The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1859.

METROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W.
Life Assurance, AnnuitieS, and Rndowments. •
Loans on real and Personal security.
Manager.

BANK OF DEPOSIT,
Established A.D. 1844,
No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON, S.W. .
Capital Stock £lOO,OOO.
Parties desirous of investing money are requested to ex-
amine the plan of the Bank of Deposit, by which a high rate
of interest may be obtained with ample security.
Deposits made by special agreement may be withdrawn
without notice.
The interest is payable in January and July.'
PETER. MORRISON, Managing Director.
Forms for opening accounts sent free on application.

OATTLE SHOW. See the RIFLEMAN'S
Registered KNEE-CAP GAITER.—Bowley and Co.,
Charing-cross. Full particulars sent by post

BURROWS AND CO Wholesale Wine Mer-
chants, LIVERPOOL.
Stores Lime-street.
Offices 54, Dnke-street.
The Proprietors beg most resp ctfully to call the attention
of the trade, noblemen, clergy, &c., and the public in general,
to their extensive stock of Choice Wines, of rare vintages.
BURROWS and Co. are not disposed to comment upon the
purity of their wines, which is daily most laudably acknow-
ledged by the public and eminent medical men of all coun-
tries, as the increasing patronage of the highest families in
the lend is a sufficient guarantee.
They beg.to call particular attention to their. pute Tonic
Wines, as being so valuable to Invalids and persons of weak
stomac' s.
A sample case, containing three full-sized wine bottles,
will be forwarded to any address on receipt of .P. 0.0. for 6s.
6d., or a dozen for 245.
It is a well-known fact that impure and adulterated wines
are the greatest foes to health, producing acidity in the
stomach, and debilitating the digestive organs, while pure
wines will accelerate the digestive powers, invigorating,
strengthening, and bracing the nervous system.
Their Tonic Wine is admitted to be most essential to In-
valids, both old and young, and should never be absent from
the homes of the weak and sickly. Its properties are duly
acknowledged and appreciated by the leading men of the
faculty, both at home and abroad.
To prevent imposition each bottle is sealed with the name
of the firm.
All orders to be made payable to HENRY BURROWS.

THE ROYAE STATION HOTEL, Paragon-
street, Hull, requires only to be visited to be pronounced
one of the most splendid hotels in England. The situation is
open and healthful, a few minutes' walk from all the public
buildings and places of business, and being connected with
the Railway Station, affords railway passengers arriving or
departing by every train day or night, the advantage of being
on the spot, and having their wants and wishes immediately
attended to.
The public should know that under the present manage-
ment they will find every comfort and convenience at the
same charges they are paying at the minor hotels. It has
accommodation for upwards of one hundred and fifty visitors,
is fitted up with every luxury an hotel can command, and is
so arranged for the advantage of every class of visitor, that
Beds can be had from Is. to 2s. ; Private Rooms, from 2s. to
; Breakfasts, from ls. 6d. to 2s. ; Dinners, from 2s. ; and
all other charges of that moderate character which will give
satisfaction to every class of visitor who may pay the hotel a
visit.
The hotel contains Gentlemen and Ladies' Coffee Rooms ;
a special Room set apart for Commercial Gentlemen ; fourteen
Private suites of [looms ; large spacious Rooms for Dinner
Parties, Public Meetings, &c., &c. ; two first-class Refresh-
ment Rooms ; two Smoke Rooms ; Bath and Billiard Rooms.

A Night Porter in attendanoe.
EDWIN TAYLOR,

Proprietor of the Royal Station Hotel, Hall, and Crowed

Hotel,

N.B.—TATLOR'S CRESCENT HOTEL, fronting. the lea,
for Families and Gentlemen. It has accommodation for up-
wards of one hundred and fifty ♦isitors. Table DIM* at
five o'clock. Omnibuses and Cabs from the hotel meet all the
trains. Good stabling and coach-houses. Moderate terms.

CONTRACTIFOR TEA.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling
and Transport Services,
Somerset-house, 7th December, 1859.
MITE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
1_ THE OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
ONITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on MON-
DAY, the 19th instant, at Half-past One o'Clock, they will
be ready to treat with such Persona as may be willing to
Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's
Victualling Stores at Deptford.
TEA 50,000 lbs.
When to be delivered ll:tif thereof in three weeks, and
the remainder in three weeks afterwards, or earlier if pre-
ferred by the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the
Tea.
Their Lordships reserve to themselVes the power, when
the tenders arc 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.
The Tea to be exempted from the Customs' duties, and
parties tendering are to state where it is lying.
Samples of the tea (not less than two pounds from the
bonded warehouse), must be produced by the parties tender-
ing..
The samples produded by persons whose tenders are not ac-
cepted, are requested to be taken away by them immediately
after the Contract. has been decided.
No ten ler will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on
application at the said office, or to the officer conducting the
Packet Service at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at
Bristol.
Particular attention is called to the recent modification of
the conditions of the contract, which may be seen at the said
Office, and at. Liverpool and Bristol.
No tender will be .received after Half-past One o'clock on
the day of treaty, and it will not he required that the party
tendering, or an agent on his b2half, should • attend at the
Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the ()tier received
from each person will be communicated to him and his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear is the left-hand corner the words" Ten-
der .`for ," and must also be delitered at Somerset-
house.

