The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-25 00:00:00

I V:
MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS.

Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re-
ceived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech-
loading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48
inches, including the stock. _ _ _

The limit of ;Tight for these arms is fixed at 911 b. 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 al:Rove
conditions ; and in the absence of experience does not at
present 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.

V.
The Secretary 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-
nator shall be recorded in connection with it.

if the riflo 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
of Ordnance.
War Office, Oct. 22 180.

ON SA.TUHDAY, the 29th of December, will
be published, at No. 112, Strand, " THE WEST-
MINSTER. GAZETTE," a new Catholic Weekly Paper,
supported by a largo number of knoWn and approved
writers. Its twcirnain objects are, first, the exposition of
Catholic principles on all those groat questions—ecclesias-
tical, philosophical, and social—which are now agitating
the intellect and heart of the country; and, second, a
truthful statement of facts as to tha condition, political and
religious, of Catholicism in the various countries of Europe.
Foreign writers of note in France, Italy, Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, and Spain are engaged as contributors to
" The Westminster Gazette." The true interests of Ireland,
its struggles for its unquestionable rights as a Catholic
nation to a Catholic system of Education, shall be dis-
cussed always in a spirit _free from the prejudice or passion
of mere political partisanship. An important feature of
the New Paper will be the large space especially allotted
to reviews of books, both English and foreign, non-
Catholic as well as Catholic

Orders received by all booksellers and news-agents, and
at the office, 112, Strand, Loudon. Price 265. per annum.
Single copies, sd. ; stamped, 6d.

•
SLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having
WELen recently opened and fitted with requisites for
the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr.
BOISIiAGON, announces that he has transferred his Estab-
lishment from Birminvham to the above desirable residence,
easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour
and a-halt by the London and North-Western line, and fifty
minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on
a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing
prospect, are garden, me .dow, plantation, and recreation
grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the
proprietor.

GEOLOG Y.—ELEMENTARY COLLEC-
TioNs, to illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell's
Elements of Geology" and facilitate the important study of
Mineralogy and Geology, can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50 to 500
guineas ; also single Specimens of Minerals, Kooks,Fossils,
and Iteoeut Shells,Gcologfral Afeps. Hammers. all the recent
Publoations, ac.. cot J. TENNANT, Mineralogist to Her
Maitsty, 149, Strand, Loudon.
Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and Geo7ogy by
Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., 149, Strand, W.C.

DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.
The medical profession for Thirty ye ire have approved
of this pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for
Acidity of th 3 Stomach, Headache, Heartburn, Gout, and
Indigestion ; and as a mild aperient it is especially adapted
for ladies and children. Prepared by

DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, &c.,
172, New Bond-street, London ;
And sold throughcnt the world by all respectable chemists.
CAUTION —See that " Dinneford and Co." is on each bottle
and red label over the cork.