The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-11 00:00:00

ALHAMBRA PALACE, Leicester-square.
The best Ventilated and Coolest Building in Europe.—
Lessees, Messrs. Howes and Cushing. Entire Change of Per-
formance. Madame DELAVANTI will make a Grand Ascent
on a portion of the Atlantic Telegraph Wire to the Dome of
the Alhambra Palace, being one hundred feet in height, and
two hundred feet in length, a feat never attempted by any
other artiste. WAL LETT 'S celebrated CIRCUS COMPANY.
Extraordinary and brilliant success of the unrivalled Troupe
of Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes and splendid Stud of
Horses. Two Performances daily. Midday Entertainment
at half-past 2 ; Evening at 8 o'clock. Private boxes, £2 ;
stalls, ss. ; reserved seats, 3s. ; boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery,
od. Box-office open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. No fees for
booking places. Children under 9 years of age, half-price.

CONTRACTS FOR HONDURAS MAHOGANY TIMBER
AND MOULMEIN TEAK TIMBER.
Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, Bth Sept., 1858.
IHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD MOTT .+TIMIR AL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 28th
instant, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such
Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her
Majesty's Dockyards with 11,250 loads of HONDURAS
MAHOGANY TIMBER, and 7,500 loads of MOULMEIN
TEAK TIMBER, to be delivered during the years 1859,1800,
and 1851, according to distributions, which, with the forms of
the Tenders, the conditions of the Contracts, and a specimen
of the Mahogany Timber, may be seen 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
" Tender for ," and must be delivered at Somerset-
place, accompanied by a Letter signed by Two responsible
Persons, engaging to become bound with the Person tender-
ing, in the sum of 5.5000 for the due performance of each of
the Contracts.

GREAT BRITAIN.

BARRACK CONTRACTS.
WAR-OFFICE,PaII-Mall,London, S.W.,

26th August, 1858.
The Secretary of State for War Hereby Gives Notice, That
Tenders will be received by the several Barrack Masters in
Great Britain, on Dr before WEDNESDAY, the 15th Sept. next,
from such persons as may be willing to enter into Contracts
for the under-mentioned services for a period of Three Years,
from the Ist October, 1858, to the 30th September, 1861 :
Lamp-lighting ;
Sweeping Chimneys by Machinery ;
Straw and Ashes, and Privy Soil (where deposited with
the Ashes);
Emptying Privies ; and for
Washing, and Repairing Bedding (except at the Barracks
in London and Windsor).

Printed Forms of Tenders and every requisite information
may be obtained on application to the respective Barrack
Masters, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock each day, Sun-
days excepted, until the date above-mentioned, after which
no proposal will be received, nor will any tertderbe considered
that is not made on the printed form, to be furnished by the

Barrack Masters.
Persons proposing to tender for any of the services above-
mentioned, must make the Barrack :►rasters acquainted with
their names and places of abode, and furnisb any information
that may be called for by them as to the eligibility of the par-
ties tendering to perform the Contract or Contracts, and it is
to be clearly understood that the Secretary of State for War
reserves to himself the power of accepting or rejecting all or
any of the tenders, without assigning any reason or entering
into any correspondence on the subject.

THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.-
It is only a short time since this singularly efficacious
article of animal diet first made its appearance ; and already
its celebrity is world-wide. It has been a subject of wonder,
and has puzzled many a brain to explain how this has been
brought about. Yet when we are acquainted with a few facts
concerning the food, our wonder will cease. A few days since,
a gentleman wrote, stating that he had a horse which was a
" perfect bag of bones." lie tried all kinds of things to get
the animal into condition, but in vain. lle then bought some
of Thorley's food ; and he says the effect was wonderful. The
horse rapidly grew fat, and in the course of a few weeks had
gained no less than 12 stones. Again we find at the late vrri-
cultural shows at Birmingham, Cardiff, Sze., the animals which
carried off the highest prizes had been partly fed with Thor-
ley's food for cattle. Such facts speak for themselves, and we
are forced to the conclusion that its celebrity arises solely
from its own intrinsic merits, and the great demand for it can
proceed alone from the good opinion and testimony of those
who have tried it. All parties interested in horses and cattle
will do well to apply to 77, Newgate-street, London, for a
pamphlet which is sent post-free.

