The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-26 00:00:00

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THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL has
-A- URGENT NE14:1) of FUNDS. —Don Mons and Sub-
scriptions will be thankfully received by Messts. ams.late
and Co., 50, uornhill; litebsrs. DrummAil avid Co., Chtrlng-
ero.s; Ales.rs. Coutts and Co.. Strand; Messrs. lioatro,
Fleet-street; and by the undersigned, at the Hospital,
Liverpool-road, N., CHAKLE FINN, Sec.

OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the Llinicdiate vicinity nt the Ureat Liorthent ithli-
may tetur-intio,

Patron—flNr Mos t Gracious Majesty the QUEIe.,II.

Vise-Patron—llls Royal Highness the Prince of WALE'?, KG.
President—His Uraoe the Duke of BUCCLEUCII. K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and t
It affords relief to a large number of in-pa it nts, and, in
16icittion to this, the average number of attcnd,moe of the
lestitute sick has for a censiderable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
benevolent,
h,ie
c.oCotm it as
to pr
ittcee car estly solicit the ASST STANCE of the
nines of this Huspit,.. are capable of
containing several nindred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by thtir bankers. Messrs. Brown,
Janson, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by 11 tSBrll. Coutta and
Co.; Diununonti and Co.; Glyn and Ca.; lierries and Co.;
Hansom and Co.; l'resoott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne,
and Co.; Barclay and Co.; ilhams, Deacon, end Co.; Nisbet
and Co„ Berners-street and at the Ucepital. from 10 till
sTANFORD fiALITII, bectieVry.

CONTRACTS FOR SUGAR, TEA, SPLIT PEAS,
WHEAT, AND TOBACCO.
CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIR tLTY, SOMERSET
- HOUSE, April 17, 1867.
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 THURSDAY, the
2d May neat, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be
ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Con-
tract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Vic-
tualling Stores at Deptford the uadermthationed Articles,
viz. :
Quantities. To be tendered for at Rates
SPLIT PEAS 5,000 Imp. bushs. per 100 Galls.
WHEAT 15,000 ditto per 100 Pounds.
SUGAR 500,1)00 Pounds It
TOBACCO 100,000 ditto
TEA 100,000 ditto per Pound.
When to be Delivered. One-half of each in three weeks
from date of Contract, and the remainder thereof 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.
Separate Tender's are to be made for each Article.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole,
or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a
greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an
unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders.
The Sugar, Tobacco, and Tea to be exempted from the
Customs' Duties, and parties tendering are to state where
they are lying.
Samples of the Split Peas and Wheat (not less than 2
quarts of each) must be produced by the parties tendering.
Each Tender for Sugar must specify the mark and land-
ing number of each cask or package, the ship in which
imported, and the country or place of its growth or produce,
and an average sample (not less than '2lbs. for each im-
port mark) must be produced 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.
Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several trade
marks and numbers, and the countries or places of its
growth or produce, and a fresh-drawn dock sample of each
cask or package must ba produced by the parties tender-
ing ; and any cask or package that is found not to be of
the same mark, number, or quality as the sample tendered
and accepted, will be rejected by the Officers.
Each Tender for Tea must specify the import mark and
number of each parcel, the ship in which imported, the
dock or warehouse where lying, and must be accompanied
by an average sample (not less than 2lbs.) of each parcel.
Tenders failing in any of these conditions will not be en-
tertained.

No Wheat tendered is to' be of less weight than 601bs.
per bushel, and no Oats of less than 421bs. per bushel.
The Samples produced by persons whose Tenders are
not accepted are to be taken away by them immediately
after the Contracts have been decided.
No Tenders will be received unless made in accordance
with the above denomination of quantities and rates; and
contractors in clai'ciing payment for Articles supplied are
to make out their invoices in accordance therewith, both
as to quantities and rates, excepting those for Wheat and
Peas, as the invoices for the Wheat are to be in pounds,
at per 100 pounds, and for the Peas in gallons, at per 100
gallons.

