The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-03 00:00:00

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENMAL PRESENTS

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort
went of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights, &c., in Italian,
Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported
and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her
Majesty. 149, Strand, W. 0., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition of
Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facilitate the inte-
resting studs of MINERA LOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had
19. 10, 90, 50, to 50 guineas each.
eitACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERA-
LOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand.

PARTRIDGE AND COOPER,
MANUFACTURING STATIONERS,
192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.O )
THE PUBLIC :-UPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES,
AND
CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20e

Per ream. s. d.
Fine Cream Laid Note; a cheap paper .
Superfine Cream Laid Note; much approved
Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note ; especially recommended 5 6
Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note .... 7 0
Straw Paper, " Patent ;" adapted for rapid writing ........ ... 2 6
Large Commercial Note Papers 35., 45. 55., and 6 0
Foolscap Papers, blue or cream.......... 105. 6d., 12s. 6d., and 14 6
Outsides Foolscap • 6 6
Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 45.; ruled ditto, 4 6
Tinted Lined Note five quires for ls. 6d., or 5 6
New Vellum Wove "Club House" I' ote, five quires for 2s. 6d.
Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s 6d, 5s 6d, & 65 6d ..
Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s 6dl . i per 1,000
Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., as.
COLOUR STAMPING (Relief) reduced to ls. per 100. Polished
steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the
prices charged by the retail houses.
An ILLTR,TRA TED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip-
tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, inkstands,
Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling
Writing Cases. Desks post free. Established 1841

FRESH. MEAT PRESERVATIVE (Perry's
Patent).—The only effectual and simple
means by which Meat, Fish, Poultry,
Butter, &c., can be kept sweet and
sound in the hottest weather.

NwithoutO HOUSE, HOTEL,
it
or should Vide .on ofs
thebe
Press.
Sold in Jars, at 3s. 6d. per gallon, by
all grocers and oilmen.—Depot, 6 ;, St.
John-street, West Smithfield, E.C.

THE BLOOD PURIFIER— Old Dr. JACOB
-A- TOWNSEND'S SARSAPARILLA. This extraordinary
medicine has a singular influence over the blood, which it
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Purifying tonic 'it is invaluable, and highly recommended in
long-standing cases of indigestion, nervousness, coughs, scro-
fula, gout, dropsy, and wasting of flesh. Sold by all druggists.
Chief depot, No. 131, Fleet-street, LondOn.—Caution : Get the
red and blue wrapper, with the Doctor's head in the centre.
No other genuine. In bottles 2s. 6d., 45., 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., and
Ils. The old Dr.'s Sarsaparilla Pills are the most popular
medicine known for all bilious affections, liver and stomach
Complaints, and indigestion, as proved by thousands. Also,
Sarsaparilla Ointment, the best soother of all sores, burns, and
scalds ; each in boxes, ls. 14d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. ; by post,
16, 30, and 60 stamps.

DINNE FOR D'S FLUID MAGNESIA.-
The medical profession for Thirty Years have approved of
this pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for Acidity of
the tqomach, Heartburn, Headache, Gout, and Indigestion; and
as the beat mild aperient for delicate constitutions, especially
adapted for Ladies,Children, and Infants.

DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists,
172, New Bond-street, London; and of all other chemists
throughout the world.

DR. KING'S DANDELION and QUININE
LIVE R PILLS (Without Mercury;.
The very best remedy for
BILE, WIND, INDIGESTION, ACIDITY, HEADACHE,
HEARTBURN, &c.,
And acknowledged by many eminent surgeons to be the safest
and mildest pills for every constitution.
In boxes at ls. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d., at all chemists.

DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS.
A NEVIeII-FAILINU REMEDY.—Prepared without any
11?e.rcurial ingredient,will be found invaluable to all who suffer from
bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness,
dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a family
aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood. they are truly ex-
cellent; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they
create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole ner-
vous system.—Prepared only and solo by W. Lambert, chemist, 8
Inig William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by most drug
Elata, in boxes, is. I,d, and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d.
sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine
are 10 a square green package, with " William Lambert, 8, King
William-street, Charing-cross," engraved on the Goveinment
atamp,

DEVON AND CORNWALL RAILWAY
COMPANY.
Notice is Hereby Given, that the next Half-yearly General
Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company will be held at the
offices of the Company, No. 2, Westminster Chambers, in the
City of Westminster, on THURSDAY, the 11th day of August
next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, for the transac-
tion of the general business of the Company.
And notice is hereby further given that it is proposed to sub-
mit to the consideration and decision of the meeting the fol-
lowing matter, viz. :
The Sale to the London and South-Western Railway Company,
under the provisions of the London and South-Western Railway
(Additional Powers) Act, 1866, of the Share Capital of this
Company (Coleforcl to Okehampton Section), and the adoption
by the London and South-Western Company of the debenture
debt of the said railway.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the
4th to the 11th August next, both days inclusive.

By order,
HOWARD LANKESTER, Secretary.
2, Westminster Chambers, 27th July, 1870.

CLERGY MUTUAL 2
Establishe

SSURANCE SOCIETY
in 1829.

TRUSTEES
The Archbishop of Canterbury. The Lord Bishop Sumner.
I The Archbishop of Dublin, The Archdeacon of Maidstone.
Total existing sum assured upon life .. £4,689,458 Os. ed.
Total annual income .................. £183,444 Os. 6d.
Invested Capital in support of As-
surances ............................ £1,729,173 16s. 7d.
No less a sum than £103,198 15s. ld. was (notwithstanding the
large reductions in the Premiums made by Bonus every fifth
year, from 1831 to 1866 both inclusive) added to the Invested
Capital for the year ended 31st May, 1870.
No agency employed, and no commission paid.
The whole surplus capital (accumulated quinquennially)- is
divided amongst the Life Assurance Policies at the end of every
fifth year,
Next Bonus will be due on Ist of June, 1878.
Life Assurances may be effected in this society by Clergymen
and their wives, and the near relations of Clergymen and of
their wives, but by none others.
41st Annual Report, Prospectuses, &c., and "Hints to Clergy-
men on Matters of Life Assurance," by the Rev. John Hodgson,
may be had at the Office of the Society, No. 2, Broad Sancluary,
Westminster.

JOHN HODGSON, 11. A„ Secretaiy.