The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-24 00:00:00

STEAM TO ITALY
FLORENCE, ROME, NAPLES, &c.
The PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIcA-
TIONT COMPANY beg to announce that their new Steam ship
the TIBER, Captain OLIVE, built and fitted up expressly for this
line, will start from Southampton on WEDNESDAY, the 30th of Sep-
tember, for Genoa, Leghorn, Citiva Vecchia, and Naples ; and thence-
forward the Company will dispatch a steamer regularly on the 15th
(every month to those ports.
Families travelling to- Italy will find this route expeditious, eco-
nomical, and interesting.
Rates, for first-class passengers, servants, horses, and carriages,
also for goods and parcels, may be had on application at the Com-
pany's offices, 51, St. Mary-axe, London.
Aug, 19, 1846.

CONTRACTS FOR SALT BEEF AND PORK.
DEPARTMENT of the COMPTROLLER for VICTUALLING and
TRANSPORT SERVICES, Somerset-place, Aug. 3, 1846.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord lligh Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, do hereby give notice, that on TRURSDAY, the 24th
September next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
such persons as may he willlrg to CONTRACT for the supply of a
.quantity of

SALT MEAT,
of the cure of the United Kingdom, equal to 12,000 Navy tierces of
Beef, and 18,000 Navy tierces of Pork (in separate tenders), all to be
cured in the ensuing season, their Lordships reserving to themselves
the power, when the tenders are opened, of contracting either for
the whole, or for such part thereof only, as they may deem fit, or of
not contracting for any part.
Two-thirds of the Beef to be delivered in tierces, and the remain-
der in barrels, and a quantity of Pork equal to 250 tierces (and for
which separate tenders are to be made), to be delivered in casks,
containing 100 lb. each, and of the remaining quantity of Pork three-
fourths to be delivered in tierces, and the remaining one-fourth in
barrels, into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, Ports-
mouth, Plymouth, and Haulbowline, in such proportions as shall
hereafter be directed, and within the following periods:—
BEEF, Two-thirds 31st March
One-third 31st May
1847
On or before the
• PORK, One-third 31st March
Two-thirds 31st May
and to be paid for by bills payable at sight, but not during the first
period of delivery, for any quantities beyond those specified.
The conditions of the contract may be seen at this office, or by
applying to the Agent for the Victualling at Cork, or to the Collectors
of her Majesty's Customs at Limerick, Belfast, Waterford, and
Newry, or to the Secretary of the Postmaster-General at Dublin, or
to the Resident Agent for Transports at Leith.
No tender for a less quantity than shall be equal to 300 tierces of
Beef, or to 300 tierces of Pork (except for the Pork, to be delivered in
casks containing 1001 b. each), will be admitted.
No tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty,
nor any noticed unless the party attends, or some person on his
behalf, duly authorised in writing ; and it is to be expressly under-
stood that the tenders must contain a separate price for the Beef, and
a separate price for the Pork; and that every tender must also spe-
eqy the prices both in figures and words at length, or the tenders will
be rejected.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner of the envelope the words " Tender
for Salt Meat," and " Comptroller for Victualling," and must also be
delivered at Somerset-place, and be accompanied by a letter signed
by two responsible persons, engaged to become bound with the per-
son tendering, in a sum equal to 251. per cent. on the amount of the
contract, for the due performance of the same.

REMOVAL.
DR. CULVERWELL has REMOVED to No.
10, ARGYLL-PLACE, REGENT-STREET, (leading to
Great Marlborough-street,) where he may be consulted, as usual,
Daily till Three, and In the Evening from Seven till Nine ; and
where also his several publications, of which entirely new and en-
larged editions have recently been published, may be obtained.