The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-20 00:00:00

MONT BL ANC IS OPEN TO-NIGHT.

Nip. CHARLES DICKENS , TO-NIGHT
WILL READ at ST. MARTIN'S HALL, at Eight
"actin his CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.
The Reading will last two hours.
Stalls (numbered and reserved), Five Shillings ; Area and Gal-
. rialf.a.crown; Unreserved seats, One Shilling. Tickets
to be had at Messrs. Chapman and Hall's, Publishers, 193, Picca-
dilly; and at St. Martin's Hall, Long Acre.

CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, Polygraphic Hall.
THREE HUNDRED AND FOURTH ENTERTAINMENT.
Change of Programme, introducing Burlesque on the
Circus•—bfany Patrons of the Christy's having been unable to gain
.Mission owing to the limited numbers of Stalls, they have now
introduced an extra row, which will afford more comforts to their
numerous patrons.—Evening at 8, sad on Saturday Morning,
84th, at 3. Prices—Boxes, I/. Is.; Stalls, 3s. ; Area, 2a.;
—404 la.

CREMORNE To-morrow —OAKS DAY—
LEVIATHAN GALA.—Spacial Amusements—Fireworks
Mons, &e., &c. —Admtssion as usual. Dancing commences
at a ',Milner to 9. Supper Rooms open at 9.

~MR. and MRS. GERMAN REED'S NEW
fir. and Mrs. REED
ENTERTAINMENT.—The New Series of Illustrations by
(late Miss P. MORTON), will be repeated
1V,F17 evening except Saturday, at 8. Saturday Afternoon. at 3.
acnission Is., 25., and 3s. ; stalls, secured, without extra charge,
et the Royal Gallery of lilugtration, 14. Regent-street, and at
finer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street.

IMMENSE SUCCESS.
,ST. JAMES'S HALL, PICCADILLY.
GOMPERTZ respectfully announces that in consequence
of the great rash of spectators to wi,ness his GR.IND HISTORICAL
bIORAHA of the INDIAN MUTINY—the room being so crowded
lhat numbers are nightly refused admission—he has arranged to
keen the Exhibition Open a Fortnight longer. ending Saturday,
day 291 h. Dallyat Three and Eight o'clock. Admission, Stats, 3s ;
25.; Gallery, is.

•
DR• KAHN'S : ANATOMICAL AND
PATHOLOGICAL MUSEUM,
3, TICHBORNE-STREET (Opposite the Haymarket). ,
LECTURES daily by DR. KAHN at Three, and by Or. SEXTON at a
quarter past One, at Four, and, on Diseases of the Skin, at Eight.
Open film Twelve till Five, and from Seven till Ten.
Admission, ONE SHILLING.
17:11t. RAHN'S 'NINE LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF
MARRIAGE, &e., post free for twelve stamps.

ADELAIDE. GALLERY, Lowther Arcade,
bnd; Strand.—ARGYLL CASINO. with R. RIGNELL'S celebrated
formerly conducted by the late Emits LAIIZENT, now don-
_ducted by the great artist, Mons. LAXOTTE, of the Grand Salle
Valentino at Paris ; principal cornet-a •niston. ‘I. BOULCOURT, " the
greatest artist in the world on that instrument;" Leader, Mr.
CilirtLis Rau.. The shove band• plays selections from "La
2'rariata," "It Trovatore," and "Lucia Di Lammermoor," nightly,
slid is to be engaged for Concerts and Balls. Apply to R. R. BIGNELL,
at the " Original Argyll ROOM," Great Windmill-street, Hay-
Market. Doors open at half-pasta. Admitelon, ls.

TR 0I" 0 LITAN COUNTIES LIFE
.I.V 1 ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27. Itegent—treet. Waterloo-
Mace, London. S.W. Life assurance,
.annalties, endowments, and
loans on advantageous terms.

F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager.
N.B. Policies in force, notwithstanding the Deceme of the Life
Assured within the thirty days of grace, the Premium hi arrear
being' deducted from the amount assured. .

INTERNATIONAL LIFE A SSUR A.NOE
hssociEry.l42. Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858 : estab-
gedlB37.—Payment of Premium within Days of Grace,—lt always
been and still Is the practice of this society to pay claims under
Dolicies of assurance notwithstandliw the death of the assured oc-
curring 'within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the
!Mnual premium, provided payment thereof be male, or notice of
Me death be given to the office before the expiration of such days
Of Mee.

