The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-15 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR BLACK IRONMONGERY.

Department of the Storekeeper-General
of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 12th Oct., 1860.
THE COM:MISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICT.,I of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDon of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the
6th Nov. next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat
with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for
supplr.ng her Majesty's several Dock Yards with

BLACK IRONMONGERY ARTICLES,
under a Contract for 12 months certain, and afterwards un-
til the expiration of 6 months' warning.
Patterns of the articles may be seen at her Majesty's Dock
Yard at Deptford, and a form of the Tender and conditions
of the Contract may be obtained at the said office. No
tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of
treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an
agent for him duly authorised 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 Black Ironmongery," and must also be delivered
at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter signed by two re-
sponsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person
tendering, in the sum of £2,000, for the duo performance of
the Contract.

CONTRACTS FOR MEDICAL COMFORTS.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling,
and Transport Services,
Somerset-place, 12th Oct., 1860.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING tho
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the Ist
November 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, the undermentioned articles, viz.:
All such quantities of CALVES' FOOT ,TELLY,
PRESERVED MILK, or
PRESERVED FOWL, I fs
as shall from time to time be demanded, under Contracts for
12 months certain, and further until the expiration of 3
months' warning.
Four samples of each article must be produced by the par-
ties tendering.
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.
Particular attention is called to the recent modifications of
the Conditions of the Contracts, which may be seen at the
said Office.

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 bear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten-
der for " and must be delivered at Somerset-
house, signed by two responsible persons, engaging to be-
come bound, with the person tendering, in the sum of X. 500,
for the due performance of each of the Contracts.

pR BUCHAN'S PATENT SUGAR-COATED
VEGETABLE PILLS, VEGETABLE SKIN OINT-
MENT, and CONCENTRATED VEGETABLE ESSENCE,
for purifying the Blood, Regulating the Bowels, and removing
'Vitiated Humours, Bilious and Liver Complaints, Rheuma-
tism, Gout, Scorbutic Affections, Costiveness, Skin Erup-
tions, deep-seated Ulcers, and all diseases of the Nervous
System, from whatever cause, Sm., affording at once a new
lease of life to the sickly and aged of both sexes, whilst in
addition imparting a beautiful and clear complexion, so anxi-
ously sought for by all. Proved by the sworn testimonies
made before the Lord Mayor of London, and sitting Magis-
trates. Sold by Buchan and Co., patentees, 22, Newman-street,
Oxford-street, London, W., and all chemists in town and
country. Prices:--Pills, fler box, Is. 14d.. 2s. 9d., and lls. ;
Ointment, per pot, Is. lid., and 2s. 9d. ; Essence, per bottle,
lls., or family bottle containing four times that quantity, 33e.
Agents :—Barclay, 75, Farringdon-street ; J. Sanger, 150,
Oxford-street Hannay, 43, Oxford-street; Butler, 4, Cheap-
side ; Hooper, 43, Ring William-street, London-bridge ; R.
Howden, 78, Gracechurch-street ; Prout 229 Strand, &c. ka
Just published, gratis, or post free for one ;tamp, to be had
of all Agents, and at 2g Newman-street, Extracts' from Dr.
Buchan's Work, entitled, BUCHAN'S DOMESTIC MEDI-
CINES, being a Book of Reference, containing instructions
for the cure of every ailment incidental to man, woman, or
child.

MAGIC LANTERNS and DISSOLVING
VIEWS lent out, and sent into the country, with the
option to purchase. Messrs. S. &B. SOLOMONS' Improved
r
Phantasmagoria Lanterns having lenses of pure German
Glass, and being arranged with Solomons• beautiful light,
which surpasses any other for its simplicity and brilliancy,'
a clear disc is obtained 20 feet diameter, hitherto unattained.
Slides in great variety. They also beg to introduce their
new Instrument, which is one of the most amusing and in-
structive ever brought out. It illustrates the motion of the
Planets, Armstrong's shot, and many wonderful effects, price
2.55. Also, the improved Life-boat Barometer, by Admiral
Fitzroy; it needs no comment upon its superiority, and is
now arranged by them for the uSb of the public. Price £4 4s.
Scientific, Instrument Makers, 39, Albemarle-street, Picca-
dilly, W.

SPECTACLES.-SIGHT AND
HEARING.-
t•--, DEAFNESS. —A newly-invented instrument for ex-
trellis cases of deafness, caned the SOUND MAGNIFIER,
Organie Vibrator, and Invisible Voice Conductor. It fits s
into the ear as not to be in the least perceptible ; unplea-
sant sensation of singing noises in the head is entirely
re-
moved. It affords instant relief to deaf persons, and enables
them to hear distinctly at Church and at public assemblies.
Every other kind of hearing instruments. Messrs. SOLO-
MONS have invented spectacle lenses of the greatest trans-
parent power. The valuable advantage derived from their
invention is, that vision becomes
preserved and strengthened ;
very aged Persons are enabled to employ their sight at the
most minute occupation, can see with these lenses of a much
ess magnifying power, and they do not require the frequent
changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assist-
ance.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York
Ho tel.