SMITHFIELD, (1A TZLE SH4 W.

The, crowd at the Cattle Show may be said, to
have reached its climax yesterday,vvery 'avenue
being densely packed throughout, the day with
visitors, who hastled each other vigorously, in the
hope of at least a glimpse of each object of
attraction. Now that the public curiosity may be
said .to be almost sated with the inspection of the
cattle the tide seems to flow more rapidly. Jowards
the galleries, where the various agricultural imple-
ment makers exhibit specimens of • their rapid pro-
gress in the application of steam and mechanical
science to the tilling of the ground. There is the
usual vast miscellany of clod-crushers and oat-
bruisers, and chaff-cutters, with steam-ploughs of
various design, and harrows. of a complication in
form that is wonderful to behold. Our old friend
the sausage-maker still plies his wonderful inven-
tion, but this year in pulping carrots and not in
making sausages, the judges having decided, after
an arduous deliberation, that the chopping of
sausage meat could not properly be considered an
agricultural operation.
But probably the articles rou n d which the greatest
crowd is constantly congregated are the reaping and
grass-cutting machines exhibited by. Messrs. Bur-
gess and Key. These gentlemen have devoted
themselves to the perfecting of the machines which,
when first imported into this country from America,
excited so much attention and auch.hot controversy
amongst the farmers.. The present machines may be
said to embody all the desiderata which could bore-
quired in a perfect instrument. The ingenuity of con -
:traction may be estimated froin the fact that the prin
cipal wheelis made. to aomtnutticate with-a number
of smaller ones, so as to produce 12 distinct motions,
all combining to perform and finish the operation
of reaping. The fan lays down the corn upon the
knife, and when it is cut by the latter it falls over
on a series of Archimedean screws, the slow rota-

tion of which casts it on the ground in regular lines,
the machine making a clear track of four feet six
inches as it goes along. Still more ingenious is the
conical screw, or roller, which, placed along one
side, acts as a director, and prevents the corn going
any way but in the direction intended. Only one
man to drive is required, the machine doing the re-
mainder of the work ; and there is a concurrence of
testimony to the effect that never has the work' of
reaping been done so effectually as it is effected by
this valuable and elaborate invention. Upwards of
2,000 of the machines have been sold since their first
introduction by Messrs. Burgess and Key, and the
orders this year have already reached 500. The
grass-cutter is an ingenious application of a similar
principle to a different sort of work. Like the
reaping-machine, the grass-cutter does all its own
work, except driving the horses, and clips the grass
close to the grqund as neatly as if it were done
with a pair of scissors. An exceedingly intelligent
workman attends both machines, and explains to
a large auditory Pvery evening their peculiar con-
struction and mode of working. The last-named
machine, like the other, is in great demand amongst
the hay farmers, and an immense number of orders
have already been received by the patentees.

to be rowed out some distance to the vessel in the
man-of-war launches.
The first battery of Armstrong guns, six 12-pound
breech-loading rifles, was yesterday proved at the
Royal Arsenal beta, Woolwich, in preparation for
transit to China by the overland route. The proof
charges employed on the occasion, as ordered by
the War Department, consisted of the largest
amount of powder with which it was possible to
cram the chambers of each gun, and a couple, or
double shot. Col. Tulloch, Mr. Anderson, and Capt.
Gsrdon,wh o were the authorities present, thoroughly
tested and searched each gun immediately after the
discharge, to ascertain the effect. The guns were
mounted for the occasion, and fired on temporary
carriages, in orier to avoid the rish of chipping or
other injury to which they are subject under the
ordinary method of firing on the ground. The ter-
rible shock which the excessive charges produced
brought the guns off their positions with a perfect
leap, and gave a recoil of about 2,5 feet; neverthe-
less, the thorough temper of the materials and the
remarkable charaeter of the ions nobly resisted the
shock. They were accordingly pronounbed impos-
sible to burst under fair usage, and were immedi-
ately packed in cases for transport.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. Barry's and Capt. Milward's
batteries, at presenfunder a course of training with
the Armstrong guns and Enfield rifles, will leave.
Woolwich for China in a few days. The two bat-
teries have been selected for their superior drill on
all occasions, Captain Milward's having the reputa-
tion of being the most efficient and thoroughly dis-
ciplined battery in the garrison. The brigade of
Artillery in China will be commanded by Col. Crof-
ton, who is succeeded in the 4th brigade by Col.
Wilmot, late superintendent of the Royal gun fac-
tories. Captain and Adjutant R. J. Hay, of the 2d
garrison brigade, head-quarters, at present on spe-
cial service at Shoebnryness, is appointed Brigade-
Major for China.