For the Court of Directors,
E. S. SYMES, Chairman.

T INTERNATIONAL LIFE
ASSUR -LNCE SOCIETY,
•
Ent 142, Strand, London.
—POWere 1 by Act of 'Parliament. for LIFE ASSIT Ft A.NCE, SUR
VIVORSIII PS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &o.

DIRECTORS. . •
EDMOND SHEPPARD SY.IIES, M.D., Chalrmln.
Wm. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq
Samuel King-Church. Esq. John Moss, Esq.
John Elllotson. M.D., Cantab., John Syme3, Esq.
EX.& Joseph Thompson, Esq.
SECRETARY TO TUE BOARD.
Alexander Richardson, Esq.
CORRESPONDING szcirrAlLT.
Augusta Blonde!, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Fro:osor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Yoang,
MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL.
J. Elliot3on, M.D.; Cantab, F. R S., 37, Conduit-str3et.

ACTUARY.
W. S. B. Woo Mouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &e.
rASSISTANT ACTUAUT.
Barker Wooßlouse, Esq.

• BANKERS. -
31easrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co.. G 7, Lombard-street.
Mews n SOLICITORS.
•s.regory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford-row.

.1m.....•••••••••11
The next Quinuennial Division of Profits -will ba declared
May, 1860. q

Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 :

Polley, Bonus in Permanent
• tak en Sum addition Bonus in Reduction of
out ilfj Age' Assured. to Sum Cash. Annual Pre-
Assured. mi am.
4.—........_
........
X Xs. d. £a. `d. £s. d.
LB3B 55 3,000 - 867 17 7 424 1 4 56 3 8
;Z4l 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 Id 0 ' 32 0 4
;Z4 59 2,000 232 18 1) 156 15 0 16 6 0
1%18 60 2,000 :154 213 103 16 5 10 15 2
' 1 55 2,800 120 17 0
.72 14 6 6 7 7
----___

The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter
national Life Assurance Society:—
The
Society was established in 1838.
"'e-thirds of the pro 3 is are divided amongst the assured ever;
I!! Years.
Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds.
toileinvestments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted
Its annual
hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds.
annual income is ninety thousand pounds.
The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand.
About one thousand new policies are added every year.
sinceC its commencement the Society has paid in claims upward 4
et three hundred and twenty thousand pounds.
...For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair -
wen, 142, Strand.
142, Strand, London, W.C.

EDMOND 9: SYMES, Chaliman.

CONTRACTS FOR SUGAR, TEA, AND TOBACCO.
bipartment of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport
Services, Somerset House, 13th May, 1858.
RE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Pr
o
and Lorigh Admirl of he United Kingdm of Great Britain
Ireland dH do HerebyaGive Notiee. that on Fetesv, the 28th
clnatant, at half-past One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
~b Persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and
luvering into her Majesty's Victuelling Stores at Deptford, the
Undermentioned articles, viz. : '
SUGAR ......... 100 tons.
TEA...... • • • • .. 50,000 lbs.
TOBACCO .. . ..
When to be delivered—Half of each in three weeks, and the
remainder in three weeks afterwards, or earlier if preferred by the
Party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the articles.
Era MTheir Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten-
t i are °ed, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part
eof only as .they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of
net contracting fee any, and a'so an unlimited newer of selection.
All. the Articles to be exempted from the Customs' Duties, and
Parties tendering are to state where they are respectively lyinc.
Each Tender for Sugar must specify the mark and lauding number
of each cask, the ship in which imported, and the country or pace
of its growth or produce, and an average saneie of sugar (not le's
than 21be., for each import mark) must be p'o'ured by the parties
tendering, and not an average of different marks or several imports,
and any parcel that is found not to be of the same mark or average
quality as the samples tendered and accepted will be rejected by
the officers.
Samples of the Tea (not less than 21b5.,) from the Bonded Ware-
houee, must he produced by the parties tendering.
Each Tender for To"acco must specify the several trademarks and
numbers, and the countries or places of its growth or produce, and a
fresh drawn dock sample of each cask or package must be produced
bY tho pares tendering, and an ck or package that is found not to
be ir the satime mark, number, of r quality as the sample tendered and
ace opted will be rejected by the officers.
The Samples produced by persons whose Tenders are not accented
tracts requested to be taken away by them immediately after the Con-
have hem decided.
No tender will be reeceived unless made on the printed form pro-
irti,ded for the pupae, and which may be obtained on application at
e said Office, or to the officer conducting the Packet Service at
attention is
44verPool, or to the Collector of Customs Bristol.
Conditions of the revised cotts, to which particular
be• seen tutee said office, and at Liver
Pool and Bristol.•
nallo tender will be received after half-past one o'clock on the
y oflreaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering,
r an agent on his behalf,' should ateend at the office on the day of
contract, as the result of the offer received from ea,h person will be
er'lllomnic,ted to him and his propcsel sureties in writing.
e,s•Trery tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
""o bear In the left-hand corner the words, " Tender for ,"
and must also be delivered at Somerset-louse.

