The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-04 00:00:00

London : S. 0. Beeton, 18, Bo:lrate-street.'

CHILBLAINS (broken or not), frost bites,
wounds, scalds. burns, tic doniourcax, lumbago, rheumatism,
&c.. cured by JONES'S MINERAL COMPOUND. So many
varloui cures have been effected by this presaration that it is called
by those who have benelitted by it a won ierful discovery. Sold in
bottles, Is. I 2s. 9d., 45. 6d., and Bs., at Bridge's sarsaparilla
depot.
27
Regent street.

CONTRACT )'Olt BRITISH OAK TIMBER. THICKSTUFP,
PLANK, AND '1 'Mk:KAMA.
Department of the Storekeeper-Genera/ of the Navy,
Somerset-place, Zd Jan., 1856.
E T Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
,nd Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the
sth February next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
snub. persons as may be willing to contract for supplying
18,280 Loads of BRITISH OAK TIM B ER(rough contents, Int
to be delivered in a rough or sided state, as the said
Commissioners shall direct).
6,420 Loads of BnITISH OAK, TIIiCKSTUFF, and PLANK,
and
1,120,000 BRITISH OAK TREENAILS.
To be delivered at her Majesty's several Dockyards by the 31st
ib.c.ber, Nis, at prices including all carriage and other expenses.
A Tender may be made for the whole Contract, or for the quantities
required for any one or more of the yards, but not for leas than the
fis quantities of Timber, Thickatuff, riauk, and Treenails required
for any one yard.
A form of the tender, showing the distribution. sidings, asd dimen-
sions of the Timber, Thicluttuffi Plank, .nd Treenails, and all other
necessary particulars, may be had on appl cation to this office by
letter or otherwise.
No tender will he received after two o'clock on the day of treaty,
nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly
anthorised in writing.
Every leader must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty.
and bear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tender fbr British
Oak," and mast also be delivered at Somerset-Place aceomPalied
by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become
bound with the person tendering, lit the sum of 20,0001. for the due
performanee of the whole contract, or in a dice proportion fir a part
only.

Bishopagate Station, London, Jan. 3, 1856.
TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE EASTBES
COUNTIES RAILWAY.

MT Loans, LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN,
SINCE the issue of my AnsA er to the Report
of the Commit. ee of Investigation I have received so large a
number of letters from Proprietors of all classes. expressing their
satisfaction with its contents, and-pressing og me the importance.
at this juncture, of continuing to take an Rath si part In the manage-
ment of the Company. that .1-.rise-sanatuc tq,.400 more than these pub-
licly return thanks to my various correatoledenta for the matinued
confidence they repose in me.
I have urged on the Noard, in justice to :he Shareholders, whose
property is so depreciated by these mischievous contentious, and to
myself, whose character has been impugned, at once to call a Spe-
cial General Meeting of the Company.
It is also within my knowledge that other gentlemen, Impressed
with similar view 4, have laid before the Board a legal requisition to
the same effect. To this tribunal I invite the Committee of Investi-
gation now to appeal. By its decision l am ready to be bound ;
but against any delay in calling it I protest. To prolong the present
state of suspense and disorganisation is aline prejudicial to the effi-
ciency of your service, and detrimental to the best interests of all
concerned in the prosperity of the Eastern Counties Railway. All
I ask is, your earliest decision, believing that to you it is even more
important than it is to myself. A Committee of Proprietors, enter-
' taining these views, has been formed. In their hands I cheerfully
leave all that relates to the personal course I ought to pursue, feel-
ing assured that suggestions will tend to promote the permanent
interests of the Company. James Goodson. Esq., has undertaken,
in the first instance, to receive all communications on the part of
this Committee, and to hint I beg respectfully to refer all Share-
holders, at the Committee-room, 15, Old Jewfy, London.
I have the honour to be,
My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
DAVID IVADDINGTON.