The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-17 00:00:00

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MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS.

Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re-
eived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech-
oading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48
aches, including the stock.
The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 91lb. 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
Pmsent define the standard of accuracy or other conditions
to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted.
Those Magazine orßepeating Arms, 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.

The Secreta V.
ry 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
War Office of Ordnance
Oct. 22 1866

OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—CON-
. TRIBUTIONB are earnestly solicited for establishing
the COUNTRY HOME. .£l,ouo required.
WM. WILLI k MS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8. Great Queen-street. W.C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys.
One hundred and fifty are now in the B,efuge. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at
£4,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to pay for one boy each year.
Subscriptions thankfully reoeived by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothburv. and 214, High llolbotn;•Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East; and by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street. W.C.

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PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
pErSoSvidWenoclie_EroN AND
Finsbury,CHILDREN,E.
o.
FOR
HOMELESS
Breakfasts, have been given Lodgings, with Suppers and
Sixty Thousand Nights' w'
this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwisee
would
o have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets railway arches.
wwietlSlpers and
At present nearly 500 Nights' ruP
e Lodgings,vede r
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously
from all parts are admitted, the only croYnditieon he poor
that
they are homeless and starving. The being Manager
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing &c.,
the provision made by the Poor Rouses, ea
night numbers of young women, chilaren, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, and have
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, X 2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
S ÜBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rey.).). GILBERT. D.D.,No 22
Finsbury-circus 8.0.