ON PIIYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS. GENERATIVE
INCAPACITY, AND 13IPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
New and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 paces, illustrated
by 100 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just pub-
lished, price, free by post, ls.
THE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work
on the physical exhaustion and decay of the frame, from
the effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious
consequences from the use of Mercury : with observations on,
the obligations of marriage, and directions for obviating cer-
tain disqualifications. By R. and L. PERRY and Co., Sur-
geons. Consultations as usual (see page 107). Sold by J. Allen,
20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row ; Sanr.rer, 160, Oxford-
street ; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street,'London.
The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is employed in both
sexes to renovate the impaired powers of life. Its action is
purely balsamic: its power in reinvigorating., the frame in all
cases of nervous and sexual debility, obstinate gleets, impo-
tency, barrenness, anddebilities arising from venereal excesses,
has been demonstrated by its unvarying sucess in thousands of
cases. I'rice 11s. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 335.,
which saves lls.
The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an
anti-syphilitic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recom-
mended for any of the varied forms of secondary symptoms,
such as eruptions on the skin, blotches on the head and face, en-
largements of the throat, tonsils, and uvula; threatened
destruction of the nose, palate, &c. Its action is purely deter-
sive, and its beneficial influence on the system is undeniable.
Price lls. and :13s. per bottle, also a savinn. of lls.
PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an
effectnal remedy in either sex for all cases of gonorrhoea, gleet,
stricture, and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d.,
4s. (id.. and lls. per box.
Sold by Daniel Church, 78, Gracechurch-street, City ; Bart-
ley-Hooper, 43, King William-street (four doso-crlsmfrrcom London-
bridge); j
on-.
bridge); G. F. Watts, 17, Strand ; W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow-
churchyard ; W. Edwards, 117, St. Paul' hy
Sanger, 150, Oxford Street ; Hannay and Dietrichsen, 63,
Oxford-street; Butler and Harding, 4, Cheapside ; Prout and
Harsant, 229 Strand, and all medical vendors throughout
the United Kingdom

THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND
MATURITY.
Just published, price ls., post free, in an Envelope, for 13
stamps.
SELF-PRESERVATION.—A Medical Treatise
on The Functions and Disorders of the Generative System,
and on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting
from vicious habits acquired during the critical
passage from
youth to Manhood, with practical observations ou the Pity-
siolop.-,y of Marriage in its social, moral, and physical rela-
tions. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the
Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within
Life," and its advantages in detecting, by urinary examina-
tion, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints,
with numerous engravings and cases
BY SAMUEL LA.'MERT, M.D.,
37, BEDFORD SQUARE. LONDON,
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Hono-
rary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Li-
centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c.
The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fear-
ful consequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities,
and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth,
degradation in Manhood, and premature decay at all stages
of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to
modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended
to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condi-
tion, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health,
happiness, and privileges to which every human being is, en-
titled.
It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that
there are principles of personal management which cannot be
violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when
wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-
indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the
sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil
and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that
there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply
a cure.
Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row,
and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Horne, 19, Leicester-
square ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; or from the Author,
who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8,
at his residence, 37, Bedford-sqaare, London.
The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Litzky, Loll
Bazaar ; Calcutta—Messrs. C. and J. Hormnsjee, Apollo-street ;
Bombay—Circulator Office ; Madras—Mofussilite Office, Agra ;
Dodsworth, Colombo, Ceylon ; and all Booksellers throughl
out thg Woke.

The Gazette of last night publishes the following
Convention between England and the Brazils :
Art. I.—The high contracting parties agree that
all claims on the part of corporations, companies,
or ?rivate individuals, subjects of her Britannic
Majesty, upon the Government of his Majesty the
Emperor of Brazil, and all claims on the part of
corporations, companies, or private individuals,
subjects of his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, upon
the Government of her Britannic Majesty, which
may have been presented to either Government for
its interposition with the other since the date of
the Declaration of Independence of 'the Brazilian
Empire, and which yet remain unsettled., or are
considered to be still unsettled, by either of the two
Governments, as well as any other such claims
which may be presented within the time specified
in Article 3 hereinafter, shall be referred to two
Commissioners, to be appointed in the following
manner ; that is to say: one Commissioner shall be
named by her Britannic Majesty, and one by his
Majesty the Emperor of Brazil.
Her Britannic Majesty and his Majesty the Em-
peror of Brazil respectively shall appoint a secre-
tary to the Commission, who shall be empowered
to act as Commissioner in case of the temporary
incapacity or absence of the Commissioner of his
Government, and also in case of the death, definite
absence, or incapacity of the said Commissioner, or
in the event of his omitting or ceasing to act as
such, until the appointment of, and assumption of
his duties by, another Commissioner _in the place or
Stead of the said Commissioner.
In the case of the death, or definite absence, or
incapacity of the Commissioner on either side, or in
the event of the Commissioner on either side omit-
ting or ceasing to act as such, her Britannic Ma-
jesty, or his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, re-
spectively, shall forthwith name another person to
act as Commissioner, in the place or stead of the
Comraissioner originally named.
In case of the secretary on either side being ap-
pointed permanently Commissioner, her Britannic
Majesty or his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, re-
spectively, shall forthwith name another person to
be secretary in the place or stead of the secretary
originally named.
The Commissioners shall meet at Rio de Janeiro
at the earliest convenient period after they shall
have been named, and shall, before proceeding to
any business, make and subscribe a solemn decla-
ration that they will impartially and carefully
examine and. decide, to the best of their judgment,
and according to justice and equity, without fear,
favour, or affection to their own country, upon all
such claims as shall be laid before them on the part
of the Government of her Britannic Majesty and
his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, respectively ;
and such declaration shall be entered on the record
of their proceedings.
The secretary on either side, when called upon
to act as Commissioner for the first time, and before
proceeding to act as such, shall make and subscribe
a similar declaration, which shall be entered in like
manner as aforesaid.
The Commissioners shall, before proceeding to
any other business, name a third person to act as
an arbitrator or umpire, in any cases or cases on
which they may themselves differ in opinion.
If they shall not be able to agree upon the selec-
tion of such a person the Commissioners on either
side shall name a person ; and in each and every
case in which the Commissioners may differ in
opinion as to the decision which they ought to give,
it shall be determined by lot which of the two
persons so named shall be arbitrator or umpire in
that particular case.
The person so to be chosen to be arbitrator or
umpire shall, before proceeding to act as such in
any case, make and subscribe a solemn declaration,
in a form similar to that which shall have already
been made and subscribed by the Commissioners,
which declaration shall be entered on the record of
their proceedings.
In the event of the death, absence, or incapacity
of such person, or of his omitting, or declining, or
ceasing to act as such arbitrator or umpire, another
and different person shall be named as aforesaid to
act as such arbitrator or umpire in the place or
stead of the person so originally named as afore-
said, and shall make and subscribe such declara-
tion as aforesaid. _ _

