The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-20 00:00:00

GUILDHALL, 13th April, 1861.—The Com-
mittee for Letting the City Lands will MEET at
GUILDHALL, on WEDNESDAY, the Bth day of May next,
at One o'clock precisely, to receive PROPOSALS for 'a
BUILDING LEASE, for eighty years, of a PIECE of
GROUND on the North Side of Queenhithe Dock, in the City
of London. Plans of the Property may be seen, and further
Particulars and forms of tender obtained, on application at
the Architect's Office, Guildhall.
FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller.

AR MY CONTRACTS.—Tenders will be
received at this Office until noon on the let of May,
from persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts to
supply
BREAD and MEAT,

In such quantities as may be required, for the use of her Ma-
jesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places, from
Ist June to 30th November, 1861 :-
1. Brompton House, Hyde Park, and Kensington.
2. Regent's Park, St. John's-wood, and Portman-street
Barracks.
a Wellington Barracks, Horse Guards, Buckingham Palace,
and St. George's Barracks.
4. Tower, Bethnal Green, Finsbury, and Hackney.
5. Hounslow and Kneller HalL
6. Hampton Court.
7. Windsor.
8. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shoreham.
9. Croydon.
10. Sandhurst.

Separate Tenders for Bread and for Meat must be made for
each of the above-mentioned stations or Barracks as sepa-
rately grouped and numbered.
Forms of Tender, and Conditions of Contract, may be
obtained on application at this Office, by letter or in person,
between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock.

Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up
and signed, and delivered at the under-mentioned Office,
under elosed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for
Commissariat Supplies," before noon on the Ist May next.
W. T. POWER, Deputy Commissary General.
Deputy Commissary General's Office,
5, New-street, Spring-gardens, London, S.W.,
Ist April, 18(31.

THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON FIRE and
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1836.
Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament.

Offices, No. 1, Dale-street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry,
London; Sheffield, Manchester, Glasgow; Sydney, Mel-
bourne, and New York.

This Company has attained a very high position amongst
the Insurance Institutions of Great Britain. Its annual
revenue exceeds £500,000. Its invested funds amount to
£1,260,000.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Premiums exceed £310,000, and place it in the first
Class of Fire Offices; its liberality and promptitude in set-
tling claims have been established in the adjustment of enor-
mous losses ; and its influence in determining, rates of Pre-
Mium has uniformly been given to proposals for improving
the character of risks that high Premiums may be uuneces-
sary.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.

The Reserve in this Department has been increased by the
addition of upwards of £58,000 in the year 18,10 alone. The
system of Bonuses is simple, nvolvince, no possible 1 ability
Of partnership ; liberal, zuaranteeinz a more than average
amount of benefit ; satisfyinu, because known at the date of
the Insurance, and therefore free from disappointment, un-
Certainty, and doubt. Ihe arrangement' in other respec,s
are intended to render the Polices of TFIE LIVERPOOL AND
LONDON perfect securities in the hands of third parties. The
Annual Premiums exceed £1.10,000; the accumulated reserve
Is £707,000.

ANNUITIES.
The payments by the Company exceed XlO,OOO per annum.
Every facility is afforded to persons purchasing Annuities to
enable their receipt at such times and places as may be con-
Yenient, and the terms an rates will be foun I satisfactory.
SWINTON B')ULT, Secretary to the Company.
JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary, London.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
N.A
No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
Established 1821.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY VIGNE, Esq., Chairman.
Sir MINTO T. FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Deputy Chairman
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq.
Charles Wm. Curtis, Esq. John Martin, Esq.
Charles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Sir Godfrey J. Thomas, Bart.
John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. John Thornton, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq.. James Tulloch, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Lewis Loyd, Esq. r Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
John Henry Smith, Esq. I Cornelius Payne, jun., Esq.
Thomas Tallemach, Esq., Secretary.—Samuel Brown, Esq.,
Actuary.

LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—UNDER TAE PROVISIONS OF AN
ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In-
surers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial
Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of
Profits.
Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the
Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in
cash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary
Bonuses of £1,058,000.

After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life
Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon,
amounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Life
Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund
exceeded £1,618,000.
LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No
Extra Premium is required for service therein.

INVALID LIVES assured at corresponding Extra Pre-
Zniums.

LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their
values, if such value be not less than £5O.
ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re-
Oeived and registered.
MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge
for Policy Stamps.
Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this
Company.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFFP OAT
INSTITIITION.—The Crimmitt,c of this Institutiun
earnestly APPEAL to the public for PECUNIARY ASSIST-
ANCE to aid them to meet the present heary demands on
the limited funds of the Society.

