The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-15 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR SHOES,

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and
Transport Services, Somerset House,
9th October, 1858.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING-the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH AD3IIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the 28th
instant, at half-past 1 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 Dept-
ford, Gosport, and Plymouth,
Deptford. Gosport. Plymouth.
SHOES.... 30,000 pairs 10,000 pairs 10,000 pairs.

When to be delivered—One-fourth of each quantity in two
months, another fourth in three months, another fourth in
four months, and the remainder in five months from the
d4te of contract, or earlier if preferred by the Party tender-
IN`enders may be made for the whole or any portion of the
Shoes,

~!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 lit, 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, at the Victualling Yards •at
Gosport and Plymouth, or to the officer conducting"the Packet
Service at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol.
Separate tenders must be made for each place, and no atten-
tion will be paid to any offer not so made.
Patterns of the Shoes may be seen at the said office, and
also at the Victualling Yards at Gosport and Plymouth.
, The conditions of the revised contract, to which particular
attention is called, may be seen at the said Office, at the
Victualling Yards at Gosport and Plymouth, and also at
Liverpool Ind Bristol.
No tender will be received after half-past 1 o'clock on the
ay of treaty, and it will not be required that the party
t ndering, or an agent on his behalf should attend at the
o me on `the day of contract, as the result of the offer received
from each person will be communicated to him and his pro-
ptosed sureties in writing.
Everytender must be addressed to the Secretary of tht Ad-
iniralty, and bear in thp left-hand corner the words " Tender
for Shoes," and must also be delivered at Somerset House.

PATENT DERRICK COMPANY (Limited).
Offices-27, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital, £lOO,OOO,
In Two Thousand Shares of £5O each.
DIRECTORS.

W. E. Durant Cumming, Esq., Lloyd's.
Thomas Moxon, Esq., 29 Throgmorton-street.
Joseph R. Croskey, Esq., 81, King William-street, City.
Captain M. J. Currie, R.N.. Vernon-terrace, Brighton.
William Barter, Esq., 12, Langbourne-chambers, Fenchurch-
street.
Lewis Hope, Esq., 4, Bishopsgate-churchyard.
Captain James Rawstorne, R.N., Abingdon-villas, Kensing-
ton.
Albert D. Bishop, Esq., 9, South-crescent, Bedford-square.
Solicitor--Charles Walton, Esq., 30, Bucklersbury.

Bankers—London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury, London.
This Company's Derricks are eminently adapted, by their
very power, to accomplishing expeditiously and economically
very description of hoist, whether on land or water, required
n Government Arsenals and Navy Yards ; or by Dock Com-
anies, Shipbuilders, Engineers, Contractors, and others ; also,
o raising sunken and recovering stranded vessels and their
cargoes. , •
A large proportion of the vessels wrecked on our coasts
may be recovered by the aid of the Patent Floating Derricks,
at a guaranteed rate of salvage, ranging betweeu2s and 75 per_
cent. The Company have entered into an agreement with the 1
Marine. Insurance Companies, and Underwriters of London
and Liverpoplovbich secures to the former 75 percent. of the
net salvage proceeds (after deducting working expenses) from
'all vessels and cargoes, sunk prior-to the date of the agree-
ment, which may be raised and recovered by means of their
Patent Floating Derricks.
In the United States two of these Derricks, belonging to
the New York Derrick Company, have raised and saved
upwards of 400 sunken ' and stranded vessels, and have
likewise • hoisted and placed on board the engines and
boilers of more than 300 steamers. This Company com-
menced by paying its shareholders half-yearly dividends of
10 per cent ; but, since July, 1857, has regularly paid quarterly
dividends of the like amount. .

—The Directors and xheir friends have taken and paid up in
full, shares to the extent of £40,000 of the Company's stock,
to enable them to construct, and submit to the Public, one
river and one sea-going Derrick, both now launched, prior to
soliciting co-operation towards fully carrying out the
highly important and promising enterprise for which the
Patent Derrick Company has been established.
The Directors are now prepared to issue to the Public
further Shares of £5O each in the Capital Stock of the Com-
pany to the extent of £20,000. These shares are required to
be paid as follows :
.£lO per Share on Application, and the -remainder by
Calls of £lO each, at intervals of one Month between
each Call.
Forms of Application for Shares, and Prospectuses, may
be obtained by applying to the Secretary, G. J. SHARP, Esq.,
at the Offices of the Patent Derrick Company, 27, Cornhill,
London; E.C.