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-A. WEIGHT.
Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet.
n. LENGTH.

D. CARTRIDGES.
Must carry their own ignition. •

M. TILE LOCK.

Q. FOULING.

R. PENETRATION

CONTRACT, FOR FRE.3II OX BEEF AND VEGE-
TABLES AT FOYNES.
CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY.
Sce%erset House., 27th December, 186 G.
THE COMMIsSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
'UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on Tuesday, the 15th
January next, at T yaw) o'clock at Noon, they will be
ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to con-
tract for supplying all such quantities of
FRESH OX BEEF and VEGETABLES,
for the use of her Majesty's ships and vessels at Foynes as
may be demanded from the 15th January to the 30th June,
1867, both days included.
Tho Contractor is to supply good fat well-fed Ox Beef,
as no Heifer meat will be admitted.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders.
Tenders must be made at rates per 100 lb., and no atten-
tion will be paid to any offers not so made.
The Contractor, in claiming payment for the supplies, is
to make out his invoices in pounds at per 100 lb.
The Contractor. to reside on the spot, or to have an
agent resident there. If non-resident, the name and ad-
dress of the agent must be inserted in the Tend; r.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained
on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, or to
the Postmaster at Foynes, where also the conditions of
the contract may be seen.
No Tender will be received after Noon 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 received 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 must also be delivered at the department
of the Comptroller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset
House, signed by two responsible .persons, engaging to
become bound with the person tendering in the sum of
£3OO for the due performance of the Contract for Fresh Ox
Beef, and £lOO for the Contract for Vegetables.
The Contractor to pay half the amount of the stamps on
the Contracts and Bends.
By order, ANTONIO BRADT,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

TO GUN MA ER S and Others.

Th 3 SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of
rpceiving PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for
BREECH-LO &DING RIFLES, either repeating or not
repeating, which may replace the present Service Rifles in
future manufacture.

11.
The following aro the conditions considered essential in
military non-repeating Rifles:—

To be 51 inches, with short stock, moasured from the
hollow of the hutt-piste to muzzle.

c. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP.
Must not exceed Gib. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for
service.

TSIGHS
The foresight must be such as. to admit of a bayonet
fixed according to the present system.

.P. .
Must be such as to carry.aSTO
light metal cleaning-rod, and
allow a sling to be used.

G. RECOIL.
Must not exceed that of tha Enfield Rifle by more than
10 per cent.

H. THE ARM AS A WHOLE.
Must be as little liable to injury by long-continued firing,
rough usage, and exposure, as the naval rifles converted to
breech-loadors on the Snider system. To be as capable,
also, of being used without accident by imperfectly trained
men, and of being manufactured in quantities and of uni-
form quality.

L THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE.
Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp,
and exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for
Snider's converted Enfield rifle —also as little liable to acci-
dental explosion as the same cartridge, and as capable of
being manufactured in large quantities, and of uniform
quality. K. CALIBRE.
Optional.
L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE.
Optional.
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Optional.

N. RAPIDITY OF FIRE.
Capable of firing at least 12 rounds por minute, without
aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table.
o. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST.
The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more
than 36in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12 n. at 500,
and 6in. at 300.
The mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty
shots each.

P. TRAJECTORY.
Not to require at 500 yards an olevation of morn than 1
deg. 30 min.

The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent
at 1,000 yards after firing 250 rounds.

