoln and Hull Line.—The money was not
deposited. Dropped through.
No. 8. Hull and Lincoln.—Preamble declared not
proved in the Commons. 17s. 6d. per share has been re-
turned on deposit (21. 25.).
No. 9. Great Grimsby and Sheffield Extension from
Lincoln to Market Rasen.—Passed. This line commu-
nicates at Market Rasen with the Great Grimsby and
Sheffield line, passed last year. It gives a through line
from Hull to Lincoln, and running into the Nottingham
and Lincoln station there, with the Midland Counties
and the West of England. It will join the Loop line of
• the Limd3n and York, about six miles east of Lincoln,
and thus give a direct line from Hull to London.
No. 10. The Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lin-
coln, and Midlands Junctions.—Dissolved before going
into Committee. 1/. Is. per share has been returned on
the deposit (21. 25.), and 10s. 6d. more is expected.
GROUP M.

No. 11. The Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction line,
from Lincoln, through East Retford and Worksop to the
station of the Sheffield and Manchester line at Sheffield,
with a branch from Retford to Gainsborough, there join-
ing the Great Grimsby and Sheffield line. Passed.
This line gives a direct communication from Lin-
coln to Sheffield, Rotherham, Manchester, and
Liverpool, and the branch to Gainsborough gives
the same advantage to North Lincolnshire, Great
Grimsby and Hull. The Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Junction passed last year was somewhat mis-
named, being, in fact, only a line from Gainsborough
to Great Grimsby, with one branch northwards to New
Holland, and another southward to Market Rasen.
The Sheffield and Lincoln line now passed gives the
junction with Sheffield and the west, and it is expected
that the Sheffield and Manchester, the Sheffield and
Lincoln, and the Great Grimsby and Sheffield will be
shortly amalgamated into one company.
No. 12. The Manchester and Lincoln Union. This
was an opposing line with the Sheffield and Lincoln,
over exactly the same ground, with the addition of a
branch from Worksop to Chesterfield. This branch (by
arrangement with the Sheffield and Lincoln) is passed.
The line itself abandoned.

No. 13. The Direct Lincoln, East Retford, and
Sheffield did not collect sufficient funds to make the
deposit.
No. 14. The Lincoln, Wainfleet, and Boston Haven.
The plans were found to be very defective, and the line
never went before Standing Orders' Committee.
21. ls. 6d. per share of the deposit (21. 12s. 6d.) has
been returned.