The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-16 00:00:00

ARMY CONTRACTS.—SeaIed Tenders will be
received at this Office until noon on the 6th of March,
trom persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts for
the supply of
FUEL and LIGHT
(Coals, Coke, Composite and Dip Candles),
fn such quantities as may be required, for the use of her Ma-
jesty's Land Forces and Military Departments, in any of the
following places, from Ist April, 1861, to .31st March, 1862 :-
1. House, Hyde Park, and Kensington—South
Durham coals, coke, composite and dip candies.
2. Regent's Park, St. John's-wood, and Portman-street
Barracks—Newcastle coals, composite and dip candles.
3. Wellington Barracks, U Guards, Buckingham Palace,
Royal Engineers, Pimlico, and St. George's Barracks—New-
castle, Sunderland, and 10 tons Tanfield Moor coals, coke,
composited di candles.
4. Tower Bethnal Green, Finsbury, and HAcknev—New-
castle, Wallsend, and 180 tons Anthracite and S tons Tanfield
Moorcoals, coke, composite and dip candles.
5. Hounslow and Kneller llall—lnland coals, coke, compo-
site and dip candles.
6. Hampton Court—lnland coals, composite and dip candles.
7. Windsor—Ruabon coals, composite and dip candles.
S. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shoreham
—Newcastle coals, coke, composite and dip candles.
9. Croydon—Newcastle coals, coke, composite and dip
candles.
10. Jersey—Wallsend and Newcastle coals, composite and
dip candles.
11. Guernsey—Wallsend and Newcastle coals, coke, corn
Posite and dip candles.
12. Alderney--Wallsend and Newcastle coals, composite
and dip candles.
Separate Tenders for Fuel and for Light must be made for
Such 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 psoperly filled up
and signed, and delivered at the under-mentioned Office,
under elosed envelope, marked on the outside "Tender for
Army Supplies," before noon on the 6th March next.
W. T. POWER, Deputy Commissary General.
Deputy Commissary General's Office,
5, New-street, Spring-gardens, London, S.W.,
Ist February, 1861.

CONTRACTS FOR OATS, SOAP, AND TOBACCO
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling
and Transport Services,
Somerset House, 15th February, 1851.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
-1- OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the 28th
inst., at half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat
with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for
supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling
Stores at Deptford the undermentioned articles, viz.:—
OATS 500 Quarters.
SOAP lOO Tons.
TOBACCO ......... 50 Tons.
When to be delivered—Half of each in three weeks, and the
remainder in three weeks afterwards, or earlier it preferred
by the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the
articles.
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 deeW lit, or for a
greater quantity, or of not contracting forg,tby, wed also an
unlimited power of selection.
The Tobacco to be exempted from the Customs duties, and
parties tendering are to state where it is lying. 1
Samples of the Oats (not less than Two Quarts), and of the
Soap (not less than a Bar) must be produced by the parties
tendering.
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 be produced by the parties tendering, 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.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not ac-
cepted are requested to be taken away by them immediately
after the contracts have been decided.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed form
provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on ap-
plication 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 Contracts, 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 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 received
from each person will be communicated to him and his pro-
posed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Ten-
der for ;" and must also be delivered at Somerset-
house.

SALE OF WINES AND SPIRITS IN CUSTOMS BOND.
THE BOARD OF INLAND REVENUE
hereby GIVE NOTICE, that the exemption from
License Duties of persons selling Wines and Spirits in Cus-
toms Bond has been repealed by the 23 and 24 Viet., c, 113,
6. 5, so far as regards the sale, at one time, of any less quan-
tity than One Hundred Gallons, whether such Wines Or
Spirits are to remain in Bond, or to be delivered out for con-
sumption, or for exportation, or for ships' stares ; and asy
person selling Wines and Spirits in Bond in the above quan-
tity, without having first obtained the proper Excise License,
Will incur the penalty of One Hundred Pounds.
THOS. DOBSON, Secretary.
Inland Revenue Office, Somerset House,
London, Feb. 14, 1861.

On Tuesday Evening next (Feb. 19) and eight 'following
Evenings, at Six, by Southgate and Barrett, at their Rooms,
22, Fleet-street.
ENGRAVINGS, in great variety, comprising
Artists' Proofs, and all other states of sabjects, by the
most eminent Masters ; together with a large assortment of
Water-Colour Drawing,, Chromo-Lithographs, Choice Illus-
trated Books, New Portfolios, &c. &c. Catalogues forwarded
on receipt of six stamps.