The mean penetration of five shots not to be less than
that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle—
viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48
hours in water.
Distance 80 yards.
a. LUBRICATION.
Wax on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant
may be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought
necesFary by the competitor.
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No arms will be received 111
without the usual proof marks.
Specifications, and drawings of the methods proposed,
stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a
finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu-
nition, should be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War
Offfe,, Pall-mall," onor before the 30th March, 1867.
The specifications and specimen arms will be considered
by the OrclnancetoSelect Committee and its associate mem-
bers, who will be selected by the Secretary of State for
War, and who will, after firing the 20 preliminary rounds,
select and recommend for further trial such of the systems
m may appear to them sufficiently promising, 'rejecting all
such as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to
warrant their being included in the competition, the con-
ditions of which aro stated iu this advertisement.
Each accepted competitor will then be required to furnish
for experiment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity
to the specimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am-
munition per arm, within four months after date of de-
mutt Each competitor will be required to disclose to the
committee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em-
Ploy A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted
competitors, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of
the supply of ammunition required.
The Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the
arm which, on combination of all qualities, is considered
by the committee to be the best submitted.
A second reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at-
taining a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu-
lars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism.
A third reward of £4OO for the best cartridge. The qua-
ities which will be principally taken into consideration in
awarding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power
of sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in
various climates, and general serviceability.
The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but
as they may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which
the cartridge is associated, they will not be so much con-
sidered as those above-mentioned.
It is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances
will a competitor be entitled to more than one prize ; but
such prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be
given to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the
service.

17;
MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS.
:Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re-
ceived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech-
loading Rifles. They must not be loss in length than 48
inches, including the stock.
The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 911 b. ex-
clusive of the charges in the magazine.
It is indispensable that the arms be made to take a
bayonet.
The Secretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best
Magazine or Repeating Arm produced that fulfils the above
conditions ; and in the absence of experience does not at
present define the standard of accuracy or other conditions
to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted.
Those Magazine orßepeatingArnis, which are accepted
for further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each.
This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per
arm.

V.
The Secretary of State will take care that no ingenious
novelty produced in answer to this advertisement shall be
adopted into the service without proper acknowledgment,
and that the name of the individual with whom it origi-
nates shall be recorded in connection with it.
_ if the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted
Into the service, it will bear the inventor's name.
J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director
of Ordnance
War Office, Oct. 22 1866

ConfirrEz.
R.
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BeTvahne,REigsq.ht Hon the LORD MAYOR.
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff
Samuel Morley, Esq. Waterlow.
Geo. Moore, Esq. Mr. Sheriff Lycett.
Mr. Alderman Finnis. Mr. Alderman Besley.
J. P. Gassiot, Esq. Mr. Alderman Dakin.
Christopher T. Gabriel, Esq. James Hill, Esq.
Frederick Thompson, Esq. R. N. Fowler, Esq.
R. A. Gray, Esq. W.J. Maxwell, Esq.
Colonel Stuart Wortley. Mr. Alderman Cotton.

The attention of the public is earnestly drawn to the
suffering consequent on the terrible calamity produced by
the recent colliery explosions.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are greatly needed to relieve the
numerous families made destitute thereby.

The amoiintregiTiTod to meet the memorable Hartley
Colliery Accident in 1832 was .£50,000 ; in that case 204
men and boys lost their lives ; in the present instance
double that number are known to have perished, there-
fore to make a suitable provision for the families depen-
dent upon them about £lOO,OOO will be needed. At the
final distribution of the surplus of the Hartley Fund,
£3,140 was allotted to the districts in which the present
accidents occurred, and this sum is now available towards
the fund now being raised.
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales £lOO
H.R.H. the Princess of Wales
The Corporation of London
Amount already advertised £14,554 1 10
Subscriptions will be received by the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house; Messrs. Barclay,
Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street ; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., Strand ; Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-
street ; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., 1, Lombard-street ;
Messrs. Roberts, Lubbock, and Co., Lombard-street;
Messrs. Dimsdale, Fowler, and Co., 50, Cornhill ; the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, Lothbury; the London Joint-
Stock Bank, 5, Princes-street ; the Union Bank of London ;
London and County Bank ; the National Provincial Bank
of England and all their branches; Messrs. Willis, Percival,
and Uo., Lombard-street; and by the several members of
the Committee,

JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary.
Mansion Rouse, Jan. 4, 1867.

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Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and Geology by
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