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London, England, 1860-09-20 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR WINE BOTTLES

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling,
Somerset-house, 18th Sept., 1860.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH' ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on MONDAY, the Ist
October next, 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—

WINE BOTTLES N0.10,000
When to be delivered—One-third in Two Months, another
Third in Three Months, and the remainder in Four Months,
or earlier if preferred by the party tendering'.
A. sample Bottle may be seen at the said Office, and Ten-
ders may be made for the whole or any portion of the
Bottles.
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.
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 to the collector of Customs
at Bristol.
Particular attention is called to the recent modifications 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
prppooed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Ten-
der for ," and must also be delivered at Somerset-
house.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
Established 1821.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY VIGNE, Esq., Chairman.
Sir W. 31. T. FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Deputy Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., John Martin, Esq.
Charles Wm. Curtis, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq
John Harvey, Esq. Sir Godfrey J. Thomas, Bart.
John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. John Thornton, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.
Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq.
AUD

'ORS.
Lewis Loyd, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
John Henry Smith, Esq. I Cornelius Payne, Jun., Esq.
Thomas Tallemach, Esq., Secretary.—Samuel Brown, Esq.,
Actuary.

LIFE DEPART3IENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OP AN
ACT or PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In-
surers EIGHTY PER CENT. Of the Profits, at Quinquennial
Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of
Profits.
Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the
Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in
cash value £360,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary
Bonuses of £1,058,000,
After the Division of Profits- at Christmas, 1850, the Life
Assurances in 'force, with existing Bonuses thereon,
amounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Life
Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund
exceeded £1,618,000.
LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS. No
Extra Premium is required for service therein.
INVALID LIVES assured at corresponding Extra Pre-
miums.

LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their
valves, if such value be not less than £5O.

• ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re-
ceived and registered.

MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge
for Policy Stamps.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That FIRE Policies which ex-
pire at Michaelmas must be renewed within fifteen days at
this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's-street, cor-
ner of Pall-mall; or with the Company's Agents throughout
the kingdom; otherwise they become void.
Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this
Company.

THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
142, Strandt London.
Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE
SURVWORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, dm
DIRECTORS.
EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman.
John Elliotson,ll.D.,Cantab., John Moss, Esq.
John Symes, Esq.
Henry J. Hodgson, Esq, Joseph Thompson, Esq.
SECRETARY TO THE BOARD.
Alexander Richardson, Esq.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Augustus Blonde!, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Professor Wheatstone, Pats., and Professor J. Radford.
Young.
F.R.
MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL.
El J. 'lotion, M.D., Cantab.,
ACTUARY.S., 37, Conduit-street.
W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., P.R.A.S., P.s.s.;&e.
ASSISTANT ACTUARY.
Barker Woolhouse, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford.

The next Quinquennial DITISiOII of Profits will be declared
In hay, 1860.
Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 :

Policy Bonus in Permanent
Sum onus in duction
taken Age. Assured. addition
BCash' of ReAnnual
out in to Sum
Assured Premiums.
.
—_---- --..... --
X £s. d. £s. d. £s. d.
1838 55 3,000 867 17 7 428 1 4 N 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 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2
1851 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 8 67 7
1

The followimr, are amongst the advantages offered by the
International. Life Assurance Society:—
The Society was established in 1838.
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.

142, Strand, London F,DMOND S. STIIES, Chairman.
W.C.

"The temporary relief obtained by means of purgative
Medicines is purchased at the hirh price of the a9.-,v,ravation
and of the perpetuating thediseaie."—HENny, M.D.

'NO MORE PILLS OR Arry OTHER PHYSIC
FOR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA) PALPI-
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Of fifty years' indiscribable
Years'
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies of many
dyspepsia. Cure No. 49,832.
agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipa-
tion, flatulency, spasms, sickness. and vomiting, Maria Joly,
of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121. 131iss Elizabeth Jacobs,
of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits,
Rev. James T
and nervous fancies. Cure 54,816. The
Campbell, Syderstone Rectory,
near Fakenhan Norfolk. of
Indigestion, and liver complaints. Cure No. 56.814. Mr. Samuel
Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure N,0 • 180 Mr.
W. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London, of 25 years nervous-
ness,
ocnstipation, indigestion, and debility. Cure No. 4,028:
Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps,
Spasms, and nausea, Rev. John W. Flavel, Ridling ton
tory, Norfolk. Cure No. 3,906. Thirteen years' cough, indi
gestion, and general debility, James Porter, Athol-street,
Perth. Cure No. 58,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre,.
near Liverpool, of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of
nerve's irritability. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts.
timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased
lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness.
Similar testimonials from 56,000 patients who can be re-
ferred to.
The Food is sold in canisters, 11b. 2s. 9d., 21b, 4s. 6d., 121 b.
225., 211 b. 40s. ; super-refined quality, 51b. 225„ 101 b. 335. The
101 b., 121 b., and 21lb. canisters carriage free on receipt of
Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Reg,ent-
Street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co , 182, Piccadilly,
London ; Abbis, 60, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63
and 150, Oxford-street ; 330 and 452, Strand ; 49 and 60,
Bishopsgiate-street ; Batty,l6, Finsbury pavement ; Phillips
and Co., tea dealers ,• Petty, Wood, and Co., King Winini-
street City; at 137, magi; LiPlbprn; and au gronertj.

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