CONTRACT FOR 111-SINIOCK
Department of the Storekeeper General of the Nall',
Somerset-place, 18th May, 1858.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
~tp: Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on 1 lIESDAY,
14! Bth June next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
cie,,n Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and
ve
ring Into Store at her Majesty's Dockyard at Deptford

15,006 BLEACHED SACKING HAI&MOCKS,
laid
Pattern hammock, and a form of the tender may be seen at the
tr No tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day
4._ estY, nor will any be noticed unlea the party attends or an
apt for idrn duly authorised in writ'ng.
itncitFrY tender must be addressedto the Secretary of the Admiralty,
t,"ear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Ham-
lettnoo X." and must be delivered at Somerset-place. accompanied by a
boun,' signed by two responsible Persons, engaging to become
due with the person tendering, in the sum of LON/. for the
Performance of the contract.

ON Ph YSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE
1E INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
rtit fold improved Edition. enlarged to I9G pages, illustrated by 100
•14,11t0a
p„ [Weal Coloured Engravings on Steel, just published, price,
by post, is.,
SHE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work
on the phys al • hanstion and decay of the frame, from tho
c4c.,,... of solitary indif rence, infection, and the injurious MISC.
tYorn the use of Mercury ; with observations on the obliga-
tion; "Lalarriage, and directions for obviating certain disqualifies-
-11.6;17 , IsY R. and L.' PERRY and co., Surgeons. Conisultahronst
Tki.E,r'see Page 197). Fold by J. Allen, 20, Warwck- cu-lane, !der
11 -t-r"'; Sanger, 160, Oxford-street; and Gordon,t 146, Le- Lit-
Ili rest, London.
to r,,'„eIQ°IZDLA 1. BALM of SYRIACIIM is employed in both sexes.
t. -°vate the impaired powers of life. Its action is purelybalsamic,
ie-zi.lver in reinvigorating the frame in all cases of nervous and
debiiity, obstinate gleets, impotency, barrenness, and debi-
ts
.11._arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by
or rouuLvarSing success in thousands of easo. Price 1 Is. per b 0 9,
Th:),:l.t.slantities in one for 335., which saves 118.
141,7_,-INCeNTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti.syphii
lb, ~.,,edY, for purifying the system, and is recommended for any o
aktn, nod forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptiens on the
tor,Bl.;lotches on the head and face, enlargements of the throat
4tiettid
, Uvula ; threat.-ned destruction of the nose, palate, &c.
4Yster Purely detersive, and its beneficial influence on the
6EIIB. s undeniable. Price I is. and 335. por bottle, also a saving
tII r rn,„.. PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an enc.
and diseasesln either sex for all cases of gonorrhoea, glect, stricture,
er .L the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d , and 11s.
ri_tiold by_ Daniel Church, 78, Gracechnrch-Street, City • Bartlett
0.113t1.3.• Ring William-street (four doors from London 'Bridge) ;
a"ds ". Strand; W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow-churchyard;
street; 67, St. ;Peal's-churchyard ; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford-
annoy and DittrietiFer, I
II Oxford-street ; Butler and
e, 4, Cheapside ; Front and rsant, 22., Strand ; and all
',awn Vendors tiacit clout the United Elrgdorai •