The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-14 00:00:00

CONTRACTS FOR FRESH OX BEEF.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling,
Somerset House, 12th May, 1860.
ARE COMMISSIONERS rim EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
REREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the 31st
inst, at half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with
such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying
(under separate Contracts), all such quantities of FRESH OX
BEEF as may be demanded for the use of her Majesty's Ships
and Vessels at the following places, from the let July to the
31st December, 1860, both days included, viz.:—
ENGLAND, &c.
Hull
Jersey and Guernsey,
I Li ttlehampton
Liverpool
,London - Bridge to,
Woolwich, incla-1
sive
Lymin?ton
North Shields
Penzance
Plymouth (Oxen)
Portland and Port-
land Roads

enatham to Gilling-
ham, inclusive
Cowes
Dartmouth
Deal, and in the

Portsmouth (Oxen)
Purfleet
Ramsgate
Sheerness,from be-
low Gillingham
to the Great Nore
inclusive
S,,utliampton
Torbay
Weymouth
Yarmouth

Downs
Dover - •
Falmouth
Gravesend
Greenhithe
'Grimsby
Harwich
Holyhead

SCOTLAND.
Granton I Leith
Greenock I Queensferry.

Stornoway

IRELAND.

li:ingstown and Mill Cove) Bere- I Queenstown and
Dublin haven) liinsale
Rathmullen
N.B.—The Contractors arc to supply Good, Fat, Well-Fed
Ox Beef as NO HEIFER MEAT wilt be admitted.
Separate tenders must be made for each port, and no at-
tention will be paid to any offer not so made.
None of the contracts to be sub-let, and the contracts for
Chatham and Sheerness to be taken by persons residing on
the spot and the Cattle for Chatham and Sheerness to be
alaughtered on the spot.
Particular attention is called to the recent modifications of
the Conditions of the Contracts, which may be seer at this
Office. or by applying to the superintendents of :the Victual-
ling Establishments at Deptford, Gosport, and Plymouth ;
the Superintendents of Her Majesty's Dock-yards at Wool-
wich, Chatham, and Sheerness ; the Clerk in charge of Her
Majesty's' Yard at 'Deal; the Agent for the Victualling at
Haulbowline ; the Agent for Transports at Leith; the Offi-
cers conducting 'the Packet Serylce at Dover, Liverpool, and
Southampton ; the Secretary to the Postmaster-General,
Dublin; to the Collectors of Her Majesty' Customs at,

Cowes Hull Ramsgate
Dartmouth Jersey and Guern- Weymouth •
Falmouth - sey Greenock
Grimsby Ye:mouth Stornoway
}far wich Penzance • Shields
And to the roatmaEter at Torquay (forTorbay) and each of
the other Places..
Forms of Tender 'may also be obtained, on application to
the proper Officer at either of the above Places.
No tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on
the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the Printed
Form Provided for the purpole ; but it will not be necessary
that the party tendering, or an agent appointed by him,
should attend at this Office, as the result of the osier re-
ceived iron:teach person wilt be communicated to hint and his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every tender must be 'delivered at the above Office, and
signed by two responsible persons,' en7a•ging to become
bound with -the person tendering in .the sum of £590 for
the due performance of each of the Contrasts for Sheerness,
Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Queenstown and Kin-
sale ; and in the sum of £3OO for call]. of the other Contracts.

THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
142, Stratr:l, London.

Empowered by Act of Parlir.ment, for LIFE ASSURANCE
SURVIVORSRIPS, AN'nrUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c.

• DrßEcTons.
EDMOND SITEPTeARD SYHES, M.D., Chairman.
John Elliotson, M.U.,Cantab., I John Moss, Esq.
F.R.S. John Symes, Esq,
Henry J. Hodgson, Esq,

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Lompson,

SECRETARY TO THE BOARD.
Alexander Richitrdson, Esq.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Augustus Blondel, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford.

Young.
MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL.
J. ElHutson, M.D., Cantab., F. 8.5., 37,.Conduit-street.
ACTUARY.
W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., Ste.
ASSISTANT ACTUARY.
Barker Woolhouse, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.

Messra._Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowelife, Bedford

The next Qui
in May, 1860.

inquennial Division of Profits will be declared

.mples of Bonus up to May, 1855 :

Bonus in Permanent
Policy ' Sum Bonus in addition Reduction
taken Age. Assured. Cash.
out in to Sum of Annual
Assured.
Premiums.
s. I . d.
1838 55 3,003 857 17 7 428 14' 556 3 8
1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4
1845 .59 2,000 232 18 0 156 15. 0 16 6 0
1848 GO 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2
1851 '.55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7
..._

The following are amongst the advantages offered by the
International Life Assurance Society:—
The Society,was established in 18.38.
Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured
every five years.
For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the
Chairman, 142, Strand.

