The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-12 00:00:00

SHOES.

Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Shoes.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten-
ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part
thereof only as they may deem tit, or for a greater quantity, or of
not contracting for any.
No tender will be received unless made on the printed fa-m pro-
♦ided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at
the said office, at the Victualling Yards at Gosport end Plymouth,
or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool,
Or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol.
Tenders will be admitted for any portion of the above quantities
but separate tenders must be made for each place, and no attention
Will be paid to any offer not so made.
Patterns of the Shoes may be seen at said office, and also at the
Victualling Yards at Gosport and Plymouth.
The conditions of the revised contract, to which particular atten-
tion is called, may be seen at the said office, at the Victualling Yards
at Gosport and Plymouth, and also at Liverpool and Bristol.
No tender will be received atter One o'clock on the (lay of treaty,
and it will not be i equtre I that the party tendering or an agent on
hie behalf should attend at the office OR the day of contract, as the
result of the offer received from each person will be conununicated
to him and his proposed sureties in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tender for Shoes," and
must also be delivered at Somerset Honse.

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
THE

THIRTIETH ANNUAL GENERAL MEET-
ING of THE STANDARD ASSURANCE
COM rANY was hold within the Company's Office, Edinburgh,
on Friday, the 15th of February-- •
Gisonoic Mout, Esq., Advocate, Sheriff of Ross and Cromarty,

in theChnir.

THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS WERE SUBMITTED
'PO THE MEETING :- _ _

REPORT by the DIRECTORS as to the Progress of the Busi-
ness.
ANNUAL BALANCE-SHEET as at 15th Nov., 18.55, cer-
tified by three Directors and the Auditor, in accordance
the Company's Act of Parliament.
REPORT by the AUDITOR after examination of the Books
send Accounts.

THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM THE

REPORT:-

The Board of Directors have more than ordinary satisfac-
tion in meeting their constitutents on this occasion, as they
have it in their power not only to report that the past year
has been the most successful since the Company commenced
business in 1825, but that the dye years complete t at lath
November hat exhibit a greater measure of success than any
• previous quinquennial period.
The Results of the year, from 15th November 1854 to 15th
November, 1555, are as follows :
SUMS PROPOSED FOR ASSURANCE £716,383 7 11

Nsw ASSURANCES EFF➢CTEU

........£609,323 711

TkITEW LABEL.—In consequence .of the great
variety of counterfeit labels of A. ROW LAND & SONS'
MACASSAR OIL, now in circulation, and which so nearly resemble
tho original as frequently t dec,ive the unwary—they have em-
ployed those eminent artists Messrs. Perkins, Bacon. & Co., who.
at great cost, and by a peculiar process of their own, have succeeded
in producing from heel " A NEW LABEL," ithich cannot be forced.
Tt is composed of a section of an engin..-turned circle, repeat( d one
hundred and Thirty times—and forms an original lace-work ground,
upon which is entroved in white letters,
" ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL,

FOR TIIR GROWTH, RESTORATION, AND FOR BEAUTIFYING THE
HUMAN HAIR."
Under which is the Signature of the Proprietors in Rel Ink
" A. ROWL vNI) & SONS."

Sold by them at 20. llatton•garden, London, and by Chemists and
Perfum e