- No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
Form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House.
Particular attention is called to the Conditions of the
Contracts, which may be seen in the said lobby. No
Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at 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 re-
ceived from each person will be communicated to him and
to 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
"Tender for
," and must also be delivered at the
DepartmJnt of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

By order,
Registrar of Co ANTON
tsIO BRADY,
ntrac and Public Securities.

ENTRANTS IN 1867 PARTICIPATE IN FIFTH DIVISION OF
PROFITS.
MUTUAL ASSURANCE WITHOUT MUTUAL LIABILITY.
PROFITS APPLIED SO AS TO MAKE POLICIES PAYABLE IN
LIFETIME.
AND SO AS TO RAISE SECOND CLASS • LIVES, AFTER A
DEFINED PERIOD, TO FIRST CLASS RATES.
BRITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
4, Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge, London, E.C.
DIRECTORS.
George Thomas Dale, Esq., Bayswater.
Edmund Dunn, Esq., Croydon.
William Gover, Esq., Blackheath.
William Sutton Guyer, Esq., 4, Queen-street-place.
John Middleton Hare, Esq., Forest Hill.
Fountain John Hartley, Esq., Daleston.
John Smithey, Esq., Wellclose-square.
Blackheath.
. .
Joseph Warmington, Esq., Leo-grove,
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND ACTUARY.
tibilliam Sutton Gover, Esq..., F S.S F I.A.
Mr. Deputy Obbard, Blackheath.
Charles Brown, Esq., Wadden.
William George Lemon, Esq., Blackheath
BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank.
PHYSICIAN.

William Munk, Esq., M.D., F.S.A. (Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians oSfURGEON. London), 40, Finsbury square.
Thomas Carr Jackson, Esq. (Fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons, Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital,
King's-cross), 3, Weymouth-street, Portland-place.

,
EXTRACTS FROM REPORT.
In the past three years the New Policies effected were—
Reported in 1865, 1,650, amounting to £270,736 . 1866
`2,073, £353,700; 1867, '2,845, £5C1,175. Total Nu' mber,
6,568, amounting to £1,125,611.
Tho New Annual Premiums of past year, £15,318.
In the Four Triennial Periods the Now Policies issued
were—First Three Years, 3,196, for £507,061; Second
Three Years, 2,926, for £494,066 ; Third Three Yearg
3,941, for £64547 ; Fourth Three Years, 6,568, fe'r,
£1,125,611. Total, 16,631, for £2,756,284.
So that the New Business of the last Three Years has
been greater than that of the preceding Six Years.
The Policies in force this day are 11,637 in Number,
amounting to £1,980,258.
The Death Claims and Bonuses paid in the year under
67 polices amounted to £14,199.
The amount paid for Death Claims, and Bonuses paid
since the establishment of the Company, under 399 Policies,
is £64,447.
Tho ACCUMULATED FUND has been increased
during the Year by no less than Twenty-eight 'Thousand
Nine Hundred and Nine Pounds, making the amount laid
by in the last three years, Sixty-five Thousand Nine
Hundred and Seventy-Eight Pounds, and now amounts to
One Hundred and Twenty-seven Thousand Nine Hundred
and Seventy-eight Pounds Sterling. The Accumulated
Fund has thus been nearly doubled at the end of each
triennial period.
A Reversionary Bonus of 11 per Cent. per annum on
Sums Assured under Participating Policies was declared.

HELP for the DESTITUTE SICK.—
METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL. Devon-
shire-square, City. Instituted for the immediate gratuitous
Relief of the SICK Poor of every Naticn and Creed, without
letters of recommendation. FUNDS arc urgently needed to
maintain its efficiency.
BANKERS—Me.tsro Barnett, Ironies and Co.. 62,Lomberd-
street. JNO. GURNEY PRY, Chairman.

GEO. i:;ttOXTO,IsI, Sec.ritir—yl

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
Caledonian-road, :alindon, N.
Supported by Volum try Contributions.
BANKERS—Messrs. Barnett, Lloyds, and Co., Oil. Lombard-
street; Messrs. nun= and 130liverie, 1, Pall-mall. HON.
SEC. -F. Smith, Esq. CitORQZ REID, get:,