Art. ll.—The Commissioners shall then forth-
with proceed to the investigation of the claims
which shall be presented to their notice.
They shall investigate and decide upon such
claims in such order and in such manner as they
may think proper, but upon such evidence or in-
formation only as shall be furnished by or on be-
half of the respective Governments.
They shall be bound to receive and peruse all
written or printed documents or statements which
may be presented to them by or on behalf of the
respective Governments, in support of or in answer
to any claim, and to hear, if required, one pesson
on each side on behalf of each Government, as
counsel or agent for such Government, on each and
every separate claim.
Should they fail to agree in opinion upon any in-
dividual claim they shall call to their assistance the
arbitrator or umpire whom they have agreed to
name, or who may be determined by lot, as the case
may be ; and such arbitrator or umpire, after hav-
ing examined the evidence adduced for and against
the claim, and after having heard, if required, one
person on each side as aforesaid, and consulted with
the Commissioners, shall decide thereupon finally,
and without appeal.
The decision of the Commissioners and of the ar-
bitrator or umpire, shall be given upon each claim
in writing, and shall be signed by them respec-

tively.
It shall be competent for each Government to
name one person to attend the Commission as agent
on its behalf, to present and support claims, and
to answer claims made upon it, and to represent it
generally in all matters connected with the inves-
tigation and decision thereof.
Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland and his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil
hereby solemnly and sincerely engage to consider
the decision of the Commissioners, or of the arbi-
trator or umpire, as the case may be, as absolutely
final and conclusive upon each claim decided upon
by them or him respectively, and to give full effect
to such decisions without any objection, evasion, or
delay whatsoever.
Art. lll.—Every claim shall be presented to the
Commission with 12 months from the day of its
first meeting, unless in any case where reasons for
delay shall be established to the satisfaction of the
Commission, or of the arbitrator or umpire in the
event of the Commissioners differing in opinion
thereupon ; and then and in any such case the
period for presenting the claim may be extended to
any time not exceeding six months longer.
Ihe Commissioners shall be bound under this
Convention to hold for the consideration of the
claims at least eight sittings in each month, from
the date of their first sitting until the completion of
their labours.

The Commissioners shall be bound to examine
and decide upon every claim within two years
from the day of their first meeting, unless, on
account of some unforeseen and unavoidable sus-
pension of the sittings, the two Governments may
mutually agree to extend the time.
The arbitrator or umpire shall be bound to come
to a final decision on the claim within 15 days from
the time of such claim being submitted to his con-
sideration, unless the Commissioners consider a
more extended period absolutely necessary.
It shall be competent for the Commissioners, or
for the arbitrator or umpire if they differ, to decide
in each case whether any claim has or has not been
duly made, preferred, or laid before the Commis-
sion, either wholly or to any and what extent,
according to the true intent and meaning of this
Convention.
Art. IV.—All sums of money which may be
awarded by the Commission, or by the arbitrator
or umpire, on account of any claim, shall be paid
by the one Government to the other, as the case
may be, within 12 months after the date of the de-
cision, withoutinterest, and without any deduction
save as specified in Article 5 hereinafter.
Art. V.—The high contracting parties engage
to consider the result of the proceedings of this
Commission as a full, perfect, and final settlement
of every claim upon either Government, arising
out of any transaction of a date prior to the ex-
change of the ratifications of the present Conven-
tion ; and further engage that every such claim,
whether or not the same may have been presented
to the notice of, made, preferred, or laid before the
said commission, shall, from and after the conclu-
sion of the proceedings of the said commission, be
considered and treated as finally settled, barred,
and thenceforth inadmissible.
Art. VI. The Commissioners and the arbitrator
or umpire, with the assistance of the secretaries,
shall keep an accurate record and correct minutes
or notes of all their proceedings, with the dates
thereof, and shall appoint and employ a clerk, if
necessary, to assist them in the transaction of the
business which may come before them.
Each Government shall-pay its Commimioner an