The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-13 00:00:00

'CONTRACTS FOR SALT.

• Department of the Comptroller for Victualling,
and Transport Services,
Somerset-house, 10th November, 1860.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
-I- OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the
29th instant, at half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to
treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for
supplying and delivering into her Majesty's ,Victualling
Stores at DEPTFORD, _ _

SALT.

, WIIIT1F: 335 Tons.
ST. ÜBE'S BAY ....... 235 „
When to be delivered—ln the month of June, 1881, or
varlier if preferred by the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of
the Salt.

Their Lordships reserve 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 for a greater
quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited
power of selection.
Samples (not less than 3 lbs. of each description of Salt)
must be produced by the parties tendering.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not
accepted, are requested to be taken away by them immedi-
ately after the contracts have been decided.
No Tender will be received unless made on the Printed Form
provided for the purpose ; and which may be obtained on ap-
plication at the said Office, or to the Officer conducting the
Packet Service at Liverpool, or the Collector of Customs at
Bristol.

Particular attention is called to the recent modification of
the Conditions of the Contracts, which may be seen at the
said Office, and at Liverpool and Bristol.
No Tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on
the day of treaty • and it will not be required that the party
tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the
Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer re-
ceived from each person will be communicated to him and his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and hear in the left-hand corner the words "Ten-
der for SALT ," and must be delivered at Somerset-hoase.

PRESENTS.— ORNAMENTAL and SCIEN-
TIFIC.—ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining-room, consisting of anew and elegant assortment
of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands,
beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &c., in Italian,Alabas-
ter, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and
manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her
Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate
the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CONCHOLOGY,
and GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 60, to 100 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANL at 149, Strand, W.C. •

AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY.-LAMBERT'S
ASTHMATIC BA LSAM, without confining the bowels
or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad-
mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving
coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and consumption.
It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce in-
Curable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent
coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly
beneficial. Pers Ass deprived of sleep, or even lying down for
fesr of suffocation. may depend on relief in a few minutes
after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert,
Chemist, 20, Jermyn-street, Haymarket, and by all Druggists'
in bottles, Md., ?s. Id., and 4s. 6d. each. Be particular and
ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam.