The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-28 00:00:00

m. THE LOCK.

N. RAPIDITY OF FIRE.
Capable of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without
aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table.
o. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST.
The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not mom
than 36in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500,
and bin, at 300.

The moan to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty'
shots each.

r. TRAJECTORY.
Not to require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1
deg. 30 nun.

Q. FOULING.
The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent.
at 1,000 yards after firing 250 rounds.
R. PENETRATION.
Tho moan penetration of five shots not to be less than
that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifie—
viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48
hours in water.

Distance 30 yards.
s. LUBRICATION.
Was on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant
may be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought
necessary by the competitor.
_ _

No arms will be received without the usual proof marks.
Specifications, and drawings of the methods proposed,
stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a
finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu-
nition, should be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War
Office, Pall-mall," on or before the 30th March, 1867.
The specifications and specimen arms will be considered
by the Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem-
bers, who will ba selected by the Secretary of State for
War, and who will, after firing the 20 preliminary rounds,
select and recommend for further trial such of the systems
as may appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all
such as may. not be considered to offer sufficient merits to
warrant their being included in the competition, the con-
ditions of which are stated in this advertisement.
Each accepted competitor will then be required to furnish
for experiment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity
to the specimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am-
munition per arm, within four months after date of de-
mand. Each competitor will be required to disclose to the
committee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em-
ploy. A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted
competitors, to cover the expense of the six rifle; and of
the supply of ammunition required.
The Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the
arm which, on combination of all qualities, is considered
by the committee to be the best submitted.
A second reward of £6OO for the 'arm which, while at-
taining a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu-
la ts, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism.
A third reward of .£4OO for the best cartridge. The qua-
lities which will be principally taken into consideration in
awarding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power
of sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in
various climates, and general serviceability.
The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but
as they may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which
the cartridge is associated, they will not be so much con-
sidered as those above-mentioned.
It is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances
will a competitor be entitled to more than one prize ; but
such prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be
given to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the
service.

1V
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 weight 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 above
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.

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-
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. GEORGE, Major-General, Director
of Ordnance.
War Office, Oct. 22, 1866.

Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND.
This Hall, having been altered and entirely redecorated
in a most costly manner, is OPEN EVERY EVENING
for the WINTER SEASON. Grand Selection from
Auber's Opera of " MASANIELLO," produced on a scale
of magnificence never before attempted at any Music
Hal. The Irish Minstrels, 27 in number. Comic sup-
ported by. Fred. French, Mrs. Bryan, Miss Fancourt, Paddy
Fannin, Patrick Sellers, and Les Freres Risoralis (first
appearance in London). Band of 30 first-class performers,
and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent
Garden Opera Houses. Musical. Director, Mr. P. CoRRI.
Prices of admission— Stalls and Balcony, Is.; Area, 6d. ;
Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Cau be secured at the Box Office,
..'..lone 11.11
lialf-past.

IVIADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
BAKER-STREET.
NEW EDITIONS. —A Life-size Poitrait-Model of the
PRINCESS MARY OF CAMBRIDGE, a Marriage Group
of the PRINUESS HELENA and PRINCE CHRISTIAN.
Admittance, is. ; children, under ten, half-price ; extra
rooms, 6d.
Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, And froni 7 till to.

ARGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO,
Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re-
decorated, are now OPEN EVERY EVENINCiI for Concert
and Dancing. Conductor, signor !Arm CIIRTL Manager,
GRENET. . -

Admission to Pumenade, One Shilling.
Reserved Seats, Two Shillings.

DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY,
BELFAST,
Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords.

" V.R." IRISH WHISKY.

DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH
WHISKY, BELFAST.

London °fazes and Stores,
4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C.
Established isqi. Quotations on application.

FALICNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real
Malt," 19s. per gallon, is sold in bottles and jars, bear-
ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms aro offered
to the trade for the sale of this Fenain a old spirit, which is
coming into universal consumption through England.
For price lists apply at Offices,. 14, Strand, London, W.C.
Established in Grafton-street, Dublin, A.D. 1780.

JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the
world."—London Oilices, 7, Priding-house-square, 8.C.,
next the "Times." '

TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork, berx to announce that they r.re able to supply the
trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and
to take orders in bond at d for exportation, at their (aces, 7,
Printing-house-square, London, E G.. the only house in the
square not occupied by flan "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies
brinz the highest prices in the Austral:an and other Colonial
markets, as may be observed by reference to the " Tournal of
Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their
whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and Is. per case over :he next
best, and Is. 6d per gellon and Is. 61. r czse over the lowest
quotation. Always on hand a la-ge supply of 'ye y old
mellow whisky in the finest condition, matured in sherry
casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the
most reasonable tends.

THE OCEAN ST. LEG-ER of 1866.—What
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Caritain, viz., winner of the ran', luving distance,i sll com-
petitors, es Ihe CAST INDIA 'lrk:A COMPANY have in--
rariab y done in their clot e red sale of fine new season's
teas, now selling at imparteeb prices. Warehouses-4, Great
Et. fie'ett 8-churchyard.

EAU-DE-VIE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY,
18s. per gallon, is vi ry superior to recent importations
of Cognac, recommended by the medical profession, and ex-
tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 335. per dozen, or In
a case 295., railway carriage psll.—lf ENRY BRETT and
W., Old Furnival's Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent-
street, S. W. Established 1821.

JOHN G °SNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
• TOO FR PASTS; is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imputs a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price Is. 6d.—Red Ball Wharf, 0, Upper
Thames-street, London.

nRIGINA.L and superior ESSENCE of AN-
Aj CHOVI ES, SA.UCES, PICKLES.
, pure and good,
as supplied by JOHN BURGESS and SON (for more than a
hundred pars), 107, Strand, corner of Savoy-steps, London.

STARCH MANUFACTI7RERS
TO H. R. R. TIM PRINCESS OF 'WALES.
GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
Used hi the Royal Laundry,
____

AND AWARDED TILE PRIZE MEDAL. 1862.
Sold by all n —rocers, Chandlers. &a. ko•

YARMOUTH BLOATERS.-12 for 2s. 6d.;
25, 4s. ; 50, Os. ; 100, Bg. • 500, 3)s. ; 1,000, 50s. No
charge for carriage to London. 'Cast on delivery. Country
orders paid it, advance —Forwarded by FltEDli. BARNIIY,
Purveyor oi Fish, Great Yarmouth.

( WI, New Earl-street, I
ASPHALTE ROOFING FELT,
OIE PENNY per pare Foot.
CROGGON and CO., Manufacturers,
134, Bread-street;
51. George-square, Glasgow 2, Gores Piazzas, Liverpool.
London, B.C.

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NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi-
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Be sure and ask for "NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be
persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations which
have sprung up in consequence of the success of NORTON'S
CAIIOOIILE PILLS.

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spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John
Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highnessthe Primes& of Wales..

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—FUNDS
are earnestly, solicited for fitting up the TRAINING
slur. £2,000 required.
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Boys' Ref age, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LOND ON.-C ON-
ALA- TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing
the COUNTRY ROME. £l,OOO required.
WK. WILLI A.ItS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8. Great Queen-street. W.C,

the 400 boys is estimated at
HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
Committee are most an to provide for 400 boys.
for one boy each year.
One hundred and fifty arc now In the Refuge. The annual
lo7each boy. Several kind friends
expenditureha6,vooeop,l.beingom e
promised
sapuaypyepaorr tf
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothbury. and 214, High Holborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Fall-Mall East; and by
WM• 'WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, Vir,c,

PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FO
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C.
Lodgings,this Institution to tho
with Suppers and
BrSeaixktfYas
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
Thousandtls, ie b
eNights'ebeen
gi
ven
a
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, chileren, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, andhave
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will he 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 began ? 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.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GELBEIit D.D,, No 22,
Finsbury-thous