THOMAS BARING, Chairman.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman.
14, John-street, Adelphi, Feb., 1861.
Bankers—Messrs. Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co. ; Herries
and Co.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. Gray's-inn-road.
Patron—The QUEEN.
This Hospital is entirely devoted to destitution in its most
pitiable form, viz., that which is accompanied by sickness and
disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with ade-
quate support, V may be rendered capable of admitting into
its wards a very Tame proportion of the casual sick of this
great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have
600 beds immediately available for the reception of these the
most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratui-
tously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the
average, than 2,000 out-patients a week.
Contributions received by the Treasurer, Edward Master-
man, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ;
Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith,
Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co.;Jones Loyd and Co. ;
Barclay and Co.; Denison and CO. ; Williams, Deacon, and
Co.; Overend, Gurney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-
street ; Drummond and Co.; Herries and Co. ; Masterman
and Co. ; and at the Hospital.

STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary.

PRESENTS ORNAMENTAL and SCIEN-
TIFIC.—ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining room, consisting of anew and elegant assortment
of VASES ;Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe 'eke, Inkstands,
beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &0., in Italian,Alabas-
ter, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and
Manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her
illkiestt, 149, Stand, W.C., London.
,sr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS,
*]NERALS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate
the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CONCHOLOGY
and GEOLOGY, at 2 5, 10, 20 50, to 100 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT', at 149, Strand, W.C.

GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS.
IPNRY SMITH. M.D., of the University of
Jena, has just published, for the benefit of Nervous
!Sufferers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE
WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A
nieclical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, -Loss of
Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike
to Society, Spermatorrhaea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re-
laxation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if
neglected, result in consumption, insanity. and premature
death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health
and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob
serration, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope
and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITE, M.D., 8, Burton-
crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C.

DR. BUCHAN'S DOMESTIC MEDICINES,
knwn throughout the world, for the cure of every
disease...'__
VEGETABLE SKIN OINTMENT, for all skip erupt:ons,
deep-seated ulcers, sores, boils, &c. is. lid. and 2s. 9d.
PATENT SUGAR-COATED VEGETABLE PILLS, for
regulating the bowels, and purifying the blood. Is. lid., 2s.
gd., 4s. 6d., and lls.
CONCENTRATED VEGETABLE ESSENCE, for re-
invigorating the nervous and muscular system, from all
causes in early youth, causing chronic and spasmodic stric-
taye, renal pains, weakness of the bladder, retention and non
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female complaints, enriching and increasing every vital fluid.
4s. 6d., lls., or four quantities in one, Ms. Physician's ad-
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one stamp. Sold by Buchan and Co., 22, Newman-street,
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• ceipt of post-office order. To be had of all chemists.

"The temporary relief obtained by means of purgative
Tiak‘dicines is purchased at the high price of the azgravation
mi A the perpetuating the disease. '—HENRY, M.D.

NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER PHYSIC
FOIL CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA), PALPI-
TATION, NERVOUS, BILIOUSy AND LIVER COMPLAINTS,
DEBILITY, DROPSY, EPILEPSY, PARALYSIS, COUGH,
ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, SORE THROAT,
FEVERS.
DU BARRY'S delicious HEALTH RESTOR-
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ew pence per day, saves fifty times its cost in Medicine, and
saes without purging or any of the uncertainties, annoy
noes, and ruinous expenses incurred by medicine, cod liver
oil, or visits to distant climates.
Certificate No. 36,418.—We find it the safest remedy, An-
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We extract a few out of 56,000 cures
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies of many yearn'
dyspepsia. Cure No. 49,832. of fifty yea indiscribable
agory from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipa-
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of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs,
of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits,
and nervous fancies. Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. James T.
Campbell, Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk of
I ndigesti-n and liver complaints. Cure No. 56,814. Mr. Samuel
Laxtou „Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure So. 180. Mr.
W. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London, of 25 years' nervous-
ness, ccnstipation, indigestion, and debility. Cure No. 4,028;
f:lght years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps,
Ewing, and nausea, Rev. John W, Flavel, Hidlington Rec-
tory, Norfolk. Cure No. :1,906. Thirteen years' cough, indi-
gestion, and general debility, James Porter, Athol-street,
Perth. Cure No. 58,314. Miss
Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre,
near Liverpool, of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of
nervous irritability. Cure No. 46,27 e. Mr. James Roberts,
limber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, et 30 years' diseased
likungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness.
Similar testimonials from 56,000 patients who can bs re-
ferred to.
The Food is sold in canisters, 11b. !es. 9d., 21b, 4s. 6d.,12113.
1125., 241 b. 40s. ; super-refined quality, 61b. 225„ 101 b. 335. The
101 b., 121 b., and 241 b. canisters carriage free on receipt of
Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-
street ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly,
London ; Abbis, 60, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapsidel 63
and 160, Oxford-street ; 330 and 452, Strand ; 49 and 60,
Bishopsgate-street; Batty, 18, Finsbury-pavement; Phillips
and Co.. tea dealers ,• Petty, Wood, and Co., King William-
net, City, 11114P7,1(1,02 zaulboru; and All grocers..