TELESCOPES, Opera, RR
general Out-door Day and ce-course,
Night Perspective Field, find
very small, for the waistcoat pective Glasses,
lass'Pocket, each containing 12 and
18 lenses, constructed of German
and three miles, and
a person to know him at two-andg_al Will show distinctly
an object from Bto 10 miles distant. Her Majesty's Coast
Guard are making use of them as day. and night glasses in
ferred for deer-
preference to all others ; they are
stalking by sportsmen, gentlemen, andogintiekeePers. Tele
clearly seen
scopes, n inches long, by which a person -
and known at n miles, and an object at 12 Tobf4 miles' die
aar,eirstisotly
tame ; and with an extra astronomical eye_
moons, Saturn's rings, and the double star!: miles'
"niter's
seen ; they are in endless variety, of larger and
increasing powers, and
Sr
secured by her maieNl t sizes, with
letters patent. —Messrs. . and B. SOLOMONS, Optirc7aniloyal
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, •T:T4/.39'

MEDICAL ADVICE.
fR. LA'MERT, Registered L.S.A.,
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, 3,f11.31;
of the University of Erlangen, &a, may be COWSULTiii
on all cases of Debility, Nervousnessom, and
Eleven till on the Se
Two,ancret ind
firmities of Youth and Maturity, fr
from Six till Eight, at his residence,
37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON
Dr. La'Mert has just published, price Sixpence, with an..
merous Engravings and Cases, a New Edition of his Work,
SELF-PRESERVATION,
which will be sent free, in sealed envelope. by Mann, '39
Cornhill, London, or by the Author, for Eight stamps.

CONTENTS.
SECTION I.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs.
SECTION ll.—Puberty- Manhood -The Morale of Genera-
tive Physiology—True and False Morality.
SECTION Ill—Marriage in its Moral, Social, and Physical
Relations—lts Expectancies and Disappointmen t s—tivan-
t ages of Physical Contrasts in securing Healthy Offsprint,c,
SECTION IV.—Spermatorrhaea and Impotence—The causes
of Sterility in both Sexes—Self-inflicted Miseries.
SECTION V. -The Vices of Schools-Effects of certain per-
nicious habits on the mental and general faculties.
SECTION VT.—Treatment of Nervous and Generative De-
bility—lmpotence and Sterility—Dangerous Results of
various hazardous Specifics—The Author's Principles of
Treatment ; Medical, Dietetic, and General, derived from
Twenty Years' successful practice'
The above work is intended for the perusal of those who
have in early life been induced to swerve from the strict rules
of morality. In its pages facts of paramount utility are
but together, wholly divested of tne delusions and incon-
s oneles so largely introduced into certain quasi medical
Mlilicatiens given to the world gratis, under the guise of
menalithPr27. or as " acts of gratitude," by pretended clergy-
..„ uu others, whose ts.mperings with the oonetitutsioll are
"12,211t1Y tollowed by serious consequences.

OYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT
INSTITUTION.—The Committee of this Institution
earnestly APPEAL to the public for PECUNIARY ASSIST-
ANCE to aid them to meet the present heavy demands on
the limited funds of the Society. It has now 106 lifeboats,
some of which have saved this year 120 persons from a watery
grave.

THOMAS BARING, Chairman.
THOMAS CHAPIIAN, Deputy-Chairman.
14, John-street, Adelphi W.C., Oct, 1860.
Bankers—Messrs. Willis' and Co. ; Coutta and Co. ; 'terries
and Co.; and at the Institution.

EXETER, YEOVIL, and WEST of ENGLAND,
by the Direct Central Line.—The Third-Class Train
leaves Waterloo-bridge Station each Week-day at 7.45 a.m.,
and is due to arrive at Exeter at 2.45 P.m.
Express Train from Waterloo-bridge at 9 a.m., due at
Exeter at 2 p.m.
Ordinary Trains at 7.15, 11 a.m., and 3 p.m.

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWA
COMPANY.
TWENTY-SECOND HALF-17,:.v RLY GENERAL

MEETING.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the TWENTY-
SECOND lIALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the
PROPRIETORS in this COMPANY will be held at the
London Tavern, Bishops„ ate-street, London, on Wednesday,
the 31st day of October inst., at Twelve o'clock at Noon pre-
cisely, for the general business of the Company, pursuant to
the Act.
The Books for the registration of shares will be Closed
from Thursday, the 18th, to Wednesday, the 31st instant, in-
clusive, and Transfers willnot be received during that period
By order.

THOS. R. WATT, Secretary.
Company's Offices, S, New Broad-street, 8.C.,
London, sth October, 1860.

A LJ3ERT and MEDICAL LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY, 7, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London, S.W.
Established 1818.
The Business of the Medical, Invalid, and General Life
Assurance Society having been amalgamated with the Albert
Life Assurance Company, the uniteri businesses will hence-
forth be carried on under the above title.
Accumulated Fund exceeds -£500,000
Subscribed Capital 447,180
Paid up Capital
.. 137,000
Annual Income from Life Premiums upwards of 220,000
Thenew business is now progressing at the rate of more
than £25,000 per annum.
From Professor De Morgan's Report upon the last valua-
tion of liabilities (end of 1858), and the statements of accounts,
it appeared at that time that the surplus in favour of the
Albert business alone, after providing fbr every liability, was
£192,925 2s. 11d. The amount paid to the public in Claims
and Bonuses reaches to more than £BOO,OOO.
HENRY WILLIAM SMITH, Actuary.
C. DOUGLAS SINGER, Secretary.

NORWICII UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.

NOTICE.—MICHAELMAS RENEWALS.
Losses by fire occurring during the fifteen days of grace are
made good to the assured.

ThAusiness of the Company exceeds £66,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1850 was £80,639,
and the amount assured on farming stock £10,140,636.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to
parties insuring, who have thus from time to time received
sums amounting in the aggregate to £400,000.
The rates of premium are in no case higher than these
charged by the other principal offices making no returns to
their insurers.
For prospectuses apply to the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.