EDMOND S. SIMES, -Chairman
142, Stfand, London, W.C.

AT • 131, REGT2NT-STREET, LONDON
FINEST FOREIGN CIGARS ONLY:

THE HABANA CIGAR COMPANY
(LIMITED).
Rear-Admiral Sir WILLIAMDIRECTORS
DICKSON, Bart., Chairman.
The Right Hon. Lord Garvagh. I Col. T. C. Hammill.
Rear-Admiral Duntze. Alfred llanson, Esq.
LOUIS SILBERBERG, Manager and Honorary Director.
The above Company invite public attention to their stock
of real imported Habana Cigars, being the largest and cho'cest
In Europe ; also to their celebrated Cut Tobaccos, and their
newly patented Pipe Cigars.
Offices and Warehouse, 48, Pall-mall, St. James's, London,
E.W. Special retail agencies borne Company's goods alone :
London—No. 67, Quadrant, Regent-street ;4, Opera-colon-
nade ; 85, King William-street, City;, 37, Ludgate-hill.
Dublin`-63, Grafton-street. Manchester -33 and 35, Hop-
wood-avenue. Cambridge— -3, Trinity-street.

NOVELTY IN SMOKING.-THE HABANA
CIGAR COMPANY (Limited) beg to inform the trade
and public generally that they are about to introduce' a new
inventiOn, under Royal Letters Patent, called the PIPE
CIGAR, whit!) consists of pure tobaccoleaf, free from all in-
lerior substancea,and adulteration, rolled into charges of dif-
ferent Sizes to suit the bowls of all ordinary smoking pipes,
thereby retaining the full virtues of the plant, and combining
the luxury of a mellow cigar with the companionship of a
favourite pipe.
The Pipe Cigar will be sold retail by all respectable tobac-
conists throughout the United Kingdom. and wholesale at
the Company's warehouses, No. 48, Pall Mall, St. James's,
London, where may be also obtained the choicest imported
savanna Cigars.

LOUIS SILBERBERO, Manager.

AUNT VILLES DE FRANCE, PARIS,
101, Rue Richelieu, and 51, Rue Vivienne,
The confidential Ho,-use of the Parisian Aristocracy.
LYONS SILKS.
MANTLES, 'CLOAKS, and Ready-made Articles.
LINGENE and LACE.
FRENCH CACHEMERE.
FANCY STUFFS.
PARIS MADE GLOVES,
And new FANCY TISSUES, in the first style.
LADIES' DRESSES made to measure in the newest
Parisian Fashions.
The Prices are invariably fixed, as well on the Goods as for
Inakimg up.

RIIPTURES.—EY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
is allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen to,
be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of
HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its
effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Moc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, furwarded•by post, on the cir-
curnfere-dce of the body, two inches below the hips, being
sent to the manufacturer,

Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 26a. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, is.
A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. ed. Postage, ls. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
°See, Piccadilly.
L ASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &e., for
111 Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of
the Legs, Sprains, Am They are porous, tight in texture,
and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking.
Price 3s. 6d., 78. 6d., 108., and 16s. each. Postage 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.

PRESENTS.— ORNAMENTAL and SCIEN
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and Dining-room, consisting of anew and elegant assortment
of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands,
beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &c., in I talian,Alabas-
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manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her
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Mr. Tennant arranges glementary collections of SHELLS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate
the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CONCHOLOGY,
and GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
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RIGHT AND HEARING.—SPECTACLES.—
POWERFUL TELESCOPES.—OPERA, RACE, and
PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. Messrs. S. and B. Sole-
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—opposite the York Hotel, W.—Deafness.—New Dis-
covery.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinarily power-
till small new invented instrument for Deafness,
entirely different ly- from all others, surpasses anything Being
the
kind that has been, or probably ever can be, produced.
et the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables
deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at publie assem-
blies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears
is entirely removed, and it affords all the assistance th t
Possibly could be desired. Also, every kind of hearin., in-
struments.—Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent
power. The great advantage derived from this inven-
tion is, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and
strengthened, and very aged persons are enabled to em-
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- with those lenses of a much less magnifying power, and they
do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects
of further powerful assistance. Opera, Race-course, Field,
and general Out. door Day and Night Perspective Glasses,
very small, for the waistcoat pocket, each containing 12 and
IR lenses, constructed of German glass. Will show distinctly
persons to know them at two-and-a-hall and three miles,
and an object from eight to ten miles distant. Her Majesty's
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in preference to all others ; they are also preferred for deer-
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seen and known one and a half mile distant. They an-
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—Drawing-room and Scientific Amusements—Valuable im-
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Every description of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophi-
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